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Langflow 1.9.0 Advisory CVE-2026-5027 High File Write Threat
Attackers are actively exploiting a high-severity vulnerability in Langflow, an open-source platform used to build and run AI workflows. ...
Actively Exploited Chromium V8 Zero-Day: What Linux Admins Need to Know
CISA added CVE-2026-11645 to its Known Exploited Vulner...
IronWorm Supply Chain Threat from Linux Credential Theft
IronWorm steals credentials and uses them to spread bey...
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Apache Struts Security Advisory Update: 61 Affected Versions Excluded
Are you an Apache Struts user who follows security advisories? If so, they may be giving you a false sense of security.
Netflix Uncovers Several HTTP/2 DoS Vulnerabilities in Linux Systems
Have you heard that Netflix hasidentifiedseveral denial of service (DoS) flaws in numerous implementations of HTTP/2, a popular network protocol that underpins large parts of the web? Exploiting them could make servers grind to a halt. These vulnerabilities affect various Linux distributions and open-source vendors and projects. Learn the details in this article:
Driver Vulnerabilities: Risks from Intel, Nvidia, AMD and Others
All major BIOS vendors, along with the likes of AMD, Nvidia, Intel, Huawei, and many others, are offering drivers that have serious security issues. A new report, called Screwed Drivers, from Eclypsium, revealed the worrying extent of the problem.
KDE: Security Advisory - Malicious Code Execution Risk Eliminated
The feature that a researcher discovered could be used to execute malicious code had no actual use case.
KDE: Zero-Day Found In Desktop Environment Undetected Code Execution
If you are running a KDE desktop environment on your Linux operating system, you need to be extra careful and avoid downloading any ".desktop" or ".directory" file for a while.
New SWAPGS Vulnerability: Severe CPU Memory Access Threat
The SWAPGS vulnerability can allow attackers to access contents of kernel memory addresses. Microsoft and Intel have coordinated on a mitigation.
Cisco Systems: Security Flaws in Video Surveillance Settlement
Cisco Systems has agreed to pay $8.6 million to settle a lawsuit that accused the company of knowingly selling video surveillance system containing severe security vulnerabilities to the U.S. federal and state government agencies.
Amcrest: IP2M-841B Security Advisory: Remote Access Exploit Detected
Security researchers have uncovered a security flaw in a popular home security camera which permits remote spying without any form of authentication.
Critical VxWorks Flaws: URGENT/11 Threatens Millions of Devices
Researchers have found 11 serious vulnerabilities in VxWorks, the world's most popular real-time operating system (RTOS) that powers over 2 billion devices including enterprise network firewalls and routers, industrial controllers and medical equipment. Many of the flaws allow attackers to take over devices remotely by just sending network packets, which make them particularly dangerous.
VLC Media Player: No Significant Vulnerabilities Detected in Software
There has been a lot of confusion over the last few days after news spread of a supposedvulnerability in the media player VLC. Despite being labelled as "critical", VLC's developers, VideoLAN, denied there was a problem at all.
Linux Botnet WatchBog Targets Windows RDP Servers with BlueKeep Flaw
Have you heard about the BlueKeep vulnerability that has been discovered in Windows RDP servers? Cybersecurity researchers have identified a new variant ofWatchBog, a Linux-based cryptocurrency mining malware botnet, which now also includes a module to scan the Internet for Windows RDP servers vulnerable to theBluekeep flaw.BlueKeep is a highly-critical, wormable, remote code execution vulnerability in the Windows Remote Desktop Services that could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to take full control over vulnerable systems just by sending specially crafted requests over RDP protocol.Though thepatches for the BlueKeepvulnerability (CVE–2019-0708) was already released by Microsoft in May this year, more than800,000 Windows machinesaccessible over the Internet are still vulnerable to the critical flaw.
VLC Media Player 3.0.7.1: Critical Remote Code Execution Advisory
Have you heard that a serious vulnerability has been discovered in the latest release of the VLC media player and no patch is available? Non-profit VideoLAN's VLC player is popular software used to both play and convert a variety of audio and visual files. Available for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Unix, iOS, and Android systems, the open-source media player has now become the focus of a recent security advisory released by the German Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-Bund). In the advisory, CERT-Bund warns that VLC media player version 3.0.7.1, the latest build available, contains a vulnerability which has been awarded a CVSS score of 9.8 out of 10.
Chrome Bug Bounty Rises To $30,000 For Security Reports
Attention ethical hackers: Google has just announced that it decided to increase the bounties offered for Google Chrome browser security vulnerabilities, with the maximum payment now reaching $30,000!
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