How I stopped a massive WordPress spam attack with 4,700 lines of code in two days - thanks to Codex and Claude

Spam accounts overwhelmed my database. Claude found the weaknesses, Codex wrote the fixes, and I deployed a new defense.

Claude Helped a Hacker Find a Way to Issue Tickets to Almost Every US Music Festival

A researcher found that using Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7, he could break into the website of Front Gate—used by every ...

The New (And Slightly Smelly) Center of the AI Boom

H acker houses are popping up everywhere in San Francisco. “You could just walk a few blocks” in many neighborhoods, Amber ...

Clean GitHub repo tricks AI coding agents into running malware

An agentic coding tool tasked with cloning and setting up a seemingly benign GitHub repository could execute a malicious ...

New attack provides one more reason why AI browsers are a bad idea

Makers of AI browsers make lofty promises. With a single prompt, users can ask one to find a restaurant in a particular part ...
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Your Home Router Was a Target of Russian Military Intelligence. Here's What to Do Now

The FBI cut off Russian access to thousands of compromised US routers, but that fix is temporary without these five steps from individual device owners. Joe Supan is a senior writer for CNET covering ...