Weekly Update 492
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Security
On the Security of Password Managers
Good article on password managers that secretly have a backdoor. New research shows that these claims aren’t true in all…
Weaponizing CVE-2026-1731: VShell and SparkRAT in Real-World BeyondTrust Breaches
Executive Summary On February 6, 2026, BeyondTrust disclosed a critical pre-authentication remote code execution vulnerability, CVE-2026-1731, affecting its Remote Support…
Ring Cancels Its Partnership with Flock
It’s a demonstration of how toxic the surveillance-tech company Flock has become when Amazon’s Ring cancels the partnership between the…
Supply Chain Risk: Critical Flaws Identified in Popular VS Code Extensions
In the modern software development ecosystem, Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) such as Microsoft Visual Studio Code have become foundational to…
AES vs DES Encryption Algorithms: Comparison Guide
Encryption is a control layer, standing between your production database and a ransom note. It protects data at rest, in…
Malicious AI
Interesting: Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I…
Backdoor in Backup: UNC6201 Exploits RecoverPoint Zero-Day to Deploy GRIMBOLT
Executive Summary A critical zero-day vulnerability in Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines, tracked as CVE-2026-22769, has been actively exploited by…
Weekly Update 491
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AI Found Twelve New Vulnerabilities in OpenSSL
The title of the post is”What AI Security Research Looks Like When It Works,” and I agree: In the latest…