With most information hidden, the game Stratego
Deep Blue took down Garry Kasparov at chess in 1997, AlphaGo beat Lee Sedol at Go in 2016, and poker bots have been beating professionals for years. But one classic…
ThreatsDay: AI-Powered Zero-Day Chain, 543K Live Secrets, Model Inspection RCE and 13 More Stories
This week, the useful words are boring ones: inspect, cache, compile, store, trust. Each sounds harmless. Each can become an attack path when a system does a little more than…
Police Arrest 16-Year-Old Suspected of Running KillSec, Seize Ransomware Leak Site and Servers
Police in Spain have arrested a 16-year-old whom investigators suspect of running the KillSec ransomware group. KillSec is accused of stealing data from organizations and threatening to publish it on…
California’s Top Court Rules Against Rogue Sheriff Who Just Went Out And Seized 650,000 Ballots
Riverside County, California sheriff Chad Bianco is definitely one of those guys. You know the ones I mean. The kind of “law and order” hypocrite who loves the law as…
WordPress Backdoor Rebuilds Itself After Cleanup Using Files, Database, and Shared Memory
Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a WordPress compromise in which threat actors deployed multiple persistence mechanisms to ensure that the final payload kept returning without having to infect the…
NASA squeezed Treasury, vibe coded, and broke the mold in bid to save Swift
An attempt to save NASA’s $500 million Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory from dropping out of orbit fell short, but the behind-the-scenes machinations required just to make a rescue possible deserve…
PS5 emulation is suddenly making big strides on PC
For a long time, PC gamers could access many PlayStation 5 games only if the publisher invested in a bespoke port (something Sony has recently said it will be scaling…
How Financial Services Companies Can Modernize Their Software Supply Chain
Every security leader at a bank, insurer, or asset manager has had a version of this conversation: Security wants to eliminate a class of vulnerabilities. Engineering explains what it would…
Trump’s ‘Morally Binding’ New AI Guardrails Are Meaningless Pudding
Corporations have long enjoyed creating toothless “self-regulatory” regimes that exist primarily to pre-empt real government oversight. While the quality of these orgs can vary somewhat, generally they’re just a toothless…
CISA Adds Exploited Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager Auth Bypass to KEV
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a critical authentication bypass flaw impacting Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV), following reports of…