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Hackers Target OpenSSH SSHole Flaw Within Hours of Disclosure, Gain Root on Honeypot

Threat actors are attempting to exploit a recently disclosed security flaw impacting OpenSSH that can enable sign-ins to accounts that have no password set, according to Previdian. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-123158 (CVSS score: 8.1) and codenamed SSHole (or *sshole), impacts Linux systems that run OpenSSH on the musl C library with Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) disabled,

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DZone

Designing a Polling Pipeline for Rate-Limited APIs Without Losing Data

Every system that ingests data from someone else's API eventually writes a poller. It starts as fifteen lines in a cron job: hit the endpoint, compare against the last timestamp, insert what's new. It works immediately, which is the problem — it keeps appearing to work long after it has started losing records. I maintain an ingestion layer that polls public discussion APIs continuously, and the gap between "the poller is running" and "the poller is correct" took considerably longer to close than

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OpenAI Launches GPT-6 Cyber After AI Helps Find 81 Firefox Flaws, 948 Linux Exploits

OpenAI on Thursday unveiled GPT‑6 Cyber, which it described as a major step forward in security research that brings together stronger cybersecurity capabilities with a step-change improvement in model alignment. The new model is "more capable at finding and fixing vulnerabilities, and far more reliable staying within the boundaries researchers set," OpenAI said. It has classified the model as

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