A hotel check-in system left more than 1 million customer passports, driver’s licenses, and selfie verification photos to the open web after a security lapse. The data is now offline after TechCrunch alerted the company…
Summary created by Smart Answers AI In summary: Macworld reports on a sophisticated scam where criminals stole Apple gift card information, used it to purchase iPhones and MacBooks, then resold products to overseas gray-market importers.…
Ravie LakshmananMay 15, 2026Botnet / Threat Intelligence The Russian state-sponsored hacking group known as Turla has transformed its custom backdoor Kazuar into a modular peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet that’s engineered for stealth and persistent access to…
If you’re in the market for a laptop upgrade, you’ll want to get as much RAM and storage as you can without destroying your budget. Today’s deal does just that, bringing the price of an…
With the new Chrome versions 148.0.7778.167/168 for Windows and macOS and 148.0.7778.167 for Linux, the developers have patched 79 security vulnerabilities. According to Google, none of them are currently being exploited in the wild yet.…
Ravie LakshmananMay 15, 2026Vulnerability / AI Security Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a set of four security flaws in OpenClaw that could be chained to achieve data theft, privilege escalation, and persistence. The vulnerabilities, collectively dubbed…
A zero-day exploit circulating online allows people with physical access to a Windows 11 system to bypass default BitLocker protections and gain complete access to an encrypted drive within seconds. The exploit, named YellowKey, was…
Ravie LakshmananMay 14, 2026Vulnerability / Network Security Cisco has released updates to address a maximum-severity authentication bypass flaw in Catalyst SD-WAN Controller that it said has been exploited in limited attacks. The vulnerability, tracked as…
Cybersecurity researchers are sounding the alarm about what has been described as “malicious activity” in newly published versions of node-ipc. According to Socket and StepSecurity, three different versions of the npm package have been confirmed…
On paper, face swapping is no longer a technical challenge. The underlying AI has matured quickly, and results have improved across the board. But for Mac users, the experience of actually using these tools hasn’t…