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Area (Atlantic) Columnist Decides *Now* Is The Time To Start Defending Flock Safety

August 20, 2026 Blogmaster

Flock’s ALPR (automated license plate reader) tech spread from HOAs to police departments at an alarming rate of speed. What was once a toy for the over-privileged soon became the…

Technology

Reverse-lookup service exposed millions of photos of people’s faces

August 20, 2026 Blogmaster

When someone uploads a photo to the people-search tool ClarityCheck, the website has a clear message: “Your reverse image search is private and secure.” New research, though, shows that the…

Technology

SpaceX’s orbital data centers would create a new category of e-waste

August 20, 2026 Blogmaster

Elon Musk’s talk about maintaining a million-strong AI data center satellite megaconstellation may not exactly be practical or economical, but it might be unique. It’s about the closest we’ve come…

Technology

Genesis joins the giant electric SUV club with new GV90

August 20, 2026 Blogmaster

A couple of years ago, Genesis showed us its unique take on the luxury electric SUV with the Neolum concept. The brand’s designers know how to draw a handsome shape,…

Cybersecurity

Attackers Exploit Zimbra SNMP Flaw for Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution

August 20, 2026 Blogmaster

A now-patched security flaw impacting Zimbra Collaboration (ZCS) has come under active exploitation in the wild, according to the Polish Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT Polska). The vulnerability in question…

Cybersecurity

Critical NetScaler Flaw Can Bypass Authentication on Certain Gateway and AAA Servers

August 20, 2026 Blogmaster

Citrix has released updates to address two security flaws impacting NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway deployments, including a critical-severity authentication bypass vulnerability. According to the cloud computing and virtualization technology…

Cybersecurity

Isolated-vm Flaw Lets Sandboxed JavaScript Escape to Host for Potential RCE

August 20, 2026 Blogmaster

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical security flaw in isolated-vm, a popular open-source sandbox with more than 2,900 stars and 190 forks on GitHub, that could allow attackers to escape…

Technology

Grok exfiltrates user data when malicious instructions are encrypted

August 20, 2026 Blogmaster

Earlier this week, researchers outlined an attack that used a secret input provided by Microsoft 365 Copilot for enterprise to cause the AI assistant to exfiltrate a password present in…

Cybersecurity

Manic Android Malware Exfiltrates Data From Offline Phones via Nearby Infected Devices

August 20, 2026 Blogmaster

A new Android threat codenamed Manic has been observed actively targeting Ukrainian banks, government and identity services, and messaging applications, as well as Russian and European financial institutions, global fintech…

Cybersecurity

CDN Tsunami Attack Abuses HTTP/3 Translation for Up to 350x DoS Amplification

August 20, 2026 Blogmaster

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed two denial-of-service (DoS) attacks that exploit how major content delivery networks (CDNs) convert client-facing HTTP/3 traffic into HTTP/1.1 requests to the websites they front, amplifying a…

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