CIFSwitch is a 19-year-old Linux logic bug turning forged CIFS auth keys into root. Affects Mint, CentOS, Rocky, Kali, SLES. CIFSwitch stands apart from typical privilege escalation vulnerabilities because of how it was discovered. Asim Manizada, a security engineer at SpaceX, didn’t find it by auditing source code the old-fashioned way. He built an AI-powered…
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SpaceX’s Rocket Monopoly Gives It an Edge Over OpenAI in the IPO Race
The frontier development of artificial intelligence is crowded, while SpaceX has forged a market of one.
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How to prevent business email compromise
Business email compromise (BEC) is the cyber equivalent of an expertly forged handwritten note—no malware fireworks, no flashing warnings, just a convincing request that tricks someone into wiring money or handing over sensitive data. Knowing how to prevent BEC should sit at the top of every security to‑do list because even one fraudulent email can…
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Anthropic Takes Big Step in AI Race to Reshape College Coding Courses
The company behind Claude forged an alliance to put its AI tools in the hands of students at hundreds of community and state colleges.