What Are the Best Security Systems for Preventing Employee Theft?

The best security systems for preventing employee theft combine several features, like CCTV video surveillance and access control, to protect your assets. Retail businesses lost $112.1 billion in inventory, with 29% due to employee theft. The right security system can prevent this, giving you greater visibility and creating accountability among your…

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January 21, 2026
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Internet Voting is Too Insecure for Use in Elections

No matter how many times we say it, the idea comes back again and again. Hopefully, this letter will hold back the tide for at least a while longer.

Executive summary: Scientists have understood for many years that internet voting is insecure and that there is no known or foreseeable technology that can make it secure. Still, vendors of internet voting keep claiming that, somehow, their new system is different, or the insecurity doesn’t matter. Bradley Tusk and his Mobile Voting Foundation keep touting internet voting to journalists and election administrators; this whole effort is misleading and dangerous…

January 21, 2026
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Could ChatGPT Convince You to Buy Something?

Eighteen months ago, it was plausible that artificial intelligence might take a different path than social media. Back then, AI’s development hadn’t consolidated under a small number of big tech firms. Nor had it capitalized on consumer attention, surveilling users and delivering ads.

Unfortunately, the AI industry is now taking a page from the social media playbook and has set its sights on monetizing consumer attention. When OpenAI launched its ChatGPT Search feature in late 2024 and its browser, ChatGPT Atlas, in October 2025, it kicked off a …

January 20, 2026
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Operation Nomad Leopard: Targeted Spear-Phishing Campaign Against Government Entities in Afghanistan

Contents Introduction Key Targets Industries Affected Geographical focus Infection Chain. Initial Findings Looking into the decoy-document Technical Analysis Stage 1 – Malicious ISO File Stage 2 – Malicious LNK File Stage 3 – Final Payload: FALSECUB Infrastructure & Attribution Conclusion SEQRITE Protection. IOCs MITRE ATT&CK. Authors Introduction The SEQRITE Labs APT Team has been analyzing […]

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January 19, 2026
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AI-Powered Surveillance in Schools

It all sounds pretty dystopian:

Inside a white stucco building in Southern California, video cameras compare faces of passersby against a facial recognition database. Behavioral analysis AI reviews the footage for signs of violent behavior. Behind a bathroom door, a smoke detector-shaped device captures audio, listening for sounds of distress. Outside, drones stand ready to be deployed and provide intel from above, and license plate readers from $8.5 billion surveillance behemoth Flock Safety ensure the cars entering and exiting the parking lot aren’t driven by criminals…

January 19, 2026
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SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER ROUND 80

Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape Malware Newsletter Gogs 0-Day Exploited in the Wild SHADOW#REACTOR – Text-Only Staging, .NET Reactor, and In-Memory Remcos RAT Deployment   “Untrustworthy Fund”: targeted UAC-0190 cyberattacks against SOU using PLUGGYAPE (CERT-UA#19092)   Hiding in Plain Sight: Deconstructing the Multi-Actor […]

January 18, 2026
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Hack The Box: HackNet Machine Walkthrough – Medium Diffucility

Just wrapped up HackNet (Medium difficulty, Hack The Box) — what a ride!
Started with deep web enumeration and uncovered a template injection vulnerability in how dynamic content gets rendered. Crafted a payload, injected it into a user-controlled field, triggered the vulnerable path through a specific page interaction, and extracted sensitive account details that handed me valid SSH credentials as a low-priv user. From there, grabbing the user flag was a clean win.
For privilege escalation, enumeration from the foothold revealed a misconfigured, world-writable file-based cache backend in the Django app. Knowing the framework’s caching behavior and a known deserialization weakness, I built a malicious payload, poisoned the cache location, and triggered RCE as the web user. Further digging exposed encrypted database backups secured by public-key crypto; I obtained the key, cracked its passphrase, decrypted the dumps, and recovered a high-priv credential that let me escalate to root and snag the root flag.

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January 17, 2026
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AI and the Corporate Capture of Knowledge

More than a decade after Aaron Swartz’s death, the United States is still living inside the contradiction that destroyed him.

Swartz believed that knowledge, especially publicly funded knowledge, should be freely accessible. Acting on that, he downloaded thousands of academic articles from the JSTOR archive with the intention of making them publicly available. For this, the federal government charged him with a felony and threatened decades in prison. After two years of prosecutorial pressure, Swartz died by suicide on Jan. 11, 2013.

The still-unresolved questions raised by his case have resurfaced in today’s debates over artificial intelligence, copyright and the ultimate control of knowledge…

January 16, 2026
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