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  • Batch Rule Updates for Azure Front Door Are Now Generally Available

    Anyone who has managed Azure Front Door for any length of time has felt the pain of touching a rule set. Rule sets are where you define how traffic gets inspected, rewritten, and routed, and they sit right at the edge of your application where a bad change is immediately visible to real users. Historically,…

  • Pass-ta-key: What the New Passkey Attack Actually Does

    Passkeys were supposed to end the era of phishing. They are cryptographic, they do not rely on passwords you can type into a lookalike website, and the big platform vendors have spent years pushing them as the replacement for credentials. So when a new attack with the catchy name “Pass-ta-key” hit the news, it was…

  • Tailscale Traced Database Corruption to a 16-Year-Old SQLite Bug

    SQLite is about as close to “boring, reliable” as a database gets. It sits inside phones, browsers, and countless desktop apps, and most developers never think about it twice. So when Tailscale, a company that runs a mesh VPN used by thousands, started seeing their SQLite databases get corrupted, the last thing anyone expected was…

  • Researchers pull hidden reasoning out of Claude, GPT, and Gemini

    Advanced AI models do not give you a straight answer all at once. They break a problem into pieces and work through them step by step, in a chain of thought that providers deliberately keep hidden. That hidden reasoning is valuable, because it is exactly what you would want if you were training your own…

  • Cisco ClamAV flaws with public exploits leave a detection gap

    Cisco has warned about a batch of vulnerabilities in the ClamAV engine that ships inside its Secure Endpoint Connector. Seven flaws, disclosed on August 7, all let an unauthenticated remote attacker crash the malware scanner by feeding it a crafted file. Two of them already have public proof-of-concept code, which is why the advisory is…

  • DeadLock ransomware uses blockchain to shrug off takedowns

    Ransomware groups have spent years moving their leak sites around the internet, hopping from domain to domain as takedowns land. DeadLock tries to remove the weak point entirely. It spreads its command structure across a blockchain, so there is no single server for police to seize and no domain name to sinkhole. How it stays…

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