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Pentagon Renames CDAO ‘Super Intelligence Office’

5 hours 39 min ago

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

Sat, 11/14/2026 - 2:00pm

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?

Sat, 11/14/2026 - 9:00am

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

Sat, 11/14/2026 - 6:00am

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

Sat, 11/14/2026 - 3:40am

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’

Fri, 11/13/2026 - 4:33pm

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

Fri, 11/13/2026 - 10:20am

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

Fri, 11/13/2026 - 8:47am

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

Fri, 11/13/2026 - 7:41am

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

Fri, 11/13/2026 - 7:20am

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

Fri, 11/13/2026 - 5:48am

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

Fri, 11/13/2026 - 4:36am

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

Fri, 11/13/2026 - 4:21am

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’

Fri, 11/13/2026 - 3:50am

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

Fri, 11/13/2026 - 2:39am

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

Fri, 11/13/2026 - 2:20am

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

Thu, 11/12/2026 - 9:28pm

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

Thu, 11/12/2026 - 3:55pm

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

Thu, 11/12/2026 - 10:38am

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

Thu, 11/12/2026 - 8:42am

Google fixed 83 flaws with a new Chrome 157 release, and Mozilla addressed 99 bugs in Firefox 160.

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