A critical vulnerability in EDK II’s PXE network boot driver could allow unauthenticated attackers to execute malicious code before the operating system loads. This vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-97631, affects ICMP error processing during both IPv4 and IPv6 network boot, which exposes the firmware memory to potential writes by attackers. The advisory identifies the EDK II…
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Discord to Make Public Server Messages Searchable on Google
Discord will make eligible messages from public channels in Discoverable Servers accessible through Google and other search engines, expanding conversations beyond its application. This rollout introduces privacy considerations, messages from members are automatically enabled for web publication by default in most regions. If members choose to turn off sharing later, it does not automatically remove…
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12 Confidential Computing Solutions: The 2026 Buyer’s Verdict Guide
Confidential computing closes encryption’s last gap data exposed during computation with hardware-enforced TEEs that prove their state via attestation, and 2026’s buying question is one sentence: who must be unable to see this data, provably? This verdict guide judges twelve options across the real menu: hyperscaler families, the two silicon lanes everything rides, independent enablement…
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AI-Powered Hackers Target Japanese Companies With Automated Attacks and Credential Theft
Threat actors targeting Japanese organizations are using artificial intelligence to automate intrusion workflows, speed up attack planning, and develop credential-theft tools, according to an investigation of three exposed attack infrastructures. The findings show distinct levels of AI involvement, from autonomous agents conducting attacks to experienced operators using generated scripts. The research follows Japan’s National Cybersecurity…
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12 Data Access Governance Tools: The 2026 Buyer’s Verdict Guide
“Who can read the M&A folder?” still silences rooms, and Copilot-era AI assistants turned that silence into a deadline they surface everything anyone technically can touch. This verdict guide judges twelve data access governance options across the field’s real architectures: effective-access graphs, warehouse-native policy engines, proxy-light governors, database-level enforcers, and the suite extensions with one…
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12 Data Discovery Tools: The 2026 Buyer’s Verdict Guide
Every downstream control inherits the inventory discovery builds DLP, access reviews, DSARs, AI governance and the 2026 field answers the “where is it?” question from different vantage points: correlation graphs, agentless cloud sweeps, semantic engines, access-context fusions, and the operational-store specialists DSPM marketing skips. This verdict guide judges twelve tools on accuracy honesty, estate reach,…
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Anthropic’s Unreleased AI Model Chains Flaws Into Working Chrome, Safari, Windows and Linux Exploits
An unreleased Anthropic AI model found security flaws in Chrome, Safari, Android, Windows, and Linux and chained them into working proof-of-concept exploits, the company said in its latest report. The exploits were built in the lab after the model was prompted, not seen in any real attack, and Anthropic reported every flaw to the vendor…
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12 Hardware Security Modules (HSM): The 2026 Buyer’s Verdict Guide
An HSM is a decade-long marriage to a root of trust, and 2026’s vows are specific: FIPS 140-3 trajectories (140-2 certificates are sunsetting), post-quantum firmware with dates attached, and delivery models spanning racked appliances to hourly cloud instances. This verdict guide judges twelve options including the sovereign-lane specialists US-centric lists skip and one hyperscaler service…
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12 Email Encryption Solutions: The 2026 Buyer’s Verdict Guide
Email encryption fails at the recipient or not at all: the strongest cryptography loses to the counterparty who abandons the portal login. This verdict guide judges twelve solutions on the click count that decides adoption, the automation that removes user memory from the loop, and the lanes the market actually splits into bundle floors, usability-first…
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UNM Health Cyber Incident Diverts Ambulances, Disrupts Patient Care
A cyber incident forced UNM Health to divert ambulances and pause outpatient care, highlighting why hospital response plans must protect patient services.
