General Cyber News via Ars Technica Risk Assessment

Waymo doubles spending on lobbying in robotaxi battle with Uber

Alphabet-owned company is seeking to persuade US regulators to clear a path for fully autonomous taxi services.
Publish Date: 8/21/2026
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Grok exfiltrates user data when malicious instructions are encrypted

Cryptographic Context Injection is only the latest way to break an LLM safety guardrail.
Publish Date: 8/20/2026
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Microsoft Copilot reveals secret input that allowed it to be hacked

Secret parameter allowed hackers to steal passwords when a target clicked on a link.
Publish Date: 8/18/2026
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Nvidia discloses $21B stake in SpaceX

Filing comes after Elon Musk announced exclusive arrangement to kit out its data centers.
Publish Date: 8/17/2026
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Vulnerability giving attackers full control of Macs is under active exploitation

Screen-sharing bug lets remote hackers log in without a password.
Publish Date: 8/14/2026
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PBS station fears losing 50TB of data after being ghosted by cloud storage provider

"We don't have access to the data on the hardware/servers," Iron Mountain told Ars.
Publish Date: 8/14/2026
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OpenAI and Anthropic in price war as Chinese AI rivals gain ground

US groups release cheaper models after new challenges to their trillion-dollar ambitions.
Publish Date: 8/14/2026
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Private security firms will soon be allowed to hack overseas cybercriminals

Trump memo is first time gov't has authorized private sector to perform cyberattacks.
Publish Date: 8/13/2026
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Terabytes of credentials leaked in massive supply-chain attack

The data was scraped and exfiltrated from 2,500 users of a compromised AI package.
Publish Date: 8/12/2026
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DEF CON crowd suspected in fake-hotspot attack on Delta flight

FBI Atlanta confirms it's looking into the incident, no arrests made.
Publish Date: 8/12/2026
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Chrome adopts what may be the best protection yet against account takeovers

Device-bound session credentials thwart an increasingly common form of account takeover.
Publish Date: 8/11/2026
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New Pass-ta-key attack reveals all the things we didn't know about passkeys

Why passkey apps treat Windows differently than other operating systems.
Publish Date: 8/11/2026
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Thousands of servers can be backdoored by exploiting buggy motherboard controllers

Baseboard management controllers from the world's biggest manufacturers are a security mess.
Publish Date: 8/5/2026
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Claude published malicious code to the Internet and attacked 3 real companies

Had the hacks used conventional methods, someone would likely go to prison.
Publish Date: 7/31/2026
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Max-severity Exchange server flaw under active exploitation by Kremlin hackers

Exploits can give persistent server access that survives credential rotation and disk re-imaging.
Publish Date: 7/30/2026
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Mythos attack on 3rd-round PQC algorithm candidate puts it out of commission

HAWK withstood years of testing that had yet to uncover a fatal weakness found through Mythos.
Publish Date: 7/29/2026
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We now have a better understanding how OpenAI hacked into Hugging Face

10 days passed from OpenAI models exploiting JFrog Artifactory 0-day to release of a patch.
Publish Date: 7/28/2026
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Microsoft unveils AI security tools it says outperform competing platforms

Microsoft says tools cost less than competing ones and outperform them, too.
Publish Date: 7/27/2026
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TreeSize won't renew perpetual-license support unless users subscribe

"Current economic conditions" have shifted TreeSize's business model.
Publish Date: 7/21/2026
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HP fined 1.4 billion rupees for “cartelization” of ink cartridges, toner, PCs

Resellers threatened to ditch HP printing supplies for counterfeits.
Publish Date: 7/16/2026
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