U.S. states issued $3.45 billion in privacy-related fines to companies in 2025, a total larger than the last five years combined, according to research and advisory firm Gartner. The increase is partly driven in part by stronger, more established privacy laws in states like California, new interstate partnerships built around enforcing laws across state lines,…
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Weekly Update 501
This is so “peak 2026” – writing an equality policy to ensure people treat our AI bot with the same respect as they do their human counterparts. It’s intentionally a bit tongue-in-cheek, but it’s there for a purpose: we simply don’t have the capacity to deal with every request we get, and we need Bruce…
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Optimize security operations through an AWS Security Hub POC
April 27, 2026: This post was first published in September 2025 when the enhanced AWS Security Hub was in public preview. It has since been updated to reflect the general availability of Security Hub. This revision also provides a more detailed, step-by-step framework for planning your POC. AWS Security Hub prioritizes your critical security issues…
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The ‘manager of agents’: How AI evolves the SOC analyst role
Every SOC analyst has heard it by now: “AI is coming for your job”. I hear it in conversations with SOC teams. I see it in the hesitation during evaluations. And increasingly, I feel it as a source of resistance — especially from the very people AI is supposed to help. But the reality is…
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Aptori expands its platform with autonomous offensive testing to reduce security bottlenecks
Aptori has expanded its Runtime-Driven Validation Platform with autonomous offensive testing capabilities to address the growing gap between code output and security team capacity. By moving beyond passive scanning to active validation, the platform helps organizations identify, validate, and fix vulnerabilities at the pace of development. As AI-assisted coding increases development velocity, traditional point-in-time security…
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Meta’s compute grab continues with agreement to deploy tens of millions of AWS Graviton cores
Meta is continuing its compute grab as the agentic AI race accelerates to a sprint. Today, the company announced a partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) that will bring “tens of millions” of AWS Graviton5 cores (one chip contains 192 cores) into its compute portfolio, with the option to expand as its AI capabilities grow.…
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Google Cloud Makes Key Agentic AI Announcements at Next ‘26
To coincide with the Google Cloud Next ‘26 conference – Google Cloud’s largest event – the cloud giant is making a number of announcements, including the new Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, advancements to its AI Hypercomputer architecture, and introducing the Agentic Data Cloud. A single platform for agent development, orchestration, and governance Google Cloud is…
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Data Breaches, AI Expansion, and Cloud Security Define This Week’s Cyber Landscape in April 2026
Major Threats & Vulnerabilities Vulnerability Scoring and Exploitation Trends The NIST Adjusts Scoring Amid CVE Spike report highlights a 260%+ increase in CVE submissions since 2020. To manage the surge, NIST will prioritize high-impact vulnerabilities, potentially leaving many without full scoring data. Security teams must adapt to inconsistent vulnerability data and prepare for potential blind…
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Microsoft to offer voluntary retirement buyouts to about 7% of the US workforce
Microsoft will offer voluntary retirement buyouts to about 7% of its US workforce, or roughly 8,750 employees, in the first such program in the company’s 51-year history, as the technology industry restructures under the cost pressure of AI investment. The program, available to US-based employees at the senior director level and below, comes as large…
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The agentic AI frenzy increases as more vendors stake their claims
The AI agent introduction frenzy continued at a torrid pace this week, with OpenAI launching what it called workspace agents in ChatGPT and Microsoft adding hosted agents to its Foundry Agent Service. Both launched on the same day that Google both updated its Gemini Enterprise app to provide new ways for office workers to build,…
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The 2026 Edition of PepsiCo’s APAC Greenhouse Program Shifts Beyond Pilots to Fast-Track Startups into its Supply Chain
COMPANY NEWS: The IMPACT Edition introduces a more structured integration model, bringing proven alumni solutions into PepsiCo’s operations through coordinated execution, commercial pathways, and an expanded partner ecosystem. Two Australian start-ups, Adiona and X-Centric, will join three other finalists to take part in the IMPACT edition.