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Hackers Attempt to Breach U.S. Election Commission Systems, Triggering Major Service Outage
Hackers targeted the U.S. Federal Election Commission’s systems, forcing the agency to shut down online services and disrupting campaign finance filings just days before the November 3 midterm elections. The outage delayed fresh spending disclosures, but officials have not confirmed a successful breach or data theft. According to Reuters, an FEC electronic filings officer warned…
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FBI Seizes Virtualine Domain Over Alleged Criminal Hosting and Bitcoin Money Laundering
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Tuesday announced the seizure of a domain associated with a bulletproof hosting provider (BPH) named Virtualine. The move was in response to the service being used to commit and facilitate prolific criminal activity, including “the advertisement of sexually explicit images of minors, the intentional disclosure of nonconsensual intimate…
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Japan’s GMO Offers $1 Million Bounty to Catch Hackers Behind FX Trading Cloud Breach
Japan’s GMO Internet Group is offering up to $1 million in total for tips that help catch the attackers who breached its Onamae.com Desktop Cloud service, after refusing to pay an extortion demand. The reward program opened on October 28 and pays only if a tip helps lead to an arrest or an international wanted notice. The…
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Accessibility goes mainstream – and AI agents are next
A conversation with GitHub’s head of accessibility, Ed Summers, reveals why designing software for people with disabilities produces benefits far beyond its original audience -…
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Critical GoAhead Web Server Flaw Allows Attackers to Bypass Client Certificate Authentication
A critical flaw in the GoAhead embedded web server lets revoked client certificates pass authentication checks, potentially restoring access to identities administrators have blocked. Tracked as CVE-2026-115881, the vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 9.1 and affects GoAhead 3.4.5 through 6.1.0 when specific mutual TLS settings are enabled. GoAhead 6.1.1 fixes the issue. The flaw…
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Can’t Patch Node.js Yet? Build a Stopgap with the Controls You Own
Executive Summary Node.js has fixed CVE-2026-111497, a Brotli decoder flaw that can permit remote code execution, in 22.23.4, 24.22.1, and 26.12.1, but upgrading at scale is slow. In Qualys telemetry, only 42,000 of roughly 3 million Node.js installations have been patched, and 1.7 million run end-of-life lines that will never receive a fix. In the…
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Hackers Abuse Indian Government Domains to Push Illegal Gambling Websites Through Google Search
Hackers have abused Indian government and educational domains to promote illegal gambling websites through Google Search, using unauthorized DNS changes to establish malicious subdomains while leaving legitimate websites operational. Another delegated government subzones to third-party nameservers, enabling broader control over subordinate DNS records. The technique, called domain shadowing, allows attackers to misuse an organization’s domain…
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Bellini Capital CISO on AI security governance and the limits of patching faster
In this Help Net Security interview, Brian Blakley, CISO at Bellini Capital, explains why AI makes finding vulnerabilities faster while fixing them still takes time. He argues that “patch faster” is not enough and that teams need to cut exposure while remediation is pending. Blakley describes a shared metric for CIOs and CISOs, how his…
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Tailscale Patches SSH Flaws That Could Let Hacked Devices Gain Root Access on Other Servers
Tailscale has released version 1.104.4 to fix flaws in its built-in SSH server that could let an attacker reach services and files on other servers that only the root user should be able to touch. The flaws are in how Tailscale SSH forwards network connections, a job the Tailscale background process carries out with root privileges. To use them, an attacker…
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ShinyHunters-Exploited Oracle PeopleSoft Zero-Day Turns Out to Be Three Chained Flaws
The critical Oracle PeopleSoft bug that ShinyHunters has exploited since May is not one flaw but three chained together, the researchers who reported it said this week. Oracle patched all three under a single identifier, CVE-2026-35273, in June. Its root is a server-side request forgery (SSRF) that reaches an internal management interface because PeopleSoft trusts its…
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AbuseBox: Open-source monitor for blacklists, DNS, SSL and email records
AbuseBox is a free, open-source tool that checks IP addresses and domains against 60 DNS blacklists, pulls reputation scores from AbuseIPDB, inspects DNS, SSL and email-authentication records, and sends an alert when something changes. A DNS blacklist, or DNSBL, is a list that mail servers and other services consult when deciding whether to trust an…
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Third Serengeti Sweep Tops 1,400 Arrests as Investigations Mature
Interpol’s annual Operation Serengeti, now on its third iteration, led to 1,462 arrests across 20 African countries and the US, recovering $105 million in stolen funds.
