Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd. TSE: 6501, has appointed Yasser Elgammal as ANZ Channel Partner and…

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HPE NYSE: HPE brought together global technology leaders, customers and industry experts at HPE Networking Day in Sydney on 7 October, as advances in AI and automation move…

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22% of financial services companies run AI agents in production without monitoring, creating significant compliance and operational exposure For high-impact IT outages, the…

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Specialist SAP consultancy records 6 x revenue growth since 2021, while expanding local workforce by 10-fold

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Optimizing your site for AI is of little use if AI can’t find it.

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New capabilities protect the sensitive data and intelligence behind enterprise AI while keeping mission-critical operations available and recoverable

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Applications have closed on SMEC AI’s AI Pathfinder program with more than 1,500 founders from health, mining, law, disability services and a dozen other fields, the largest…

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On October 19, 2026, at approximately 17:00 UTC, Cloudflare became aware that private keys associated with eight eMudhra intermediate certificates were compromised. These certificates were widely trusted by browsers, operating systems, and also within Cloudflare. Because the keys themselves are weak, an attacker can create a forged certificate for any domain and use it to impersonate servers…

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Acquisition adds widely adopted data observability and reliability capabilities to the Boomi Enterprise Platform, giving enterprises the data quality and governance required to…

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Charter Member Pax8 joined by Founding Party Members CMIT Solutions, CrowdStrike, Cynet, F1 Information Technologies, Lyra, Microsoft, New Charter, NinjaOne, Rev.io and…

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Google, Mozilla, Apple, the Go project and others moved swiftly to block the affected certificates from the Indian CA, though it’s unclear how the keys were compromised.

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Discover how multi-cloud environments create security blind spots, inconsistent access controls, risks and how CCSP strategies help strengthen cloud security.

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Security researchers have found a critical flaw in the Linux kernel’s networking stack that can let attackers escape a KVM virtual machine and execute code on the host system. The weakness could also potentially let attackers compromise systems running other Linux-based virtualization and sandbox platforms. Tracked as CVE-2026-99999 and dubbed PwnEscape, the vulnerability was discovered…

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EasyDMARC and GMO GlobalSign have formed a strategic partnership connecting email authentication management with verified brand certificates, creating opportunities for managed service providers (MSPs) to help customers strengthen domain security and maintain trusted email identities. Partnership connects DMARC enforcement with verified email identities EasyDMARC’s Email Trust Platform enables organizations to discover every service sending email…

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Plus, U.S. envoy Tom Barrack said the U.S. is no longer the guarantor of global security, and Netflix reported its slowest revenue growth in years.

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The PHP security team is warning administrators to prepare for emergency security updates tomorrow to address two critical vulnerabilities, as information about the flaws has reportedly leaked ahead of their scheduled disclosure. […]

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Learn how live video moderation handles frame sampling, end-to-end encryption, behavioural signals, privacy and content retention in video…

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Earnings report shows continued surge in capital spending on artificial intelligence and developing new technology.

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The latest Android Auto update lets the AI assistant tap into your Google services for context-based responses.

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A 40-year-old Nigerian national was sentenced to eight years in prison for running a years-long hacking, tax fraud and investment scheme, the Justice Department said Monday. Chukwuemeka Victor Amachukwu enriched himself from 2019 to 2023 by hacking into U.S.-based tax preparation businesses, filing false tax returns with federal and state authorities using identities stolen from…

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Development platform Zeabur has disclosed details of a cybersecurity incident in which an attacker used leaked internal credentials stored in plaintext to compromise its infrastructure and steal over 3.2 million environment variable records and information for 321,810 accounts. […]

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In a new draft prospectus viewed by the Journal, the AI giant disclosed an $80.7 billion net loss for the first half of 2026 and a long list of risk factors.

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A judge ordered that Abdulrahman Alfozan be detained after he was arrested earlier this month for allegedly bugging an OpenAI conference room.

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Kaplan’s departure comes as Meta President Dina Powell McCormick, who served in the first Trump administration, has risen in stature at the tech firm.

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OpenAI confirmed that its newer models are much better at writing and migrating software in older programming languages. […]

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A cyber incident affecting BAE Systems halted US bankruptcy notices, forcing federal courts to change service procedures and…

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The private keys of eight eMudhra intermediate certificate authority (CA) certificates are compromised, Mozilla and Google’s Chrome Root Program confirms on October 20. An intermediate CA signs the certificates that websites present, so anyone holding one of these keys could issue a certificate for any website that a browser would accept. A researcher reported the

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Market set to top $11 billion in 2026. Australia’s smart home market is forecast to exceed $11 billion in 2026, after more than doubling to $7.7 billion in 2025, as government…

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Google is updating Chrome’s Enhanced Protection mode to detect scam websites and warn users when a page tricks them into copying a malicious command. The company introduced Enhanced Protection for Chrome’s Safe Browsing feature in 2020 to address online scams and social engineering. Google says further updates have made its users ten times safer from…

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When an AI pilot in IT operations underdelivers, the first instinct is to question the technology. Was the model wrong? Did the tool overpromise? Did the team pick the wrong use case? Those are fair questions. But in many organizations, the answer sits somewhere less glamorous: in a configuration management database that hasn’t been reconciled…

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Malicious Rank Math PRO plugin downloads may leave WordPress sites backdoored even after updating. Learn who was affected and what administrators should do next.

