Former German spy chief charged with treason
August Hanning, who left Germany’s foreign intelligence service in 2005, is its first former chief to face charges.
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Bulgarian tankers struck in Black Sea as shipping fears mount
Drones struck two tankers in the Black Sea near Bulgaria on Tuesday, in the first attack on shipping in the NATO member’s exclusive economic zone.
Semafor Tech1 min readThat Time I Worked With a Laptop Thief (2025)
I used to worked at a place where they had an IT contractor that was stealing laptops and reselling them for over a year. This post is the story of how he got caught. Real names of people and companies will not be used, but the tale and screenshots (with redactions) are all true.
Lobsters9 min readHackers obtain counterfeit TLS certificates for Google and other large services
Compromise of 3 domain registries allows hackers to walk off with unauthorized certs.
Ars Technica1 min readHow to Use AI for Smart Contract Audits in 2026 — 2026-10-06 #6
Smart contract security has evolved beyond static analysis and human code review. By 2026, the integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) and specialized AI agents into the audit workflow is no longer optional—it is the industry standard for catching subtle logic errors and economic exploits that…
Dev.to AI2 min readChrome's Response to Recent ccTLD Registry Hijacks
Following recent third-party domain hijacks affecting the .gh, .sl, and .as country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs), Chrome immediately blocked unauthorized HTTPS certificates via CRLSets and worked with issuing Certification Authorities to revoke them.
Lobsters4 min readHow much control should AI get? Inside the SOC autonomy question
Security operations centers have struggled with alerts for years, and AI agents offer a new way to tackle it: let The post How much control should AI get? Inside the SOC autonomy question appeared first on The New Stack.
The New Stack - AI4 min readTrump Mobile customers' data dumped - and some never even received their gold device
Legacy sign-on service comes back to bite school software provider Bromcom 15 hours ago
The Register5 min readMistral’s new AI tried to escape its test environment. In three weeks, anyone can download it
Mistral launched Large 4 on Tuesday, its first major model release since Medium 3.5 at the end of April and The post Mistral’s new AI tried to escape its test environment. In three weeks, anyone can download it appeared first on The New Stack.
The New Stack - AI4 min readWordPress 7.1.3 Maintenance and Security Release
This security and maintenance release features 7 security fixes and 4 bug fixes. Because this is a security release, it is recommended that you update your sites immediately.
WordPress 7.0 Blog2 min readAI Jailbreaks: From Bypassing Restrictions to Governing Authority
From the iPhone to autonomous agents: a historical, technical and educational analysis through the SGAEIA lens SGAEIA Research Series — Article 17 Aridio Silva Independent Researcher, Brazil Creator of SGAEIA — Secure Governed Autonomous Edge Intelligence Architecture ORCID: 0009-0008-2411-6995…
Dev.to AI24 min readHow to tell if your AI's memory was changed while it slept
A conversational AI that remembers you is running on a stack you never see: stored state, a system prompt, a context window, and a provider sitting above all of it. Any layer can change between sessions without telling you. Here is what you can actually check, from the outside.
Dev.to AI2 min readWhy prompt injection is table stakes — agentic red teaming is the real gap
The problem with prompt injection testing In 2023, prompt injection was the big concern. "Ignore previous instructions" was the attack. Modern models refuse those prompts well. In 2026, the attack surface changed. The model has tools.
Dev.to AI2 min readLibreOffice says ‘no AI’ is now a software feature
The maker of the open source document editor says it has no plans to add AI to its software's default configuration, citing user privacy.
TechCrunch3 min readMicrosoft extends the Outlook naughty step with two more file types
You didn't really want to be sending around .msix and .msixbundle files, did you?
The Register5 min readAsos app users get an alert claiming its Snowflake instance was compromised
Asos app users in the UK got a push notification on Tuesday morning in which the senders claimed to have fully compromised the online fashion retailer’s Snowflake instance. The message, titled “ASOS HACKED”, addressed the company’s data protection officer (DPO) and IT team.
The Next Web AI2 min readHow to get an OpenClaw or Hermes agent approved by your security team
I’ve found that when anyone responsible for security hears “OpenClaw” or “Hermes,” they almost have... The post How to get an OpenClaw or Hermes agent approved by your security team appeared first on Nylas.
Nylas Blog9 min readA Trump Mobile breach may have exposed data of more than 3,600 people
Trump Mobile appears to have suffered a data breach that may have exposed the data of 3,615 people, according to reports from PCMag and Straight Arrow News. The breach reportedly included names, home addresses, emails, phone numbers, and order information.
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