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The OnePlus 15 is right around the corner, but the company has bigger fish to fry at the moment. A massive SMS vulnerability has been discovered on OnePlus smartphones, and while it has yet to be patched, the good news is a fix is on its way. Earlier this week, cybersecurity firm Rapid7 released its findings surrounding a permission bypass …

Jalen Carter refers to Joe Pannunzio, the Eagles’ assistant special teams coordinator, as “Joe Peezy,” and one of the things the 66-year-old with 45 years of coaching experience does in special teams meetings is point out the other team’s “fish,” Carter said. A fish, for the non-poker-playing audience, is the one you go after. The one who makes mistakes. And …

Each week of the 2025 NFL regular season, I’ll use this space to highlight teams facing various funnel defenses and fantasy options who could benefit. What’s a Funnel Defense? A funnel defense, in case you’re wondering, is a defense that faces an unusually high rate of pass attempts or rushes. I’ll take a close look at how opponents are playing …

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new ransomware strain dubbed HybridPetya that resembles the notorious Petya/NotPetya malware, while also incorporating the ability to bypass the Secure Boot mechanism in Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) systems using a now-patched vulnerability disclosed earlier this year. Slovakian cybersecurity company ESET said the samples were uploaded to the VirusTotal platform in February 2025. “HybridPetya encrypts …

Every week during the regular season I’ll use this space to highlight teams facing various funnel defenses. What’s a Funnel Defense? A funnel defense, in case you’re wondering, is a defense that faces an unusually high rate of pass attempts or rushes. I’ll take a close look at how opponents are playing these defenses in neutral game script — when …

This month, there’s one story on everybody’s minds. I’m speaking, of course, about the Iberian harvester ant queens who can clone ants of an entirely different species to breed a subaltern army of hybrid ants whose only purpose is to serve them. If you, too, have been transfixed by their story and are eager to learn more about these ants’ …

Every week during the regular season I’ll use this space to highlight teams facing various funnel defenses. What’s a Funnel Defense? A funnel defense, in case you’re wondering, is a defense that faces an unusually high rate of pass attempts or rushes. I’ll take a close look at how opponents are playing these defenses in neutral game script — when …

Aug 30, 2025Ravie LakshmananZero-Day / Vulnerability WhatsApp has addressed a security vulnerability in its messaging apps for Apple iOS and macOS that it said may have been exploited in the wild in conjunction with a recently disclosed Apple flaw in targeted zero-day attacks. The vulnerability, CVE-2025-55177 (CVSS score: 8.0), relates to a case of insufficient authorization of linked device synchronization …

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Apple is urging users to immediately update their devices to patch a zero-click vulnerability that allowed attackers to compromise iPhones, iPads and Macs, a flaw posing heightened risks for cryptocurrency holders. In a Thursday advisory, Apple said the image processing vulnerability allowed sophisticated actors to compromise Apple devices. The vulnerability disclosure page notes that it was fixed as part of …