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A music streaming service went dark for hours. Users flooded Downdetector with complaints. Then a pro-Iran group stepped forward with a bold claim. The outage wasn't a glitch...

Grafana Labs Rejects Ransom After Hackers Swipe Codebase With Stolen Token

Grafana Labs built its name on open observability tools that thousands of enterprises trust to monitor complex systems. Last week the company learned the hard way that even p...

Microsoft Faces Fresh Exchange Zero-Day as On-Prem Servers Come Under Active Attack

Microsoft disclosed a high-severity vulnerability in its on-premises Exchange Server software just days after May Patch Tuesday. Attackers already exploit it in the wild. The...

Taiwan Student Halts Bullet Trains With $200 Radio Kit, Exposing Decades of Neglect in Critical Rail Networks

A 23-year-old university student in Taichung transmitted a single radio signal one April evening. Four Taiwan High Speed Rail trains slammed on their emergency brakes. The di...

Mozilla’s VPN Crusade Faces Headwinds as Regulators Eye Restrictions

Mozilla stands nearly alone in its insistence that virtual private networks belong in every internet user's toolkit. The organization, long a voice for an open web, just told...

Scams Turn Professional: How AI Supercharges Fraud and Empties American Wallets

Scams used to feel clumsy. A misspelled email. An obvious lie. Not anymore. Criminals now pick targets with precision. They strike fast. And they win more often.A fres...

Linux Kernel Draws Line on Security Bugs as AI Tools Flood Maintainers With Reports

The Linux kernel just tightened its rules on what counts as a real security problem. And the reason comes straight from the flood of submissions hitting its private security...

Air Force One’s Strict Discard Protocol Exposes Heightened U.S. Cyber Fears After Trump-Xi Beijing Summit

President Donald Trump and his entourage wrapped up two days of talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on Friday. Yet the departure scene at the airport carried a...

Mistral AI Faces Fallout From Stolen Code Repositories as Hackers Demand $25,000 or Public Leak

TeamPCP struck again. The hacker group posted an offer this week on underground forums. Nearly 450 private repositories from Mistral AI. About five gigabytes of internal sour...

Hotel Check-In Tech Exposes Million Passport Scans in Basic Cloud Error

A Japan-based startup left more than a million hotel guests’ passports, driver’s licenses and facial verification photos sitting wide open on the public internet. The lapse r...

Windows Zero-Days YellowKey and GreenPlasma Expose Persistent Flaws in BitLocker and System Trust

Microsoft released its May security updates with little fanfare. No zero-days listed. Routine fixes. Yet within days an anonymous researcher dropped proof-of-concept code for...

OpenAI Certificate Rotation Forces Mac Users to Update After TanStack npm Attack

Two employee devices at OpenAI fell victim to malware. The culprit? A compromised version of a popular open-source library called TanStack. The fallout now lands squarely on...

Americans Fear Identity Theft but Overlook Daily Scam Calls Fueling It

A new survey shows most Americans fixate on the wrong threats. They dread stolen identities and drained accounts. Yet they brush off the scam calls and phishing messages that...

OpenAI’s Narrow Escape in TanStack Supply Chain Attack Exposes AI Sector’s Open Source Risks

On May 11, 2026, developers around the world ran a routine command. npm install. Or pnpm. Or yarn. For some, that single action pulled in poisoned code from one of the most p...

Linux Kernel Bug Exposes SSH Host Keys and Shadow Files to Any Local User

Security teams woke up Thursday to another urgent kernel patch. This one lets unprivileged accounts on Linux systems read files owned by root. The flaw, now known as ssh-keys...

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