Spam accounts overwhelmed my database. Claude found the weaknesses, Codex wrote the fixes, and I deployed a new defense.

Android 17 adds tougher lock-screen protections that limit failed PIN and password attempts, extend lockout timers, detect duplicate guesses, and make brute-force attacks harder ...

A new exploit called BioShocking convinces AI browsers they're playing a game, then gets them to hand over your private data.

Attackers can inject indirect prompts in normal-looking repositories to trick Claude Code into spawning a reverse shell.

The industry is moving toward fixing the private key vulnerability issue, just not evenly, Wish Wu, co-founder and CEO of ...

DirtyClone, tracked as CVE-2026-43503, is a Linux kernel vulnerability that allows any local user to gain root privileges.

Security firm SOCRadar says the large-scale FortiBleed campaign targeting Fortinet FortiGate devices used custom sniffers to ...

Security researchers at Cybernews discovered on June 12 what they describe as one of the largest credential databases ever left exposed online — a publicly accessible Elasticsearch cluster holding 24 ...

Lance Whitney is a technology writer and trainer and a former IT professional. He's written for Time, CNET, PCMag, and several other publications. He's the author of two tech books--one on Windows and ...

In cybersecurity, the line between a normal update and a serious incident keeps getting thinner. Systems that once felt reliable are now under pressure from constant change. New AI tools, connected ...

This is a little tool to crack the pattern lock on Android devices. This tool works up to Android 5.1.1 (included). Android 6.0 introduces Gatekeeper and changes the way it store the ...