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31+ min ago (883+ words) Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out whats clicking on FoxNews.com. Cybercriminals keep getting better at blending into the software you use every day." Over the past few years, we've seen phishing pages that copy banking portals, fake browser alerts that claim your device is infected and "human verification" screens that push you to run commands you should never touch. The latest twist comes from the ongoing ClickFix campaign. Instead of asking you to prove you are human, attackers now disguise themselves as a Windows update. It looks convincing enough that you might follow the instructions without thinking, which is exactly what they want. NEW SCAM SENDS FAKE MICROSOFT 365 LOGIN PAGES The malware hides inside seemingly normal image files, using steganography to slip past traditional security tools." (Microsoft) Researchers noticed that ClickFix has upgraded its old trick....

1+ hour, 1+ min ago (814+ words) Quantum computing represents a major threat to encryption, and the inflection point may be less than five years away. Virtual private networks, or VPNs, have become an essential part of today's online security toolkit. A VPN hides your public IP address by routing your internet traffic through a remote server. It encrypts your data -- scrambling it and making it unintelligible -- to protect your sensitive information from prying eyes." Right now, VPNs, just like most modern internet infrastructure, rely on decades-old encryption standards like AES (some also use new ciphers like ChaCha20) for data encryption. However, with the looming threat of Q-day -- the day quantum computers become advanced enough to break today's encryption algorithms -- many of the best VPN services have started rolling out post-quantum encryption, or PQE, to future-proof their security credentials." Let's explore the rising threat posed by quantum computers,…...

1+ hour, 8+ min ago (637+ words) Your smart speaker sits quietly in the corner. The light is off, you're not using it, so obviously it's not listening or recording anything. Right? Except that's exactly what these devices are designed to make you think. The reality of how smart home technology operates would shock most people who've filled their houses with internet-connected gadgets. These devices need to constantly listen for their wake words. Alexa can't respond to "Alexa" unless it's always processing audio. That means microphones are active 24/7, analyzing every conversation, television show, and phone call that happens near them. Companies claim they only start recording after detecting wake words, but data tells a different story. Studies analyzing smart speaker data requests found thousands of recordings that users never intentionally triggered. The devices misheard random words as wake commands and started recording conversations, arguments, intimate moments, and…...

1+ hour, 10+ min ago (264+ words) You have a gRPC client in C# using Grpc.Core that needs to route traffic through an HTTP proxy. Sounds simple, right? If you've searched for solutions, you've probably found: I needed per-channel proxy configuration without affecting other traffic and without migrating libraries. So I dove into the gRPC C-core source code to understand how http_proxy actually works. If you want to explore the internals yourself, here are the key files: When gRPC honors the http_proxy environment variable, it doesn't do anything magical. It simply: The key insight: these channel arguments are accessible via ChannelOption in C#! HTTP proxies use the CONNECT method to create TCP tunnels: Once the tunnel is established, TLS handshake and gRPC communication flow through transparently. Purpose: Tells gRPC where to tunnel What happens: When gRPC connects to the channel target (the proxy), it sends: Format: host:port…...

1+ hour, 13+ min ago (186+ words) A 19-year-old Millersburg woman was injured after her vehicle struck a pile of dirt in the roadway east of the intersection of County Road 40 and County Road 43. The crash happened around 7:20 a.m. on Friday, Dec. 12, when a silver 2011 Chevrolet Impala was traveling westbound on County Road 40. Police say the... A 19-year-old Millersburg woman was injured after her vehicle struck a pile of dirt in the roadway east of the intersection of County Road 40 and County Road 43. The crash happened around 7:20 a.m. on Friday, Dec. 12, when a silver 2011 Chevrolet Impala was traveling westbound on County Road 40. Police say the vehicle hit a pile of dirt that had been left in the westbound lane by a dump truck. The driver suffered minor injuries, including bleeding from her forehead and nose, and was transported to Goshen General Hospital for treatment. Police reported moderate front-end damage…...

