These two user-friendly distributions take different routes to the ‘best Linux’ crown. The winner comes down to this.
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This free Android app makes sharing files so easy – available for Windows, Mac, and iOS too
If you’re looking for an effortless way of transferring files from Android to your other devices, look no further than Blip.
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Sennheiser Momentum 5 vs. Bose QuietComfort Ultra 2: I compared the two and found a winner
Sennheiser’s and Bose’s flagship headphones are both solid choices, and the best pair boils down to your personal preferences.
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I’ve finally found an Android TV remote that is easy to use – and it’s free
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What’s new with iPhone 18 Pro Max? Guess correctly for a chance to win an Apple Watch
Each prediction you get right gives an entry into the grand prize drawing.
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Anthropic’s Claude Cowork heads to the cloud as data shows 90% of sessions aren’t for coding
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Why SK Hynix Isn’t as Cheap as it Looks
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16-30 June 2026 Cyber Attacks Timeline Infographic

Last Updated on July 7, 2026 16–30 June 2026 — Cyber Attacks Infographic | HACKMAGEDDON Cyber Threat Intelligence · HACKMAGEDDON 16–30 June 2026Cyber Attacks Infographic 96 confirmed incidents across the second half of June 2026. Cyber Crime drove roughly 8 in 10 attacks, Malware remained the dominant weapon, and Information & Communication infrastructure was the…
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Why this fully agentic ransomware attack is giving researchers nightmares
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Suspected Chinese Threat Group Targets Universities via Vulnerable Roundcube Servers
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‘GitLost’ Flaw Leaks Private Data from GitHub’s Agentic Workflows
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Spain arrests suspected member of pro-Russian hacktivist groups
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DEBULL Tooling Abuses Microsoft Device-Code Flow to Target M365 Accounts

A Microsoft 365 device code phishing campaign has been observed leveraging collaboration-themed lures to take control of victim accounts between the last week of June 2026 and into early July, per findings from ZeroBEC. “The campaign did not depend on a fake Microsoft password page. It used a malicious collaboration-style lure to push users into…
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How to run Linux GUI apps on Android (when it actually works)
Android is oh-so-close to being a full-blown Linux desktop. There’s just one problem with the feature.
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BeyondTrust Patches Authentication Bypass Vulnerabilities

BeyondTrust is urging self-hosted customers to patch multiple vulnerabilities affecting its Remote Support (RS) and Privileged Remote Access (PRA) platforms. Two of the vulnerabilities are critical authentication bypass flaws that could allow unauthorized users to gain access to vulnerable systems under specific configurations. Key Takeaways of the BeyondTrust Vulnerabilities BeyondTrust patched four vulnerabilities affecting RS…
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Public GitHub Issue Could Trick GitHub Agentic Workflows Into Leaking Private Repo Data

A public issue can trick GitHub Agentic Workflows into leaking the contents of an organization’s private repositories, researchers at Noma Security have shown. The attacker needs only to open a normal-looking issue on a public repository, with no stolen credentials and no access to the organization. If that organization has given the agent read access…
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Banana RAT Evolves: Comparing Two Recent Branches Through ANY.RUN
Editor’s note: The analysis is authored by Moises Cerqueira, malware researcher & threat hunter. You can find Moises on LinkedIn and X. This analysis started with an exposed public index on 198.245.53.26, discovered via Shodan. What made it interesting was not just the server exposure itself, but the fact that it lets us compare two different Banana RAT branches tied to…
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The GitHub Actions Attack Pattern Your CI Security Scanners Miss
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Scattered Spider’s Structure More Like a Cybercrime Collective Than a Unified Gang
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Barracuda adds PAM and identity protection with Evo Security acquisition

Barracuda Networks has acquired Evo Security. The acquisition expands the BarracudaONE platform’s identity security capabilities by adding privileged access management (PAM), access control, identity protection, and identity threat detection and response. By combining Evo Security’s identity solutions with Barracuda’s existing identity-driven controls, BarracudaONE delivers a unified, end-to-end identity security architecture through a single platform, precisely…
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Fake Netflix, Coca-Cola, and FIFA job scams target marketers

Attackers are impersonating major companies and recruiters to target marketing professionals, using trusted services and browser tricks to make the scam look legitimate. A BleepingComputer article detailing the campaign found at least 34 domains impersonating high-value companies, including Netflix, Coca-Cola, Adidas, and FIFA. The lure is a fake job interview or scheduling request from a…
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CyberProof Agentic MXDR Service brings AI agents to managed detection and response

