Apollo Global Management confirmed that hackers accessed its cloud environment via social engineering between July 6 and July 10 and stole personal information including names, birth dates, contact details (including home addresses), and Social Security numbers.
Aug 21, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Sen. Ron Wyden asked the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) to publish an unclassified report after finding there is “little public information regarding” the scope, frequency, and operational safeguards of federal hacking tools and spyware.
Aug 21, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Child safety experts say OpenAI’s ChatGPT for Teens lacks public evidence that its age-gating and safety notifications reliably work, and they want independent testing and transparency before recommending it to parents and young people.
Aug 21, 2026 ·
Engadget
A $10,000 phishing kit called iAuthFlow v2 claims it can enroll attacker-controlled passkeys during a browser-in-the-middle login, creating the passkey as fast as six seconds after authentication so access can persist after password resets.
Aug 21, 2026 ·
The Register
About 19 million people in the U.S. were victims of identity theft in 2024, and attackers can use stolen credentials like Social Security numbers to access accounts, make fraudulent purchases, and open credit cards or loans in the victim’s name.
Aug 21, 2026 ·
CNET
Human detection of deepfakes was only about 73% accurate in a University College London study, and other aggregated research found detection rates closer to chance—making “seeing and hearing someone is real” an unreliable control.
Aug 21, 2026 ·
ZDNet
Waste Pro has responded to TPS terminations by hiring additional employees, increasing cross-training, and consulting legal experts to cover gaps left by workers who lose U.S. work authorization.
Aug 21, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
China’s Ministry of State Security has ordered some government agencies to drop Windows 10 China Government Edition in favor of Chinese-made Linux distributions, with the Windows retirement date moved from February 2027 to later in 2026.
Aug 21, 2026 ·ZDNet
Patreon is overhauling its discovery algorithm to recommend creators by comparing post content (topic, style, craft, themes, and more) rather than by who fans already follow, aiming to help smaller creators get discovered.
Aug 21, 2026 ·
The Verge
EFF warns Meta is likely to make smart-glasses recording even more invasive unless lawmakers act, including by adding facial-recognition features; EFF says Meta’s “only safety feature” (a tiny recording light) is “nearly ‘useless’” because it can be covered with a sticker.
Aug 21, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Microsoft has fixed CVE-2026-69836 in Entra ID (Azure Active Directory), a CVSS 10.0 flaw that could let an unauthenticated attacker execute remote code over a network with no user interaction required.
Aug 21, 2026 ·The Register
NHTSA opened a probe covering 997,743 GM pickup trucks and SUVs from model years 2021–2026 over concerns about engine failure affecting vehicles with the L87 engine.
Aug 21, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
OpenAI is rolling out Private Safety Processing, which lets enterprises detect misuse across multiple AI interactions while OpenAI personnel do not retain or access the underlying prompts or model responses (aligning with its Zero Data Retention commitments).
Aug 21, 2026 ·
Computerworld
Wi-Fi 7 access points using WPA3 can fail to connect with some legacy clients even when they’re intended to fall back, creating “confusion and increased customer service calls” for operators.
Aug 21, 2026 ·The Register
A developer who was asked to troubleshoot undocumented turbine overspeed detector software at a power station says the code was “horrible” (with random GOTOs and I/O accesses to random addresses) and he chose to back away and leave the system as-is to avoid potential shutdowns or cascading faults.
Aug 21, 2026 ·The Register
Cisco’s Secure Workload Software (formerly Tetration) has four critical/high vulnerabilities rated 10, 10, 9.9, 9.6, and 7.5, including CVE-2026-20315 and CVE-2026-20317 with improper access control, a command/OS argument injection issue in CVE-2026-20231, and memory buffer overflow and out-of-bounds writes in CVE-2026-20319.
Aug 21, 2026 ·The Register
Supermicro says it dismissed employees after an investigation concluded some staff breached its code of conduct and failed to properly implement US export controls in connection with an alleged $2.5 billion servers-and-Nvidia-GPUs diversion scheme to China.
Aug 21, 2026 ·The Register
Powerus signed a commercial deal worth about $22.3 million to supply counter-unmanned aircraft system technology for critical oil and gas infrastructure in the Middle East, including hardware, software, site activation, installation, and 24-month integrated maintenance.
Aug 21, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The KOSPI benchmark has fallen 30% from its June 19 peak, following a surge in retail trading that regulators helped enable through single-stock leveraged ETFs launched on May 27.
Aug 21, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
CrowStrike (CRWD) and Palo Alto Networks (PANW) shares both jumped more than 5% to record highs after Black Hat in Las Vegas, with BTIG saying AI agents have “fundamentally changed the threat landscape.”
Aug 21, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
