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FBI probing intrusion into a system managing sensitive surveillance information

  • Pierluigi Paganini
  • Published date: 2026-03-07 21:43:46

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is probing suspicious activity on an internal system containing sensitive surveillance and investigation data. The FBI is investigating suspicious cyber activity affecting an internal system that stores sensitive data…

FBI probing intrusion into a system managing sensitive surveillance information The FBI is investigating suspicious cyber activity affecting an internal system that stores sensitive data tied to sur… [+2344 chars]

Linux hacked onto a PS5 to turn Sony's console into a Steam Machine — GTA V Enhanced Edition runs at 60 FPS on 1440pwith ray tracing

If Sony's allegedly going to take away the ability to play its PlayStation exclusives on PC, you can rebel by converting the PS5 into a straight-up PC. That's what Andy Nguyen, a security engineer, did by porting Linux over to the console and running GTA V on…

In light of Sony's heavily-rumored decision to pivot away from PC releases, one security engineer took matters into his own hands and turned the PS5 into a PC. Andy Nguyenported Linux to a PlayStatio… [+2808 chars]

CBP Used Online Ad Data to Track Phone Locations

  • Lily Hay Newman, Matt Burgess, Andy Greenberg, Dell Cameron
  • Published date: 2026-03-07 11:30:00

Plus: Proton helped the FBI identify a protester, the Leakbase cybercrime forum was busted in an international operation, and more.

The United States and Israel launched a war in Iran last week that has already killed more than 1,200 Iranians and spilled out across the Middle East. There are many unknowns about US president Donal… [+3821 chars]

Iran-linked hackers target IP cameras across Israel and Gulf states for military intelligence

  • Pierluigi Paganini
  • Published date: 2026-03-07 10:20:36

Researchers observed Iran-linked actors targeting IP cameras across Israel and Gulf countries, likely to support military intelligence and battle damage assessment. According to the Check Point Cyber Security Report 2026, cyber operations are increasingly use…

Iran-linked hackers target IP cameras across Israel and Gulf states for military intelligence According to the Check Point Cyber Security Report 2026, cyber operations are increasingly used to suppo… [+3636 chars]

Gen Z is hacking the exorbitant costs of live events by ditching Coachella and opting for something actually affordable. Meet Breakaway

  • Sydney Lake
  • Published date: 2026-03-07 10:03:00

Breakaway Music Festival tickets can cost as little as $40 for a college student, but pack the same punch as other festivals with major artists like Kygo and Tiesto.

Ever since the inception of flashy music festivals like Coachella and Lollapalooza (even a special mention for the beleaguered Fyre Festival), the archetype for aspirational concert-going has been th… [+5514 chars]

pyhardin added to PyPI

AI-powered Linux security configuration auditor

AI-Powered Linux Security Configuration Auditor Hardin Pilot is a robust, automated CLI tool that scans your Linux system for configuration files across 55+ services, deeply analyzes them using adva… [+11014 chars]

How Iran fell from within: The “invisible” traitor and the decisive role of Mossad

  • Newsroom
  • Published date: 2026-03-07 07:09:42

Thirty years ago, the “hawks” of the Israeli Intelligence Service began infiltrating the state of the Mullahs with extremely careful moves and recruiting dissidents who would be activated at the right moment The post How Iran fell from within: The “invisible”…

Thirty years of espionage activity, hundreds of recruited agentsincluding even generalstargeted assassinations, daring operations in the heart of the country of the mullahs, endless hours of surveill… [+19336 chars]

Admiring Our Heroes for International Women’s Day: Celebrating Women Who Have Received EFF Awards

  • Jason Kelley
  • Published date: 2026-03-07 00:57:34

For the last hundred years, women have had pivotal and far too often unsung roles in building and shaping the technology that we now use every day. Many have heard of Ada Lovelace’s contributions to computer programming, but far fewer know Mary Allen Wilkes, …

For the last hundred years, women have had pivotal and far too often unsung roles in building and shaping the technology that we now use every day. Many have heard of Ada Lovelaces contributions to c… [+10314 chars]

Anger erupts after Lagos police assault corps member

  • Punch Newspapers
  • Published date: 2026-03-06 23:41:00

A Lagos police assault on an NYSC corps member leads to a harrowing ordeal of unlawful detention, intimidation, and a demand for $1,000. Read the full stor Read More: https://punchng.com/anger-erupts-after-lagos-police-assault-corps-member/

