Remote Code Execution

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Windows Paint Had a Code Execution Hole and the Fix Microsoft Named Never Reached the Store

November 10, 2026

One crafted file opened in Paint could run an attacker’s code. In all 6 countries checked, the Store had no safe Paint. Auto-updates did not help. The fix …

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Ubuntu Servers Still Wait for a Fix to a 9.8 Linux Kernel Bug That an AI Turned Into a Root Exploit

November 3, 2026

Linux servers on Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04 and 26.04 are 18 days behind Debian on a 9.8 kernel bug. 53 minutes, no password, and a server runs commands as root. An AI …

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Popcorn Time Updater Left Millions of PCs Open to Whoever Owned Its Dead Web Addresses

October 26, 2026

Up to 3 million Windows PCs and 350,000 Macs kept asking dead web addresses for updates to a movie app from 2014. The owners did nothing wrong. The updater had …

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PHP2Shell Flaw Leaves Millions of Websites Open to Takeover

October 21, 2026

More than 22 million PHP installations sat exposed online this week, facing two flaws that need no password. The details leaked before a patch existed. Updating …

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LG Smart TVs Could Be Taken Over From the Same WiFi Without a PIN

October 18, 2026

Three bugs chained in order gave an attacker full control of a smart TV, straight over the home WiFi, without the set ever asking for its PIN. The owner did …

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macOS Screen Sharing Flaw Let Attackers Take Over a Mac Without a Password

August 9, 2026

Anyone on your network could take over a Mac with Screen Sharing turned on. All it took was the target’s IP address. The login check handed back an old …

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WordPress Let One Request Read Your Database for 227 Days

July 18, 2026

A hole in WordPress handed your database to someone who never logged in. For 227 days it took one request. It needed no password and no plugin, just an address …

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Internet Explorer Can Still Take Over a Fully Patched Windows PC in 2026

June 8, 2026

Internet Explorer can still take over a fully patched Windows machine, years after Microsoft retired it in 2022. The code that ran it was never removed from …

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GitHub RCE CVE-2026-3854: One Semicolon, Millions of Private Repositories

April 29, 2026

GitHub RCE CVE. A semicolon broke GitHub. One character in a push option field, and a security researcher was running code on the backend servers that store …

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Microsoft Bing CVSS 10.0: CVE-2026-33819 Remote Code Execution Explained

April 25, 2026

Bing had a CVSS 10.0 vulnerability in its backend infrastructure, the same infrastructure that powers Edge, Windows Search, and Copilot integrations across …