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A compromised ETS login exposed millions of California students’ records. Learn what data was affected and what families and security teams should do next.

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Plus, Musk’s donation pledge, and consumers are still wary of giving agents their credit cards.

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Microsoft has unveiled security controls to monitor risky AI agents and restrict their access. Here’s what the tools could mean for enterprise IT teams and workers

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Cybersecurity researchers have released a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for a recently patched critical security flaw impacting Fortinet FortiSIEM that could result in arbitrary code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-106173 (CVSS score: 9.4), is a critical path traversal flaw that could allow an unauthenticated attacker to execute unauthorized code or commands via specially

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Artificial Intelligence is complicating security in the software development lifecycle, but a Dark Reading roundtable found collaboration, better identity visibility, and reduced testing costs offer CISOs a way ahead.

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Palo Alto Networks has disclosed that it’s continuing to observe exploitation of a now-patched security flaw impacting  PAN-OS and Prisma Access by ransomware actors. The activity relates to CVE-2026-0257 (CVSS score: 7.8), an authentication bypass flaw that could be exploited by bad actors to set up unauthorized VPN connections. It was patched by Palo Alto…

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An unknown number of AOMEI Backupper users had their computers infected with a backdoor through an unusually stealthy supply chain attack, security researchers discovered. Between April and July 2026, attackers repeatedly altered configuration files on AOMEI’s own servers for just five to ten minutes at a time, then restored the originals. The tampered files belong…

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Meta is turning a former conventional data center operation into one of its largest AI computing deployments, with plans to scale its Prometheus supercluster toward roughly 1 million GPUs. Originally a conventional facility routing routine web traffic, the campus now harnesses hundreds of thousands of Nvidia GPUs acting as a unified compute engine. Meta plans…

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A new IANS report has found that despite the growth of the head of AI security role, accountability for AI governance in firms remains unsettled

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A Chinese-speaking attacker has compromised hundreds of websites across the globe, looting from big fish like John Deere, SharkNinja, and engine manufacturer Cummins.

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A vulnerability has been discovered in BeyondTrust Remote Support that could allow for arbitrary upload of files. BeyondTrust Remote Support is an enterprise secure remote access solution that enables IT teams to securely access and troubleshoot remote endpoints. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to perform file operations on an affected…

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A bug in Microsoft’s October Windows update prevents you from turning on a security setting that blocks malicious or suspicious apps. A Registry hack fixes the glitch.

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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is ordering federal civilian agencies to stop using DeepSeek products and remove them from government systems. […]

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Security patches are turning into roadmaps for attackers, with a growing share of fixes later found incomplete or open to bypass. Oren Yomtov, a security researcher at Terra Security, began tracking broken fixes after the team kept running into them in its own work over the past year. “A fix would ship, a bypass would…

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A Chinese-speaking criminal pointed autonomous AI agents at company websites and let them break in with almost no help, and a security researcher watched it happen because the operators left their control panels open on the internet. The agents tried more than 1,200 sites and reached websites belonging to more than 100 companies, including farm-equipment…

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OpenCode silently patched a critical RCE flaw, leaving vulnerable users unaware of the security risk, researchers at Pillar Security warned

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CJIS v6.1 requires agencies to maintain strong authentication, account security, and audit controls while demonstrating ongoing compliance. Specops outlines five practical priorities covering MFA, account management, passwords, logging, and audit readiness. […]

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Keeping pace with the evolving payment security landscape requires current knowledge and practical expertise—but finding time for training can be challenging. PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) eLearning gives payment security professionals the flexibility to build their skills and advance their knowledge wherever and whenever it works best for them.

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Abstract has announced new AI SOC capabilities in its agentic SIEM: investigation, hunt, and triage powered by a combination of Abstract’s own trained and tuned models and frontier foundation models, and SOAR response capabilities with actions assigned directly to detection rules. The capabilities are built into the platform that already collects, routes, and detects on…

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Plus, a U.A.E.-based startup expands into Silicon Valley.

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Revenium has launched its first partner program, recruiting Insight, Flexera, WWT, and other technology companies to help MSPs, systems integrators, and resellers build services around AI cost management, spending visibility, and return on investment. Revenium targets growing demand for AI cost management The program is designed to help turn AI cost control into a service…

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A Nigerian national was sentenced to eight years in prison for his involvement in a series of spearphishing attacks targeting US tax preparation businesses since 2019. […]

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IDENTOS has announced that PolicyArc is now generally available. The new solution gives security, platform, and compliance teams a single place to define, enforce, and audit access policy across their applications. PolicyArc is built to solve how to safely extend access not just to people and services but to the AI agents now acting on…

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Nerdio’s recently released report shows that while MSPs are embracing AI, many are struggling to translate adoption into measurable business results. The 2026 State of the MSP Business Report is based on a survey of over 150 MSP decision-makers that manage Microsoft 365 (M365) and Azure across their customer bases. MSP AI adoption outpaces measurable…

