DETSEC - Nacogdoches, TX

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DETSEC

What We’re Into

Hacking / Cybersecurity

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Drones

Arduino / Electronics

Home Automation

AI

Security news

Daniel Miessler

It's the Energy Changing the Frames

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

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

Friday Squid Blogging: Bigfin Squid Off California Coast

Bloatware in Aftermarket Auto Parts

Studying Fraudulent North Korean IT Workers

Hiding Capabilities in AI Models

Bias in Qwen3-Coder Model

Register Security

Crim spent $7K+ on AI services in extortion attacks, then left evidence for all to see

GM cracks the petty cash box for multistate driver tracking settlement

Anthropic: That Claude Code extension compromise… couldn't be us

British intelligence agency misplaced 'thousands' of storage devices, years later still can't say how many

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

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

A Shared ChatGPT Link Could Run Attacker Code in Your Session and Read Private Chats

Cloudflare Reports 18.2 Million Network-Layer DDoS Attacks in Q3, Up 38%

Chinese Hackers Use AI-Powered ARTEX to Target Over 200 Organizations Worldwide

TeamViewer Flaw Lets Remote Computers Attack Users Who Connect to Control Them

WordPress RCE Flaw Draws Nearly 63,000 Attack Attempts in Just 24 Hours

Security Week

PHP2Shell Attacks Root Palo Alto Firewalls but Fail Against WordPress

In Other News: Anthropic Breach Dispute, UEFI Flaw Hits Most Servers, Cloudflare AI Data Leak

Passkeys Are Better Than Passwords. But They Are Not Enough.

Bulletproof Host Virtualine Loses Its Domain to FBI Seizure

Fresh WordPress Vulnerability in Attackers’ Crosshairs

Wired Security

A Supply Chain Attack Put Malicious Anthropic Claude Extensions on Thousands of Devices

The $6.3 Billion Binance Hack Was Pulled Off in Just 20 Minutes

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

Wired AI

How a Contractor’s Claude Agent Got Into the Pentagon

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