Bihar govt website left Aadhaar, pension data exposed — a 21-year-old student caught it

The website of Bihars Mahadalit Vikas Mission had a problem with security. This problem made it easy for people to get the ...
Security Boulevard

External input cannot be trusted: input validation and encoding strategies

Any data that enters your system from outside a trust boundary should be treated as untrusted until proven otherwise. That includes form fields, API payloads, file uploads, headers, cookies, queue ...
BizTech Magazine

What’s the Difference Between Security Compliance and Risk Management?

There’s a particular feeling IT managers have when they’ve just passed a security audit: first relief, then pride at having a ...
The Hacker News

Hackers Exploit Windmill Flaw to Read Arbitrary Server Files Without Authentication

VulnCheck says attackers are exploiting Windmill CVE-2026-29059 to read server files, with about 170 vulnerable systems ...
SecurityWeek

WP2Shell WordPress Vulnerabilities Exploited in the Wild

In-the-wild exploitation seen for the new WP2Shell WordPress vulnerabilities, officially tracked as CVE-2026-60137 and ...
Ars Technica

Now, defenders are embracing the prompt injection, too

Prompt injections, the malicious commands attackers embed into content to entice large language models to follow them, have been attackers’ go-to tool for turning AI platforms against their users. A ...
pv magazine International

New methodology to prevent false data injection attacks in PV plants

A group of researchers from the University of Sevilla in Spain has created a new framework for the detection and identification of false data injection attacks (FDIAs) in PV plants. FDIAs are usually ...
Business.com on MSN

E-commerce security: 10 best practices to protect your online store

A secure platform is the foundation to protect your online store. Here are some security tips to keep your e-commerce site safe from fraud and hackers.
Newsweek

One Protein May Prevent Brain Process Linked to Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Scientists have identified a protein that may help stop the brain ...
Latest Hacking News

SQL Injection: Why It Persists and How to Prevent It

SQL injection has been a documented attack technique since at least 1998. It has appeared in every edition of the OWASP Top 10 ever published. The fix has been well-understood for almost as long as ...
Hacker

The Architecture of Trust: Why AI Safety is Now a Backend Engineering Problem

Senior backend engineer at KAYAK building systems at scale. Writes about distributed systems, AI and tradeoffs. The generative AI honeymoon is over. For the past three years, the tech industry has ...
Bleeping Computer

Ghost CMS SQL injection flaw exploited in large-scale ClickFix campaign

A large-scale campaign is exploiting a critical SQL injection vulnerability (CVE-2026-26980) in Ghost CMS to inject malicious JavaScript code that triggers ClickFix attack flows. The campaign was ...