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Attackers Weaponize GitHub Actions Runners to Target cPanel and WHM Servers

July 23, 2026 Blogmaster

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a large-scale campaign that has turned compromised GitHub repositories into distributed attack infrastructure designed to target cPanel and WebHost Manager (WHM) instances. The activity…

Cybersecurity

How Synthetic Identity Fraud is Coming for Machine Identities

July 23, 2026 Blogmaster

Most people understand identity theft as an attacker stealing a real person’s sensitive information and impersonating them. Synthetic identity fraud is much harder to catch. Instead of stealing a real…

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Dem Texas AG Candidate Vows To Investigate Musk’s Starlink Grant Grift

July 23, 2026 Blogmaster

Last month I wrote a feature for The Verge exploring how Republicans had hijacked the Biden-era infrastructure bill to redirect billions of dollars away from next-generation fiber, and instead funnel…

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Nine-Year-Old RefluXFS Linux Flaw Gives Local Users Root on Default RHEL Installs

July 23, 2026 Blogmaster

RefluXFS, a new Linux kernel flaw disclosed on July 22 and tracked as CVE-2026-64600, lets an unprivileged local user overwrite root-owned files on an XFS filesystem and gain persistent root…

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Check Point Patches Exploited SmartConsole Flaw Allowing Full Admin Access

July 23, 2026 Blogmaster

Check Point has released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities impacting Security Management and Multi-Domain Management (MDSM) products, including a critical flaw that has come under active exploitation in the…

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Orcas team up to ram sunfish until they explode

July 23, 2026 Blogmaster

Credit: Kathryn Ayres Credit: Kathryn Ayres There have been numerous accounts in recent years of orcas ramming boats—and sometimes sinking them. Scientists believe this may be a form of culturally…

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Screen Time Guidelines For Kids Is Changing As Research Paints A More Nuanced Picture

July 22, 2026 Blogmaster

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Concerns surrounding young people’s screen time are widespread. Australia became the first country to…

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Sales were up at Tesla but so were costs and spending

July 22, 2026 Blogmaster

Tesla posted its financial statement for the second quarter of the year this afternoon. Earlier in July, we learned that the American automaker had had a good quarter in terms…

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Clayface trailer leans into the body horror

July 22, 2026 Blogmaster

The San Diego Comic-Con kicks off tomorrow, and DC Studios and Warner Brothers are setting the stage by dropping the first full trailer for Clayface, part of the DC Universe’s…

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ISPs’ long nightmare of having to list all the fees they charge is finally over

July 22, 2026 Blogmaster

The Federal Communications Commission today voted to eliminate a Biden-era rule that required Internet service providers to list all of their so-called “passthrough” fees on easily accessible broadband price labels.…

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