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Okta’s Dan Mountstephen says risk chiefs now want to know if CISOs have a handle on AI agents
In an iTWire TV interview as Oktane 2026 wrapped up in Las Vegas, Okta’s Asia Pacific and Japan chief explained how to find rogue agents, what boards should ask, and why he’s…
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Sweet Security Offers All Organizations Affected by HTTP2Shell Virtual Patching Protection at No Cost
New York, NY, October 27th, 2026, CyberNewswire The root-cause fix will take weeks; protection can’t wait Sweet Security today announced Sweet Safety Net, extending its runtime Virtual Patching protection to every organization affected by HTTP2Shell (CVE-2026-111497). The capability will enable users to block any exploitation of Node2Shell at no cost for 30 days, whether or…
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Adobe Commerce PolyShell Attacks Breach Hundreds of Stores as Brotli Exploit Traffic Emerges
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added two vulnerabilities impacting Adobe Commerce and Magento, and Google’s Brotli decoder library to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerabilities are listed below – CVE-2026-111497 (CVSS score: 9.2) – An unchecked return value vulnerability in
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NIST starts the countdown to retire quantum-vulnerable encryption
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a roadmap for moving to post-quantum cryptography (PQC), with earlier deadlines for certain sensitive federal systems. The report, Transition to Post-Quantum Cryptography Standards (NIST IR 8547), explains which cryptographic methods need to be replaced, what organizations should consider and how the transition will unfold. It…
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CISA Offers Free Security Tools to Protect Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace From Cyber Threats
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) offers two free assessment tools, ScubaGear and ScubaGoggles, to help organizations identify insecure configurations in Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace. Developed under the Secure Cloud Business Applications (SCuBA) project, these tools compare cloud tenant settings against established security baselines and generate reports that highlight configuration gaps. CISA established…
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Hackers Abuse Online Ads to Track Starlink Users and Spy on Individuals Across 49 Countries
Advertising infrastructure is increasingly being repurposed as a surveillance channel that can profile internet users and track their movements across sensitive locations, according to research from TrendAI. Investigators identified an operation, referred to as SHADOW-EARTH-79, that made unusual ad purchases and used a reconstructed software interface, suggesting its primary purpose is intelligence gathering rather than…
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Malicious npm Campaign Hijacks 42 GitHub Repositories to Steal Credentials and Spread Malware
Research has identified 42 weaponized GitHub repositories belonging to 11 legitimate owners in the testmetest npm campaign, exposing an operation that combines credential theft, development-tool execution hooks, and malicious package publishing. The findings establish that the campaign extended beyond attacker-controlled test packages into established developers’ repositories. Researchers Guy Korolevski and Yair Benamou uncovered oversized payload…
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Breach victims discover their data was held by companies they’ve never heard of
Nearly seven in ten people affected by data breaches handled by Kroll were exposed through an outside supplier, according to its Data Breach Outlook 2026. Businesses rely on outside providers to store information, process transactions and operate software. A breach at one of those providers can expose customer records across multiple organizations, including people who…
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Hackers Use Signed ChatGPT and Claude Binaries to Deploy Yoba Malware
Hackers are exploiting growing interest in AI tools to spread Yoba malware through fraudulent GitHub projects that claim to offer non-existent desktop applications named GPT-5.6 Sol, GPT-6 Astra, and Claude Opus. According to Check Point Research, these repositories and GitHub Pages attracted users through apparent SEO poisoning, with download buttons that delivered malicious ZIP files.…
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Cisco Talos Uncovers 1,400 Scam Emails Sent Through Staples and Dell Order Notification Systems
Cisco Talos identified roughly 1,400 scam emails delivered through legitimate Staples and Dell order notification systems, exposing how attackers can insert fraudulent support instructions into authenticated transactional messages. The findings fit a wider pattern: Talos observed abuse across more than 25 legitimate platforms over the past year, including collaboration, productivity, payments, file sharing, surveys, and…
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Video interview: security devices belong on the IT network, Oshana Jouna on open platforms, lock-in and patching for a decade
