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N-able Pulls N-central Offline After 30+ “Zero-Days” Go Public. What to Ask Your IT Provider Today

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N-able has taken its hosted N-central platform offline and told on-premises customers to switch their servers off after a researcher published more than 30 alleged flaws with attack code. Why one remote management server is a door into many networks, what N-able says, the questions to ask your IT provider today, and what is still unknown.
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Set to 110 °C: The Night Hackers Reached a Blood Bank’s Plasma Freezers — and Why the Alarm Won

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During the night of 1 to 2 November 2026, someone reached a refrigeration contractor’s remote supervision system and raised the settings of plasma cold rooms at three sites of France’s blood service EFS, reportedly to 110 °C. It was a setpoint, not a temperature. An alarm and an on-call technician caught it, and no blood products were lost. What is confirmed, what the viral posts get wrong, the unverified claim of responsibility, a clearly labelled hybrid-threat scenario, and what businesses and consumers should do.
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Black October 2026, Episode One: Record CVEs, a $6 Billion Crypto Heist and AI on Both Sides of the Fight

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October 2026 broke three security records: 17,060 new CVE records (4x October 2025), 36 new entries on CISA’s known-exploited list, and the largest crypto theft ever at Binance, which the FBI attributes to North Korea. AI showed up in the fixes, from Microsoft’s credits to PHP2Shell. My thesis, that the tools are out and a period of many hacks has begun, tested against the evidence, plus what companies and users should do now.
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An AI Anyone Can Download Turned Firefox Fixes Into Working Attacks. What Epoch AI Showed, and What to Do Now

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In Epoch AI’s lab test, the open-weight model GLM 5.3 turned published Firefox security fixes into working attacks on six releases, in as little as 12 hours and for about $1,000 per version, without a single refusal. What the patch gap is, what the study does and does not show, what Mozilla fixed in Firefox 159, and what companies and users should do now.
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