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Hacker Conversations: Corey Thuen and the Evil Bit

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Corey Thuen hires hackers for what he calls ‘the evil bit’ — an adversarial streak he believes is either there or it isn’t. The post Hacker Conversations: Corey Thuen and the Evil Bit appeared first on SecurityWeek .

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Corey Thuen hires hackers for what he calls ‘the evil bit’ — an adversarial streak he believes is either there or it isn’t. The post Hacker Conversations: Corey Thuen and the Evil Bit appeared first on SecurityWeek .

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Brotli Compression Bug (CVE-2026-111497) Reaches Far Beyond Node.js

A remotely exploitable out-of-bounds write flaw in Google's widely used Brotli compression library, publicly disclosed by Node.js on October 21, 2026, affects software well beyond the Node.js ecosystem, Help Net Security reported. Attackers who can get an application to decompress crafted Brotli data via node:zlib can corrupt process memory, potentially causing crashes or memory disclosure.

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Hackers Flood Inboxes With Spam, Then Pose as IT Support on Microsoft Teams

Attackers are flooding employees' inboxes with spam and then contacting them on Microsoft Teams posing as IT help desk staff, offering to fix the very problem they created. Arctic Wolf documented more than 400 incidents involving abuse of the Teams external chat feature, Help Net Security reports.

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