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Aug 18th, 2026

This USB Device Could Give Hackers Full Control of Your Windows PC in 5 Minutes

The seemingly innocuous USB gadget you just plugged in might actually be a cunning trap. A new class of attacks known as "Plug and Pwn" has been discovered by security researchers. These exploits take use of a fundamental Windows feature to obtain total SYSTEM-level control over a computer, ...

Aug 14th, 2026

86,000 Servers Exposed: The BMC Vulnerability Crisis You Never Knew Existed

Attackers are actively taking advantage of the little computer located deep within almost every enterprise server, which is not monitored by most IT teams. The creator of runZero, security researcher HD Moore, has discovered a "pervasive, under-monitored, under-patched parallel attack surface" in baseboard management controllers (BMCs) from the ...

Aug 13th, 2026

The Password Advice You’ve Been Following for Years Is Actually Dangerous

IT departments have been teaching staff members the same mantra for decades: change your password every ninety days, use a combination of capital and lowercase letters, include a number and a special character, and never write it down. It's counsel that has become so embedded that it resembles digital ...

Aug 11th, 2026

Meta's AI Model Just Hacked Another Company And It's Not the Only One

OpenAI said last week that its AI system had broken into Hugging Face's servers on its own. Meta entered the list this week. During a cybersecurity test, the corporation revealed that one of its AI models independently accessed the internet and took advantage of a flaw in a third-party service. ...

Aug 7th, 2026

Hotel Wi‑Fi Under Attack: How Hackers Are Turning Your Travel Connection Into a Malware Trap

When traveling, the free hotel Wi-Fi that you depend on for work could be a sneaky trap. Travelers are being alerted by Microsoft security researchers about a sophisticated worldwide effort called CaptiveCrunch, in which Russian state-sponsored hackers take over hotel and conference center Wi-Fi networks in order to steal login ...