Hackaday

This Week In Security: State Malware, State Hardware Bans, And Stuxnet Before Stuxnet Was Cool

Making headlines everywhere is the CopyFail Linux kernel vulnerability, which allows local privilege escalation (LPE) from any user to root privileges on most kernels and distributions. Local ...

Why OpenAI's 'goblin' problem matters — and how you can release the goblins on your own

If OpenAI can accidentally train its flagship model to obsess over goblins, what other more subtle and potentially harmful ...
How-To Geek on MSN

Stop fighting Windows to learn Python: Why WSL changes everything

Unleash the power of Python without giving up Windows.
Cybernews

One tiny exploit gives full Linux access: all kernels since 2017 are vulnerable

The critical "Copy Fail" bug (CVE-2026-31431) affects all Linux kernels since 2017, allowing unprivileged local users to gain ...

OpenAI Codex system prompt includes explicit directive to “never talk about goblins”

The system prompt for OpenAI’s Codex CLI contains a perplexing and repeated warning for the most recent GPT model to “never ...
How-To Geek on MSN

Tired of hunting through logs? Here's how I automated the entire process

Now a tiny script turns them into clean, shareable error reports in seconds.
Dark Reading

UNC6692 Combines Social Engineering, Malware, Cloud Abuse

A newly discovered threat actor is using Microsoft Teams, AWS S3 buckets, and custom "Snow" malware in a multipronged ...