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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

Why Your Website Should Never Stop Changing

Every website peaks on launch day and slowly drifts from there, not because it breaks, but because nobody has time to keep it current. Autonomous websites, continuously optimized by agents after launch, aim to change that. Pierre Burgy shares what they learned building for full website autonomy and the deeper design problem they uncovered along the way.

Tech Aug 25, 2026

Introducing the Edits Film Festival to Spotlight India’s Emerging Creator Talent

Today, we announce the launch of the Edits Film Festival — an initiative that invites content creators across India to showcase their creativity through Reels made on Edits.

Marketing & SEO Aug 25, 2026

Local SEO That Actually Works: Some Assembly Required (AI Not Included)

Traffic, rankings, and content output are all up. GBP actions are flat. Amanda Jordan explains why local SEO breaks at scale and shares the SEO-first audit framework that fixes it.

Security Aug 24, 2026

Shipping More AI Code Than You Can Secure? Watch How to Control Remediation Debt

If your developers are using AI coding tools, you are probably already seeing the upside: faster development, more code, and less time spent on routine work. The harder part is what comes after. AI can also introduce open-source packages at a pace your security team was never built to handle. More dependencies mean more vulnerabilities to review, more remediation work, and a backlog that can

Security Aug 24, 2026

Weedhack Malware Spreads via Fake Minecraft Clients and SEO Poisoning

Cybersecurity researchers have found that several websites are still actively distributing a malware family known as Weedhack to gamers by masquerading as Minecraft clients. McAfee Labs said it detected and blocked more than 6,300 attempts to access malicious sites, adding that it found lookalike gaming websites designed to mimic legitimate projects, including branding, feature lists, FAQs,

Learning Aug 24, 2026

What Happens to a Medical Image Before and After a Model Sees It

Medical imaging papers are full of familiar-looking terms: normalization, labels, validation, annotation, and preprocessing. If you come from general machine learning, you may think you already know w

Security Aug 24, 2026

⚡ Weekly Recap: AI-Powered PLC Attacks, GitLab Attacks, Stripe Key Leaks and More

A package gets installed. A login prompt opens. A box sits exposed to the internet. Nothing looks unusual yet. That’s roughly the mood this week. Trusted tools turn hostile, old weak spots get fresh attention, AI makes exploit work cheaper, and researchers keep finding attacks that sound harder than they actually are. Plenty to clean up. Here’s the short version. ⚡ Threat of the Week U.S.

Security Aug 24, 2026

WordlistLoader Delivers Amatera via ClickFix, SynkLoader Phishes Windows Passwords

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged two new malware families called WordlistLoader and SynkLoader that's used to deliver next-stage payloads and likely sell access to ransomware groups. According to findings from Gen Digital, WordlistLoader is being used to deliver Amatera Stealer (aka ACR Stealer or AcridRain Stealer) via ClearFake campaigns, which employ the ClickFix (aka FakeCaptcha)

Learning Aug 24, 2026

How to Build Referral-Aware Split Payment Flows in Django

When a product has a single checkout, payment logic is usually simple: charge the user, mark the order as paid, and move on. But once the business model includes a deposit now, a balance later, and re

Learning Aug 24, 2026

Mobile Background Execution: iOS Background Modes, Android WorkManager, and Background Services in Dart

Every mobile developer eventually hits the same wall: the app works perfectly when the user is looking at it. But the moment they press the home button, everything stops. A sync that should have compl

Security Aug 24, 2026

Critical Keycloak Password Reset Flaw Could Let Unauthenticated Attackers Take Over Any Account

Red Hat and the Keycloak project have released patches to address a critical security flaw in the open-source identity and access management server that could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to take over any user account by forcing a password reset. The vulnerability, assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2026-18963, is rated 9.1 on the CVSS scoring system by Red Hat, which acts as

Security Aug 24, 2026

Operation QUICSILVER Targets Myanmar Government and IT with QUICAgent Backdoor

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a cyber espionage campaign targeting Myanmar that uses graduation ceremony invitation lures to deliver a Go backdoor called QUICAgent. The campaign, codenamed Operation QUICSILVER, has been found to target government and information technology sectors, per Seqrite Labs. The activity is assessed to be the work of a China-nexus threat actor with moderate

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