DETSEC - Nacogdoches, TX

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Hacking / Cybersecurity

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Arduino / Electronics

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Security news

Daniel Miessler

General Hill-Climbing: The One Main Loop in AI

I'm on Team Explanation

Models Are the How, Harnesses Are the What

Writing Is Closer to Thought Than Code

Custom Content for Everyone

Krebs on Security

Widespread PHP Flaw May Cause Many Site Outages Today

Feds Suspect Ransom Negotiator Ran ShinyHunters Extortion Site

U.K. Sanctions Cryptomus for RU Money Laundering

Microsoft Patches More Than 1,400 Security Flaws

FBI Arrests Executive at Ransomware Negotiation Firm

Schneier on Security

Studying Fraudulent North Korean IT Workers

Hiding Capabilities in AI Models

Bias in Qwen3-Coder Model

Friday Squid Blogging: Increasing Squid Populations

Compromised TLS Certificates

Register Security

In the year AI re-wrote the infosec rulebook, it’s comforting to know crypto exchanges still have bad security

Researchers find bugs in 5 AI developer tools, with OpenAI and Microsoft flaws still unpatched

Suspected Chinese attackers built a custom PHP2Shell exploit and rooted 25 servers

Belgium's tax agency confirms cyberattack, pulls services offline

Shortlist of age checks for the UK's under-16 social media ban is out, 'some' adults will need verifying

Threat Post

Student Loan Breach Exposes 2.5M Records

Watering Hole Attacks Push ScanBox Keylogger

Tentacles of ‘0ktapus’ Threat Group Victimize 130 Firms

Ransomware Attacks are on the Rise

Cybercriminals Are Selling Access to Chinese Surveillance Cameras

Hacker News

CISA Adds Actively Exploited GitLab RCE and Cisco Firewall DoS Flaws to KEV

Binance Suffers Security Breach Affecting $6.3 Billion in Assets, Nearly $3 Billion Frozen

ThreatsDay: Critical Firewall Flaws, Banking Trojans Rented, Weaponized PDF, Token Theft + 26 More Stories

Linux Kernel TCP Flaw With 9.8 CVSS Score Affects Ubuntu, Red Hat and Other Distributions

Fake ChatGPT and Claude Apps Abuse Signed Executables to Deploy Crypto Miners

Security Week

$6 Billion Binance Hack Bears Hallmarks of North Korea’s TraderTraitor

When Risk Becomes Personal: What Security Leaders Can Learn From a Cancer Diagnosis

Google Touts Powerful Cybersecurity Capabilities in Gemini 4 Carbon Model

How Secure Are US Elections? Voting Machine Risks and the Growing Threat of AI

Cisco Open Sources Quarry to Catch AI Agent Attacks Hidden in Harmless Steps

Wired Security

A Hacker Targeted High-Stakes Poker Players With Malware That Exposed Their Cards

Bluesky Is Blocking Links to a Major Leak of DHS Employee Records

Most Servers on the Planet Are Vulnerable to This Firmware Code-Execution Flaw

Massive Leak Exposes 41,000 Homeland Security Workers—Including Undercover ICE Agents

ICE Is Running One of the Largest Anti-Left Surveillance Operations in US History

Wired AI

A Defense Contractor Gave Their Personal AI Agent Access to a Secure Pentagon System

The ‘Pain in the Ass’ Math That Could Save Vibe Coding From Itself

Mistral Says Its AI Model ‘Le Chonk’ Has Leapfrogged China in the Open-Weight Race

I Gave My Blood to the AI Death Clock

I Put a Bunch of AI Agents in Charge of a Fantasy Soccer Team. They’re Not Better Than Humans—Yet