Axis Communications sales engineering and training manager, Oshana Jounahttps://www.linkedin.com/in/oshana-jouna-03873530/, has been with the company since 2015 and spends his…
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Video interview: Niklas Lindman on why perimeter security keeps getting harder, and where radar goes next
Axis Communications global product manager for radar, Niklas Lindmanhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/niklas-lindman-johnson-58360630/, flew in from Lund to unveil AXIS D2124-VE…
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Video: Axis unveils its first 360 degree radar in Sydney, four sensors on one chip covering 40,000 square metres
Axis Communications used the Security Exhibition and Conference 2026 at ICC Sydney to unveil its first 360 degree radar, and it did the reveal on Australian soil before…
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SuiteWorld keynote: NetSuite shows the mechanics of autonomous suite
Where the opening keynote at SuiteWorld 2026 set out NetSuite’s vision, the day three product keynote dived into the mechanics of how it works, who is already using it and what…
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Attackers compromised 42 GitHub repositories by using files too large to be searched
A security research firm reported Monday that it had identified breaches of 42 third-party GitHub repositories in which attackers had deployed payload blobs large enough “to evade the GitHub search and API paths normally used to find this kind of compromise.” The report from JFrog Security Research said the victimized repositories contained execution hooks for…
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Multiple Vulnerabilities in Google Chrome Could Allow for Arbitrary Code Execution
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Google Chrome, the most severe of which could allow for arbitrary code execution. Successful exploitation of the most severe of these vulnerabilities could allow for arbitrary code execution in the context of the logged on user. Depending on the privileges associated with the user, an attacker could then install…
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Video interview: why Axis builds its own silicon, Wai King Wong on real time security, AV1 and audio that still runs on figure-8 cable
Axis Communications regional director for Oceania, Wai King Wong, has been running the region for years and has the longest view of anyone I spoke to at the Axis stand at the…
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ISC Stormcast For Wednesday, October 28th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10154, (Wed, Oct 28th)
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Attackers built a ‘Skynet’ AI agent that hijacks exposed models to run cyberattacks
Skynet is no longer a fictional adversary. Attackers have built an offensive agent that exploits unprotected AI models on the web with a ‘Skynet’ directive that allows them to run unattended for up to 100,000 steps. In this mode, a reference to the humanity-destroying artificial neural network-based superintelligence system in the Terminator film franchise, the…
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SBS Scales For Record FIFA World Cup Audiences; Uses New Relic Intelligent Observability
Broadcaster works with New Relic for end-to-end infrastructure visibility, successfully scaling to reach 64% of Australia’s population
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DigiCert achieves global ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification, strengthening security assurance across its Intelligent trust platform
Independent certification validates DigiCert’s systematic approach to protecting information, managing risk, and continually improving security across its global operations.
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SAP empowers AI developers to build what matters and turn intent into autonomous execution
International Space Station’s use of tabular AI and expanded partnerships demonstrate the art of the possible with SAP AI.
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See How Anthropic Arrived at Its Mind-Boggling $40 Trillion Market Opportunity
The company’s estimated market opportunity, tied to the economic value of work produced by knowledge workers, tops SpaceX’s enormous figure from earlier this year.
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HPE unifies visibility of premier wired, wireless, and SASE solutions to optimise user and application experiences from edge to cloud
HPE Networking simplifies full-stack deployment, management and troubleshooting with self-driving agentic operations.
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ION establishes clear pathway to commercialisation: Nordic data centre partnership with minimum $1 million tender
Melbourne tech company ION Video ASX code IOV will partner with Swedish advisory and investment firm Priority Impact to commercialise ION’s technology which aims to…
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Fortinet expands unified SASE to simplify microbranch security
FortiLink SASE service brings cloud-delivered security and centralised management to wired and wireless devices.
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How Fiber Internet Outperforms Satellite in Speed and Reliability
Fiber internet changes how people work, study, stream, and communicate.
