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Delta probes Wi-Fi deauth attack on flight carrying DEF CON attendees

Delta Air Lines is investigating an unauthorized Wi-Fi network that appeared aboard a flight from Las Vegas to Atlanta carrying passengers who had attended the DEF CON hacker convention. ​The company told BleepingComputer that the incident occurred yesterday on Flight 591 and did not affect the safety of the passengers or aircraft operating systems. “We […]

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Cisco warns of ASA and FTD VPN flaw exploited to crash devices

Cisco is warning that a high-severity denial-of-service vulnerability in Secure Firewall ASA and Threat Defense (FTD) software is being actively exploited in attacks to remotely crash affected devices. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-20349, has a severity score of 8.6 and impacts devices running Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) or Secure Firewall Threat Defense

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Sandworm hackers target IT pros with trojanized WireGuard VPN client

Hackers associated with the Russian threat group Sandworm have been targeting system administrators and IT professionals through fake job offers since at least May. A report from the Ukrainian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) details a social engineering campaign attributed to UAC-0145, which is believed to be a sub-cluster of Sandworm (APT44). In the campaign,

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Star Wars: Zero Company will be brilliant because XCOM is brilliant

"Honestly, you couldn't believe that this hadn't been done before." I say obviously because this is the magic with this sort of thing: XCOM is completely brilliant, the modern Firaxis iterations in particular a pair of genuine all-timers, and the Star Wars universe fits over that immaculate form like a bionic-armed Skywalker’s black leather glove.

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DeadLock ransomware uses blockchain to resist infrastructure takedown

The DeadLock ransomware operation is using a decentralized infrastructure that relies on blockchain-backed services to protect its communication with victims and data-leak activity. The threat actor emerged in mid-2025 and uses double-extortion tactics (data theft/leak and file encryption) to pressure victims into paying a ransom. By July this year, DeadLock’s data leak site listed 80

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“We live in a world full of AI, let’s be honest with ourselves” – 1666: Amsterdam developer still using AI tools despite recent controversy

"It won't be in the final product." The studio was speaking after controversy arose earlier this year around 1666: Amsterdam’s playable prologue, in which players spotted the tell-tale signs of generative AI use on in-game paintings and in associated marketing materials. The backlash prompted an apology from Panache and a declaration that AI use wouldn’t

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Google says Chrome cuts 7 billion unwanted Android notifications a day to fight abuse

Google says Chrome’s anti-abuse systems reduced unwanted notifications on Android by more than 7 billion per day during the first quarter of 2026. In a new blog post, Google argues that notification abuse has increasingly been used to distribute scams, malware, phishing attempts, and fraudulent payment requests. To reduce the abuse, Google developed a “Swiss

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Much-wishlisted 100-player shooter Wardogs gets an early access release date and promises refunds for anyone unhappy with the closed beta

"Here are 10 reasons you should NOT buy." Pre-orders are live as of the time of this writing, and it guarantees access to Wardog’s upcoming closed beta, which is available for one weekend: 21st-23rd August on Steam. And the developer appears to be so comfortable with what it’s made that players are invited to refund

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Mozilla updates GPG signing key for Firefox releases after exposure

Mozilla announced today that it updated the GPG key used to sign Firefox and Thunderbird releases after it was accidentally exposed on GitHub. However, in a Monday blog post, it noted that the risk of a supply chain attack in which threat actors could distribute malicious installers signed with the exposed key is low because

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Making sense of the conflicting 20th anniversary iPhone reports

Yesterday saw two conflicting reports about next year’s 20th anniversary iPhone, said to embody Apple’s long-term vision of “a single slab of glass.” There have already been contradictory reports about exactly what we should expect, but yesterday’s disagreement was the biggest yet … Former Apple design chief Jony Ive frequently referred to his long-term vision

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