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2026-03-18 12:00 UTC

How to prepare your phone for trade-in

There was once a time in which many people couldn't wait to toss their smartphone aside every two years (and sometimes even more frequently) in order to get the latest model as soon as it hit shelves. But that world has faded for the most part now as...

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2026-03-18 11:58 UTC

Claude Code Security and Magecart: Getting the Threat Model Right

When a Magecart payload hides inside the EXIF data of a dynamically loaded third-party favicon, no repository scanner will catch it – because the malicious code never actually touches your repo. As teams adopt Claude Code Security for static analysis, this is...

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2026-03-18 11:42 UTC

9 Critical IP KVM Flaws Enable Unauthenticated Root Access Across Four Vendors

Cybersecurity researchers have warned about the risks posed by low-cost IP KVM (Keyboard, Video, Mouse over Internet Protocol) devices, which can grant attackers extensive control over compromised hosts. The nine vulnerabilities, discovered by Eclypsium, span...

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2026-03-18 10:30 UTC

Product Walkthrough: How Mesh CSMA Reveals and Breaks Attack Paths to Crown Jewels

Security teams today are not short on tools or data. Yet within the terabytes of alerts, exposures, and misconfigurations – security teams still struggle to understand context: Q: Which exposures, misconfigurations, and vulnerabilities chain together to...

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2026-03-18 09:43 UTC

Defense Department says Anthropic poses 'unacceptable risk' to national security

The Department of Defense said giving Anthropic continued access to its warfighting infrastructure would “introduce unacceptable risk” to its supply chains in a court filing submitted in response to the AI company’s lawsuit. If you’ll recall, Anthropic sued...

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2026-03-18 08:17 UTC

War in Iran Damages Multiple AWS Data Centers, Challenging Multi-AZ Assumptions

Earlier this month, Iranian drone strikes damaged three AWS data centers in the UAE and Bahrain, causing outages and disruptions to multiple services. The events, which affected multiple facilities within the same AWS region, sparked discussion in the...

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2026-03-18 08:08 UTC

Ubuntu CVE-2026-3888 Bug Lets Attackers Gain Root via systemd Cleanup Timing Exploit

A high-severity security flaw affecting default installations of Ubuntu Desktop versions 24.04 and later could be exploited to escalate privileges to the root level. Tracked as CVE-2026-3888 (CVSS score: 7.8), the issue could allow an attacker to seize...

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2026-03-18 06:31 UTC

Apple Fixes WebKit Vulnerability Enabling Same-Origin Policy Bypass on iOS and macOS

Apple on Tuesday released its first round of Background Security Improvements to address a security flaw in WebKit that affects iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20643 (CVSS score: N/A), has been described as a cross-origin issue...

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2026-03-18 05:06 UTC

Critical Unpatched Telnetd Flaw (CVE-2026-32746) Enables Unauthenticated Root RCE via Port 23

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical security flaw impacting the GNU InetUtils telnet daemon (telnetd) that could be exploited by an unauthenticated remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges. The vulnerability, tracked...

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2026-03-18 00:51 UTC

Justice Department Says Anthropic Can’t Be Trusted With Warfighting Systems

In response to Anthropic’s lawsuit, the government said it lawfully penalized the company for trying to limit how its Claude AI models could be used by the military. SECURITY POLITICS THE BIG STORY BUSINESS SCIENCE CULTURE REVIEWS Menu Account Account...

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