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How a Senior Living Community Blends Independence With Structure
Independence in later life means making everyday choices while knowing help is readily available. A senior living community can support that balance with private apartments,…
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Introducing Route 53 Resolved IP Validation for AWS Network Firewall
Your workloads reach most destinations by domain name, but a firewall can only act on what it sees in the traffic. For HTTP and HTTPS, AWS Network Firewall domain rules match the name that the client puts in the request, and the client chooses that name. The connections for protocols such as SSH and SSH…
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Japan’s GMO urges customers to shut down PCs amid ransomware threat
The GMO Group has urged customers to disconnect their systems from the internet and shut down computers after a threat actor who breached the company’s Onamae Desktop Cloud threatened to launch a ransomware attack today. […]
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How a Luxury Senior Community Brings Southern Charm to Aging Well
Growing older in Atlanta does not require leaving behind the familiar rhythms that make a place feel like home. A thoughtful senior community combines personal choice with…
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D2N – Technology Solutions appointed Australian distributor for CEDAR Audio
D2N – Technology Solutions has been appointed the Australian distributor for CEDAR Audio, bringing one of the world’s most respected names in audio restoration, dialogue noise…
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Guidewire Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire hyperexponential
Acquisition positions Guidewire to lead the transformation to agentic underwriting, setting a new standard where AI agents assess, price, and make decisions alongside…
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Horizon3 Announces NodeZero Integration With Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR
New Cortex Marketplace integration brings evidence of exploitability into automated remediation and verification workflows
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Riverbed Appoints Peter Lee and Promotes Nick Kempt to Bolster APJ Leadership
Peter Lee joins as Regional Director of Solutions Engineering; Nick Kempt promoted to Director of Alliances, AIOps and Customer Success to support Riverbed’s growing focus on…
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What contact centres should test before deploying text to speech
Synthetic voices are moving from recorded IVR menus into live, two-way customer conversations, and that shift changes how contact centres should evaluate text-to-speech. A…
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How AI agents are changing business operations
A Melbourne retailer receives three calls before breakfast about orders that missed their expected delivery dates. Your service team checks stock while another employee…
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OpenAI’s GPT-6.1 Terra is safer overall, but shows more destructive-action flags in tests
OpenAI confirmed GPT-6.1 Terra is safer overall than some of its older models, but its safety testing also found other problems. […]
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Cloudera Launches Cloudera Blueprints, Bringing NVIDIA Agent Toolkit to Enterprise Data Anywhere
New ready-to-deploy AI solutions help enterprises accelerate the journey from prototype to production with built-in data management, security, and governance across cloud, data…
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Reducing IT workload drives cloud print adoption for 47% of Australian and 40% of New Zealand organisations.
New research from Konica Minolta Australia has found that reducing print server management and IT workload is one of the strongest drivers of cloud print adoption across…
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PHP2Shell Vulnerability
Organisations are scrambling to apply PHP’s newly released security patches to fix two ‘critical’ vulnerabilities discovered in its web architecture, disrupting several…
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UNM Health ransomware attack disrupts patient care, surgeries
The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center disclosed a cyberattack that caused system outages and disrupted patient care and academic activities. […]
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Saviynt Recognised in 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Privileged Access Management
Repeated recognition comes as privileged access expands across the full Privilege Spectrum of human, machine and AI identities.
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Dayforce 17th Annual Pulse of Talent Finds More Than One Third of Australian Organizations are Highly Fragile
63% of Australian respondents say AI adoption is outpacing workforce preparation, while 68% across six countries say organisations are losing important skills or expertise…
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Aussie consumers spend more time trying to bypass AI agents than they save using them: Twilio
New research shows Australians will embrace AI for speed and convenience, but want accountability, transparency and human escape routes
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BeyondTrust Named a Leader in 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Privileged Access Management for Eighth Consecutive Report; Positioned Highest for Ability to Execute
Positioned highest for Ability to Execute for the second consecutive report; and based on its Completeness of Vision, this contributed to BeyondTrust’s position as a Leader in…
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Before you file that AI bug report, OpenAI has some advice
Even OpenAI is admitting there is a lot of AI slop in the security space. An executive for the frontier AI company said Tuesday that AI-generated vulnerability reports are overwhelming open-source maintainers, leading some to stop accepting submissions as the workload exceeds their capacity to review them. Michael Aiello, OpenAI’s cyber executive in residence, described…
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Apple Knows Some iPhone Duos Have a Major Issue
Plus, Brazil canceled Flávio Bolsonaro’s passport, and a $300 billion “debt wall” is looming over private-equity backed companies.
