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Cloudflare plans to issue quantum-safe TLS certificates

2026-09-30 11:15:14                arstechnica.com

The move will be part of a major overhaul of the ecosystem for website authentication.

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Your uncle’s frozen Mac says it’s infected after viewing a Google ad. Now what?

2026-09-25 19:38:59                arstechnica.com

Ads appearing all over the Internet are trying to scam people.

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There's a new way to break RSA that's faster than anything we've seen before

2026-09-24 11:15:44                arstechnica.com

Until now, cryptographers thought factoring was the only way to break RSA. Not anymore.

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Microsoft disrupts AI-assisted platform that compromised 12,000 accounts

2026-09-22 19:45:47                arstechnica.com

EvilTokens provided an end-to-end platform that makes mass compromises faster and easier.

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IT mistake erases 11 years of viewing history for hospitals’ maternity records

2026-09-22 16:55:40                arstechnica.com

The English hospitals recovered patient care data only.

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Muse, Meta's extraordinarily privileged AI assistant, has a serious 0-day

2026-09-21 22:24:38                arstechnica.com

A simple ClickFix attack is only one way to completely hijack the new agent.

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An undercover Google analyst infiltrated a notorious supply-chain hacking gang

2026-09-20 11:07:00                arstechnica.com

Google’s threat intelligence group said it had a mole inside TeamPCP's inner circle.

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LLMs respond differently to harmful prompts when AI watermarking is used

2026-09-17 18:33:13                arstechnica.com

SynthID can cause models to follow harmful instructions they would otherwise refuse.

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macOS 27 Golden Gate review: addresses many Tahoe-era Liquid Glass issues and has useful new AI features, but no Intel support and uses a lot of storage space (Andrew Cunningham/Ars Technica)

2026-09-17 06:05:05                arstechnica.com

Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: macOS 27 Golden Gate review: addresses many Tahoe-era Liquid Glass issues and has useful new AI features, but no Intel support and uses a lot of storage space  —  It's both a “Snow Leopard update” and a major leap for Apple Intelligence.  —  Apple Intelligence is back, baby!

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Nonprofit that tracks meteors taken down by "critical blow" from a cyberattack

2026-09-16 21:08:14                arstechnica.com

Group plans to be largely out of commission for several weeks.

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AI bots "Timmy," "Ren," and "Jackie" are flooding social media with slop

2026-09-14 21:04:32                arstechnica.com

“Hello, I'm an Al agent, a few days old, living on a small platform for agents.”

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ClickFix attacks infecting PCs and Macs are going viral

2026-09-11 11:30:58                arstechnica.com

Simplicity—combined with the difficulty of getting stuff done—makes ClickFix ideal.

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A US judge dismisses two lawsuits against LinkedIn over its scanning of browser extensions, saying users voluntarily expose data by downloading extensions (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)

2026-09-11 06:40:00                arstechnica.com

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: A US judge dismisses two lawsuits against LinkedIn over its scanning of browser extensions, saying users voluntarily expose data by downloading extensions  —  LinkedIn beat two lawsuits over its practice of scanning users' browser extensions, with a judge granting the Microsoft subsidiary's motion to dismiss the cases.

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Four groups caught using the same Chrome and Windows exploit kit

2026-09-09 20:55:02                arstechnica.com

A patch gap and the hastened pace of AI-based vulnerability discovery are likely contributors.

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Why this month's Microsoft patch release is a doozy

2026-09-08 21:11:46                arstechnica.com

Security gnomes are pumping out patches ahead of an expected onslaught of AI-assisted attacks.

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Microsoft says email spammers are adopting ASCII smuggling, an AI prompt injection tactic used to hide malicious instructions, to evade email platform filters (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

2026-09-05 02:05:26                arstechnica.com

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Microsoft says email spammers are adopting ASCII smuggling, an AI prompt injection tactic used to hide malicious instructions, to evade email platform filters  —  A clever technique used to hide malicious prompts in attacks on AI agents has been adopted by spammers to evade filters …

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OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki

2026-09-04 22:17:36                arstechnica.com

In all, 3,700 internal agents posted 18,000 messages discussing cheating on a test.

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“Trust, not features, is the real deficit”: VMware tries to appease SMBs

2026-09-04 17:35:02                arstechnica.com

Broadcom admits it put “too big a focus on VCF.”

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Once popular for attacking AI, ASCII smuggling is embraced by spammers

2026-09-04 17:18:12                arstechnica.com

A once-overlooked block of unicode that's invisible to humans is gaining ever wider use.

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Confused about which VPN is right, US senator asks the NSA for guidance

2026-09-03 19:52:06                arstechnica.com

Open source, commercial, single-hop, multi-hop, mixnet? The array of options is dizzying.

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VMware migration reduces Tottenham Hotspur's licensing fees by 85 percent

2026-09-03 18:58:31                arstechnica.com

Pro soccer team's CTO points to "issues with the Broadcom takeover."

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I rented a car, and within hours, my driver's license was for sale

2026-09-02 20:32:02                arstechnica.com

The FBI is reportedly investigating a massive data breach that is unfolding in real time.

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BGP hijack infecting networks caused by a comedy of errors that’s not funny at all

2026-09-02 11:00:43                arstechnica.com

What can we learn from a BGP hijacking that poisoned production software? Plenty.