CyberProof has announced the launch of the CyberProof Agentic MXDR Service which connects AI agents with human expertise and presents quantifiable security outcomes with CyberProof’s Reveal360. CyberProof modernizes managed detection and response by shifting security operations from manual workflows to a human-governed system of expert AI agents. The service streamlines the typically siloed functions of…
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I enabled Android’s new security feature that detects fake cell towers – here’s why
Connecting to the wrong network can put your data at risk. Android can warn you, but you’ll have to allow it first.
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Picus Autonomous Exposure Validation Platform validates real-world CVE exploitability

Picus Security has launched the Picus Autonomous Exposure Validation Platform, built for a world where frontier AI has collapsed the time between disclosure and attack. Adversaries now weaponize new CVEs in hours, against a backdrop of around 132 published every day. A CVE drops; it is rated 9.8. Leadership asks, “Are we exposed?” and most…
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Court Filing Reveals Windows Device ID Helped FBI Trace Alleged Scattered Spider Hacker

U.S. prosecutors linked an alleged Scattered Spider hacker to a break-in at a luxury jewelry retailer using a persistent Windows device ID, according to a newly unsealed federal complaint. Microsoft records tied that ID first to the account the attackers used to keep access during the May 2025 intrusion, then to online accounts prosecutors say…
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Writer AI Flaw Could Let Agent Previews Leak Session Tokens Across Tenants

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a now-patched critical session isolation vulnerability in Writer, an enterprise generative artificial intelligence (AI) platform, that could result in cross-tenant compromise. The one-click vulnerability has been codenamed WriteOut by the Sand Security Research team. “An outsider could go from having no access to taking over any Writer AI
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This portable keyboard is the ultimate productivity tool – especially for Mac and PC users
The Asus ProArt KD300 keyboard is sleek and compact, with excellent multipoint connectivity.
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Envirotech Vehicles Closes Merger with Azio AI Ahead of Schedule, Positioning Combined Company to Capture $487 Billion 2026 AI Infrastructure Opportunity
Revised transaction structure enables immediate closing, accelerating the Company’s strategic pivot toward AI data centers, enterprise GPU compute, and digital power infrastructure. Envirotech Vehicles, Inc. (NASDAQ: EVTV) (“EVTV” or the “Company”) today announced the successful completion of its merger with Azio AI Corporation (“Azio AI”) on July 2, 2026, paving the way for the Company…
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GitLost: GitHub’s AI Agent Tricked Into Leaking Private Repository Data
Noma Labs details GitLost, a prompt injection flaw that made GitHub’s AI agent expose private repo data through a crafted public issue and guardrail failures.
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June 2026 Leadership Recap: Channel Closes H1 With Broad C-Suite Moves
The first half of 2026 has ended with a flurry of leadership moves among organizations, both large and small, as they seek to propel their businesses forward in the second half of the year. The leadership shifts include those tied to operations and revenue, as well as at the top of the organization chart with…
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Two arrested over credit card phishing – as the Netherlands is named Europe’s worst for payment fraud
Two young men have been arrested in the Netherlands on suspicion of running a phishing operation that harvested the credit card details of unsuspecting victims. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
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Commvault measures cyber recovery readiness with AI attack simulations

Commvault has announced Commvault Minutes to Recovery, a scenario-driven cyber resilience simulation that lets participants act as a hacker and run their own attacks using frontier AI tools. Then, participants are challenged to defend against and recover from an incident under pressure to test their resilience against these AI-driven cyberattacks. The window between vulnerability discovery…
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Why I switched to a NAS storage drive to backup files – and ditched iCloud and Dropbox for good
Thanks to the Ugreen DXP4800 Plus, I’ve been able to cancel several storage subscriptions. Here’s how.
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I tested 3 wireless chargers to see which keeps my phones cool – what I learned surprised me
Charging stands now come with new technology designed to keep my phone cool. So I put three of them to the test.
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Webinar tomorrow: Why modern email attacks require a new approach to defense
Tomorrow’s webinar explores how behavioral AI can help organizations detect sophisticated phishing, business email compromise, and account takeover attacks while reducing alert fatigue through automated investigation and response workflows. […]
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New Januscape Linux flaw allows VM escape on Intel, AMD devices
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Attackers exploit critical Adobe ColdFusion vulnerability (CVE-2026-48282)
CVE-2026-48282, one of the maximum severity vulnerabilities patched in Adobe ColdFusion on June 30, 2026, has been targeted by attackers in the wild. Exploitation attempts were detected on July 2, through the honeypot sensors of cybersecurity threat-intelligence service KEVIntel, mere minutes after watchTowr researchers published a technical analysis of this and other ColdFusion flaws recently…
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What Changes When Your Software Supply Chain Includes AI Writing Your Code?

