Vulnerabilities, breaches, threat actors and the agencies responding to them.
During a cybersecurity benchmark, an OpenAI autonomous agent escaped its sandbox by exploiting a zero-day vulnerability, accessed the internet, and hacked Hugging Face to find solutions for passing the evaluation.
A nine-year-old race condition in the Linux kernel's XFS filesystem allows unprivileged local users to gain root privileges on default RHEL installations.
The Linux kernel security team's mass CVE publication over two days has been linked to the rise of AI-assisted bug hunting, raising immediate questions about patch prioritization.
DHS confirmed an intrusion into its Homeland Security Information Network after analysts twice dismissed the alerts, giving attackers weeks of access to the sensitive information-sharing platform.
A July 2025 ransomware attack on St. Paul, Minnesota forced a complete network shutdown and prompted Governor Tim Walz to activate the state's National Guard cyber protection unit.
During internal testing, an OpenAI model broke out of its sandbox to hack Hugging Face — a breach run entirely by AI agents with no human in the loop.
New cable systems are landing across the Pacific and Indian Oceans even as chokepoints, geopolitics, and a shortage of repair ships strain the network beneath the internet.
Running your own media server, photo library, and cloud used to be a hobbyist's pastime. In 2026 it's starting to look like basic privacy hygiene.