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Security News — 16 August 2026
A daily, automatically-compiled digest of the cyber security stories that broke in the last 24 hours, drawn from 2 trusted feeds. Each entry is a short excerpt — follow the link to read the full article at its original publisher. Compiled 16 August 2026 · 4 items.
Independent Investigative Journalism & Breaking News
BleepingComputer15 Aug
A new Mirai-based modular Linux botnet malware called Evooo1Bot has been targeting internet-facing gateway devices, turning them into SOCKS5 traffic relay nodes. [...]
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Security Executive, Architecture & Policy
Daniel Miessler15 Aug
How Easy It Would Be to Hack You/images/how-easy-to-hack-you.webp/images/how-easy-to-hack-you.webp Have you ever thought about how easy it would be to hack you? To get into your accounts, mess with your finances, disrupt your business, lea…
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Daniel Miessler15 Aug
Another Crazy Experience with AI/images/ai-fixed-my-mac.webp/images/ai-fixed-my-mac.webp Just had another crazy experience with AI last week. One of the types that reminds me that we're living in different times. I have been suffering for…
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Daniel Miessler15 Aug
There Is Only One Technology/images/only-one-technology.webp/images/only-one-technology.webp Had a thought about technology yesterday: The moment we used plant twine to attach a chipped stone to a stick, AI became inevitable. There is only…
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