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Cisco Patches Nine Crosswork and Secure Workload Flaws, Five Scoring CVSS 10.0

August 21, 2026 Blogmaster

Cisco has published another round of security updates for Crosswork platforms and Secure Workload Software as part of a continued comprehensive internal security review. Four of the security vulnerabilities affect…

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GitLab CVE-2026-19478 Comes Under Active Exploitation Within Days of Disclosure

August 21, 2026 Blogmaster

A newly disclosed security flaw in GitLab has come under active exploitation within days of public disclosure, according to watchTowr. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-19478 (CVSS score: 9.4), a…

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Microsoft Entra ID Flaw (CVSS 10.0) Exploited in Wild, Allows Remote Code Execution

August 21, 2026 Blogmaster

Microsoft on Thursday warned of a maximum-severity security flaw in Entra ID that it said has been exploited in the wild, but noted that no customer action is required. The…

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DOGE’s Screwworm Legacy May Be Tons Of Euthanized Cats And Dogs

August 20, 2026 Blogmaster

Of all the things I thought the Trump administration would cause to enter the public lexicon, I certainly did not have screwworms on my list. If you somehow haven’t heard…

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They survived 9/11; 25 years later, their bonds remain unbroken

August 20, 2026 Blogmaster

September 11, 2001, will be remembered as one of the darkest days in American history. As the 25th anniversary approaches, National Geographic, in collaboration with the 9/11 Memorial and Museum,…

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Europe cancels planned upgrades for Ariane 6 rocket

August 20, 2026 Blogmaster

In the two years since it made a largely successful debut, Europe’s Ariane 6 rocket has launched eight missions, all of which reached orbit safely. The large, expendable rocket has…

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US distributor of China’s most popular humanoid robots pivots after US ban

August 20, 2026 Blogmaster

A leading US distributor of China’s most popular humanoid robots and robot dogs now plans to produce its own robots at a facility on Long Island, New York. The business…

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Bumbling Warner Bros CEO David Zaslav Sees $197 Million Stock Sale Bonanza On Top Of Looming $550 Million Golden Parachute

August 20, 2026 Blogmaster

Warner Brothers CEO David Zaslav oversaw years of dysfunction during the last wave of pointless Warner Brothers AT&T and Discovery mergers, which included tens of thousands of brutal layoffs, consistent…

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Rust Supply Chain Attack Puts Build-Time Malware in Crates with 245 Million Downloads

August 20, 2026 Blogmaster

The Rust Project has deleted malicious versions of three widely used Rust crates from crates.io after a compromised maintainer account published releases that added a typosquatted dependency whose build script…

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Suspected Russian Hackers Abuse Google OAuth and WhatsApp Linking to Hijack Accounts

August 20, 2026 Blogmaster

Three distinct suspected Russian cyber espionage threat clusters have been observed leveraging legitimate authentication flows to single out individuals working in academia, aerospace and defense, governments, and think tanks across…

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