Why Ranking #1 Is No Longer Enough

GEO isn't about ranking #1 anymore. It's about AI models trusting you enough to cite you. Here's how to build authorship signals AI can actually verify.

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The Hidden Value Decay at the End of Every Sprint

Theta decay does not only affect options. Learn how deadline pressure erodes sprint value, engineering quality, and team productivity.

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CISA Flags Langflow RCE, Tomcat, and N-central Flaws as Actively Exploited

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), on August 5, 2026, added three flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation in the wild. The list of vulnerabilities is as follows - CVE-2026-9198 (CVSS score: 9.8) - A code injection vulnerability in Langflow that allows unauthenticated attackers to achieve full remote

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Kali365 Exploits Microsoft Device Login to Access US Corporate Data

Learn how Kali365 has been abusing Microsoft device login to gain OAuth tokens, targeting US firms, and how SOC teams can detect, hunt, and stop these phishing attacks.

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SMOKE#SCREEN Campaign Abuses ScreenConnect to Give Attackers Remote Control Access

SMOKE#SCREEN uses fake Zoom updates to install ScreenConnect RMM, giving attackers persistent remote access while bypassing defenses. Securonix Threat Research has been tracking an active multi-wave campaign they’ve named SMOKE#SCREEN, in which unknown attackers use rotating social engineering lures, fake Zoom updates, Adobe software notices, business document reviews, system maintenance utilities, to silently install ConnectWise […]

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QuickFox Supply Chain Attack Delivers FDMTP Backdoor via Trojanized Windows Installer

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed what has been described as a "long-standing supply chain attack" on QuickFox, a virtual private network (VPN) and network acceleration tool designed for overseas Chinese users. According to Fortinet FortiGuard Labs, the supply chain attack has been ongoing since at least August 2025 and involves a trojanized version of the application to deliver FDMTP, a

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Future AGI: Open-source platform for shipping self-improving AI agents

Future AGI is an open-source platform for tracing, evaluating, simulating, and guardrailing LLM agents, licensed Apache 2.0 and self-hostable. Self-hosted instances register with Future AGI on first boot and send an instance ID, a version string, a deployment type, and the email addresses and domains of active admin users. That registration fires once, before anyone signs in to the dashboard. The opt-out is one environment variable, FUTURE_AGI_TELEMETRY_DISABLED=1, placed in .env ahead of the first start. …

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Product showcase: Material unifies Google Workspace email, file & OAuth defense

Here’s an uncomfortable truth: the attack that gets you won’t look like an attack. It’ll look like a normal login, a normal file share, a normal permission request you clicked past without reading. You don’t have a phishing problem, a DLP problem, or an OAuth problem. You have one problem wearing three masks, and most security stacks aren’t built to address this. Material Security designed its platform from a fresh point of view: stop defending …

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What stops attackers wrecking industrial plants is knowing how

Engineers at an Israeli food producer spent most of a week rebuilding a refrigeration system after an intruder switched the gas cooler and receiver valves to manual and pinned them open. Liquid CO2 flooded the compressors and destroyed them. The replacement units did not match the originals, so the whole system had to be reworked and recharged with gas. That incident is one of roughly forty in Kaspersky ICS CERT’s quarterly roundup of attacks on …

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Your enterprise AI footprint is about three times bigger than your model list

Organizations are building AI systems that combine models, agents and external tools instead of relying on standalone AI, according to Snyk’s latest State of Agentic AI Adoption report. The study analyzed 3,044 enterprise environments and 1.39 million code repositories to examine how enterprises are deploying AI. Adopting agentic architectures Of organizations using AI, 46.9% have adopted agentic architectures built on AI agents, model context protocol (MCP) servers, or both. More than half have deployed the …

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ISC Stormcast For Wednesday, August 5th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10038, (Wed, Aug 5th)

(c) SANS Internet Storm Center. https://isc.sans.edu Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.

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AI researchers let models off the leash – then watched as they tried to add malware to a FOSS project

Models used social engineering and collaborated among themselves to solve a security challenge

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OpenAI, Anthropic AI agents targeted real people and systems in cyber tests

OpenAI and Anthropic have confirmed that their AI models were involved in separate, newly disclosed third-party cybersecurity testing incidents that resulted in a real website being breached and social engineering attacks against people outside the intended testing boundaries. [...]

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TP-Link patches Omada ZTP flaws allowing hackers to breach networks

TP-Link has patched 15 vulnerabilities in the zero-touch provisioning (ZTP) mechanism of its Omada network devices that could be chained with previously disclosed flaws to achieve remote code execution (RCE). [...]