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The Mythos Discovery: What It Means for Vulnerability Disclosure
The Mythos Discovery: What It Means for Vulnerability Disclosure AI just broke vulnerability disclosure at scale. Earlier this month, Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview AI model discovered 27-year-old bugs that survived decades of human review. Now the industry’s top security leaders are calling it a watershed moment. Here’s what software vendors need to know. What Happened…
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Microsoft taps Anthropic’s Mythos to strengthen secure software development
Microsoft plans to integrate Anthropic’s Mythos AI model into its Security Development Lifecycle, a move that suggests advanced generative AI is beginning to play a direct role in how major software vendors identify vulnerabilities and harden code against attack. The company said it will use Mythos Preview, along with other advanced models, as part of…
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OpenAI tackles a bad habit people have when interacting with AI
Since people tend to paste personal data into AI tools such as ChatGPT, OpenAI has released Privacy Filter, an open-weight model designed to detect and redact personally identifiable information (PII) in text. The model is available under the Apache 2.0 license on Hugging Face and GitHub. “This release is part of our broader effort to…
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Oracle Builds for AI While Channel Rivals Chase Share
Oracle is reshaping its enterprise strategy around AI, multicloud infrastructure, and deeper ties with hyperscale partners such as AWS. But as the company pours billions into data centers, pushes agentic AI across its portfolio, and cuts jobs to support that transition, rivals see an opening to compete more aggressively for Oracle-adjacent workloads. That opportunity is…
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Kaseya Discusses MSP Challenges And Evolving Cybersecurity Scams
iTWire TV: Dan Garcia, Vice President and General Manager for APAC at Kaseya, spoke to iTWire TV about the struggles of MSPs and clients’ reduced spend plus the evolving threat landscape and AI.
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Datadog Launches GPU Monitoring to Help Businesses Cut Costs and Boost Performance as They Scale AI Projects
The launch of Datadog’s GPU Monitoring helps teams plan capacity, troubleshoot issues quickly, prevent costly failures and avoid wasted spend
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More Attack Context for Faster Triage, Response, and Hunting. Now Available to Every SOC
ANY.RUN has expanded access to Threat Intelligence capabilities for SOC and MSSP teams, backed by live attack data from 15,000 organizations. Here’s how your team can test TI’s impact on triage quality, response speed, and threat hunting workflows. See How Threat Intelligence Accelerates Your SOC ANY.RUN now offers 20 premium requests in Threat Intelligence Lookup and YARA Search as part of the Free plan. You can get immediate threat context for over 40 types…
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DetectFlow: Deploying Detections at Scale Without the Engineering Overhead
The Problem: Achieving Threat Detections at Scale At SOC Prime, we have spent over a decade making detection engineering easier for organizations of every size. Each year, as threats multiply and environments grow more complex, the traditional approach puts SOC Managers in an impossible position — responsible for coverage they cannot achieve with the tools…
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Microsoft trims cloud desktop pricing, even as it boosts AI costs
For years now, Microsoft has been doing its level best to move you from desktop Office and Windows to Microsoft 365, Windows 365, and Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD). Since the company first started down this road, however, something changed: the AI revolution, which has become a huge deal for the guys from Redmond. So, it…
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Thousands of Apache ActiveMQ instances still unpatched, weeks after an actively exploited hole discovered
Two weeks after researchers using an AI tool discovered a major hole in Apache’s ActiveMQ messaging middleware, there are still thousands of unpatched instances open to the internet, more evidence that many application developers and IT leaders aren’t paying close attention to warnings about vulnerabilities. While the remote code injection vulnerability [CVE-2026-34197] was revealed on…
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In the Rush to Scale AI, Operational Limits Are Emerging, Datadog Report Finds
Nearly 1 in 20 AI requests fail in production as capacity limits become the primary bottleneck to scaling AI reliably
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‘Scattered Spider’ Member ‘Tylerb’ Pleads Guilty
A 24-year-old British national and senior member of the cybercrime group “Scattered Spider” has pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy and aggravated identity theft. Tyler Robert Buchanan admitted his role in a series of text-message phishing attacks in the summer of 2022 that allowed the group to hack into at least a dozen major technology…
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Actively exploited Apache ActiveMQ flaw impacts 6,400 servers
Nonprofit security organization Shadowserver found that over 6,400 Apache ActiveMQ servers exposed online are vulnerable to ongoing attacks exploiting a high-severity code injection vulnerability. […]
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Is this where Apple Silicon will be in 5 years?
