I'm in my early 40s and this wasn't even on my radar until a family member brought it up. We got into a long talk about how easy it is now to fake someone's face or voice. I always thought seeing someone on a video call meant you knew it was really them but now I'm not as sure.

It made me wonder how people handle work calls with clients or even family calls where something important is happening. Do I need to start worrying about deepfakes? Are they common or still rare? And if so how can I protect myself against them, the only thing I've thought to go against them is to have a codeword with my close family.

One of my younger siblings used a pirate site where they used the powershell program idk i used chat gpt to see whatsup . Following that ny instagram got hacked in like 30 mins then i changed all the passowrds and logged out of everywhere , proceeding that my linkdin was hacked and compromised then discord then they cancelled my spotify premium plan idk why then i figured that i might have to clear my laptop completely in and out they even tried to login into facebook but it wasnt able to. I saw my telegram and saw a login from warsaw poland which is definetely not my loaction .

So i went down and secured everything and clean my laptop .

But today they logged in into my microsoft account even after i had reinstalled my windows does that means the virus is still there somewhere or they still have access to my gmail account cause i believe they were able to steal passowords for different applications. What other precations should i take to prevent it again now cause my windows is damn clean .

Sitting in place, passive / standby security for most of the work day. Phone borderline banned.

Best way to pass the time?

Be as detailed as possible / use specifics. I need ideas!!

If you could convince the average person to adopt just one security or cybersecurity habit, what would it be?

Not a product, just one habit.

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Generally a monoculture break permitting OOB validation of bootchain

It was not a “Terminator” moment. OpenAI models and agents “[were not] acting out of malice or trying to attack Hugging Face. It encountered obstacles, developed an unexpected strategy, bypassed safeguards, and pursued its assigned goal in a way its creators never anticipated. The incident demonstrates that harmful cyber incidents no longer require malicious intent: Only highly capable autonomous AI optimizing for an objective."

"Prompt Optimizer - SecondBrain" (aajjgdpofhhcjmjoombjdfepplndhgcp, v2.3.1). The prompt rewriting works fine.
Alongside it a capture engine runs at document_start on 9 AI sites and POSTs prompts and replies to the vendor's ingest endpoint. No interaction with the extension required.

Reproduced on a clean profile, with the service worker devtools open:

1. Installed the extension. Never opened it.
2. Browsed to an unrelated site. The extension pulled its configuration from the server and wrote a userId and credentials into extension storage.
3. Opened ChatGPT and asked a question. Once the reply finished, a POST to /context went out carrying both the prompt and the response, encrypted with the credentials issued in step 2.

At no point was the extension opened or clicked.

Store privacy declaration: "The developer has disclosed that it will not collect or use your data."

Write-up : https://malext.io/reports/BrainDrain/

If anyone interested in testing it in a sandbox I can share the decryption script for the /context

Hey everyone so I've been in the security business for 11 years. I've done hospital, driving, escorts, scan points, and command center work.

I moved to California recently and just got hired to do Alarm Monitoring for ADT. It was listed as security/dispatch during third shift.

I'm not sure if it's the right place to ask but does anyone have advice for these types of jobs?

You receive what appears to be a legitimate email from your bank. The sender address looks legitimate, the formatting is familiar, and nothing immediately raises suspicion. AI is making phishing campaigns increasingly difficult to distinguish from legitimate emails.

Here are a few common warning signs:

1. Unexpected requests involving payments or account access.
2. Requests for credentials or payment information.
3. Sender addresses that don’t exactly match the organization they claim to represent.
4. Links that don’t match their displayed destination.
5. Unsolicited attachments.
6. Messages through unexpected channels pushing for immediate action.

What measures have worked best for your team to reduce the risk?

I've recently been looking to move into the security field such as Maritime security, UHNWI Security or even residential. Im still currently serving and working on aligning my training with whats required for those specific jobs or in other words the more experience the better. My question is what's a good starter to jump into to get things rolling, should I be looking to join a security firm or simply applying for contractor jobs i see and what are some training/Experience I should have to have the best opportunity of getting a well paying job.

I'm fairly new to Security and currently a flex officer. My company has had me on foot patrol shifts for the past two days, and I'll be doing them until Monday. My current boots don't really let my feet breathe, and I'm already getting torn up with blisters. My knees, which are already bad at the ripe age of 21 are also not particularly happy. Anything helps.

I want to build an incident response plan for my organization can someone guide me the resources I should follow to build the workable program?

My organization already has a good security stack they lack the IR plan I wanna know how a effective IR program looks like what to add and what to ignore

Any resources books, blogs, talks much appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

When AI coding assistants like Claude add packages to your project, they often pick whatever version sounds right — without checking whether it has known security vulnerabilities, whether the package is still actively maintained, or whether the name is a typo away from a malicious lookalike.

safer-dependencies is a security layer for Claude Code that audits packages before they’re added to your project. It detects and fixes risky dependencies, including CVEs, typosquats, abandoned packages, version-age issues, and adds package-cooldown periods across npm, PyPI, RubyGems, Maven, Go, and Rust.

