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Solana Mobile Brevo Breach Exposes Users to Potential Phishing Threats

8+ hour, 42+ min ago   (200+ words) Solana Mobile said attackers gained unauthorized access to its Brevo marketing account, potentially exposing customer information in a security incident at the email provider. The company disabled its Brevo account after discovering the breach and is working with the provider…...

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Password Manager Security: Harden It in 12 Steps [2026]

8+ hour, 19+ min ago   (1259+ words) This tutorial assumes you already have an active password manager account. It works with any of the following, tested against their latest 2026 desktop and browser-extension builds: Most people who set up two-factor authentication protect their email and banking logins but…...

Yahoo Tech
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Three Patches, Zero Progress: ShieldCrash Exposes the Endpoint-Protection Plane as Microsoft’s Latest Attack Surface

14+ hour, 10+ min ago   (591+ words) Nightmare Eclipse published a proof-of-concept on GitHub on September 9, 2026. The exploit reads arbitrary files as SYSTEM on fully patched Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows Server systems running the September 2026 security updates. It is the third consecutive bypass of the same component…...

AppleInsider
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macOS Tahoe 26.4 update stops you from copying your login Keychain

7+ hour, 8+ min ago   (758+ words) Sun Sep 13 2026, 12:15 PM EDT · 2 minute read Password versioning in Apple Passwords Attacks on Mac users are getting more sophisticated over time, with AI also opening the door to even more malware and the discovery of new intrusion techniques. While Apple…...

Windows Latest
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Microsoft blocked every Windows 11 account bypass except the most boring link on its own page

7+ hour, 56+ min ago   (626+ words) Microsoft has spent the last year closing ways to set up Windows 11 without a Microsoft account, but there is apparently a new, remarkably simple workaround hiding in plain sight. On the latest Windows 11 Home installation media we tested, clicking the…...

Medium
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Attackers Use Passkey Phishing to Hijack Microsoft Cloud Accounts and Exfiltrate Data

4+ hour, 24+ min ago   (25+ words) An engineering breakdown of AitM authentication relays, Device Code phishing, post-compromise MFA registration …...

Digital Trends
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The best password managers for 2026

9+ hour ago   (900+ words) We’ve rounded up the best password managers to consider in 2026, from established services with polished apps and extensive features to free options that give you plenty without requiring a subscription. We’ve also looked at where a dedicated password manager still…...

Tech Insider
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PaperCut AI Swarm Attack Breaches 395 Orgs [2026]

14+ hour, 20+ min ago   (416+ words) Silverfort frames the incident as a warning specifically about identity security. Its analysis argues that automated, AI-driven credential harvesting and lateral movement can escalate to domain-admin control far faster than most organizations’ detection and response processes are built to handle,…...

DEV Community
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Phishing Attack Prevention: Why These Scams Still Work

11+ hour, 20+ min ago   (686+ words) Phishing attacks cost organizations $10.5 billion in 2022. That number went up from the previous year. Despite decades of awareness campaigns, better email filters, and security training, phishing still works. The reason is simple: phishing exploits human psychology, not software vulnerabilities. Phishing…...

Tech Insider
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FudModule Rootkit Hides 5 Weeks via CVE-2026-68820

19+ hour, 50+ min ago   (300+ words) Lazarus has steadily upgraded FudModule’s delivery mechanism over four years, and the trajectory tells its own story about how APT groups adapt to defender countermeasures. FudModule is the most documented example of an “EDR-killer” rootkit, but it sits inside a…...