Tar Heels look to make the most of a home assignment in the women’s NCAA Tournament

North Carolina looked like a bit of a long shot to serve as a host in the NCAA Tournament when the regular season wound down.
The Hacker News

DarkSword iOS Exploit Kit Uses 6 Flaws, 3 Zero-Days for Full Device Takeover

DarkSword exploit targets iOS 18.4–18.7 using 6 flaws and 3 zero-days, enabling rapid data theft from iPhones across multiple countries.

Have we seen the last of the Epstein files? Lawmakers and victims want more released

A transparency law passed by Congress has forced the release of more Epstein files than ever before, but some lawmakers and victims are exploring ways to push the Justice Department to disclose even ...

The 3-pointer changed college basketball. And attempts keep ticking up heading into March Madness

College basketball teams are continuing to lean more and more on the 3-point shot. That comes in the 40th season since the ...

Amazon security boss says crims abused max-security Cisco firewall flaw weeks before disclosure

Ransomware criminals exploited CVE-2026-20131, a maximum-severity bug in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center software, as a zero-day vulnerability more than a month before Cisco patched the hole, ...
MIT Technology Review

The Download: OpenAI’s US military deal, and Grok’s CSAM lawsuit

There’s pressure to integrate it quickly with existing military tools. One defense official revealed it could even assist in selecting strike targets. OpenAI’s partnership wit ...
Cybernews

Threat actors linked to Russia target Ukrainian entities with new backdoor

The campaign, observed in February 2026, has been assessed to share overlaps with a prior campaign mounted by Laundry Bear, a group tracked by Microsoft as Void Blizzard.
Visual Studio Magazine

Quadratic Regression with SGD Training Using JavaScript

Quadratic regression is a classical machine learning technique to predict a single numeric value. Quadratic regression is an extension of basic linear regression. Quadratic regression can deal with ...

ThreatDown Uncovers First Cyber Attack Abusing Deno JavaScript Runtime for Fileless Malware Delivery

ThreatDown, the corporate business unit of Malwarebytes, today published research documenting what researchers believe to be the first documented case of attackers abusing the Deno JavaScript runtime ...

What Is ActiveX? How It Works and Ensures Computer Security

ActiveX is a Microsoft software framework that enables applications to share data across web browsers, enhancing functionality and security in computing.

Chrome Extension Hijacked to Deliver Malware, Steal Crypto Wallets

A compromised Chrome extension with 7,000 users was updated to deploy malware, strip security headers, and steal cryptocurrency wallet seed phrases.
Cleveland.com

Cleveland mayor, City Council end feud over employee’s file downloads, drop outside investigation

CLEVELAND, Ohio — A public feud in City Hall that included dueling press conferences, accusations of improper file downloads and trading jabs has quietly ended after Mayor Justin Bibb and Council ...