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Month: May 2026
Before the Breach: Why Test Environments Are a Major Cloud Risk
Key Takeaways Most security failures do not begin where they are discovered. By the time risk becomes visible in production, the decisions that created it…
New Cisco DoS flaw requires manual reboot to revive devices
Cisco released security updates to fix a Crosswork Network Controller (CNC) and Network Services Orchestrator (NSO) denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability that requires manually rebooting targeted systems…
Massive 2.45B-Request DDoS Attack Used 1.2 Million IPs to Evade Rate Limits
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) campaign targeted a large-scale user-generated content platform, unleashing over 2.45 billion malicious requests in just five hours. Rather than relying…
Bot Defense Is No Longer Optional for High Tempo Consumer Platforms
The need to deal with bots is not new, though we’re seeing a surge in automated activity across the web at the moment, creating a…
Fake Disk Cleanup Apps Fuel New macOS ClickFix Attack
A wave of ClickFix-style social engineering attacks that specifically target macOS users, using fake disk cleanup and system utility tips hosted on popular content platforms.…
Google Fixes CVSS 10 Gemini CLI Vulnerability Enabling GitHub Issue-Based RCE
A major security vulnerability recently put Google’s official Gemini-cli repository and its associated GitHub Actions at risk of a total takeover. Researchers at the firm…
vm2 Node.js Library Vulnerabilities Enable Sandbox Escape and Arbitrary Code Execution
Ravie LakshmananMay 07, 2026Vulnerability / Software Security A dozen critical security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the vm2 Node.js library that could be exploited by…
UK High Court dismisses facial-recognition judicial review case
The UK High Court has dismissed a judicial review case against the Metropolitan Police’s use of live facial-recognition (LFR) technology, ruling there are sufficient constraints…
Qld gov says students, staff caught in Canvas cyber incident
The Queensland government says that students and staff working or studying at state schools since 2020 may have been caught up in a breach of…
Romanian Man Extradited to US for Role in Hacking Scheme 17 Years Ago
A Romanian national was recently extradited to the United States for his role in a cybercrime scheme carried out 17 years ago, the Justice Department…
Taiwan High-Speed Rail Emergency Braking Hack: How a Student Stopped the Trains and Exposed a Major Security Gap
Taiwan High-Speed Rail Emergency Braking Hack: How a Student Stopped the Trains and Exposed a Major Security Gap Pierluigi Paganini May 06, 2026 Taiwan high‑speed…