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Cisco FMC Flaws Exploited to Steal Credentials and Deploy Qilin Ransomware

September 11, 2026 Blogmaster

Cisco has revealed that three distinct threat clusters linked to ransomware and state-sponsored attacks have been exploiting two recently patched Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) vulnerabilities. The attacks leverage CVE-2026-20079…

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PaperCut Replaces Emergency Patches With Fixes for Two Actively Exploited Flaws

September 11, 2026 Blogmaster

PaperCut on Thursday released a new security maintenance release that replaces all previously published emergency patches that were pushed to address two security flaws that have come under active exploitation.…

Cybersecurity

China-Linked UNC3569 Exploited Sogou Input Method Flaw to Deploy GRAYRABBIT Backdoor

September 11, 2026 Blogmaster

A China-linked hacking group exploited a flaw in Sogou Input Method, one of the most widely used tools for typing Chinese characters on Windows, to install a backdoor on victims’…

Cybersecurity

Attackers Chain JFrog Artifactory Flaws to Gain Admin Control and Plant Backdoors

September 11, 2026 Blogmaster

Attackers have chained two flaws in JFrog Artifactory, the repository that software build pipelines pull from, to take administrator control of self-hosted servers and plant backdoors, cloud security company Wiz…

Technology

White House Website Briefly Hosted Racist Tetris Clone Game Until The Tetris People Complained

September 10, 2026 Blogmaster

Pick your favorite zombie movie or television show and you’ll eventually be confronted with dialogue justifying the killing of the zombies with the idea that they are no longer human.…

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Boy developed “toasted skin” condition from using a laptop every day

September 10, 2026 Blogmaster

Fears that modern electronic devices may harm children are nothing new. Gadgets with screens of any size have long been allegedly melting, rotting, and/or corrupting the brains of youths for…

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Judge Demands Answers From DOJ For Refusing To Dismiss Reflecting Pool Case With Prejudice

September 10, 2026 Blogmaster

There are multiple things this administration is incapable of doing: winning wars, curbing inflation, not acting like Nazis, wearing shoes that fit them, etc. But if there’s one thing it’s…

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LinkedIn beats “BrowserGate” lawsuits over scanning users’ Chrome extensions

September 10, 2026 Blogmaster

LinkedIn beat two lawsuits over its practice of scanning users’ browser extensions, with a judge granting the Microsoft subsidiary’s motion to dismiss the cases. The users who sued LinkedIn failed…

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Kimmel’s ABC show won’t air interview with Democrat because of Trump FCC threats

September 10, 2026 Blogmaster

ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel said he will be interviewing a Democratic candidate for Senate tonight, but the interview will be on YouTube only and not broadcast on TV because of threats…

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Physicist does the math on Star Trek’s “Picard maneuver”

September 10, 2026 Blogmaster

It turns out Jean-Luc Picard was an even better starship helmsman than the writers knew. A physicist has gone through the details of a warp-speed trick from the first season…

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