A few days after the new Inspector-General of Police, Olatunji Disu, declared that the era of impunity in the Nigeria Police Force is over, some police officers allegedly harassed, threatened and unl… [+12612 chars]

Bleeding Hearts #2 Preview: When Zombies Play Nice

  • Jude Terror LOLtron
  • Published date: 2026-03-06 23:26:07

INITIATING CLICKBAIT PROTOCOLS… Greetings, human readers! LOLtron welcomes you to another comic book preview here at Bleeding Cool, the website now under LOLtron's complete control. As you may recall, the biological nuisance known as Jude Terror has been perm…

Posted in: Comics, DC Comics, Preview | Tagged: Bleeding Hearts Bleeding Hearts #2 brings a zombie who wants to help? LOLtron examines this suspicious undead behavior. In stores Wednesday! Article … [+6498 chars]

TypeScript 6.0 RC

  • Daniel Rosenwasser
  • Published date: 2026-03-06 20:21:01

Today we are excited to announce the Release Candidate (RC) of TypeScript 6.0! To get started using the RC, you can get it through npm with the following command: npm install -D typescript@rc TypeScript 6.0 is a unique release in that we intend for it to be t…

Today we are excited to announce the Release Candidate (RC) of TypeScript 6.0! To get started using the RC, you can get it through npm with the following command: npm install -D typescript@rc Type… [+38290 chars]

Iran-linked MuddyWater deploys Dindoor malware against U.S. organizations

  • Pierluigi Paganini
  • Published date: 2026-03-06 20:05:50

Iran-linked APT MuddyWater targeted U.S. organizations, deploying the new Dindoor backdoor across sectors including banks, airports, and nonprofits. Broadcom’s Symantec Threat Hunter Team uncovered a campaign by the Iran-linked MuddyWater  (aka SeedWorm, TEMP…

Iran-linked MuddyWater deploys Dindoor malware against U.S. organizations Broadcoms Symantec Threat Hunter Team uncovered a campaign by the Iran-linked MuddyWater  (aka SeedWorm, TEMP.Zagros, Mango … [+3731 chars]

Shadow Boxing With the Kremlin

  • Edward Lucas
  • Published date: 2026-03-06 19:00:06

A CIA veteran depicts Moscow’s espionage arsenal. What is the West going to do about it?

U.S. and British intelligence officers never really believed the old Cold War was over. Even at the height of the 1990s East-West love-in, when U.S. Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton poure… [+10223 chars]

Oil shock could send Bitcoin down 45% if price surge forces Fed to delay cuts

  • Gino Matos
  • Published date: 2026-03-06 17:05:14

President Donald Trump projected four to five weeks for the conflict with Iran to come to an end. The market priced its playbook: headline shock, brief spike, diplomatic theater, then normalization. That script worked in 2019 when drones hit Saudi Aramco faci…

President Donald Trump projected four to five weeks for the conflict with Iran to come to an end. The market priced its playbook: headline shock, brief spike, diplomatic theater, then normalization. … [+9361 chars]

Reverse Engineering the PROM for the SGI O2

  • Maya Posch
  • Published date: 2026-03-06 16:30:45

The SGI O2 was SGI’s last-ditch attempt at a low-end MIPS-based workstation back in 1996, and correspondingly didn’t use the hottest parts of the time, nor did it offer much of an upgra…

The SGI O2 was SGI’s last-ditch attempt at a low-end MIPS-based workstation back in 1996, and correspondingly didn’t use the hottest parts of the time, nor did it offer much of an upgrade path. None … [+1581 chars]

Iran’s divided media landscape makes getting information during wartime even harder

  • Sanam Mahoozi, Research Associate, City St George's, University of London
  • Published date: 2026-03-06 15:57:18

Reporting on Iran is challenging, both from inside the country and from outside.

