Evooo1Bot: A Mirai-Based Botnet Turning Linux Routers Into Attacker Infrastructure
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Evooo1Bot: A Mirai-Based Botnet Turning Linux Routers Into Attacker Infrastructure

A new Linux botnet weaponises years-old vulnerabilities into persistent access, credential theft, and a SOCKS5 relay network — here is how it works and how to defend.

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C2PA and Content Credentials: How Signed Metadata Fights Media Fakery

An open standard that cryptographically records where a photo, video, or audio clip came from — and every edit since.

mediaAug 135 min read
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Encrypt a High-Privilege API Key at Rest: A GPG Vault That Keeps Secrets Out of AI Transcripts

A portable, dependency-free runbook for locking down a Cloudflare Global API Key — or any account-wide credential — with GPG, a decrypt-and-exec wrapper, and a harness-level guard against accidental leaks.

secretsAug 610 min read
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Automating Security Assessments with PentesterFlow

A friendly guide to using an AI-driven tool for penetration testing.

pentestingAug 24 min read
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Why AI-Generated Nudes Can't Be Stopped — A Builder's View

The friction that used to protect people is gone. Open-weight models are distributed, detection is a losing race, and the barrier to harm has disappeared permanently. Here is why 'impossible to stop' is the honest answer.

societyJul 226 min read
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Antigravity CLI vs Claude Code: The 2026 Terminal User Interface Showdown

A deep comparison of Google's agy and Anthropic's claude — architecture, concurrency, sandboxing, and which one fits your workflow

developer-toolsJul 175 min read
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The New HTTP QUERY Method: A GET Request With a Body

After 26 years, HTTP finally gets a method built for complex searches — and it changes everything about API design

webJul 179 min read
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The Windows 11 'Secret Keylogger' Myth: What That Viral Registry Fix Really Does in 2026

The viral TIPC registry hack does not kill a hidden keylogger — it toggles a documented setting you can switch off in three clicks

privacyJul 99 min read
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73 Repos in 105 Seconds: The Miasma Worm That Weaponized AI Coding Assistants Against Microsoft

A self-propagating supply-chain worm turned opening a repository into a credential theft — by hijacking Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI, and VS Code

supplychainJul 87 min read
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When the Vault Door Fails: BeyondTrust's Critical Authentication Bypass

Two pre-auth flaws in the tools that guard privileged access let attackers walk straight in

pamJul 86 min read
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Januscape: The 16-Year-Old KVM Flaw That Lets a Guest VM Escape to the Host

One use-after-free in KVM's shadow MMU threatens Intel and AMD cloud hosts alike

virtualizationJul 86 min read
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GhostLock: The 15-Year-Old Linux Flaw That Just Broke Into the Open

A kernel bug that slipped through every major Linux distro since 2011 is now patched—here's what you need to know

vulnerabilityJul 86 min read