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This week’s cybersecurity recap covers Firefox and Chrome bugs, EDR-killer tools, a TV botnet, an OpenBSD flaw, Android ...

Days after IBM and Red Hat announced a master security plan for open-source software, Red Hat suffers a major breach of its ...

A fresh wave of phishing emails is exploiting a blind spot in enterprise email security tools — one that most organizations have not closed — by disguising executable JavaScript inside SVG image files ...

AI-assisted software development is exploding in adoption, promising unmatched speed and efficiency. Often called ‘vibe coding’ or sometimes AI-assisted engineering, this practice has really picked up ...

ClickFix, a deceptive social engineering tactic, is used by threat actors to manipulate unsuspecting users into unwittingly allowing a web page to silently populate the clipboard. Ultimately, the ...

For which languages does it work? The comments in prettify.js are authoritative but the lexer should work on a number of languages including C and friends, Java, Python, Bash, SQL, HTML, XML, CSS, ...

Google has fixed a security vulnerability in its page for recovering account details that allowed anyone to access the page and brute-force the private phone number of any user. The flaw posed a ...

A recent Hacker News post looked at the reverse engineering of TikTok’s JavaScript virtual machine (VM). Many commenters assumed the VM was malicious, designed for invasive tracking or surveillance.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Update, April 15, 2025: This story, originally published April ...