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What to know about the AI-detected security bug impacting wide swaths of the internet
Calley Means, who helped unite Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and President Trump, pushed food reforms but grew frustrated with stalled progress on the MAHA agenda.
From Brazil to the North Sea, economic interests have been edging out climate priorities this week.
USA-BANKS-AI-AGENTS:US banks are blocking third-party AI agents access to customer accounts, sources say
A series of lawsuits has created a new de facto regulatory regime as courts order companies like Meta and Google to change their business practices — and pay up.
Right now, there is probably an AI agent running on a laptop somewhere in your network. It stores API keys and database passwords, can access your internal systems, and works without anyone watching. Nobody reviewed its access. Nobody owns it. If an employee had that much reach with that little oversight, you would call it an insider risk. So why do we still call the agent a productivity tool?
Attackers are exploiting a zero-day SQL injection flaw in Arista's VeloCloud Orchestrator (VCO), the central management system for VeloCloud SD-WAN networks, the company said in an advisory on October 22. The flaw lets anyone who can log in to the orchestrator, even with a read-only customer account, gain operator privileges, the top level of control over it. For
eMudhra, an Indian certificate authority (CA), will withdraw from its global SSL/TLS certificate business, its board decided on Thursday. The decision came five days after a researcher reported recovering the private keys of eight of its intermediate CA certificates. eMudhra said it will replace affected customers' certificates with free ones from partners, though its
Samsung has expanded its Certified Re-Newed programme to Amazon.com, offering 14 refurbished Galaxy S24 and S25 models starting at $489. The phones feature genuine Samsung parts, new batteries, 147 quality checks and a one-year limited manufacturer warranty.
This week has already been rough for cybersecurity. Critical PHP and GitLab RCE flaws, serious Linux security bugs, compromised eMudhra certificates, a Node.js RCE flaw, a hacked LiteLLM release, and hundreds of hijacked Tor relays. That's a lot to deal with in just a few days. And the week isn't even over yet. But those big headlines are only half the story. Stolen passwords, exposed
President Trump and Vice President JD Vance have dangled FEMA money to disaster-struck states during recent campaign rallies.
A critical security flaw in the programming language underpinning much of the web has prompted a global rush to patch vulnerable systems.