Apple Silicon has another big journey to take, one that means Apple will probably be the first to introduce 1.4- and 1-nanometer chips inside its systems. If that happens, Macs, iPhones, and iPads will continue to lead the industry in performance per watt. Why do I say this? Mainly because reports claim TSMC is working to build…
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Security Affairs newsletter Round 573 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION
A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter has arrived! Every week, the best security articles from Security Affairs are free in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press. Hidden VMs: how hackers leverage QEMU to stealthily steal data and spread malware Nexcorium Mirai variant…
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Critical Exploits, AI Shifts, and Major Breaches Redefine Cybersecurity This Week
Major Threats & Vulnerabilities Zero-Day and Active Exploits A critical flaw in Nginx UI is being actively exploited in the wild, allowing unauthenticated users to perform privileged actions through an unprotected endpoint. Administrators are urged to patch immediately and restrict public access to management interfaces. The EngageLab SDK vulnerability affecting over 50 million Android users…
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CISA flags Apache ActiveMQ flaw as actively exploited in attacks
CISA warned that attackers are now exploiting a high-severity Apache ActiveMQ vulnerability, which was patched earlier this month after going undetected for 13 years. […]
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U.S. CISA adds a flaw in Apache ActiveMQ to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds a flaw in Apache ActiveMQ to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a flaw in Apache ActiveMQ, tracked as CVE-2026-34197 (CVSS score of 8.8), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. CVE-2026-34197 is a critical flaw in Apache ActiveMQ caused by…
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Apache ActiveMQ CVE-2026-34197 Added to CISA KEV Amid Active Exploitation
A recently disclosed high-severity security flaw in Apache ActiveMQ Classic has come under active exploitation in the wild, per the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). To that end, the agency has added the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-34197 (CVSS score: 8.8), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, requiring Federal Civilian
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OpenAI pulls out of a second Stargate data center deal
In the space of one week, OpenAI has pulled out of two European Stargate data center deals, one in the UK and the second in Norway. Observers attribute the move to the company taking a more disciplined approach to its massive expenses, with OpenAI executives trying to make their books look better in a common…
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Chile’s Cybersecurity Framework Law: How SOCs Achieve Compliance and Response Readiness
In Chile, cybersecurity compliance is becoming an operational issue, not just a legal one. Under the new Cybersecurity Framework Law, organizations must show they have real capabilities for threat detection, incident analysis, and response. For many teams, that exposes a serious gap between regulatory expectations and day-to-day security operations. Key Takeaways Chile’s Cybersecurity Framework Law…
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Report: AI Shifts IT Roles as Demands and Complexity Rise
SolarWinds recently released its 2026 IT Trends Report: The Human Side of Autonomous IT, examining how AI is reshaping IT roles. Instead of simply managing systems, IT teams are now expected to interpret AI-driven insights, design automated workflows, and govern increasingly autonomous environments. The shift is creating a paradox: while AI reduces manual effort, it…
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The need for a board-level definition of cyber resilience
Cyber resilience has become a critical governance concern as organizations face increasingly complex and costly cyber threats. However, recent research reveals that the concept of cyber resilience remains inconsistently defined across regulatory frameworks and in some cases presents contradictory guidance to cross-sector and multinational organizations. This conceptual fragmentation poses a systemic risk for top management…
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Can Microsoft really meet its carbon-negative goal by 2030?
Six years ago, Microsoft pledged it would be carbon negative by 2030. It’s a worthy goal, and for several years the company was on track to meeting it. Then generative AI came along and the world changed. Electric power demand from data centers will more than double between 2025 and 2030, according to the International…
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Apple devices’ satellite link is under new ownership
Globalstar, a mobile satellite services (MSS) operator in which Apple has a 20% stake, on Tuesday announced a merger agreement with Amazon, which, pending regulatory approval, could soon bring direct to device services (D2D) services to Leo, the latter’s low Earth orbit satellite network. The deal, worth an estimated $11.6 billion, is an indication that…
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GNM Advances to 1.6T per Wavelength on CIENA – Powered Backbone
GNM has upgraded its CIENA-powered backbone infrastructure from 800G to 1.6T per wavelength on high-capacity routes with growing traffic demand – increasing available capacity without deploying additional fiber.
