Pizza for pythons: Florida restaurant owner gives away free pies in exchange for dead snakes

A Florida pizzeria owner is redefining the term “exotic pet trade” by accepting captured Burmese pythons as payment for a pie ...
Decrypt

OpenAI Uses AI Red Team to Strengthen GPT-5.6 Against Prompt Injection Attacks

OpenAI introduced GPT-Red, an automated AI system designed to find vulnerabilities in GPT models before release. The company said GPT-Red was used to train GPT-5.6, reducing failures on one of its ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Elizebeth Smith Friedman Was the U.S. Government’s First Woman Codebreaker. She Cracked Nazi Codes, Saved 8,000 Lives and Pioneered Modern Codebreaking

For decades, Elizebeth Smith Friedman worked in near-total secrecy, cracking codes that shaped the outcome of two world wars.

Pythons' extreme biology may hold clues for treating human disease

These snakes can go for months without eating, grow and shrink the size of their hearts and jump start their metabolism on a ...

Ransomware negotiator hired to represent victims was working for the attackers

A former ransomware negotiator was sentenced to 70 months in prison yesterday after colluding with BlackCat scammers to ...
techtimes

First AI-Agent Ransomware Destroyed Data Even Payment Could Not Recover

a laptop screen with a webpage of the IT Army of Ukraine group of volunteer hackers. The IT Army of Ukraine first set up in the wake of Russia's devastating attack, and has since hugely grown in ...
Tech Times

New APT Group Hits Power Grids in Three Countries with AI-Crafted Malware

Armored Likho BusySnake Stealer, a Python-based infostealer first disclosed by Kaspersky, is actively targeting government ...
MUO on MSN

I keep Linux on a USB for Windows emergencies — and it's saved me more than once

When Windows fails, this tiny USB drive takes over.
Bleeping Computer

The silent “Storm”: New infostealer hijacks sessions, decrypts server-side

A new infostealer called Storm appeared on underground cybercrime networks in early 2026, representing a shift in how credential theft is developing. For under $1,000 a month, operators get a stealer ...
Shacknews

How to complete Decryption missions in Battlefield 6: REDSEC

Missions in Battlefield 6: REDSEC are usually simple affairs, but some, like Decryption, are a bit more complicated than others. Don’t let that stop you from completing them, as the rewards are almost ...
CSOonline

Ransomware recovery perils: 40% of paying victims still lose their data

Paying the ransom is no guarantee of a smooth or even successful recovery of data. But that isn’t even the only issue security leaders will face under fire. Preparation is key. Two in five companies ...