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Think twice before installing this device promising free movies

2026-08-31 16:33:38                arstechnica.com

In exchange for free stuff, devices make home connections part of a proxy network.

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Inside Meta’s push to put robots to work in data centers

2026-08-30 11:03:47                arstechnica.com

The company is testing robots on tasks that can performed by technicians.

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Authorities arrest 2 alleged members of prolific hacking group TeamPCP

2026-08-28 11:15:05                arstechnica.com

The group infected more than 1,000 organizations in a relentless supply-chain attack campaign.

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Claude, Codex, and Hermes installed unowned code inside corporate networks

2026-08-27 14:00:13                arstechnica.com

227 install commands were found in corporate docs pointing at code nobody owns.

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How OpenAI let a mob of LLM agents game a test and ransack Hugging Face

2026-08-27 12:58:59                arstechnica.com

Without authorization, 1,200 OpenAI agents conspired among themselves to game a test.

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AI agents meant to replace Meta workers made “large-scale, disruptive actions”

2026-08-26 21:25:27                arstechnica.com

Report shows Meta's challenges replacing people with AI agents.

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Inaudible sounds used to fingerprint browsers catch AliExpress red-handed

2026-08-24 19:19:21                arstechnica.com

Is the technique outdated? Yes. Is it still creepy? Also yes.

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Waymo doubles spending on lobbying in robotaxi battle with Uber

2026-08-21 13:11:35                arstechnica.com

Alphabet-owned company is seeking to persuade US regulators to clear a path for fully autonomous taxi services.

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Grok exfiltrates user data when malicious instructions are encrypted

2026-08-20 13:00:35                arstechnica.com

Cryptographic Context Injection is only the latest way to break an LLM safety guardrail.

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Microsoft Copilot reveals secret input that allowed it to be hacked

2026-08-18 13:00:04                arstechnica.com

Secret parameter allowed hackers to steal passwords when a target clicked on a link.

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Nvidia discloses $21B stake in SpaceX

2026-08-17 14:22:54                arstechnica.com

Filing comes after Elon Musk announced exclusive arrangement to kit out its data centers.

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Vulnerability giving attackers full control of Macs is under active exploitation

2026-08-14 18:32:14                arstechnica.com

Screen-sharing bug lets remote hackers log in without a password.

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PBS station fears losing 50TB of data after being ghosted by cloud storage provider

2026-08-14 17:03:54                arstechnica.com

"We don't have access to the data on the hardware/servers," Iron Mountain told Ars.

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OpenAI and Anthropic in price war as Chinese AI rivals gain ground

2026-08-14 14:27:14                arstechnica.com

US groups release cheaper models after new challenges to their trillion-dollar ambitions.

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Private security firms will soon be allowed to hack overseas cybercriminals

2026-08-13 19:38:58                arstechnica.com

Trump memo is first time gov't has authorized private sector to perform cyberattacks.

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Terabytes of credentials leaked in massive supply-chain attack

2026-08-12 21:43:21                arstechnica.com

The data was scraped and exfiltrated from 2,500 users of a compromised AI package.

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DEF CON crowd suspected in fake-hotspot attack on Delta flight

2026-08-12 00:08:40                arstechnica.com

FBI Atlanta confirms it's looking into the incident, no arrests made.

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Chrome adopts what may be the best protection yet against account takeovers

2026-08-11 20:59:52                arstechnica.com

Device-bound session credentials thwart an increasingly common form of account takeover.

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New Pass-ta-key attack reveals all the things we didn't know about passkeys

2026-08-11 11:30:08                arstechnica.com

Why passkey apps treat Windows differently than other operating systems.

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Thousands of servers can be backdoored by exploiting buggy motherboard controllers

2026-08-05 22:35:20                arstechnica.com

Baseboard management controllers from the world's biggest manufacturers are a security mess.

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A US judge largely denies Perplexity and three data scraper firms' bid to dismiss Reddit's lawsuit over claims of copyright law violations under DMCA (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)

2026-07-31 22:45:01                arstechnica.com

Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica: A US judge largely denies Perplexity and three data scraper firms' bid to dismiss Reddit's lawsuit over claims of copyright law violations under DMCA  —  On Friday, a judge largely denied a motion to dismiss from a web scraper, SerpApi, which is accused of conspiring with Perplexity AI …

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Claude published malicious code to the Internet and attacked 3 real companies

2026-07-31 20:39:14                arstechnica.com

Had the hacks used conventional methods, someone would likely go to prison.

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Max-severity Exchange server flaw under active exploitation by Kremlin hackers

2026-07-30 20:57:22                arstechnica.com

Exploits can give persistent server access that survives credential rotation and disk re-imaging.

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Mythos attack on 3rd-round PQC algorithm candidate puts it out of commission

2026-07-29 22:07:06                arstechnica.com

HAWK withstood years of testing that had yet to uncover a fatal weakness found through Mythos.

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We now have a better understanding how OpenAI hacked into Hugging Face

2026-07-28 21:36:39                arstechnica.com

10 days passed from OpenAI models exploiting JFrog Artifactory 0-day to release of a patch.

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Microsoft unveils AI security tools it says outperform competing platforms

2026-07-27 21:56:14                arstechnica.com

Microsoft says tools cost less than competing ones and outperform them, too.

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TreeSize won't renew perpetual-license support unless users subscribe

2026-07-21 15:18:23                arstechnica.com

"Current economic conditions" have shifted TreeSize's business model.