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Fedora Hummingbird
Fedora Hummingbird brings the container security model to a Linux host OS

Container image security pipelines have spent the past several years pushing toward minimal footprints, hermetic builds, and continuous CVE remediation. The Fedora Project is …

patch tuesday
Microsoft May 2026 Patch Tuesday: Many fixes, but no zero-days

Microsoft has marked May 2026 Patch Tuesday by releasing fixes for 120+ CVE-numbered vulnerabilities, none of which (for a change) are actively exploited or have been publicly …

cPanel
Stealthy hackers exploit cPanel flaw in active backdoor campaign (CVE-2026-41940)

Security researchers at XLab have outlined an active attack campaign targeting CVE-2026-41940, the recently disclosed vulnerability in cPanel & WHM, and have linked it to …

Amazon Quick
Amazon Quick authorization bypass let users reach blocked AI chat agents

Enterprises running Amazon Quick, the AWS business intelligence and agentic AI service, rely on a feature called custom permissions to restrict who inside an account can use …

instructure
Instructure took a risky approach to recover stolen Canvas data

Instructure, the company behind the online learning platform Canvas, said it reached an agreement with the extortion group ShinyHunters to prevent data stolen in a recent …

car tire
General Motors to pay $12.75 million over driver data sales

General Motors has agreed to a $12.75 million settlement with California over allegations that it unlawfully sold drivers’ location and behavioral data to brokers, …

Download: The IT and security field guide to AI adoption

Security and IT teams are under pressure to adopt AI, but many are seeing the opposite of what was promised. Tools that demo well don’t hold up in real workflows. Complexity …

TeamCity
JetBrains TeamCity vulnerability allows privilege escalation, API exposure (CVE-2026-44413)

JetBrains has patched a high-severity vulnerability (CVE-2026-44413) in TeamCity, its popular continuous integration and continuous delivery platform, and is urging …

dnsmasq
Six new dnsmasq vulnerabilities open the door to DNS cache poisoning, local root

Recent disclosures have revealed that open-source networking tool dnsmasq is grappling with a serious set of vulnerabilities. The problems span memory safety and input …

Škoda
Škoda confirms unauthorized access to its online shop

Car manufacturer Škoda discovered that attackers had exploited a vulnerability in its online shop software and gained temporary unauthorized access to the system. What …

OpenAI
OpenAI’s Daybreak uses Codex Security to identify risky attack paths

OpenAI Daybreak is the company’s cybersecurity initiative focused on building AI-assisted software defense into the development process from the start. It combines OpenAI …

HEIDI
HEIDI: Free IDE security plugin for open-source vulnerability checks

Open-source dependencies make up a large percentage of the code in production applications, and most vulnerability checks still run late in the pipeline, inside CI/CD systems …

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