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PHP’s developers will release a patch Wednesday for two vulnerabilities rated 9.2 on the CVSSv4.0 scale that risk unauthenticated remote code execution. CERT-EU warned organizations unable to apply the fixes to prepare to take PHP-based websites offline temporarily.

Text scams used to be easier to spot. If a random number texted you saying you won a prize you never entered, you could just block, delete, and move on with your life. Today’s smishing attempts are more targeted, more common, and much less obvious. Here’s what you need to know to avoid getting smished.

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BoA CEO Brian Moynihan said the bank brought in 1,000 contractors to help remediate vulnerabilities uncovered by Anthropic’s Mythos AI model, spending over $200 million on fixes. The contractors, added in Q2 to the bank’s 3,000-person technical staff, remain on hand as patching continues.

Phishing volume has surged more than 40-fold since genAI tools hit the market in late 2022, according to data from SlashNext cited by cybersecurity training firm Hoxhunt.

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Timely updates and reboots are essential to maintain the security and integrity of the University’s network. Please take note of the following updates and guidelines in three areas related to cybersecurity:1. Install New Microsoft Patches and RebootToday Microsoft released monthly security updates that affect a wide range of products. It is crucial to promptly identify and install these updates to protect your systems from vulnerabilities. Please adhere to the following installation timelines:

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A video call with your boss. A voicemail from a family member. A clip of a public figure saying something shocking. A few years ago, you could trust your own eyes and ears to sort real from fake. That’s no longer always the case.

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The Defense Manpower Data Center, which maintains Pentagon personnel records, notified roughly 3 million people that their Social Security numbers and other personal data were exposed after unauthorized users accessed an unencrypted file-sharing server for about nine months before discovery in July.

In February 2026, Pitt Digital introduced sensitivity labels in Microsoft 365, giving individuals a way to securely share and encrypt sensitive emails. However, these labels must be applied manually, and sensitive data may still be sent without encryption.  

Pitt Digital has taken steps to resolve the issue that briefly affected the delivery of email messages sent through smtp.pitt.edu earlier this morning. Full service has been restored. We are monitoring the service closely to ensure continued reliability and stability.

Senior faculty members spend an enormous amount of time writing and reviewing others' work. Grants, manuscripts, trainee letters, letters of support, and more add up quickly and often compete directly with research. Much of that writing may not require a faculty member's expert judgment so much as their memory. For example, verifying that a new claim is consistent with what they've published before, checking that a citation to their own prior work hasn't been missed, or matching language to how they've written about a topic elsewhere.