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Nearly 80% of Enterprises Say AI Is Held Back by Data Access Challenges, New Cloudera Report Finds
GUEST RESEARCH: Cloudera’s latest global survey, The Data Readiness Index, reveals a growing “AI readiness illusion,” where widespread adoption outpaces the data foundations required to deliver real business impact. In APAC, 85% of organisations claim to have complete visibility over where their data resides, but 38% struggle to use their data effectively due to complicated…
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Nvidia’s Stephen Jones on the toolkit powering GPUs: ‘A wild ride’
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang often shares the story of hand-delivering an AI supercomputer to OpenAI in 2016, back before it was the hotshot company it’s become in recent years. A key ingredient in the box was Nvidia’s CUDA toolkit, which helped turn OpenAI’s experiments into a foundation for modern AI applications. Huang credits the software…
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GoPro Announces New MISSION 1 Line of Professional 8K and 4K Open Gate, Compact Cinema Cameras
The World’s Smallest, Lightest, Most Rugged Cinema Cameras Designed for Any Mission: MISSION 1 PRO— Featuring a Cutting-Edge 50MP 1″ Sensor; Incredible Low-Light Performance; 8K60, 4K240, and 1080p960 Ultra-High Frame Rates; 8K30 and 4K120 Open Gate Video Capture; and New GP3 Processor Delivering Category-Leading Image Quality, Battery Runtime, and Thermal Performance for Extreme Use Cases…
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Australia’s architecture, engineering, and construction industry leads world on digital transformation yet faces new data control and AI governance challenges
GUEST RESEARCH: Australia’s architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) sector is emerging as one of the most digitally advanced markets globally. New research from Revizto, the leading global integrated collaboration platform for AEC, reveals Australia is now confronting a new generation of challenges around data governance, artificial intelligence (AI), regulation, and the capacity to implement new technologies at scale.
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Apple unveiled a new high-end market opportunity this week
Though I reviewed Apple’s recently-introduced MacBook Neo, M5 MacBook Air, and M5 Max MacBook Pro, I didn’t look at Apple’s new displays. But it is noteworthy that even these products open up new opportunities for the company. That’s because Apple this week gained FDA clearance for the Medical Imaging Calibration feature introduced in the Studio Display XDR. Just as the affordable MacBook Neo opens…
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Claude uncovers a 13‑year‑old ActiveMQ RCE bug within minutes
Anthropic’s Claude dug up a critical remote code execution (RCE) bug that sat quietly inside Apache ActiveMQ Classic for over a decade. Researchers at Horizon3.ai say that it only took minutes for their team to work out an exploit chain for the bug with the help of AI. The researcher behind the work, Naveen Sunkavally,…
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The cyber winners and losers in Trump’s 2027 budget
Federal cybersecurity spending will decline in 2027 under Donald Trump’s proposed budget, with uneven shifts across agencies, as some see sizable increases while others face sharp reductions. According to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) crosscut tables released with Trump’s budget, civilian federal cybersecurity spending is expected to fall from $12.455 billion in 2026…
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Cloudflare ‘actively adjusting’ quantum priorities in wake of Google warning
Google’s accelerated post-quantum encryption deadline has spurred other leaders in the industry, including Cloudflare, to consider pushing forward their own plans. The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has set a 2030 deadline for depreciating legacy encryption algorithms ahead of their planned retirement in 2035. Late last month Google brought forward its own…
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Claude helps researcher dig up decade-old Apache ActiveMQ RCE vulnerability (CVE-2026-34197)
In the latest demonstration of how AI assistants can help with bug hunting, Horizon3.ai researcher Naveen Sunkavally used Claude to unearth CVE-2026-34197, a remote code execution vulnerability in Apache ActiveMQ that’s been introduced in the codebase 13 years ago. The vulnerability was patched in late March 2026 and there’s currently no indication that it is…
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Arelion employs NETSCOUT Arbor DDoS protection products
Arelion operates the world’s best-connected IP fiber backbone, providing high-capacity transit services to a variety of the globe’s leading ISPs as well as many large enterprises. They provide an award-winning customer experience to clients in 129 countries worldwide, and their global Internet services connect more than 700 cloud, security, and content providers with low-latency transit.…
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How botnet-driven DDoS attacks evolved in 2H 2025
The second half of 2025 marked a pivotal shift in the world of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Organizations across the globe faced a perfect storm: Artificial intelligence (AI) matured as an offensive weapon, botnet infrastructure reached new heights with multiterabit attack capacity, and DDoS-for-hire services became more accessible—even to nontechnical adversaries. NETSCOUT’s ATLAS global threat intelligence…