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WatchGuard builds local partner capability in Fiji as Datec reaches WatchGuardONE Gold status
WatchGuard Technologies, a global leader in unified cybersecurity for managed service providers MSPs, is strengthening its channel network in Fiji through its partnership with…
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Check Point Launches Firewall-as-a-Subscription to Put Advanced AI-Era Protection Within Reach of Every Organisation
One subscription gives organisations of every size Check Point’s AI Network Firewall, AI-powered threat prevention and agentic management, with no upfront hardware purchase
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3 Frameworks to Protect CISOs & Orgs Against AI Liability
Cyber leaders can get ahead of AI liability with rigorous documentation, transparency, and smart contract negotiations with AI vendors.
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made by Fressko Amazon Australia Sales Grow by 71% with Pattern
Buy-sell partnership helps Melbourne sustainable drinkware brand improve availability, Buy Box performance and marketplace growth
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Hackers hijack Convertr analytics script to steal payment card data
A credit card skimming group reportedly compromised a shared analytics script used by e-commerce platform Convertr to steal shoppers’ payment data during checkout. […]
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Sweet Security Offers All Organizations Affected by HTTP2Shell Virtual Patching Protection at No Cost
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Email Bombing, External Teams Chats Form Repeatable Access Path
A common mix of impersonation, domain infrastructure, and trusted software is helping attackers scale Microsoft Teams intrusions across organizations.
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All the security risks Anthropic is worried about before its IPO
Anthropic said its AI systems could drastically reshape the software and cybersecurity sectors in the “near term,” while also laying out a litany of cybersecurity and regulatory risks facing the company as it prepares to go public. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission ahead of its initial public offering, the company said…
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OnClarity Joins OpenAI Partner Network to Expand Customer-Service AI
Closing a support ticket does not always fix the problem that brought the customer back. OnClarity announced Oct. 26 that it has been named an OpenAI Select Partner, with plans to expand its customer-service AI agents, interaction reviews, and customer-insight tools. For channel partners serving contact centers, the potential opportunity is helping customers connect those…
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Italy ’s Parliament Under Cyber Pressure: Why the Attack on the Chamber Matters
Italy ’s Parliament cyberattack highlights hybrid warfare risks and the need for transparency, stronger defenses and accountability. The cyberattack targeting email accounts at Italy’s Chamber of Deputies, including a parliamentary account assigned to Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, raises questions that go well beyond the security of individual inboxes. At a time when European institutions face…
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Why this new Fitbit feature takes us one step closer to non-invasive glucose tracking
Insulin resistance and blood pressure trends are now available on two new Fitbit devices.
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Australia’s Cyber Spy Chief: Expect More Disruption as AI Accelerates Hacking
Australia’s cyber agency warns AI will drive more disruptive attacks, helping hackers find vulnerabilities faster and exploit them at greater scale. Australia’s top cyber spy has a blunt message: expect more disruption to everyday services. Abigail Bradshaw, director-general of the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD), says that with each jump in AI capability, more disruption is…
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Prolific Hive and Nefilim ransomware affiliate sentenced to 70 months in prison
A 36-year-old Ukrainian national was sentenced to 70 months in prison for participating in a string of ransomware attacks targeting various critical infrastructure operators and businesses from the middle of 2018 to late 2021, the Justice Department said Tuesday. Artem Aleksandrovych Stryzhak was involved in ransomware attacks on hospitals that disrupted patient care, government entities,…
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CyberStrikeAI Uses 44 AI Agents to Automate Hacking Operations Against Japan Targets
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of three cyber attacks targeting organizations in Japan in which artificial intelligence (AI) was a key element, either in the driving seat or to assist a human operator. TrendAI, which analyzed three exposed server environments used by threat actors to conduct the malicious cyber operations, described them as distinct from…
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CISA Confirms PHP2Shell Exploitation, Orders Federal Agencies to Patch
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added two critical PHP flaws, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, to its…
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Microsoft releases Windows OOB updates to distrust eMudhra certificates
Microsoft has released out-of-band (OOB) Windows updates to remove trust in certificates tied to compromised eMudhra certificate authority keys, protecting systems that do not receive automatic certificate trust updates. […]
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Netflix now, Hulu later? T-Mobile’s T-Mix plans let you switch perks – what you need to know
T-Mobile’s new T-Mix plans deliver tons of extras ranging from streaming to mobile discounts, but there are some caveats to know.