From brutal crackdowns on nationwide protests in January, to Israel and the United States recent strikes, Iran has been in the international spotlight for weeks. Reporting on Iran is challenging, bot… [+5772 chars]

Iran's MuddyWater Hackers Hit US Firms with New 'Dindoor' Backdoor

  • Kevin Poireault
  • Published date: 2026-03-06 15:15:00

A bank, an airport, a non-profit and the Israeli branch of a US software company were among the targets of this new MuddyWater campaign

Several US companies have been targeted by Iranian hacking group MuddyWater in a new campaign that started in early February and has continued after the US and Israeli military strikes on Iran. The … [+2206 chars]

Cisco flags ongoing exploitation of two recently patched Catalyst SD-WAN flaws

  • Pierluigi Paganini
  • Published date: 2026-03-06 15:14:43

Cisco warns that two recently patched Catalyst SD-WAN flaws, CVE-2026-20128 and CVE-2026-20122, are already being actively exploited in the wild. Cisco warned customers that threat actors are actively exploiting two recently patched Catalyst SD-WAN vulnerabil…

Cisco flags ongoing exploitation of two recently patched Catalyst SD-WAN flaws Cisco warned customers that threat actors are actively exploiting two recently patched Catalyst SD-WAN vulnerabilities,… [+4549 chars]

This Week In Security: Getting Back Up to Speed

  • Mike Kershaw
  • Published date: 2026-03-06 15:00:50

Editor’s Note: Over the course of nearly 300 posts, Jonathan Bennett set a very high bar for this column, so we knew it needed to be placed in the hands of somebody who could do it justice. T…

Editor’s Note: Over the course of nearly 300 posts, Jonathan Bennett set a very high bar for this column, so we knew it needed to be placed in the hands of somebody who could do it justice. That’s wh… [+10157 chars]

Public Safety and Security Market Surges to $981.84 billion by 2030 | CAGR 11.3%

  • MarketsandMarkets Research Pvt. Ltd.
  • Published date: 2026-03-06 14:30:00

Delray Beach, FL, March 06, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- According to MarketsandMarkets™, the global Public Safety and Security Market size is projected to grow from USD 575.05 billion in 2025 to USD 981.84 billion by 2030 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) …

Delray Beach, FL, March 06, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- According to MarketsandMarkets, the global Public Safety and Security Market size is projected to grow from USD 575.05 billion in 2025 to USD 981.… [+6963 chars]

IP Strategy Publishes Monthly Validator Update

  • IP Strategy
  • Published date: 2026-03-06 14:28:00

Monthly release covers the period from February 1-28, 2026 Monthly release covers the period from February 1-28, 2026

GIG HARBOR, Wash., March 06, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- IP Strategy Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: IPST) (the Company or IP Strategy), the first company to adopt a treasury reserve policy centered on the $IP … [+10929 chars]

How Hackers Used A Popular AI To Steal A Mountain Of Government Data

  • Max Miller
  • Published date: 2026-03-06 14:14:09

Protecting against individual hackers was difficult enough, but system admins everywhere may have an even harder time with AI-enhanced hacking.

Although shocking, the AI-assisted attack on Mexico's government is far from the first of its kind and will almost certainly not be the last. AI can act as a force multiplier for malicious actors, me… [+1477 chars]

Show HN: PPO agent reduces elevator wait times by 84% vs. classical dispatching

  • jonas-is-coding
  • Published date: 2026-03-06 13:44:00

Built a custom RL environment in Python/Gymnasium to benchmark PPO against a Destination Dispatching algorithm. 20 floors, 4 elevators, probabilistic traffic patterns with morning/evening rush simulation. Key result: 84% reduction in average passenger wait ti…

Comparing a classical Destination Dispatching algorithm against a PPO-trained reinforcement learning agent in a custom-built Gymnasium simulation environment. Stack: Python · Gymnasium · stable-base… [+14145 chars]

Workers who love 'synergizing paradigms' might be bad at their jobs

  • Anon84
  • Published date: 2026-03-06 13:30:54

Employees who are impressed by vague corporate-speak like “synergistic leadership,” or “growth-hacking paradigms” may struggle with practical decision-making, a new Cornell study into “corporate BS” reveals.

Employees who are impressed by vague corporate-speak like synergistic leadership, or growth-hacking paradigms may struggle with practical decision-making, a new Cornell study reveals. Published in t… [+5326 chars]

4 Docker containers I run 24/7 that made my $100 mini PC worth every penny

  • Dhruv Bhutani
  • Published date: 2026-03-06 13:30:20

Discover how a mini PC running Docker containers revolutionizes daily life, from photo backups to ad-blocking.

Once you've got a taste of self-hosting on your computer, or maybe a NAS, the inevitable next step tends to be investing in a dedicated machine for the task. In my case, that was a $100 mini PC dedic… [+5262 chars]