It’s the first guidance from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on deploying decoys, like honeypots, to detect and distract adversaries. The post CISA promotes a fresh way to deter cyberattackers: Lie to them appeared first on CyberScoop.
Ubisoft has quietly killed one of PC gaming’s longest-running annoyances. Starting September 10, 2026, players who buy Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown on Steam no longer have to install or launch the separate Ubisoft Connect desktop client just to start playing. A new background tool called Ubisoft Connect Services now handles account sign-in, cross-play,…
A fast-track vote died on the Senate floor Wednesday, and it took less than a minute. Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) asked for unanimous consent to move his AI “kill switch” bill straight to passage. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) objected, and the request collapsed on the spot, according to Politico. That single objection is now the…
Cybersecurity industry veteran Hal Pomeranz gives a pep talk on career anxiety and self-doubt and shares how to build meaningful connections during historical tech industry downturns.
A new type of attack hijacks the AI assistant built directly into various browsers to access sensitive information, execute malicious actions, and exfiltrate data.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency added Citrix NetScaler’s newest authentication bypass, CVE-2026-19490, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on September 9, 2026, confirming what researchers had warned about for weeks: attackers were already breaking into unpatched NetScaler ADC and Gateway appliances before most administrators had a chance to update. The flaw carries a CVSS…
Apple asked the U.S. Supreme Court on September 14, 2026, to throw out a civil contempt finding that stripped the company of its 27% commission on external payment links inside App Store apps, according to MacDailyNews. The filing is Apple’s opening merits brief in Apple Inc. v. Epic Games, Inc., the case that has decided…
Three keyboards, three philosophies. The Keychron Q5 Max chases the custom-keyboard feel with a milled aluminum shell and QMK/VIA firmware. The Wooting 80HE throws out fixed switch travel entirely and bets on magnetic Hall-effect sensing. The ASUS ROG Strix Scope II 96 Wireless splits the difference, wrapping familiar mechanical switches in gaming-brand polish and a…
GitHub’s Atom text editor has been dead for almost four years now, but the search traffic never really stopped. Thousands of developers still type “atom text editor” into Google every month, either because they inherited an old project with an .atom config folder, found a tutorial that assumes Atom still exists, or just miss the…