Meet Eney: The AI Assistant That Lives Right on Your Mac
The rise of AI technology in the last couple of years has been phenomenal. Now, it seems that every piece of technology in your home or on your person is powered by some kind of…
Attackers Abuse UpdraftCentral Keys to Plant Backdoors on WordPress Sites
Unknown threat actors breached TeamUpdraft’s website and potentially gained unauthorized access to customers’ connection keys for UpdraftCentral, UpdraftVault, and UpdraftClone, using them to backdoor WordPress sites. TeamUpdraft is the developer behind UpdraftPlus, a popular WordPress…
U.S. Orders DeepSeek Removed From Federal Civilian Systems, Bans New Purchases
Swati KhandelwalOct 21, 2026Artificial Intelligence / National Security U.S. federal civilian agencies must remove DeepSeek products from their information technology systems, along with any third-party products or services “developed using DeepSeek implementations,” under a Department…
For $35, you can now get Microsoft Office and Windows 11 Pro for life
TL;DR: Replace Windows 10 and your Microsoft 365 subscription with lifetime licenses to Windows 11 Pro and Office Professional 2021, now $34.97 (reg. $418.99). Windows 10 first came out in 2015, and Microsoft 365 Personal…
Get ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek in one window for $59.97 for life
TL;DR: A lifetime subscription to the ChatPlayground AI Unlimited Plan is $59.97 (reg. $619) through Oct. 25. Send one prompt to 20+ AI models, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek, and compare the answers. DeepSeek,…
State Bank of India Confirms Data Leak After 3,897 Customer Records Found on Dark Web
State Bank of India has identified 3,897 customer records containing personal information in a set of about 375,000 records available on the dark web, and it does not yet know where the data came from.…
CISA Orders Federal Agencies to Patch Exploited Plex2Shell, Siemens, and SiteGuard Flaws
Ravie LakshmananOct 21, 2026Vulnerability / Malware The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added four vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, including four vulnerabilities impacting Plex Media Server that’s collectively…
Hackers Hid Vasilek Backdoor in VMware Tools During 2-Year Russian Healthcare Intrusion
A Belarus-aligned hacktivist group spent nearly two years within the network of a Russian healthcare organization. According to a report published by Russian cybersecurity firm Solar, the activity has been attributed to a threat cluster…
Two Unpatched Critical PHP RCE Flaws (CVSS 9.2) Trigger Emergency Security Alert
Swati KhandelwalOct 21, 2026Vulnerability / Web Security PHP will ship an out-of-cycle security release at 14:00 UTC today, October 21, for two critical vulnerabilities that its security team has rated 9.2 on the CVSS v4.0…
PHP warns it plans to release 2 emergency patches imminently
Website admins, brace yourselves. Fixes for what are believed to be uncommonly severe vulnerabilities are scheduled to drop in a little more than 12 hours for PHP, a programming language that powers websites and Web…