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ShinyHunters' Vishing Spree Shows Social Engineering Still Beats Tech Defenses
Troy Hunt's latest weekly update zeroes in on ShinyHunters, a loose crew of young threat actors punching well above their weight against major brands. Their acc
Star Labs StarFighter 16: Linux laptop with removable webcam, kill switch, open firmware
Star Labs has unveiled the StarFighter 16, a 16-inch Linux performance laptop targeting privacy-conscious technical users. Configurations span Intel Core Ultra
Taiwan student halts high-speed trains by spoofing 19-year-old TETRA signals
A 23-year-old in Taiwan, identified by his surname Lin, brought four Taiwan High Speed Rail trains to an emergency stop for 48 minutes on April 5 by transmittin
Thiel-backed Panthalassa raises $140M to float AI data centers on ocean waves
Panthalassa has secured a $140 million round, with backing from Peter Thiel among others, to build wave-powered AI compute nodes deployed in open ocean. The fun
Trellix Source Code Leak Renews Alarm Over Security Vendor Supply Chains
Trellix, the XDR vendor born from the McAfee Enterprise and FireEye merger, is dealing with a source code exposure incident that turns one of its own products i
Unpatched PAN-OS Captive Portal Bug Hits CVSS 9.3, Exploited in the Wild
Palo Alto Networks disclosed CVE-2026-0300, a buffer overflow in the PAN-OS User-ID Authentication Portal (Captive Portal) that lets an unauthenticated attacker
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