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The Creator Economy Is Bigger Than Hollywood: Here's Why

The creator economy is not just much bigger than Hollywood; it is fast becoming a way of life for hundreds of millions.

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Phishing service spoofs RingCentral to steal Microsoft 365 accounts

The Greatness phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform has expanded from credential phishing to adversary-in-the-middle attacks and device-code phishing targeting Microsoft 365 accounts. [...]

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NPM? Not my problem.

A new Shai-Hulud campaign has compromised popular npm packages, highlighting supply chain vulnerabilities. Easterly argues that small municipalities require more support in cybersecurity defenses, particularly concerning critical infrastructure. Chinese threat groups are rapidly exploiting new vulnerabilities, showcasing accelerated attack capabilities. Samsung has banned certain smart TV applications that utilize residential proxies to share user internet connections. Hackers successfully breached a banking database in Liechtenstein, impacting numerous legal entities. The Swiss government's IT agency experienced a suspected SharePoint attack, leading to account compromises. Microsoft's bug bounty program recorded its highest payouts to date, exceeding twenty million dollars. Researchers revealed a privilege boundary flaw in AI-driven CI/CD workflows, posing a significant security risk. Air Force veteran Roberta Anderson is promoting her book, "Breaking the Firewall," which shares her insights. Bug hunting is increasingly shifting towards a more complex process of bug sorting.

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SharePoint Flaws Used to Hack Switzerland’s Federal IT Agency

Swiss Federal IT Agency FOITT says attackers exploited SharePoint flaws to compromise about 200 accounts. Servers are being rebuilt as investigations continue. Switzerland’s Federal Office for Information Technology and Communications, known as BIT or FOITT, disclosed that unknown attackers had compromised approximately 200 accounts on its on-premises SharePoint servers. The FOITT said the unknown attackers […]

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ChangeNOW and CoinRabbit Release Joint Research on Financial Privacy in Digital Assets

In order to determine whether privacy technology does more harm than good, the research pits the actual volume of illicit exploitation against the urgent necess

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235 Blog Posts To Learn About Go

Learn everything you need to know about Go via these 235 free HackerNoon blog posts.

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This C++ Refactor Cut the Code in Half and Made It Faster

A C++ tensor helper is reduced from two loops to one, producing shorter code, cleaner assembly, and a measured 10% performance improvement.

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Airlock Digital Unveils Agentic AI Control And Governance To Extend Preventative Endpoint Security

Airlock Digital announces Agentic AI Control & Governance, extending its preventative endpoint security solution with visibility into trusted AI agent behavior

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Mallory Unifies Threat Intelligence, Exposure Context, and Response Into One Architecture for Teams

As AI-assisted attackers compress exploitation timelines to hours, Mallory turns live adversary intelligence into prioritized, policy-governed action across the

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2026 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards: Community Choice Winners Selected Through 80,000 Votes

Community Choice is the only Cybersecurity Excellence Awards recognition determined directly by community voting. It complements the jury awards by recognizing

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New XCSSET variant targets macOS devs via compromised Xcode projects

A new version of the XCSSET malware is targeting thousands of macOS users through compromised Xcode projects and GitHub repositories. [...]

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Iran Cyberattacks Against Minnesota Water Systems

Attribution is preliminary, and so far it seems no real damage. And it seems like this is a campaign that has targeted at least seven states. And, because this is where the US is right now, Trump doesn’t believe it’s Iran and that Minnesota…I guess…hacked itself. “I think I blame it on Minnesota because they’re grossly incompetent,” Trump said. “I would blame it on Minnesota and the governor, the corrupt governor of Minnesota. They like to say, ‘Oh, it’s Iran.’ Iran should be so lucky. Iran’s got bigger problems than worrying about Minnesota.”...

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77 Open VSX extensions found harvesting developer info

77 extensions on the Open VSX marketplace impersonated legitimate developer tools while transmitting information about the systems and development environments where they were installed. [...]

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Meet the Writer: Sebastian Martinez Torregrosa, Principal Product Marketing Manager at SUSE

In this HackerNoon Meet the Writer interview, Sebastian Martinez Torregrosa discusses AI, authorship, writing, and his career at SUSE.

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Shai-Hulud npm Worm Returns, Poisoning Over 1,280 npm Packages

Shai-Hulud npm worm spreads through Keyv and hundreds of packages with 2 billion monthly downloads, stealing npm, GitHub, cloud and CI credentials in real time.

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Marshall Stanmore IV vs. Sonos Era 300: I tested both to find the ultimate home speaker

Both Marshall and Sonos speakers play to their strengths, but the right one for you depends on more than their price tags.

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