Articles from June 18, 2026
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Unpatched DAQFactory Type-Confusion Bug Turns .ctl Files into Code Execution Weapons
Industrial organizations received an urgent wake-up call on June 18, 2026, when the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released advisory ICSA-26-169-02. The advisory warns...
CISA Flags Critical Authentication Bypass and DoS Flaws in Rockwell FactoryTalk Historian
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued an urgent alert regarding three serious vulnerabilities in Rockwell Automation’s FactoryTalk Historian Site Edition (SE),...
CISA Flags Critical 9.8-Severity Code Execution Flaw in AVer PTC Cameras Used Worldwide
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published advisory ICSA-26-169-01 on June 18, 2026, alerting organizations to a maximum-severity vulnerability in multiple AVer PTC camera...
CVE-2026-6865: Schneider Electric’s EasyLogic and Saitel RTUs Exposed to File Theft via Path Traversal Bug
Schneider Electric and the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) are urging critical infrastructure operators to immediately patch a path traversal vulnerability that exposes...
Patch Now: CISA Confirms Active Exploitation of Splunk CVE-2026-20253
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added CVE-2026-20253, a critical missing-authentication vulnerability in Splunk Enterprise, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities...
Windows 11’s Media Player Ramps Up RAM Usage to 377MB—and Still Lacks Essential Codecs
Third-party testing has revealed that Microsoft’s modern Windows 11 Media Player idles at nearly 377 MB of RAM—over triple the 103 MB consumed by the legacy Windows Media Player under identical...
Apollo Glucose Meter's Bluetooth Holes Could Leak Sensitive Health Data, CISA Warns
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) dropped a medical device advisory on June 18, 2026, flagging serious Bluetooth vulnerabilities in a widely used diabetes management...
Bungie Layoffs Loom After Destiny 2's 'Monument of Triumph' Finale
Bungie is reportedly planning a round of layoffs in summer 2026, just after the studio ships what appears to be Destiny 2’s final live-service content update, Monument of Triumph, on June 9. The...
Slackbot’s MCP Client Goes Live: Chat Emerges as the Enterprise Command Center, Pressuring Microsoft Teams
Slackbot—the workplace assistant that has quietly fielded billions of queries—has just turned into an AI‑powered enterprise control plane. Slack’s parent Salesforce announced the general...
HP Poly launches AI room compute hardware at InfoComm 2026 alongside VideoOS 5.1
HP Poly chose the InfoComm 2026 stage in Las Vegas on June 16 to announce a significant expansion of its collaboration portfolio, headlined by new AI-assisted room compute devices and the latest...
Edge 149 Spawns ‘Location Turned Off’ Error Despite Correct Settings—Here’s How to Fix It
Microsoft Edge 149, pushed to the Stable channel in early June 2026, has been accompanied by a puzzling error for Windows 11 users. Even when location services are switched on both in Windows and in...
Treyarch Greenlights Black Ops PS4/PS5 Ports for July, Xbox and PC Get Cold Shoulder
Treyarch has confirmed that 2010’s Call of Duty: Black Ops and 2012’s Black Ops II will land on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 this July, nearly 15 years after the first game’s original...