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How the Smithsonian became the latest front in Trump’s culture war

September 27, 2026 Blogmaster

In November 2021, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History opened an exhibit called “The Electric Dr. Franklin,” describing “Benjamin Franklin’s pioneering contributions to electrical science.” The exhibit explained that,…

Cybersecurity

Warning: Two Unpatched Citrix NetScaler RCE Zero-Days Under Active Exploitation

September 27, 2026 Blogmaster

Two new unpatched zero-day vulnerabilities in Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway appliances that allow remote code execution are being actively exploited in the wild, security firm watchTowr said on…

Cybersecurity

Lunex Stealer Abuses AMD Driver to Disable Security Monitoring and Steal Browser Credentials

September 26, 2026 Blogmaster

The Psychedelic Stealer malware distributed via compromised Ukrainian websites using ClickFix-style Cloudflare verification checks is part of a wider malware-as-a-service (MaaS) platform called Lunex. The new findings come from Ontinue,…

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This Week In Techdirt History: September 20th – 26th

September 26, 2026 Blogmaster

This Week in 2016 Indian Court Says ‘Copyright Is Not An Inevitable, Divine, Or Natural Right’ And Photocopying Textbooks Is Fair Use Former UMG Exec: Major Label Music Should Cost…

Technology

Tesla’s big electric truck faces an even bigger infrastructure challenge

September 26, 2026 Blogmaster

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has insisted investors think of his electric automaker as a robotics and autonomous vehicle company now. He’s targeted a $20 trillion valuation—nearly four times the value…

Cybersecurity

Zero Trust for AI Agents Starts With Fixing Zero Visibility

September 26, 2026 Blogmaster

The way we talk about AI agents is shifting, and the way we implement them requires an even more fundamental shift. While earlier discourse focused on how quickly organizations could…

Cybersecurity

Attackers Bypass WAFs to Exploit Oracle PeopleSoft Flaw and Deploy Web Shells

September 26, 2026 Blogmaster

Google is warning of renewed mass exploitation of a known security vulnerability in Oracle PeopleSoft as part of a campaign targeting multiple sectors globally. The ShinyHunters-linked activity involves the weaponization…

Cybersecurity

Kiteworks Urges Customers to Shut Down Systems for 9 Hours Over Possible Cyber Attack

September 26, 2026 Blogmaster

Kiteworks (formerly Accellion) is urging customers to shut down their systems as a precautionary measure for nine hours over the weekend after it received threat intelligence about an imminent cyber…

Cybersecurity

SharePoint RCE and MikroTik RouterOS Flaws Actively Exploited in the Wild

September 26, 2026 Blogmaster

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added two security flaws impacting Microsoft SharePoint and Mikrotik RouterOS to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of…

Cybersecurity

Elementor CSRF Flaw Lets Attackers Take Over Sites After Admin Clicks Crafted Link

September 26, 2026 Blogmaster

Details have emerged about a high-severity security flaw in the Elementor Website Builder WordPress plugin that could be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker to create rogue administrator accounts and take…

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