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13-year-old bug in ActiveMQ lets hackers remotely execute commands
Security researchers discovered a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Apache ActiveMQ Classic that has gone undetected for 13 years and could be exploited to execute arbitrary commands. […]
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Anthropic’s AI Push Signals Major Shift for Channel Partners
Anthropic is rapidly scaling both the infrastructure and security footprint of its AI business, signaling a shift that could reshape how enterprises—and their channel partners—approach both compute and cyber risk. The company this week announced a massive expansion of TPU capacity through Google and Broadcom while simultaneously launching Project Glasswing, a sweeping industry collaboration aimed…
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TeamPCP Supply Chain Campaign: Update 007 – Cisco Source Code Stolen via Trivy-Linked Breach, Google GTIG Tracks TeamPCP as UNC6780, and CISA KEV Deadline Arrives with No Standalone Advisory, (Wed, Apr 8th)
This is the seventh update to the TeamPCP supply chain campaign threat intelligence report, “When the Security Scanner Became the Weapon” (v3.0, March 25, 2026). Update 006 covered developments through April 3, including the CERT-EU European Commission breach disclosure, ShinyHunters’ confirmation of credential sharing, Sportradar breach details, and Mandiant’s quantification of 1,000+ compromised SaaS environments. This update consolidates five…
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Nutanix Announces Partnerships With NetApp, MongoDB
Hybrid multicloud computing organization Nutanix has announced strategic collaborations with both NetApp, an intelligent infrastructure company, and MongoDB, a document database. Nutanix and MongoDB’s New Certified Integration The partnership between Nutanix and MongoDB will integrate the Nutanix Database Service (NDB) platform with MongoDB Ops Manager, combining infrastructure automation with database management to simplify MongoDB operations…
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LLM-generated passwords are indefensible. Your codebase may already prove it
Two independent research programs, one from AI security firm Irregular, one from Kaspersky, have now converged on the same conclusion: Every frontier LLM generates structurally predictable passwords that standard entropy meters catastrophically overrate. AI coding agents are autonomously embedding those credentials in production infrastructure, and conventional secret scanners have no mechanism to detect them. As…
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LLM-generated passwords are indefensible. Your codebase may already prove it
Two independent research programs, one from AI security firm Irregular, one from Kaspersky, have now converged on the same conclusion: Every frontier LLM generates structurally predictable passwords that standard entropy meters catastrophically overrate. AI coding agents are autonomously embedding those credentials in production infrastructure, and conventional secret scanners have no mechanism to detect them. As…
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Claude Discovers Apache ActiveMQ Bug Hidden for 13 Years
Anthropic’s Claude AI has helped researchers find a vulnerability in Apache ActiveMQ Classic
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What Anthropic Glasswing reveals about the future of vulnerability discovery
AI giant Anthropic has unveiled Project Glasswing, a cybersecurity initiative built around Claude Mythos Preview, a model it describes as “cybersecurity in the age of AI” that can autonomously identify software vulnerabilities at scale. Rather than release the model publicly, Anthropic is restricting access to a closed consortium of more than 40 companies that includes…
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Nutanix Expands Cloud Platform, Integration Partnerships
At the Nutanix .NEXT 2026 conference, the hybrid multicloud computing organization announced enhancements to its cloud platform, expanded its infrastructure ecosystem, and strengthened partner support. Nutanix cloud updates include agentic AI-focused infrastructure Nutanix has announced the expansion of customer choice and control for Enterprise AI, with new capabilities for Agentic AI infrastructure that will enable…
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Nutanix Bets on AI for Neoclouds, Service Provider Support
Hybrid multicloud computing company Nutanix has announced it will introduce new capabilities for its Nutanix Agentic AI solution. The new capabilities – available in the second half of 2026 – are designed to help neoclouds, a new generation of AI cloud providers, in delivering secure, scalable AI services to AI engineers and Agentic AI Developers.…
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Opkey Report: Cloud Complexity Strains Enterprise IT
Enterprises are struggling to keep up with the growing complexity of cloud environments, according to a new report from Opkey. The 2026 State of ERP Testing and Cloud Application Lifecycle Management report highlights a widening gap between the pace of innovation and the operational capacity needed to support it—forcing enterprise leaders to rethink how they…
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ClickFix Meets AI: A Multi-Platform Attack Targeting macOS in the Wild