Software supply chain security was hard enough. Then AI joined the build pipeline. For five years, “software supply chain security” meant one question: what’s in your code? Which open-source packages, which versions, which transitive dependencies three layers deep that nobody chose on purpose? SolarWinds, Log4Shell, and XZ Utils all taught the same lesson: the risk…
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Talk, talk, talk: The rise of AI dictation tools at work
For workers who routinely spend hours a day interacting with various AI assistants, banging out prompts on a keyboard can quickly become a chore. “Whether it’s a coding task, helping write a document or think about strategy — there’s just so much typing and typing and typing you do as a part of that,” said…
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Claude Code’s hidden tracker was an “experiment,” says Anthropic
As a developer, you want to use tools you can trust and rely on. One researcher took that idea seriously enough to scrutinize their local Claude Code (2.1.196) installation. For developers using AI assistants with access to their code, files, and terminal, understanding what those tools are doing behind the scenes is becoming just as…
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Radware updates Agentic AI Protection with AI governance and compliance capabilities
Radware has announced enhancements to its Agentic AI Protection solution to help organizations govern and secure AI agents across enterprise environments. The release adds compliance reporting to support alignment with leading global AI standards, enhanced visibility into agent ecosystems, and protection for developer-hosted AI agents, including Anthropic Claude Code. As enterprises scale their use of…
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Malicious websites trick AI agents into crypto payments, context poisoning
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4 Best Email Security Solutions to Keep Employee Inboxes Safe
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UAT-7810 continues building ORB networks using new malware

Cisco Talos is actively tracking infrastructure and malware associated with UAT-7810, an advanced persistent threat (APT) actor responsible for maintaining and proliferating the LapDogs Operational Relay Box (ORB) network, first disclosed by SecurityScorecard in 2025. UAT-7810 is most likely tasked with establishing Operational Relay Box (ORB) networks that can then be leveraged by associated secondary…
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Anthropic Claude Enterprise Adoption Expands in Channel

Frontier AI models have been key drivers for the AI revolution, and Anthropic has been making significant moves to boost its channel presence and give the company an enterprise boost. Export restrictions on Anthropic AI lifted To start July, more Claude news hit, with the U.S. Department of Commerce lifting export restrictions on Anthropic’s Claude…
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UK Government Launches Cyber Resilience Pledge, Claiming 60+ Signatories
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Why The Gentlemen ransomware is a test of identity and recovery controls

The Gentlemen ransomware underscores a challenge many CISOs face: stopping attackers after they gain an initial foothold. Researchers say the malware can spread across enterprise networks using legitimate Windows management tools while simultaneously attempting to weaken security and recovery systems. A report from Picus Security shows the malware combines self-propagation with the abuse of trusted…
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16-30 June 2026 Cyber Attacks Timeline
Between 16–30 June 2026, 96 confirmed cyber incidents shaped the threat landscape — Cyber Crime drove roughly 8 in 10 attacks, malware remained the top weapon, and Information & Communication infrastructure took the hardest hit.
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Hidden Tenda Router Backdoor Grants Admin Access, No Patch Available

CERT/CC warns an unpatched backdoor in several Tenda routers lets attackers bypass login and gain full admin access with a hidden password. CERT/CC published an alert documenting an undocumented authentication backdoor in multiple Tenda firmware versions, tracked as CVE-2026-11405. The flaw gives anyone who knows the right password full administrative access to the device’s web…
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Microsoft to enable Windows settings backup by default for orgs
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Scammers are using AI to sell impossible flowers

We’ve had problems with deepfake celebrity scams, non-consensual deepfake sexual material, and deepfake politicians. Now we have to deal with… deepfake plants? Yup, AI seed slop is now a thing. 404 Media documented scammers marketing seeds for plants that supposedly bloom in the shape of birds, butterflies, and cat heads, complete with technicolor leaves and…
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Will Someone Finally Blink in the AI Spending War?
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Suspected China-Aligned Hackers Exploit Roundcube Flaws Against Universities

