Dirty Frag: Unpatched Linux vulnerability delivers root access
A week after Copy Fail, another Linux local privilege escalation vulnerability dubbed “Dirty Frag” has been revealed, along with a PoC exploit. What is Dirty Frag …
Ivanti EPMM vulnerability exploited in zero-day attacks (CVE-2026-6973)
Ivanti has released fixes for 5 high-severity vulnerabilities in its Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) solution, one of which (CVE-2026-6973) has being exploited as a zero-day by …
Google is turning Android Studio into a policy watchdog
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Helping North Korean IT remote workers is becoming a fast track to prison
Two U.S. nationals were sentenced to 18 months in prison for operating “laptop farms” that helped North Korean IT workers gain employment at nearly 70 American companies, …
OpenAI tunes GPT-5.5-Cyber for more permissive security workflows
OpenAI is rolling out GPT-5.5-Cyber, a variant of its latest AI model, in limited preview for verified cybersecurity professionals and organizations through its Trusted Access …
May 2026 Patch Tuesday forecast: AI starts driving security industry changes
Microsoft May 2026 Patch Tuesday is now live: Many fixes, but no zero-days Project Glasswing. This is one of three major security industry changes I’ll cover today. The …
Roblox chat moderation gets bypassed by leet speak and code words
Roblox runs an automated chat filter at the scale of billions of messages per day. An independent audit of about two million chat messages from four of the platform’s …
Mental health apps are collecting more than emotional conversations
People use mental health apps to talk about depression, trauma and suicidal thoughts in moments they may not share with anyone else. Many users likely assume those …
Product showcase: NetGuard open-source firewall for Android
NetGuard is a free, open-source firewall for Android phones and tablets that provides users with a simple way to block internet access. Android does not allow VPN services to …
Your coworker might be selling company logins, and thinks it’s fine
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New infosec products of the week: May 8, 2026
Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past week, featuring releases from LastPass, Operant AI, Sysdig, and VIAVI. Operant AI Endpoint Protector secures AI …
What Mozilla learned running an AI security bug hunting pipeline on Firefox
Over the past several months, Mozilla ran an agentic harness powered by Claude Mythos Preview across Firefox’s source code, identifying 271 security bugs that were fixed …
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