Day: October 22, 2026

PHP powers much of the web, and two critical flaws just forced governments to tell sites to patch or go offline.

The bugs allow remote code execution without login. AI helped researchers uncover flaws that had gone undetected for years.

Japan issued a late-night warning, and some ministries and banks took pages down. No major breaches are confirmed.

Meanwhile, an Indian certificate company used keys as weak as the number 4, and GitLab disclosed a perfect 10.0 vulnerability dating back to 2014.

The internet keeps proving how fragile it is.

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“It’s going to be a TURNOUT ISSUE.”

Republican Strategist Adolfo Franco highlights the importance of Republican voter turnout in closely contested midterm races despite challenges posed by war and inflation.
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“The Dutch government had hacked into Jared Kushner’s phone and monitored him as he accessed a Dubai-based bank account.

What was odd, the source said, was that the money in the account—hundreds of millions of dollars—had come from a bank in Azerbaijan. Most importantly, Kushner appeared to have transferred significant amounts of money from the Dubai account to other individuals, including a warlord, a mercenary and a one-time hit man”Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump)An exclusive excerpt from Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed’s Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East examines how bank accounts linked the president’s son-in-law—and former senior adviser—to Israel, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia.
vanityfair.com/story/jared-k…—  https://x.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/2113386390574817385

— @RpsAgainstTrump Oct 23, 2026

Years before 9/11, CIA analysts warned that terrorists might fly an explosive-packed airplane into an American city. The warning was there, but the attack wasn’t stopped. Nearly 3,000 Americans died. How do we keep intelligence failures like this from happening again?  #CIA  #Counterterrorism  #HomelandSecurity
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— @Robert4787 Oct 23, 2026

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Indian arms manufacturers hit the jackpot: ammunition exports to Europe soared by 1600% during the years of the war in Ukraine, – Bloomberg

Over the 4 years of the war, India has sold ammunition, mortar shells, explosives, and rocket fuel to European countries for at least $872