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The iPhone of Vladan Đokić, rector of the University of Belgrade and a prominent supporter of Serbia’s student protest movement, was infected with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware in 2026, the Citizen Lab said on October 19. The finding came six days before Serbia’s October 25 snap parliamentary election. The infection used a zero-click exploit, meaning Đokić did…

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AppGate has expanded its zero trust offering for operational technology (OT) with Session Governance capabilities that help critical infrastructure operators reduce third-party access risk, simplify compliance audits and protect operational uptime. The expansion builds on the ZTNA for OT offering AppGate introduced in March 2026. The initial release of AppGate ZTNA for OT controlled who…

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As Android Central reports, users have received unexpected emails telling them their phone number has been verified for secondary Google accounts. Like me and many others, you may have one Google account for everyday use, another for work, and a third for things you would rather keep separate. But if you’re using an Android phone,…

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Siemens has confirmed the active exploitation of CVE-2026-110936, a DLL side-loading vulnerability in Siemens Software Center, the company’s tool for downloading, installing and managing its software. Siemens first published its security advisory on 15 October 2026, giving the flaw reported by Jose Oregon from Huntress Labs a CVSS v4.0 score of 8.4. On 17 October,…

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Ocean Security found a phishing campaign, dubbed Phantom Preview, that abused legitimate Frame.io notifications and hidden PDF links…

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There has been a sharp escalation in attacks that use malicious calendar invites to reach targets, email security providers Check Point and Sublime Security have warned. Sublime recorded a 1,216% month-over-month increase in August 2026, and the first half of September alone surpassed the whole of August by 1,426%. Check Point’s numbers tell a similar…

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Microsoft announced that IT administrators can now use quick machine recovery on Windows Server 2025 after installing the October 2026 security update. […]

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Rapid adoption of agentic AI comes with potential business benefits. But if done incorrectly it also carries risks around AI activity management and security

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The traditional IT services business model is facing a fundamental shift as artificial intelligence changes how technology partners deliver projects, develop talent, and generate value for customers. For Caylent CEO Valerie Henderson, navigating that transformation requires more than introducing AI tools or launching new consulting offerings. It means reconsidering how a services business operates from…

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Black Friday 2026 is coming! Explore Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra, S24, foldable phones, tablets and watches, plus refurbished…

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Compare iPhone 17 vs. iPhone 18 Pro security, including spyware protection, privacy features, and whether upgrading actually makes your iPhone safer.

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A sales manager builds an AI-assisted workflow to route leads. It connects to customer records, summarizes inbound requests, and posts updates to a shared channel. The workflow saves time, reduces manual work, and soon becomes part of the team’s daily routine. Across the same organization, employees are building useful apps, agents, and automations faster than…

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Go 1.27.3 and Go 1.26.10, released on October 20, make Go’s certificate verifier reject any certificate chain that passes through one of eight intermediate certificate authority keys. Programs built on the new release will refuse connections to sites and services whose certificates were issued under those keys. The Go team says the keys belong to one…

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A Nippon Columbia malware incident put 8.7 million Daiichi Kosho records at risk. Learn what happened and what customers and security teams should know.

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French cloud and hosting provider OVHcloud is warning users that attackers compromised its open-source command-line interface (CLI) tool to distribute information-stealing malware. […]

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Hackers are exploiting CVE-2026-110447 to compromise Nextcloud servers with web shells. See affected systems, warning signs, and mitigation steps.

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Choose which CNET Group publications appear in your feed, then catch up on news, reviews, and videos – without an algorithm deciding what you see.

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In a weird way, I’ve been thinking about the idea of a Googlebook for well over a decade now — despite the fact that such a product has only officially existed for a matter of months. I’m relatively unusual in the world of tech journalism, y’see, in that I’ve been both writing about Android and…

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ConnectWise on Monday said it has taken remediation measures, including strengthening administrative-access protections and resetting accounts and replacing application credentials, as it continues to respond to a security incident that led to unauthorized access to application identities associated with Cloud Backup. The company said it has completed the following actions since it began

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Japanese police arrested a Chinese couple accused of hiding a computer in a Kobe hotel to send phishing emails and using stolen credit card details for purchases.

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A cybersecurity incident affecting BAE Systems disrupted US bankruptcy court notices, highlighting vendor dependencies and the need for recovery planning.

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Siemens identified the activity to be from the Romulus multi-platform ClickFix campaign, with Siemens Software Center users urged to apply an update

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Teradata has announced new privacy, security, and resiliency capabilities designed to address one of the defining challenges of enterprise AI: how sensitive data is protected, who and what can access it, and whether it remains available and recoverable when something goes wrong. Teradata addresses all three through an integrated approach that reduces raw identity exposure,…

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Extend has announced Extend Verify, a document fraud detection API that helps developers and AI agents assess the integrity of documents before using them to make decisions. Much of the work businesses want AI agents to perform begins with a document: A bank statement supports a lending decision An invoice initiates a payment Receipt substantiates…

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