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May 15, 2026 at 06:38
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Besides serving as a place where Microsoft Outlook places suspected spam, the Outlook Junk folder has one additional function that can be quite helpful when it comes to identifying malicious messages. Any e-mail placed in this folder is stripped of all formatting, and destinations of all links included in the message become visible to the user, as you can see in the following images which show the same e-mail when it is placed in the inbox, and when it is placed in the Junk folder.
&#;x26;#;x5b;This is a Guest Diary by Joshua Nikolson, an ISC Intern and part of the SANS.edu Bachelor&#;x26;#;39;s degree in Applied Cybersecurity (BACS) program.]
.. if “unproxyable” is a word that is ..
Today&#;x26;#;39;s Microsoft patch Tuesday fixes 137 different vulnerabilities. In addition, the update addresses 137 Chromium-related issues affecting Microsoft Edge.
Apple today released its typical feature update across it&#;x26;#;39;s operating systems (iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS, vision OS). With this update, Apple patched 84 different vulnerabilities. Updates are available for the "26" series of operating systems, as well as for the previous "18" version of iOS/iPadOS, and two versions back for macOS (version 14 and 15).
A few months ago, I implemented Cloudflare&#;x26;#;39;s Turnstile CAPTCHA on some pages. The reason for implementing these CAPTCHAs is obvious: Bots make up a large percentage of traffic and affect site performance.
YARA-X&#;x26;#;39;s 1.16.0 release brings 4 improvements and 4 bugfixes.
Less than two weeks after the public disclosure of the Copy Fail vulnerability (CVE-2026-31431), another local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability in the Linux kernel has been revealed. Referred to as "Dirty Frag," this vulnerability was discovered and reported by Hyunwoo Kim (@v4bel) [1]. In this diary, I will provide a brief background on Dirty Frag, and discuss its relationship to Copy Fail. I will then discuss how to mitigate Dirty Frag and outline recommended next steps for system owners.
[This is a Guest Diary by Eric Roldan, an ISC intern as part of the SANS.edu BACS program]
Yup, that is for real.
I just got an email from SSL.com last night, they are rotating &#;x26;#;xc2;&#;x26;#;xa0;out their root certificate today (May 5,2026). &#;x26;#;xc2;&#;x26;#;xa0;This is normal, business as usual stuff for a CA, but certificates get used for all kinds of things, and sometimes they aren&#;x26;#;39;t used like they should be, so sometimes hiccups happen.
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