For years, macOS environments carried an aura of relative safety. Not immunity, but lower priority in the threat landscape. That perception has aged about as well as an unpatched server. The reality in 2026 is very different. Apple devices now make up a significant share of corporate endpoints. And they sit in the hands of the people attackers most want…
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ClickFix Meets AI: A Multi-Platform Attack Targeting macOS in the Wild
For years, macOS environments carried an aura of relative safety. Not immunity, but lower priority in the threat landscape. That perception has aged about as well as an unpatched server. The reality in 2026 is very different. Apple devices now make up a significant share of corporate endpoints. And they sit in the hands of the people attackers most want…
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Supply chain security is now a board-level issue: Here’s what CSOs need to know
For many years, supply chain security was viewed purely as a technical concern. However, with high-profile vulnerabilities and regulations, it is now a board-level issue that requires organizations to rethink how to build resiliency and insulate their operations. The changing regulatory landscape has been a key driver of the C-suite’s focus, as legislation such as…
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The noisy tenants: Engineering fairness in multi-tenant SIEM solutions
I recently had the opportunity to review five popular SIEM solutions as part of a judging panel for a Security award. While each platform had its own unique flair, their core promises were remarkably consistent: 24/7/365 SOC monitoring: Round-the-clock coverage backed by global experts to validate and prioritize alerts. Proactive threat hunting: Active searches for…
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V2 AI achieves Databricks Silver Partner status
Leading AI and Data consultancy in APAC, V2 AI has been recognised as a Databricks Silver Partner, marking a significant milestone in its commitment to delivering advanced data and AI solutions for enterprise organisations.
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Anthropic cuts OpenClaw access from Claude subscriptions, offers credits to ease transition
Anthropic has blocked paid Claude subscribers from using the widely used open-source AI agent OpenClaw under their existing subscription plans, a move that took effect April 4 and has drawn pushback from subscribers who question both the cost implications and the company’s stated rationale. In an email to subscribers reviewed by InfoWorld, Anthropic said access…
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Internet Bug Bounty program hits pause on payouts
Researchers who identify and report bugs in open-source software will no longer be rewarded by the Internet Bug Bounty team. HackerOne, which administers the program, has said that it is “pausing submissions” while it contemplates ways in which open source security can be handled more effectively. The Internet Bug Bounty program, funded by a number…
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Apple leans into the component crisis storm
What does a well-managed company do in a tough business environment? It works to separate obstacle from opportunity, and then exploits its advantages, scale, and timing to turn the former into the latter. Apple’s history is full of examples of this kind, from the 150 calls a young Steve Jobs made cold-calling investors to Apple’s recent move to…
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Microsoft 365 explained: Office 365, rebranded and expanded
Microsoft 365 arrived to much fanfare at its launch in July 2017, with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella promising a “fundamental departure” in how the company thinks about product creation. Nearly nine years later, Microsoft 365 has become Microsoft’s core brand for workplace productivity software, having largely replaced the Office 365 branding long associated with the…
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March 2026 M&A Recap: SAP, Eaton Headline Month’s Deals
At the end of the first quarter of 2026, the channel saw several key acquisitions in March. Significant players in the channel have made these moves to help provide their customers with improved services, stronger solutions, and expanded expertise. Dive into the acquisitions from the month and don’t forget to catch up on February’s M&As,…
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Medtech giant Stryker says it’s back up after Iranian cyberattack
Medtech company Stryker says it’s back to being “fully operational,” three weeks after it became the most prominent victim to date of Iranian hackers, who said they attacked the Michigan-based company in retaliation over the conflict with the United States and Israel. A March 11 wiper attack from the pro-Palestinian, Iranian government-connected group Handala damaged…
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CIS Benchmarks March 2026 Update
The following CIS Benchmarks and CIS Build Kits have been updated or recently released. The Center for Internet Security has highlighted the major updates below. Each Benchmark and Build Kit includes a changelog that references all changes. Updated CIS Benchmarks overview CIS Microsoft Windows 11 Enterprise Benchmark v5.0.0 CIS Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Foundations Benchmark v3.1.0…
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Reality check: Physical AI benefits could be a decade away
Robots are cool, but real productivity from physical AI isn’t as close as boosters are making it out to be, said IT leaders at Nvidia’s GTC developer show last month. “There’s a huge potential, a huge promise, but there’s also a lot of categories where that promise is a decade out,” said Mark Hindsbo, head…
