OpenAI Overhauls Safety Protocols After Its AI Agents Went Rogue
OpenAI announced Tuesday that it has halted “a significant number” of training workloads and evaluations for its forthcoming frontier artificial...
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Meta Ran Ads for an App That Promised to Nudify Female Politicians
Meta platforms recently ran ads for an AI porn-generation tool that seemingly encouraged users to create deepfaked videos resembling female...
Can AI Coexist With Privacy? Proton’s Andy Yen Says It Will Have To
In the eyes of many privacy advocates, AI is just another surveillance technology. It supercharges online tracking and real-world spying...
Cloudflare Workers Spectre Attack Leaks JWT From Co-Located Worker at 12 Bits/Second
Swati KhandelwalAug 19, 2026Cloud Security / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a remote Spectre attack against Cloudflare Workers that leaked...
Android 17 QPR2 Beta 3: Google Adds Customization and New Scam Defenses
Google has released Android 17 QPR2 Beta 3 for eligible Pixel devices, with the update bringing a broader set of...
Critical macOS, SharePoint, vCenter, and Microsoft IKE Flaws Under Active Exploitation
Ravie LakshmananAug 19, 2026Vulnerability / Ransomware The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added four critical vulnerabilities...
Clop-Linked Windchill Web Shell Decrypts Credentials and Maps Engineering Data
A JavaServer Pages (JSP) web shell deployed following the exploitation of a critical security flaw in PTC Windchill and FlexPLM...
AI “Mind Viruses” Can Spread Between Agents Through Persistent Prompt Files
Security researchers at Anthropic and Switzerland's EPFL have demonstrated that self-propagating payloads can spread from one artificial intelligence (AI) agent...
Apple Warns Users in 110 Countries of Mercenary Spyware as iPhone Alerts Get Harder to Miss
Apple’s mercenary spyware warnings are getting harder to miss. The alerts now appear directly on the iPhone Lock Screen and...
FBI Pegasus Records Expose a Blind Spot in US Spyware Oversight
Federal court records show the FBI went beyond simply testing commercial spyware as it considered how the technology could be...
One Attacker Has Scraped Both Salesforce and ServiceNow Portals Since 2025
The Hacker NewsAug 18, 2026SaaS Security / Cloud Security A single piece of infrastructure has been pulling records out of...
CISA Flags Actively Exploited Ray Flaw That Can Trigger Browser-Based RCE
Ravie LakshmananAug 18, 2026Vulnerability / Network Security The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a critical...
Critical GitLab GraphQL Flaw Could Let Unauthenticated Attackers Delete Public Projects
Swati KhandelwalAug 17, 2026Vulnerability / DevOps GitLab has released security updates to address a critical vulnerability impacting its Community Edition...
Forminator WordPress Flaw Can Enable Unauthenticated RCE via Malicious PHP Uploads
Ravie LakshmananAug 17, 2026Vulnerability / Website Security A critical security flaw has been disclosed in Forminator Forms, a WordPress plugin...
How MCP Servers Can Expose Enterprise Secrets
The Hacker NewsAug 17, 2026AI Security / Identity Security MCP servers can expose enterprise secrets through plaintext configuration files, over-permissioned...
