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Firewall Security Is Really About Controlling Trust Paths

Firewall Security Is Really About Controlling Trust Paths Source: Canva Firewalls are often judged by what they block. That is understandable, but it is not the most useful way to evaluate them. In a modern environment, much of the dangerous traffic is technically permitted: HTTPS to a cloud service, an administrator connecting to a management…

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Aurora Ransomware Operators Use Cursor AI in Attacks Against 10 Targets

Threat actors associated with Aurora (aka Aur0ra) ransomware have been observed using SpaceX’s artificial intelligence (AI)-powered coding assistant Cursor to break into target networks, according to findings from CloudSEK and Gambit Security. The two independent analyses are based on exposed infrastructure associated with the Russian-speaking cybercrime group, leading to the discovery of its

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Two Claude Models Leak as Anthropic Eyes $100B IPO [2026]

Two unlisted Claude model identifiers surfaced in developer tools and on Discord late last week, and the timing lines up with a separate report that Anthropic is quietly benchmarking a frontier system well past its current flagship. Put those two threads together and you get the story spreading across tech outlets this week: Anthropic may…

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12TB Valve Steam Leak Exposes Half-Life 2 Ep3 [2026]

A 12-terabyte archive of historical Valve and Steam data has surfaced online, and inside it researchers have found early builds of Portal 2, Left 4 Dead, and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, alongside assets tied to the long-canceled Half-Life 2: Episode 3. The discovery, first flagged by dataminer GabeFollower and reported by GameRant, GamesRadar+, GAMINGbible, Ars Technica,…

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Stop Leaked Secrets in Git With Gitleaks: 11 Steps [2026]

A single AWS key sitting in a public commit is still the fastest way for an attacker to skip past every firewall a company owns. GitGuardian’s State of Secrets Sprawl 2026 report puts a number on how often that happens: 28.6 million new secrets turned up in public GitHub commits in 2025 alone, a 34%…

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Valve’s 12TB Leak: No Hack, Just an Unlocked Server [2026]

Two days after roughly 12TB of Valve’s historical Steam data surfaced online, the company still has not said a word about it. What has changed since the initial discovery is the story itself: multiple outlets and independent data miners now agree the archive was not the result of a hack at all. It sat on…

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