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Cybersecurity

Florida confirms DMV database breached via stolen police account

The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FLHSMV) has confirmed that its DAVID driver database suffered a data breach, saying the attackers gained access using credentials belonging to a police department employee. [...]

Sep 11, 2026Read Brief →
Amateur Radio

Video: Educator Shows How Amateur Radio Is Inspiring Students

Educator Everton Henriques, KD2ZZT, shared his experience using amateur radio to inspire students and bring engineering and technology to life in the classroom during his keynote at the 2026 ARRL New England Division Convention, hosted by Northeast HamXposition…

Sep 11, 2026Read Brief →
Cybersecurity

Passkey-themed phishing attacks lead to Microsoft 365 data theft

Microsoft says threat actors linked to ShinyHunters, Helix, and other extortion gangs are using passkey and single sign-on-themed social engineering attacks to compromise corporate Microsoft accounts and steal data from Microsoft 365 services. [...]

Sep 11, 2026Read Brief →
Firearms

Ukraine Concealed Carry Push Continues as Civilian Gun Bill Returns to Agenda

Ukraine’s long-delayed civilian-firearms bill is back on parliament’s agenda as two petitions seek legal handgun ownership and concealed carry for qualified citizens and combat veterans.

Sep 11, 2026Read Brief →
Firearms

Washington ‘Permit-to-Purchase’ Will Cost $126, Before Training

Washington State Patrol says the state’s new permit to purchase a firearm will cost $126 before buyers pay for mandatory training, ammunition, range time, and travel.

Sep 11, 2026Read Brief →
Cybersecurity

Artifactory flaws chained in attacks deploying backdoor malware

Threat actors are exploiting critical and high-severity vulnerabilities in JFrog Artifactory to bypass authentication, gain administrative privileges, and deploy a Rust backdoor on vulnerable self-hosted servers. [...]

Sep 11, 2026Read Brief →
Firearms

Delaware Judge Permanently Blocks Ban on Possessing and Making ‘Ghost Guns’

A federal judge has struck down Delaware’s blanket bans on possessing and making unserialized firearms, holding that the Second Amendment protects both the firearms and the ability of law-abiding citizens to build them at home.

Sep 11, 2026Read Brief →
Cybersecurity

How Threat Actors Are Turning Trusted AI Platforms Into an Attack Surface

Threat actors are abusing trusted AI platforms to host malicious content, poison search results, and trick users into installing malware. Huntress examines campaigns targeting AI users through weaponized Claude Artifacts, shared AI conversations, sponsored search results, and ClickFix-style…

Sep 11, 2026Read Brief →
Firearms

America’s Shotgun: How the Remington 870 Became the Best-Selling Shotgun of All Time

From deer woods and duck blinds to trap fields and patrol cars, the Remington 870 earned its place as America’s shotgun by being affordable, reliable, and endlessly useful.

Sep 11, 2026Read Brief →
Technology

Claude users found ways around safeguards for bioweapons research

Some dangerous biology looks much like legitimate research, complicating AI safeguards.

Sep 11, 2026Read Brief →
Amateur Radio

Answering the Call: A 9/11 Remembrance from ARRL

Ed. Note: Details in this article were culled from the November 2001 QST article, “9/11/01: ‘This is Not a Test’ ” by Rick Lindquist, N1RL, and Diane Ortiz, K2DO. The original article is available here (PDF).Twenty-five years ago, on September 11,…

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Technology

ClickFix attacks infecting PCs and Macs are going viral

Simplicity—combined with the difficulty of getting stuff done—makes ClickFix ideal.

Sep 11, 2026Read Brief →