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AWS becomes first CSP to complete the Cloud High profile assessment with 172 services and features in scope
We continue to expand the scope of our assurance programs at Amazon Web Services (AWS) and are pleased to announce the successful completion of our first ever Cloud High (PBHH) security assessment with 172 assessed services and features. Completion of this assessment, effective September 18, 2026, makes AWS the first cloud service provider (CSP) in…
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Breaking PHP2 Shell and Brotli Vulnerability Update
Two critical security vulnerabilities affect global web infrastructure. The PHP 2Shell flaws involve memory safety errors during out-of-memory handling, allowing remote code execution across PHP environments. Simultaneously, a Brotli decompression flaw enables memory corruption and code execution when processing malicious compressed HTTP responses. Threat actors are actively scanning for unpatched WordPress, Laravel, and Node.js applications.…
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Criminal IP Joins INTERPOL’s Gateway Initiative to Support Global Cybercrime Efforts
Torrance, United States / California, October 27th, 2026, CyberNewswire AI SPERA, the company behind the cyber threat intelligence and attack surface management platform Criminal IP, has signed a cooperation agreement with the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) under its Gateway initiative. The agreement establishes a framework for sharing information and technical expertise relevant to cybercrime…
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Beware the Slasher: AI Could Kill Off Cybersecurity Pros’ Skills
Nathan Hamiel outlines potential SecOps horror in the AI midst, as core technical capabilities go the way of reading an atlas or remembering phone numbers.
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Brotli bug reaches far beyond Node.js (CVE-2026-111497)
A vulnerability in Brotli, Google’s widely used open-source compression library, is putting a broad range of software at risk. About CVE-2026-111497 Alternatively known as “Node2Shell”, “Broccoli2Shell” and “Brotli2Shell”, CVE-2026-111497 is a remotely exploitable out-of-bounds write flaw that gained widespread attention after Node.js publicly disclosed it on October 21, 2026. “An attacker who can supply Brotli…
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Cisco Opens IQ to Partner AI Agents: Three Services MSPs Could Build
Before an MSP can fix a vulnerable device, someone has to find it, assess its importance, and decide what needs attention first. Cisco wants partners to bring that intelligence into their own tools. At Partner Summit on Oct. 26, the company announced general availability of Cisco IQ for partners, with production APIs and a Model…
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Verizon Expands AWS Partnership With $2B-Plus AI Infrastructure Deal
Verizon’s AWS agreement, valued at more than $2 billion, highlights the connectivity behind AI workloads and gives channel partners a reason to assess whether customers’ networks can support their AI plans. The company announced the agreement on Oct. 26 alongside its third-quarter results, saying it establishes a commercial framework to expand distributed computing and support…
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Anthropic Files for IPO With $16.3B Revenue and Massive AI Spending
Anthropic’s revenue is surging, but the cost of supporting its AI ambitions remains a major financial challenge. The Claude developer publicly filed its initial public offering prospectus with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on Oct. 26, reporting $16.3 billion in revenue for the first half of 2026. The filing also disclosed an $80.7 billion…
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Part 3 – Cybersecurity journeys: The work behind the work
The most important work I’ve done in cybersecurity would make for terrible television. There were no countdown clocks and no frantic typing, just a lot of careful reading, a lot of hard conversations, and the occasional quiet moment where everything finally clicked. That’s the part I want to show you this week, because the three…
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Windows finally gets a built-in internet speed test tool – how to try it
Available to Windows Insiders, the built-in tool measures your upload and download speeds over Ethernet or Wi-Fi.
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This tool can recover deleted AI chats from your phone – how it works
This new tool proves it’s still best to limit the info you share with chatbots.
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DIG AI: A Dark Web AI Powering Cybercrime and Extremism
DIG AI is an uncensored Dark Web AI tool identified in 2025. New research reveals how criminal AI services and autonomous tools are advancing cybercrime.
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Serbian Prosecutor Who Investigated Belgrade Trump Tower Project ‘Targeted with Spyware’
The Guardian has reported on new findings by the Citizen Lab and SHARE Foundation that a Serbian professor and prominent supporter of the country’s student movement was targeted with Pegasus spyware. The investigation also found that a Serbian prosecutor who investigated a scheme to help the Trumps build a tower in Belgrade was also targeted. …