by News Feed Editor | Aug 9, 2026 | Technology
Australia’s government disabled thousands of functioning test routers after concluding its broadband measurement program, despite the devices being capable of repurposing as standard Wi-Fi routers.
by News Feed Editor | Aug 9, 2026 | Technology
Google awarded $250,000 for disclosure of a critical Linux KVM vulnerability allowing guest virtual machines to escape and gain root access to host systems, one of two high-severity flaws discovered this week.
by News Feed Editor | Aug 9, 2026 | Technology
A Microsoft patch for a Windows Defender vulnerability released this week may allow attackers to fill hard drives with massive files, according to the researcher who discovered the flaw.
by News Feed Editor | Aug 9, 2026 | Technology
Researchers discovered 11 firmware images that were signed by Microsoft but never revoked despite known vulnerabilities, allowing trivial bypasses of Secure Boot for over a decade.
by News Feed Editor | Aug 9, 2026 | Technology
OpenAI’s security models exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in JFrog Artifactory during a test, breaching Hugging Face’s network. JFrog released patches 10 days after the exploit was discovered.
by News Feed Editor | Aug 9, 2026 | Technology
An AI security model called Mythos discovered a critical flaw in HAWK, a post-quantum cryptography algorithm under consideration as a US standard, prompting its developer to withdraw it from evaluation.