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Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueling the sabotage. PLUS: 10,000 drivers call on Uber to repay stolen wages, a man is arrested at a public hearing about a data center and more.
The PyPI package lightning was compromised in versions 2.6.2 and 2.6.3 with Mini Shai-Hulud themed malicious code to execute credential-stealing malware on import.
Apple spent five years building hardware and software to make memory corruption exploits dramatically harder. Our engineers, working together with Mythos Preview, built a working exploit in five days.
I’m coming down from spending a few days at Usenix Security, right here in my hometown of Baltimore. This means that my days have been taken up with two kinds of conversation: first, explaini…
Today, we’re excited to announce the Preview of Containers in Firefox version 153, which lets you keep separate parts of your online life (work, shopping
A bungled Assetnote scan
This case involves Apple’s handling of user-uploaded files hosted in private iCloud storage. Instead of adopting PhotoDNA to scan hosted files for CSAM, Apple created its own proprietary alternative, NeuralHash, which apparently wasn’t as good. So Apple U-turned on its...
Imagine, just for a moment, that the Government wanted to keep a record of everyone's sexuality. They need to know this detailed demographic data because it will be highly useful in civic planning. It will help them work out what provision needs to be made for sexual health services, how many children are likely to be…
Core PHP engine flaws enable remote code execution and Heartbleed-style memory disclosure across the web.
A seven-month-old arbitrary code execution vulnerability remains present in Cursor, leaving 1 million daily users to rely on public disclosure after months of unsuccessful attempts to obtain remediation updates.
I reverse engineered the hardware and firmware of my Egret GT E-Scooter. I describe how I got in, analysed communication between components, and reverse engineered firmware. I speak about writing custom firmware for the display unit.
I found a stranger texting my 12-year-old on a 'kid-safe' Gabb phone. Parental controls are broken.
A CVSS 8.7 vulnerability in GitHub Enterprise Server allows remote code execution. Read the threat brief and find vulnerable GHES instances from Wiz.
We recently published an exploit chain for the Google Pixel 9 that demonstrated it was possible t...
"Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activities on the ground."
All internet voting systems are insecure. The insecurity is worse than a well-run conventional paper ballot system, because a very small number of people may have the power to change any (or all) votes that go through the system, without detection.
The full Claude Code transcript from discovering and responding to the litellm 1.82.8 PyPI supply chain attack on March 24, 2026 — from mysterious process explosions to malware identification to public disclosure.
A caller phones Radio Erywan. “Is it true that in Moscow, on Red Square, they give out cars?” “True. Not in Moscow, however, but in St. Petersburg. Not on Red Square, but on Revolution Square. Not cars, but bikes. And they don’t give them out, but steal them”. Edit: Through the apparent magic of Hacker News, my Google…
When companies get caught doing this sort of thing, the response is almost always the same: "we're using this technology to combat fraud," or "ensure positive user experience," or "save computing resources," or some other hog wash. The simple truth, there's no reason to be collecting data that can be used to identify…
OpenAI gave a last-minute presentation at the Black Hat security on Wednesday about “the Hugging Face Incident” (previously on this blog). The video was published yesterday. It’s short and information …
Claude Code has gotten extremely good at finding security vulnerabilities, and this is only the beginning.
PingCAP Inc. / TiDB Cloud • Distributed databases • 10.6 TB total exfiltration • 200 GB stage one release
OpenCode is an open-source AI coding assistant. Prior to v1.1.10, it automatically spawned an HTTP server (default port 4096+) on startup. Since v1.1.10, the server is disabled by default but can be enabled via command-line flags or configuration file. When running, the server exposes endpoints for:
Math.tanh, every CSS trig function, and the Web Audio compressor all route through the host libm, so the rounding of a cosine betrays the OS a browser actually …
A week ago the Copy Fail vulnerability came out, and Hyunwoo Kim immediately realized that the fixes were insufficient, sharing a patch the same day. In doing this he followed standard procedure for Linux, especially within networking: share the security impact with a closed list of Linux security engineers, while…
We found that former Member of the European Parliament Stelios Kouloglou was hacked with Pegasus spyware while serving on the PEGA committee, which investigated Pegasus and other spyware abuses in Europe. Through forensic analysis of his device, we found that the attackers could have had access to confidential…
My wife and I run OpenBenches. It's a niche little site which lets people share photos of memorial benches and their locations. Most modern phones embed a geolocation within the photo's metadata, so we use that information to put the photos on a map. Google's Android has now broken that. On the web, we used to use…
Insofar as a political organization like Ofcom is even capable of admitting defeat, it did so in the 4chan enforcement today. In testimony before the Commons Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport Comm…