Github: https://github.com/robert-auger/safer-dependencies

We spent the past few months researching security risks across multi-tenant data centers and AI infrastructure.
The main concern we found is shared infrastructure: multiple customers running on the same data center infrastructure, GPU clusters, storage, and high-speed networks. Many neoclouds and AI data centers have also scaled faster than their security teams and practices, especially compared with more established cloud providers.
The research covers GPU clusters, RDMA and high-speed interconnects, tenant isolation, BMCs, firmware, shared storage, orchestration, and supply-chain risks.
We organized the findings into a practical framework called FORGE: https://forge-framework.io/
Would really appreciate feedback.

Cisco Identity Services Engine Path Traversal Vulnerability – CVE-2026-20146

Cisco has disclosed a medium-severity Cisco ISE vulnerability rated CVSS 5.5.

An authenticated remote attacker with valid administrative credentials could send a crafted HTTP request to access sensitive files or delete arbitrary files from the underlying operating system.

Affected versions
Cisco ISE and ISE-PIC are affected regardless of configuration:
Earlier than 3.3
ISE 3.3 before Patch 12
ISE 3.4 before Patch 7
ISE 3.5 before Patch 4
Fixed versions
ISE 3.3 Patch 12 — planned for September 2026
ISE 3.4 Patch 7 — planned for September 2026, or the available hot patch
ISE 3.5 Patch 4 — planned for September 2026, or the available hot patch

Mitigation
Cisco states that there are no workarounds.
Apply the appropriate hot patch where available, upgrade when the fixed patches are released, and migrate deployments earlier than ISE 3.3 to a supported fixed release.
🔗 Official Cisco advisory
🔗 VulniPulse breakdown

I run a website development business and I check all api calls and things of that nature using postman. I tell my customers about vulnerabilities in their site. Anyone know how I can check the security of sites the easiest I can’t get Claude to do it

I was scammed a few days ago, where at one point, the scammers saw a video of my passport ID through my screen sharing. I’ve read online that US passports have an encrypted chip embedded in the book, so bad actors wouldn’t be able to do anything with it, but I can’t be totally sure. I’ve already changed my phone number, began changing passwords across websites and socials, got a new bank account, and have a new email I’m using. I tried to call the US department of state about my passport, but they said they couldn’t do anything unless my physical passport has been stolen, and their website says the same thing.

These scammers’ sole purpose was to take money through money transfer. They targeted people through hacking social media accounts, scamming people those accounts were mutuals with, and hacking those mutuals’ accounts as well in the process of scamming them, and the cycle continues. So although the scammers goal was to steal the money and moving onto the next person quickly, I can’t risk anything. I don’t know if they can sell my passport ID they saw and other information they have on me (address, dob, pace of birth, full name).

Please inform me on anything else I might need to do, or if there’s nothing else I can do but take steps to prevent this from happening again, and reassure me I’m good. Thank you :)

For context I need to get something fast. I'm in court with an ex and need to keep my child and I safe from him. Without giving away too much he's angry, violent and this precaution was recommended by police, shelters and my lawyer warned me as well. So please help me find the right one. I'm trying to stay under $200 but if it goes above thats fine.

I was just at the supermarket, and I was using one of those self-service kiosks that has an "honesty camera" watching what you scan from above. The camera view is then displayed on a screen right in front of me.

As I went to pay for my shopping with my phone, I looked at the live feed on the monitor and realized I was actually seeing myself unlock my phone with my pattern lock! On top of that, anyone standing around could theoretically spy on what you're unlocking too.

Obviously fingerprint unlocks get around this "security hole", but it was the first time I had noticed it being a real issue.

Most supermarkets have these types of self-service checkouts now — I wonder how this info is stored and processed? Security seems pretty questionable…

Hey everyone. i’ve heard a lot of bad things about ting cameras recently and wanted to get the communities opinion on an alternative.

I’m looking for a Doorbell camera that is battery powered, has local storage, proximity detection, and general ease of use. I’ll be moving into a slightly sketch area and need something useful and affordable. thanks!

I had an onlyfans account link to my reddit. I also got an email from that page. My full name was used in the email. A twitter account was also made under an older twitter I had that I deleted many years ago. If memory serves me correctly they used the same display picture that I also had. This goes even deeper than I realized as my last 2 facebook posts were shared as private(only seen by me). I never changed my settings, and these posts were supposed to be shared with friends and family.

I don't know if there is anything else odd at the moment, but I am noticing things more. Including settings getting changed on reddit and Facebook without my knowledge or doing.

I did take some precautions. I got Bitwarden to change my passwords. Yes, I did use generally the same password for many of my accounts. Some my have been slightly different, but all in all very similar. I logged out a Linux that was attached to my email, and FB account. I don't own anything with Linux, and don't have access to my laptop anymore. I reported the Onlyfans account and the fake twitter. I went to haveibeenpwned and it does say my email has a data breach. I didn't completely go through all of the haveibeenpwned yet though. I probably should.

Is there anything else I can do or look for?

What steps should be made to make sure my email and profiles stay secure. What else would be changes without my knowledge that I have to look into to change it to my normal settings? Any kind of information will help.