… While stating that "people don't patch their machines" is a broad statement that won't surprise anyone in the field, a recent report from security vendor Absolute claims the application of critical OS patches across Windows 11 and 10 lags 127 days over 4 months on average, and that figure basically… …
… The vast majority of security exploits are rooted in specific bad programming habits, something a bot excels at noticing quickly and repeatedly. …
AMD has denied a security researcher a $10,000 bug bounty despite the individual's work and cooperation with the company. …
… Microsoft has been in security news quite often recently, mostly thanks to its ongoing spat with security researcher Chaotic Eclipse aka Nightmare Eclipse , who published a heap of zero-days exploits after apparent negotiations with the company broke down. …
… Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA added a newly disclosed Linux vulnerability, dubbed “Copy Fail,” to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on May 1st, warning that the flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-31431, is already being used in active attacks and urging rapid patching acros… …
Microsoft has extended its free consumer Windows 10 Extended Security Updates ESU program by a year, pushing the cutoff for critical security patches to October 14th, 2027. …
… Three levels of patches The Redditor shared a few technical details about the three levels of patches that were required to unlock the BIOS. …
… Creative's eventual reply, according to his account, was that they “do not consider this to be a vulnerability, as it does not present a cybersecurity risk.” Moorats ultimately ended up doing Creative’s work for it, releasing a tool that downloads Creative's official firmware, patches out CTP-over-… …
Cybersecurity Dirty Frag exploit gets root on most Linux machines since 2017, no patches available Cybersecurity College student hacks Taiwan high-speed rail line, stopping four trains Cybersecurity Security researcher says that Google is likely in violation of EU law and wasting thousands upon tho… …
Linus Torvalds declared the Linux kernel's private security mailing list "almost entirely unmanageable" on Sunday in his weekly post to the Linux Kernel Mailing List LKML , blaming a flood of duplicate vulnerability reports generated by researchers running the same AI tools against the same code. …