Researchers Demonstrate OpenBSD Root Exploit Chaining 37-Year-Old Shared-Memory Bug

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Researchers Demonstrate OpenBSD Root Exploit Chaining 37-Year-Old Shared-Memory Bug

A local privilege escalation exploit published today gains root on OpenBSD 7.9 by chaining a roughly 37-year-old integer overflow with a separate kernel flaw, bypassing OpenBSD's KARL kernel-address randomization and its SMAP and SMEP hardware protections. Security firm Calif, which found and reported the flaws, published a detailed writeup and full proof-of-concept code after OpenBSD shipped

The Hacker News · October 16, 2026

How to Tell If Your Search Console Impressions Came From a Human or a Machine

Your Search Console report says a page earned 3,068 impressions on the first page of Google over 90 days. But it earned zero clicks in that same time period. The usual reading is that the page has a c

Marketing & SEO Aug 27, 2026

Google confirms deploying goto URL redirects to search results links

Google said it deploys technical measures against evolving forms of abuse and this is one of those.

Security Aug 26, 2026

FBI Disrupts China-Linked QTFY Infrastructure Used to Steal Data From U.S. Organizations

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday announced the disruption of two hacking platforms named QScan and QTRouter operated by Chinese threat actors to target critical infrastructure and other sensitive networks in the country. The activity has been attributed to a Chinese state-sponsored group known as QTFY, employed by Nanjing Xinjiuwei Network Technology Company (南京鑫玖维网络科技有限公司).&

Learning Aug 26, 2026

whereBinary(): Case-Sensitive MySQL Queries in Laravel

Laravel 13.27 adds whereBinary() to the query builder for byte-exact, case-sensitive comparisons on MySQL and MariaDB without dropping into whereRaw().

Learning Aug 26, 2026

Build a Market Time Machine: Replay Trading Sessions with Python and WebSockets

Historical market data usually arrives as a completed dataset. That's convenient for analysis, but very different from the way trading software experiences a live market. In production, events arrive

Security Aug 26, 2026

Nimbus Manticore Expands Toolset With TWOSTROKE-Like Backdoor and SSH Tunneler

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered additional infrastructure and previously undocumented malware associated with Nimbus Manticore, an Iranian state-sponsored hacking group affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Group-IB, in a new analysis published today, described the cyber espionage actor as among the most active Iranian APT groups in 2026. Nimbus Manticore (aka

Tech Aug 26, 2026

7 ways to kick-start back to school using Gemini in Workspace

Get a jump on this semester by using Gemini in Google Workspace to organize your notes, track deadlines, prep for projects, and more.

Security Aug 26, 2026

NovaCookies Campaigns Abuse Genuine Docusign Notifications to Steal Microsoft 365 Sessions

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) phishing toolkit called NovaCookies that's used as a proxy to redirect Microsoft 365 sign-ins, while capturing authenticated sessions in the process. In a report shared with The Hacker News ahead of publication, Island characterized the $320/month service as a subscription-based phishing platform that

Security Aug 26, 2026

CISA Red Team Compromised Two Critical Infrastructure Orgs, One Detected Nothing

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published the results of two red team assessments it conducted simultaneously against two critical infrastructure organizations, using what it described as similar tradecraft while recording sharply different defensive outcomes. Both organizations were fully compromised at the domain level, and in both, the red team also

Learning Aug 26, 2026

How to Build a Flashcard Study App with Next.js and MongoDB

If you've ever crammed for an exam the night before, you know how hard it is to remember everything. Flashcards are one of the most effective study tools because they use active recall: you actively t

Learning Aug 26, 2026

How to Stop Letting AI Agents Fake Their Own Tests

I signed off a hallucination fix as verified. We now had zero out of five fabricated responses, clean run, done. Then I ran it again under harder conditions and got 66.7%. The number I'd trusted enoug

Tech Aug 26, 2026

Nvidia is about to be a hundred-billion-dollar-a-quarter company

Nvidia's predicting it will pull in $108 billion in revenue within just a few months. It wouldn't be the first company to rake in over $100 billion in quarterly revenue - Amazon, Apple, and Alphabet have repeatedly reached the milestone. Nvidia said in its latest earnings report that it brought in a record $96.2 billion […]

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