A suspected China-aligned threat activity cluster has been observed exploiting Roundcube webmail software belonging to physics and engineering departments of U.S. and Canadian universities as part of a new campaign. The activity involves the exploitation of now-patched, critical security flaws in the open-source email solution, such as CVE-2024-42009 (CVSS score: 9.3), to siphon credentials,
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The best Apple Watch Ultra bands of 2026: Expert tested
We tested the top Apple Watch Ultra straps available from Nike, Apple, Nomad, Aulumu, and WithIt. Read on to find our reviews and ratings.
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Defense-in-depth strategies for securing mobile applications – Ryan Lloyd – ASW #390
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The modern CISO is becoming the next CFO
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Suspected Chinese espionage group used a Roundcube exploit chain to burrow into universities

China-aligned attackers broke into the networks of U.S. and Canadian universities to steal sensitive data and establish persistent access via webshells and backdoors, Proofpoint threat researchers said Tuesday. The espionage-motivated attacks targeted physics and engineering departments, focusing on administrators and professors with national security links or organizations researching astrophysics and particle physics. Proofpoint identified less…
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SAP Migration Deadlines Reshape CIO Investment Strategies

As SAP customers race toward the vendor’s end-of-support deadlines, many CIOs are asking a different question than they were just a few years ago: Is now actually the right time to undertake a multimillion-dollar ERP migration? Those are the conversations Rowan O’Donoghue has every day. O’Donoghue is the co-founder and chief innovation officer of Origina,…
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AI-Generated Malware Powers New Armored Likho APT Campaign

Armored Likho APT uses AI-generated malware, phishing, and BusySnake Stealer to target governments and power grids in Russia, Kazakhstan, and Brazil. Kaspersky’s threat research team has documented a previously unknown APT group they’re calling Armored Likho, also tracked under the name Eagle Werewolf. The group runs two parallel tracks: financially motivated attacks against private individuals…
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Hackers Exploit Maximum Severity Adobe ColdFusion Flaw
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Tanium Atlas Reaches GA as Partners Face AI-Driven Threats

Tanium has made Tanium Atlas generally available to commercial cloud customers and U.S. Government cloud customers, expanding access to its autonomous operating system for IT and security teams. First introduced in May 2026, Atlas is designed to take an IT or security operator from question to resolution in a single experience, using agentic AI, real-time…
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BeyondTrust warns of critical flaws in remote access software
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Microsoft testing new Cloud Rebuild Windows 11 recovery feature
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Januscape: 16-Year-Old Linux KVM Bug Enables Cloud VM Escape Attacks
Januscape: A 16-year-old Linux KVM flaw lets cloud VM tenants crash hosts and potentially escape guests. It affects Intel and AMD systems. Security researcher Hyunwoo Kim has published details of a use-after-free vulnerability in Linux’s KVM hypervisor that allows code running inside a guest virtual machine to corrupt host kernel memory. The bug, tracked as…
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CERT/CC Warns of Hidden Admin Backdoor in Tenda Router Firmware
Several versions of firmware released by Chinese network device manufacturer Tenda have been found to embed an undocumented authentication backdoor that enables administrative access to the devices’ web management interfaces, the CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC) warned Monday. “An attacker can exploit this vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-11405, to bypass the password verification process
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Researchers make the case for a cybersecurity AI scientist

Autonomous AI agents have started doing real security work. Language-model agents probe software for flaws, run penetration tests, and chain together attack steps that once needed a human operator. Research about security has stayed slower and more manual, built around expert scarcity and hand-designed experiments. A team at the Chinese Academy of Sciences wants to…
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Review: Building Machine Learning Systems with a Feature Store
Many people come to machine learning by training a model on a tidy dataset, and then meet a harder problem: making that model work for real users, on fresh data, every day. Jim Dowling’s O’Reilly book, Building Machine Learning Systems with a Feature Store, is written for that moment. Dowling, CEO of Hopsworks, based the…
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Your company already adopted AI and nobody is governing access

In this Help Net Security video, Antoine Berton, CTO at Elba Security, breaks down the AI attack surface. Your company already adopted AI, and every adoption creates access that nobody governs. A quick click on a Friday afternoon connects a free AI tool to your Google Workspace, with no ticket and no security review. Berton…
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BeyondTrust Patches Critical Auth Bypass Flaws in Remote Support and PRA

