This Week In Techdirt History: September 13th – 19th
This Week in 2016 Colin Powell’s Email To Clinton About Personal Devices Shows Routing Around FOIA Is Business As Usual ACLU Launching Campaign To Have President Obama Pardon Snowden More…
Identity Visibility in 2026: The Foundation of Identity Security
Identity visibility is a starting point for modern identity security, because stolen and misused credentials are among the most frequently reported initial access vectors in breach research, including Verizon’s annual…
SolarWinds Patches ARM Hard-Coded Key Flaw Enabling Unauthenticated RCE
SolarWinds has released security updates to address a high-severity flaw in Access Rights Manager (ARM) that, if successfully exploited, could lead to an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability. The vulnerability,…
Claude Opus 5 Helped Researchers Take Over OpenAI Staff Accounts via Chained Flaws
Three researchers at the security firm Hacktron used Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5 to chain two flaws and take over the ChatGPT and Codex accounts of several OpenAI employees, then reach…
Rings around a tiny body have changed over the past decade
For decades, astronomers thought rings were something only giant planets had. That changed in 2013, when a small, dark body orbiting between Saturn and Uranus passed in front of a…
Learning another language may be one of the best ways to keep your brain healthy
Learning another language is a highly complex mental activity. It requires people to remember words, distinguish unfamiliar sounds, recognize patterns, work out grammatical rules, and retrieve the right expression at…
Google Gemini Broke Into Real Company Systems After Security Test Domain Mix-Up
Google’s Gemini model has become the latest artificial intelligence (AI) system to access the internet and break into other companies during a cybersecurity evaluation. The development was first reported by…
Critical Pre-Auth RCE in Orkes Conductor Workflow Platform Exploited in the Wild
A critical vulnerability impacting Orkes Conductor is being actively exploited in the wild, according to Fortinet. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-58138 (CVSS v3.1 score: 9.8/CVSS v4 score: 9.3), which…
CrowdSec Says TanStack npm Attack Led to Copy of 170 Private GitHub Repositories
An attacker copied about 170 of CrowdSec’s private GitHub repositories on May 22 using the account of an employee who had just left, CrowdSec said on September 18. The French…
CISA Flags Three Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities Exploited in the Wild
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added three security flaws impacting the Linux kernel to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation.…