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Pentagon Renames CDAO ‘Super Intelligence Office’
The move follows President Trump’s order to replace “artificial intelligence” with “super intelligence” in executive branch communications.
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Meta Fined $887 Million in Italy Over Android Gallery Photos and Videos on Facebook
The directive protects smartphones as part of a person’s private sphere and requires “free and informed consent” for such access, the authority said.
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Is AI Making Us Worse at Cybersecurity?
Overreliance on AI could erode the creativity, clear communication, and critical thinking security teams need when there’s no playbook.
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Apple Reveals How Secure Exclaves Shield Camera and Microphone Data
The tech giant has detailed the architecture designed to isolate ambient sensor data from the main OS on HomeView and new iPhones.
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No Signs of Hacking in FAA Ground Stop as FBI Reportedly Probes Software Update
Officials say there is no evidence of a cyberattack behind the nationwide FAA outage, which may have been caused by a software update.
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FAA Ground Stop Issued Due to ‘Extraordinary Circumstances’
Federal officials have yet to say what caused the communications disruption or whether they are investigating a possible cyberattack.
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In Other News: New CISA Director Nominee, Connected Car Hacking, Baker Tilly Data Breach
Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Siemens details security advisory policy, OpenAI Codex backdoor risk, Microsoft warns of model weight backdoors.
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Microsoft Struggles to Restore Email and Other Services in a Global Outage
Microsoft is trying different ways to identify the cause of the problem and get its servers back online, using “a measured approach to identify and repair affected infrastructure.”
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Apify Confirms Customer Data Accessed in Cyberattack
The web scraping company says an intruder accessed customer accounts and obtained personal information or stored data.
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SilentAir Hackers Intercept Calls, SMS From Inside Mobile Networks
Enea says SilentAir hijacked mobile network nodes to intercept calls and messages, with Taiwanese subscribers the primary targets.
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Law Enforcement Disrupts Gootloader, CastleRAT, and StealC Infrastructure
Investigators seized 235 servers and 257 domains, along with 6.4 million victim credentials as part of Operation Endgame.
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Citrix Patches 10 Critical NetScaler Vulnerabilities
Successful exploitation could lead to unexpected behavior or denial-of-service (DoS) conditions.
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OpenAI Unveils Daybreak Red Team, Defense Factory Security Tools
Daybreak Red Team pentests web applications with AI agents, while Defense Factory investigates security findings and prepares patches.
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Nightmare Eclipse Drops Windows Zero-Day Exploit ‘SignDrop’
It abuses CLFS and Windows Defender to trigger arbitrary file creation in the context of the antimalware process.
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PHP2Shell Exploited in Destructive Check Point Gateway Attacks
PHP2Shell enabled initial compromise, while CVE-2026-123039 allowed attackers to elevate privileges to root.
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Hackers Exploit New N-central Zero-Day Hours After PoC Publication
Dubbed 4EverAble2Shell, the flaw could allow remote, unauthenticated attackers to execute code with root privileges.
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FBI Says US Seized $1.2 Billion Worth of Cryptocurrency Stolen From Binance
Also Thursday, the FBI blamed North Korea for a separate social engineering scheme that officials say resulted in the theft of $400 million worth of cryptocurrency.
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Microsoft 365 Outage Disrupts Outlook, Exchange Online and Teams
Microsoft says failed server health checks disrupted Outlook and other Microsoft 365 services. The company is still investigating the cause and has disclosed no evidence of a cyberattack.
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Apache Patches Critical HTTP Server RCE Found by Anthropic, Google
The mod_http2 race condition, CVE-2026-119618, could let unauthenticated attackers execute code on servers with HTTP/2 enabled.
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Chrome, Firefox Updates Patch Over 180 Vulnerabilities
Google fixed 83 flaws with a new Chrome 157 release, and Mozilla addressed 99 bugs in Firefox 160.
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