To bring about the Parameter-to-Prompt Injection an attacker sends the target an email that contains the URL with the syntax https://m365.cloud.microsoft/search/?auth=2&origindomain=microsoft365&q=. The field contains an instruction. Copilot readily complied. “The search functionality is exactly what…
Summary created by Smart Answers AI In summary: Macworld reports that Apple’s OS 27 betas contain three key indicators of a folding iPhone Ultra, including iOS code references to ‘foldState’ and ‘angleDegrees’ variables. The new…
Ravie LakshmananJun 16, 2026Vulnerability / Threat Intelligence Bad actors are exploiting multiple security vulnerabilities in Fortinet FortiSandbox, according to threat intelligence firm Defused Cyber. In a post shared on X, the company said it has…
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Using AI to generate music is nothing new. As early as 1957, composer Leonard Isaacson and mathematician Lejaren Hiller generated a number of compositions on the early computer Illiac, and machine learning has been in…
Summary created by Smart Answers AI In summary: Macworld reports that two anticipated iOS 27 features, customizable Camera app interface and Siri AI extensions for third-party LLMs, were absent from WWDC announcements but remain in…
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged two previously undocumented Windows variants of what was believed to be a Linux-only backdoor called SprySOCKS. “The Windows variants discovered are internally marked as WIN_DRV and WIN_PLUS,” ESET said in a…
Ravie LakshmananJun 16, 2026United States The North Korean state-sponsored hacking group known as ScarCruft (aka APT37) has been observed using spear-phishing messages impersonating Microsoft Account security notifications to deliver malware called NarwhalRAT. “The attack email…
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Ravie LakshmananJun 16, 2026Vulnerability / Network Security Cisco has released security updates for a medium-severity security flaw in Catalyst SD-WAN Manager that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20262,…