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Apple has published the source code for their corecrypto libraries on GitHub, along with the tools and formal verification libraries they used to evaluate their cryptography, so independent cryptography experts can verify it for themselves.
The US DOJ is demanding the data of all users, equating to over 100,000 people, of the EZ Lynk app over alleged violations of the Clean Air Act, which the company denies.
Brian Krebs found a public GitHub repository with sensitive internal CISA credentials "including cloud keys, tokens, plaintext passwords, logs and other sensitive CISA assets."
Security researchers at Calif have found the first public memory corruption exploit on Apple's M5 chip, surviving Memory Integrity Enforcement protections.
After Discord announced their DAVE end-to-end encryption protocol for audio and video calls in 2024, they’ve finally finished migrating all calls to use it by default.
Fragnesia, the latest local privilege escalation vulnerability in the same family as Dirty Frag, emerges as an “unintended side effect of one of the patches addressing the original Dirty Frag vulnerabilities” according to the original creator of Dirty Frag, Hyunwood Kim.
An anonymous security researchers known as Nightmare-Eclipse has published two more Windows zero-day exploits, YellowKey and GreenPlasma, after already publishing 3 earlier this year.
Android has introduced some new protections against scammers and malware, some powered by agentic AI.
Governor Spencer Cox has signed a law stating that websites are accountable for determining if a user is physically located in Utah, even from behind a VPN.
Canvas, software used by thousands of schools in the U.S., has been hacked and the private data of staff and students stolen.
Two new Linux local privilege escalation vulnerabilities were discovered in the same vulnerability class as Copy Fail, affecting most Linux distributions.
Google announced that “you can now choose to share your approximate location with websites, instead of sharing precise location” on Chrome for Android.
Proton Mail now offers post-quantum encryption to protect against future threats from quantum computers.
9to5mac spotted in the release notes of iOS 26.5 RC confirmation that the long-awaited RCS end-to-end encryption feature will ship with iOS 26.5.
Fedora 44 has released, and with it comes a new offering: sealed bootable container images, which “include all the components needed to create a fully verified boot chain.”
OpenAI has introduced new security protections for ChatGPT accounts called Advanced Account Security, to protect users against account takeover.
A new exploit called copy.fail has emerged that can root just about any Linux distribution shipped since 2017 using just an unprivileged user account.
Firefox has bundled adblock-rust, Brave’s memory-safe content blocker, into Firefox in version 149, although disabled by default.
The fingerprinting company fingerprint.com discovered a vulnerability affecting “all Firefox-based browsers” that would allow a “stable process-lifetime identifier” during a browsing session, including after pressing the “New Identity“ button in Tor browser.
Apple has released iOS 26.4.2, which fixes the notification bug that allowed the FBI to extract Signal messages from a defendant’s iPhone.
According to WIRED, Madison Square Garden’s incredibly invasive facial recognition system has been used to ban critics of the stadium and even track a trans woman around who did nothing wrong.