1+ hour, 21+ min ago (315+ words) Model Context Protocol (MCP) is Anthropic's new standard for connecting AI agents to external tools and data sources. As I started working with MCP servers, I realized something concerning: there's no automated security testing for them. MCP servers provide AI agents with strong abilities, including file operations, command execution, and database access. One vulnerable tool can mean full system compromise. Manual code reviews often overlook injection vulnerabilities in tool arguments. Here's what I found during a security review: The vulnerability? Tool arguments weren't sanitized. An AI agent could inject: I built Mcpwn - an automated security scanner for MCP servers. The name is a play on "MCP pwn" (compromise). 1. Semantic Detection Over Crash Detection Instead of looking for crashes, Mcpwn analyzes response content for patterns: Pure Python stdlib. No pip install needed. This was critical for: JSON and SARIF formats for…...

1+ hour, 26+ min ago (1179+ words) This isn't an isolated incident. According to the OWASP Top 10 2025 (released November 6, 2025), injection attacks rank as A05:2025 " Injection, affecting 100% of applications tested for some form of injection 2. While SQL injection has decreased in frequency due to better frameworks and awareness, the impact remains catastrophically high: Translation: SQL injection is less common than it used to be, but when it appears, it's devastating. OWASP explicitly characterizes SQL injection as "low frequency/high impact"meaning fewer applications are vulnerable, but those that are face complete compromise. If you're interviewing for Security Engineering or Application Security roles at companies like GitLab, Stripe, Coinbase, Trail of Bits, or NCC Group, you'll face SQL injection questions. Not theorylive code review scenarios where you must: These skills separate candidates who've read about SQL injection from those who can actually find and fix it in production code. I…...

1+ hour, 30+ min ago (468+ words) A recent security breach at the ZeroGravity Foundation resulted in the loss of over 520,000 0G tokens. The incident happened on December 11th, when an attacker managed to drain tokens from a specific rewards distribution contract. What's interesting here is that the exploit didn't come from a flaw in the blockchain's core code. Instead, it was a compromised private key that did the damage. The key was stored on an AliCloud server instance and apparently got leaked somehow. The attacker used this key to authorize an emergency withdrawal from the contract. After taking the tokens, the hacker quickly moved them to another chain. They then used Tornado Cash to mix the funds, which is pretty standard practice for trying to hide stolen cryptocurrency trails. The total loss wasn't just the 0G tokens either " it included about 9.93 ETH and 4,200 USDT from the same contract. Now,…...

1+ hour, 42+ min ago (443+ words) A recent government directive to pre-install the Sanchar Saathi app on mobile phones faced backlash. This mirrors instances in other countries where mandatory app installations have been met with public disapproval. The article argues that voluntary adoption, driven by user benefits and convenience, proves more successful than government mandates. Whenever I hear the word 'mandatory,' I reach for my nicotine gum For a grown-up to be told that he or she has to comply with something is an open invitation to suspect being served something dark lurking in the lentils.Making it compulsory to stand up each time the national anthem is played in a cinema, or when some minister waltzes into a room, can diminish what could have come naturally That little beebuzz inside you that's supposed to be 'patriotic stirrings.' That ounce of respect you feel for mantri-ji,…...

1+ hour, 55+ min ago (786+ words) Xano AI-Powered Backend Challenge: Public API Submission This is a submission for the Xano AI-Powered Backend Challenge: Production-Ready Public API GlobalScreen API is a production-ready sanctions and PEP (Politically Exposed Persons) screening service that enables third-party applications to perform compliance checks against international watchlists. Think of it as Stripe for compliance - a simple API that solves a complex regulatory problem. Rate limit info is included in response headers: Search for a specific person or entity by name with fuzzy matching. Get paginated list of watchlist entries with optional filters. All errors follow a consistent format: Search for "ERIC" finds "ERIC BADEGE" with 90 match score - demonstrates partial name matching capability. 1,000 verified UN sanctions records in watchlist_entries table, properly normalized and indexed for fast searches. You can test the API with these verified names from the database: I started with Xano's AI assistant…...