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USB Drop Test Goes Viral: Lessons From a Physical Pen-Test Stunt
A penetration tester's account of a USB drop exercise — scattering rigged thumb drives near a target organization to see which employees would plug them into co
Agent Skills: bolting senior-engineer scaffolding onto AI coding agents
Addy Osmani argues that AI coding agents default to the same failure mode as junior engineers: take the shortest path to 'task complete' and skip the invisible
AI lowers the bar: nontechnical attackers now run sophisticated campaigns
A December 2025 arrest in Osaka captures the shift: a 17-year-old with no technical background used AI tools to exfiltrate 7 million records from Japan's larges
Alberta's salted voter rolls expose separatist group's leaked database
Elections Alberta used a centuries-old leak-detection technique — the canary trap — to identify how its electoral list ended up powering an unauthorized online
Andy Masley: Data center land-use panic ignores decades of farmland sell-off
Andy Masley dismantles the 'data centers are eating our farmland' narrative with a scale comparison. Between 2000 and 2024, US farmers voluntarily sold off a Co
Bun begins Zig-to-Rust port with Phase-A guide commit
The Bun JavaScript runtime project has landed an initial commit (46d3bc2) adding a Phase-A porting guide, signaling the start of a migration from Zig to Rust. T
Credit unions hit by process-based loan fraud, not exploits
Flare researchers tracked a structured loan fraud playbook circulating in underground forums that bypasses credit unions without touching a single vulnerability
Critical cPanel Flaw Triggers Mass Exploitation Wave Across Shared Hosting
A critical vulnerability in cPanel — the control panel running on a substantial share of the world's web hosting infrastructure — is under active exploitation,
Critical MOVEit Automation Auth Bypass Patched, CVSS 9.8
Progress Software shipped fixes for two flaws in MOVEit Automation, its server-based managed file transfer scheduler. The headline issue, CVE-2026-4670, is a 9.
Dark Reading at 20: How a 2006 Launch Reshaped Security Journalism
Dark Reading marks its origin story from 2006, when the publication launched into a cybersecurity media landscape dominated by vendor newsletters and generalist
F1 Miami: Energy regen tweaks calm the 'yo-yo' chaos of new hybrid era
Formula One returned in Miami after a five-week pause, with the spotlight on regulatory tweaks rather than the city's pastel-and-hospitality spectacle. The spor
GameStop floats unsolicited $56B bid for eBay with hazy financing plan
GameStop chairman Ryan Cohen sent an unsolicited offer to acquire eBay for $55.5 billion, despite eBay's market cap being more than four times GameStop's. The p