A ransomware group is actively exploiting an unpatched flaw in security tools used across the U.S. federal government, prompting the U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA to order all civilian agencies to remediate the vulnerability by end…
Ravie LakshmananJun 09, 2026Privacy / Artificial Intelligence Meta on Tuesday announced that it will use information shared by other businesses to personalize users’ feed and responses from its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, expanding its scope…
Ravie LakshmananJun 09, 2026Vulnerability / Backup Software Veeam has released security patches to address a critical flaw in its Backup & Replication software that could result in remote code execution. Tracked as CVE-2026-44963, the vulnerability…
Ravie LakshmananJun 09, 2026AI Security / Software Supply Chain Microsoft on Monday confirmed that it temporarily removed some GitHub repositories in response to a recent security incident that led to 73 of its open-source projects…
OpenAI has launched a new security feature in ChatGPT called Lockdown Mode, designed to provide additional protection against so-called “prompt injection attacks.” A prompt injection attack is when someone crafts a deceptive prompt in an…
Summary created by Smart Answers AI In summary: Macworld reports on Apple’s new AI-powered Passwords app feature in iOS 27 that automatically changes compromised passwords with one click. This Apple Intelligence feature aims to eliminate…
Um, what does this button do? Our new air conditioner had just arrived, a necessity for a sure-to-be-sizzling New York summer, and already I was scratching my head. What’s the “Swing” button for? How does…
Between October 2025 and March 2026, many Microsoft 365 users discovered that the Copilot AI app was automatically installed on their computers. After heavy vocal backlash and several crucial bugs, like the one that allowed Copilot…
Apple mostly steered clear of the big, dumb AI announcements we often see at the big tech keynotes — you know, things like AI pop song generators, AI-generated avatars, and virtual AI try-on tools that…
When a verdict map is deleted from memory, catchall elements are deactivated and a chain’s reference counter is decremented. When errors occur the deletion can be reversed and the counter incremented. CVE-2026-53111 allows for that…