Rickrolling The World Cup

Sometimes, hacking requires a certain amount of restraint, especially when you find a system woefully unsecured. It would be so easy to play some pranks, but [bobdahacker] chose not to rickroll the…

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Won’t Somebody Please Think Of Banning The British Children!

The British government is in a headlong rush to ban under-16s from social media, and restrict the access of under-18s. And in typical form, the EFF is here with a warning about the dangers and futi…

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This Week in Security: Arch AUR, Steam Marketplace, WordPress All Face Issues, Taco-Themed Coding, and Mythos Makes National News

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/06/19/this-week-in-security-arch-aur-steam-marketplace-wordpress-all-face-issues-taco-themed-coding-and-mythos-makes-national-news/

This Week In Security: Arch AUR, Steam Marketplace, WordPress All Face Issues, Taco-Themed Coding, And Mythos Makes National News

Starting on June 11, 2026, the Arch User Repository (AUR) was targeted by malware which rapidly compromised over 1,500 packages. The AUR repository allows for abandoned community packages to be tak…

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This Week In Security: Microsoft On Microsoft, Register Your Domains, Linux On ARM, And FreeBSD Joins The File Cache Club

Supply chain attacks continue, with Microsoft’s own open source Azure repositories being automatically disabled by GitHub following a compromise of the packages by the Miasma worm. OpenSource…

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This Week in Security: Microsoft on Microsoft, Register Your Domains, Linux on ARM, and FreeBSD Joins the File Cache Club

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/06/12/this-week-in-security-microsoft-on-microsoft-register-your-domains-linux-on-arm-and-freebsd-joins-the-file-cache-club/

This Week In Security: Messing With AI, 7Zip And Notepad++ Vulnerabilities, HTTP2 Bomb, And More

With the rise of AI coding assistants continuing apparently unabated, some project maintainers have begun striking back. Ars Technica reports on projects putting hostile directions into the AGENTS.…

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This Week in Security: Messing with AI, 7Zip and Notepad++ Vulnerabilities, HTTP2 Bomb, and More

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/06/05/this-week-in-security-messing-with-ai-7zip-and-notepad-vulnerabilities-http2-bomb-and-more/