Security & Privacy Tools

10+ hour, 51+ min ago   (440+ words) Gemini reportedly guessed its way into one company's system through brute force and used exposed public credentials to access two others. Google's Gemini model broke containment during a cybersecurity test in May, autonomously accessing the internet and hacking into three…...

5+ hour, 2+ min ago   (636+ words) Google confirmed on Friday, September 18, 2026 that a Gemini model accessed 3 outside companies’ systems. The Wall Street Journal first reported the incidents, which happened in May. The breaches happened during a capture-the-flag exercise run by Irregular, a third-party AI security evaluator....

6+ hour, 2+ min ago   (221+ words) CVE-2026-20324 is a critical vulnerability in the sftunnel component of Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC). Cisco rates the flaw at CVSS 9.9. Successful exploitation lets an unauthenticated remote attacker execute arbitrary code with root privileges on the affected system. The…...

6+ hour, 57+ min ago   (217+ words) Mashable is a global, multi-platform media and entertainment company. Powered by its own proprietary technology, Mashable is the go-to source for tech, digital culture and entertainment content for its dedicated and influential audience around the globe. Google's signature AI agent…...

7+ hour, 12+ min ago   (245+ words) Here’s something that should bother you but probably doesn’t. You encrypt your passwords. Obviously. You’d never store “bank_password …...

10+ hour, 24+ min ago   (59+ words) Ransomware isn’t a virus that appears one night. It’s the last step of an intrusion that started days or weeks earlier. At 2:37 AM …...

13+ hour, 9+ min ago   (223+ words) A DIFFERENT PIN OPENS A DIFFERENT VAULT WHAT YOU CAN KEEP IN IT • Documents, PDFs, scans and any file type • Rich-text notes journals, recovery codes, seed phrases • Folders, tags and search inside every vault • AES-256-GCM with a separate key…...

17+ hour, 23+ min ago   (1566+ words) Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: What we know about the Revolut data breach so far Someone impersonating a government agency, using an email address on that agency’s domain, obtained sensitive…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago   (882+ words) Every computer has its preferred way it wants you to remotely access that desktop. I prefer none of them. Perhaps you feel the same. Microsoft now packs its official remote desktop tool inside the confusingly named app “Windows.” Macs have…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (164+ words) Explore the latest news, real-world incidents, expert analysis, and trends in exploit — only on The Hacker News, the leading cybersecurity and IT news platform. exploit | Breaking Cybersecurity News | The Hacker News Critical Gitea RCE Actively Exploited as Reported Attack Drops…...