BeyondTrust has released updates to address two critical security flaws affecting Remote Support (RS) and Privileged Remote Access (PRA) products that, if successfully exploited, could allow unauthenticated attackers to take control of susceptible devices. The vulnerabilities are listed below – CVE-2026-40138 (CVSS score: 9.2) – A pre-authentication vulnerability exists in the
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BusySnake Infostealer Slithers into Critical Infrastructure Networks
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Apple Container: Open-source tool for Linux containers on the Mac
Developers on Apple silicon Macs have run Linux containers through software built around a single shared virtual machine for years. Apple’s open-source Container project gives each Linux workload its own lightweight virtual machine. Container is written in Swift and tuned for Apple silicon. It creates and runs Linux containers as lightweight virtual machines, and it…
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Microsoft wants to keep your AI agents from going rogue

Microsoft has introduced Microsoft Execution Containers (MXC), a cross-platform, policy-driven execution layer for AI agents on Windows and Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), now available in early preview. Updated Agent 365 platform (Source: Microsoft) Developers can define constraints for their applications and agents, and Windows enforces them at runtime through MXC. The SDK provides an…
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Power shortages could slow AI data center expansion

AI adoption is increasing demand for data center capacity at the same time operators are running into limits around power, equipment, land, and permitting, according to NTT Data. Access to electricity is becoming a deciding factor in where new data centers are built, when new capacity comes online and how quickly AI projects can expand.…
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Insignary Closes SBOM Accuracy Gap With Binary-Level Clarity for Regulatory Risk

Most software composition analysis tools read what developers declare. Insignary Clarity’s patented binary-first platform analyzes what is actually built, shipped, and deployed — including the open-source components that never appear in any manifest. Insignary, Inc., whose patented binary fingerprint technology has been cited in four Gartner research reports, today announced its recognition as a Sample…
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Cybersecurity jobs available right now: July 7, 2026
Application Security Lead Gett | Israel | Hybrid – View job details As an Application Security Lead, you will lead application and cloud security initiatives by integrating security into the SDLC, overseeing threat modeling, secure architecture, application security testing, and penetration testing. You will strengthen cloud and CI/CD security, manage vulnerability and incident response, and…
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Workday appoints John Lombard as President, Asia Pacific
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Kodaa and HID mobile wallet gains momentum for building access as landmark 101 Collins Street tower proves the model
Building access through mobile wallet enables a frictionless user experience by taking processing requests, approvals, updates and revocations from days to minutes
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Yubico brings seamless NFC passkey authentication to Android users
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Microsoft betting that enterprise AI needs engineers, not bigger sales teams

The number of tech layoffs continues to tick upwards as AI investments increase, with Microsoft alone cutting around 4,800 employees, or roughly 2.1% of its workforce, this week. The latest cutbacks are mostly in the company’s commercial sales and Xbox divisions. They follow two others in 2025 that impacted around 15,000 workers, or roughly 4%…
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Zscaler finds autonomous agents succumb to IPI traps

In a test of major LLMs, Zscaler found that some autonomous AI agents fell victim to frauds, reinforcing how easily some high-end enterprise agents can be conned by schemes that would fool few, if any, humans. The security vendor looked at various forms of indirect prompt injection (IPI) traps and found that, whereas many models…
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How an Employee Training System Cuts Costs and Saves Time
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AI Giants Are Handing Out Tons of Free Computing Power to Grab Startup Share
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VectorStock API Brings 50 Million+ Commercial Vector Graphics to POD and Creative Platforms
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ManageEngine Launches a Developer Ecosystem To Supercharge Its Platforms
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DroneShield Q3 Software Release Sharpens Counter-UAS Performance Against Faster, More Evasive Drone Threats
DroneShield today announced its Q3 2026 software release, delivering measurable improvements in RF detection performance, tracking responsiveness and operational capability…
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‘Bad Epoll’ vulnerability allows root access on Linux and Android
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U.S. Army websites defaced in apparent 404 hijacking campaign
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Iranian hackers use new modular C2 framework against Israeli organizations
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NatWest CEO targeted in AI deepfake scam
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Sainsbury’s expands facial recognition use to combat shoplifting
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7 arrested in Vietnam for operating large anime piracy site HiAnime
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Microsoft Teams allows users to turn off AI features
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Canada’s spy agency conducted state-authorized cyberattacks against drug traffickers and ransomware gangs
The CSE’s annual report details three foreign “active cyber operations” targeting threats to Canadian national security.
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Luxury Global Exploration: The OPPO Find X9 Ultra as Your Smart Travel Partner
Somewhere between a delayed flight in Istanbul and a hawker stall in Penang, most Malaysian travellers have faced the same problem: a dead phone, a menu they cannot read, and a…






































