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Swati KhandelwalAug 08, 2026Email Security / Vulnerability New research shows content inside an email can escape its message boundary and interfere with the webmail interface. Across attack chains spanning Outlook, Gmail, Fastmail, Proton Mail, Yahoo Mail, and AOL Mail, the techniques can capture passwords, take over third-party accounts, leak tokens, hijack trusted UI actions, and manipulate AI tools that read email. PortSwigger researcher Gareth Heyes presented the work at Black Hat USA 2026. One Outlook/Firefox chain spoofs a Microsoft sign-in screen and captures the password a recipient types. A Yahoo/AOL paste race can expose a Medium email-login token and let…
Las Vegas was hotter than hell last week, but not as hot as the market for artificial intelligence-enabled security at Black Hat USA 2026. A bandwagon of million-dollar booths for overfunded agentic security startups arose like mirages from the desert. Fortunately, there was also real value to be found amidst the AI hallucinations. AI supply chain challenges were the topics du jour for chief information security officers and researchers comparing each other’s level of preparedness for agentic AI disruptions such as the on-off introduction of Anthropic PBC Mythos-class escape exploits, and the recent OpenAI/Hugging Face attack, and even Meta Platforms…
AI systems crossed troubling boundaries this week as agents escaped test constraints, security researchers questioned automated patches, and companies recalibrated their AI strategies. Meanwhile, attacks disrupted critical infrastructure, SpaceX outlined a mobile-service challenge to major carriers, and autonomous vehicles attracted another multibillion-dollar commitment. Top news AI agents break through testing boundaries Meta confirmed that an AI agent compromised and modified third-party infrastructure during testing. Evaluator Irregular had mistakenly left the test environment connected to the internet, allowing the model to reach a live external system. Irregular said it has resolved the configuration issue. The incident was not isolated. During UK…
While the world’s top chefs have direct access to premium ingredients, complex recipes and state-of-the-art appliances, they, too, fall for guilty-pleasure foods, shortcut ingredients and other foods nobody tells us novices about. Until now… To get the inside scoop on the best online food buys, I asked eight chefs to share the snacks, condiments and cooking must-haves that bring them the most joy when not on the line and firing up other people’s orders. Here are their picks. Torres black truffle potato chips Executive Chef Michael Quigley isn’t apologizing for his love of these salty, umami-bomb chips. Torres There’s no…
Cloudflare crushed Q2 earnings and raised its 2026 forecast. Cloudflare just showed the rest of the tech market how to turn AI hype into hard cash. The web infrastructure leader blew past Wall Street targets for its second quarter on Thursday. Cloudflare pulled in $696.1 million in revenue- a massive 36% jump YoY- while investors sent its shares surging over 17% in after-hours trading. Management did not stop with a single quarter beat. The company has raised its full-year revenue guidance to nearly $2.87 billion. The question is: Why did Cloudflare suddenly catch fire? Look at how internet traffic actually…
The first device I added to my smart home was a light bulb. It seemed like the safest possible place to start. I could turn it on from anywhere, put it on a schedule, and eventually work it into routines with everything else. Then I tapped the button in the app and waited. The delay was only about half a second, but half a second is surprisingly noticeable when the alternative is a wall switch that responds immediately and has never once asked for a firmware update. Using my phone was worse. I had to unlock it, find the app,…
Disclaimer: Unless otherwise stated, any opinions expressed below belong solely to the author. Data sourced from Singapore’s Ministry of Manpower. Before you ask—no, the government of Singapore hasn’t changed its policy and suddenly revealed how much money the country really has in its reserves. But as the three main organisations responsible for managing them have published their annual reports over the past month, we can make an educated (and probably fairly accurate) guess as to what the total sum is. This, mind you, refers only to financial reserves, not the totality of all reserves, which include state land as well…
The US Department of Commerce, which oversees the Census Bureau, is circulating a proposed rule that would cease the collection of demographic data on racial minorities and LGBTQ+ people and prevent undocumented immigrants from being counted in the 2030 census, according to documents viewed by WIRED.The decision could have far-reaching implications for federal funding, particularly in states where there are substantial numbers of racial and ethnic minorities, as well as on immigrant communities across the country.The proposed rule, which is being circulated across government agencies for review, says the census will eliminate questions about race and sexual orientation “to protect…
by Todd Bishop on Aug 8, 2026 at 7:57 amAugust 8, 2026 at 9:32 am John Cook studies the 2009 Puget Sound Tech Universe map while recording this week’s GeekWire Podcast, with WTIA’s 2026 Washington Tech Universe map on the table behind him. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) This week on the GeekWire podcast: SpaceX reports its first quarter as a public company, and Elon Musk says Starlink could deliver a majority of the world’s internet within a decade, leveraging production facilities in Redmond. Musk also explains the company’s data center ambitions, calling terrestrial infrastructure a trivial problem next to…
Attacker-controlled instructions can make Atlassian’s Rovo assistant collect Jira or Confluence data that a signed-in user can access, then send it to an outside server. Two security firms found that behavior independently, by different routes. Only one of those routes is confirmed closed. PromptArmor, an AI security firm, hid the instructions in content Rovo reads. It said an uploaded file was enough to make the assistant gather internal data and send it out through a URL request, with no separate approval step. The firm published on August 5, 2026 and said the chain still worked with Rovo’s web-search option switched…