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- ICE Collected Nearly 1 Million People’s DNA Last Year—Including Young Childrenby Dhruv Mehrotra on August 3, 2026 at 10:00 am
Internal documents show ICE’s DNA collection has skyrocketed in the second Trump administration. Now hundreds of thousands of people never convicted of a crime are in an FBI criminal database forever.
- 8 Best Password Managers (2026), Tested and Reviewedby Scott Gilbertson on August 2, 2026 at 11:30 am
Keep your logins locked down with our favorite password management apps for PC, Mac, Android, iPhone, and web browsers.
- 7 States’ Water Systems Hit by Cyberattacks Likely Tied to Iranby Matt Burgess, Maddy Varner, Dell Cameron, Andy Greenberg on August 1, 2026 at 10:30 am
Plus: The FBI eyes AI-powered tech to detect future crimes, Russia charges Telegram’s founder, xAI sues to stop a state’s “nudification” ban, and the Democrats learn a lesson about getting scammed.
- The OpenAI and Anthropic AI Hacking Sprees Are a Messy New Legal Frontierby Lily Hay Newman on August 1, 2026 at 9:30 am
Both major AI labs’ models broke containment, escaped onto the internet, and hacked other companies. If a human had done that, the law would likely be against them. But a bot?
- The New Defcon Badges Pack a Unique Open Source Chip That Doubles as a Security Keyby Kim Zetter on July 31, 2026 at 10:00 am
Created by legendary hardware hacker Andrew “bunnie” Huang, the badges for this year’s famed security conference aim to push the boundaries of security and transparency.
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- FOMO in the SOC: Where AI Platforms like Claude Actually Fitby [email protected] (The Hacker News) on August 3, 2026 at 11:30 am
AI is moving incredibly fast, and every security leader is feeling the pressure to keep up. AI platforms like Claude, Codex and Cursor are already helping security teams write detections, investigate alerts, summarize incidents, and automate repetitive work. The conversation has evolved from whether AI belongs in the SOC, to where each type of AI delivers the most value. With so many new AI
- Chinese Threat Actor Uses Leaked DarkSword Kit to Deploy GHOSTBLADE on iOSby [email protected] (The Hacker News) on August 3, 2026 at 10:49 am
An unknown Chinese-threat actor has been observed running a campaign targeting Apple iOS devices by leveraging a publicly leaked version of the DarkSword exploit kit. Attack surface management platform Censys said it identified the threat actor running more than 100 web properties, most of which are fake Amazon Web Services (AWS) sign-in pages on a domain that also hosts the exploit toolkit. “
- PNLD Breach Exposes U.K. Police and Government Contact Details on Dark Webby [email protected] (The Hacker News) on August 3, 2026 at 9:13 am
The Police National Legal Database (PNLD) has confirmed that police, government and customer contact information was compromised and published on the dark web. The data included names, organisations and work email addresses belonging to police officers, police staff, criminal justice professionals, government partners and customers. The incident, identified on July 26, also exposed some names
- Thermo Fisher Patches Flaw That Could Make DNA File Tampering Nearly Undetectableby [email protected] (The Hacker News) on August 3, 2026 at 8:05 am
Thermo Fisher Scientific has patched a flaw in select Applied Biosystems human identification software that could allow data files to be altered before analysis software loads them. The vendor’s July 31 security bulletin says nearly undetectable changes to .fsa and .hid outputs could occur if laboratory controls are circumvented. Thermo Fisher tracks the issue as CVE-2026-17583 and rates it
- N-able Says Attackers Take Over N-central Servers After Initial Fix Proves Incompleteby [email protected] (The Hacker News) on August 3, 2026 at 6:41 am
N-able said attackers exploited an authentication bypass in N-central to gain remote administrative access and reach the customer systems managed through those servers. Its first fix was incomplete. CVE-2026-18577 affects N-central builds prior to 2026.3.1.7. N-able shipped build 2026.3.1.7 on August 2 as the first unaffected version. N-central is the remote monitoring and management platform










