… Torvalds says many researchers run the same AI and automated tools on the public kernel code, then send their findings to the confidential security list. This leads people to report the same bugs repeatedly, even after they have been patched. …
… Mozilla first ran a trial with Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 model, which scanned thousands of C++ files and found dozens of security‑relevant reports in Firefox 148. That experiment convinced Mozilla that LLMs can help security teams find real‑world flaws much faster. …
… Security researcher Amit Serper notes that Apple script can be used to create a root shell from the command line as well. …
… Google found that an AI model likely helped the threat actors discover and exploit the security flaw in the code. Their Python script was very detailed, with tutorial‑style comments and docstrings, and a "hallucinated" CVSS security score that does not match any real entry in official databases. …
… For all the problems I had with Windows 10 's update model, automatic security updates wasn't one of them. The benefits of rapidly deploying security fixes vastly outweigh the risks in most cases. But Microsoft doesn't just push security fixes, it pushes other changes through the same model. …
… New security research suggests many of them aren't. …
… The report from Checkmarx is a bit surprising because we're not used to seeing Android bugs like this anymore. …
… However, a new report claims that Samsung's Tizen OS is riddled with serious security flaws. …
… A security researcher who goes by the name Chaotic Eclipse discovered what they call the "RedSun" vulnerability just weeks after discovering, disclosing, and then leaking a Windows zero-day exploit that Microsoft failed to properly address the issue. …
… The company goes on to note that it released an update in March that should protect against this vulnerability automatically Microsoft Security Bulletin MS17-010 . …