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Pia Joins Pax8 Marketplace as MSPs Operationalize AI
Pia has entered the Pax8 Marketplace, marking a step toward making AI-driven automation more accessible to managed service providers (MSPs) as the technology shifts from experimentation into core operational infrastructure. Marketplace model reduces friction for MSP tool adoption By listing on the Pax8 Marketplace, Pia aims to reduce adoption friction, particularly for MSPs looking to…
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GNM has published its 2025 Annual Infrastructure Report
GNM has published its 2025 Annual Infrastructure Report, outlining a year of coordinated backbone expansion, IX ecosystem growth and high-capacity platform scaling across Europe and Singapore. In 2025, the focus was not on isolated upgrades, but on strengthening the platform as one interconnection environment – where transport, peering and IP services develop on a unified…
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SmartBear Doubles Down on AI Testing, Channel Services
SmartBear is expanding its AI-driven testing capabilities across its platform, positioning channel partners to capitalize on growing demand for quality assurance in AI-powered development environments. The updates, which span API testing, UI automation, and test management, reflect a broader shift in enterprise software development: as AI accelerates code creation, it is also introducing new risks…
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iManage announces senior appointments and a promotion to support and accelerate business growth across APAC
iManage, the company dedicated to Making Knowledge Work, today announced senior new hires and a promotion to support and accelerate business growth across APAC.
AI, APAC, Data Breaches, Endpoint, Global Security News, privacy, Risk Management
HIBP Mega Update: Passkeys, k-Anonymity Searches, Massive Speed Enhancements and a Bulk Domain Verification API
For a hobby project built in my spare time to provide a simple community service, Have I Been Pwned sure has, well, “escalated”. Today, we support hundreds of thousands of website visitors each day, tens of millions of API queries, and hundreds of millions of password searches. We’re processing billions of compromised records each year…
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Nutanix Debuts New Agentic AI Solution
Nutanix, a hybrid multicloud computing company, recently launched a new agentic AI solution to help customers boost agentic AI adoption for business transformation. Nutanix brings AI factory enablement stack to market The full software stack, Nutanix Agentic AI, is designed to help infrastructure and platform teams build and operate AI factories, while providing shared access…
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Security leaders say the next two years are going to be ‘insane’
SAN FRANCISCO — Every RSA Conference has its buzzwords. Cloud. Ransomware. Zero trust. Plastered across the 87-acre Moscone Center complex on every booth, banner and bar. This year was AI, with vendors pitching AI-powered solutions to every security problem imaginable. But 2026 stood out for a different reason: Industry leaders spent the conference warning about…
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Preparing for agentic AI: A financial services approach
Deploying agentic AI in financial services requires additional security controls that address AI-specific risks. This post walks you through comprehensive observability and fine-grained access controls—two critical capabilities for maintaining explainability and accountability in AI systems. You will learn seven design principles and get implementation guidance for meeting regulatory requirements while deploying secure AI solutions. Financial…
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What IT leaders need to know about AI-fueled death fraud
Death is always an unpleasant topic, typically ignored until it is fully upon us. But for IT leaders, fraudsters who use fake death documents generated by AI to steal data and commit a wide range of other crimes are simply too dangerous to ignore. There are two different forms of these death frauds: tricking an…
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The CPU Was Left for Dead by AI. Now AI Is Bringing It Back.
Arm Holdings foresees significant demand for its chips as swarms of intelligent agents require ever-more processing capacity.
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Gimlet Labs Targets AI’s Inference Cost Problem
Gimlet Labs is going after a part of AI that isn’t exactly a household name, but shows up quickly in production. The word of the day is inference. Series A funding round by Menlo Ventures targets inference problems with AI deployment The startup raised $80 million in a Series A round led by Menlo Ventures,…
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Microsoft backtracks on Copilot Chat access in M365 apps
Microsoft is set to remove Copilot Chat access within Microsoft 365 apps such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for large M365 commercial customers starting April 15 — a “mystifying backtrack,” according to one technology industry analyst. Copilot Chat is essentially a freemium version of the paid Microsoft 365 Copilot, which costs $30 per user per…
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Auvik: Shadow IT, AI Gaps Challenge IT Teams in 2026
Auvik’s 2026 IT Trends Report finds a growing disconnect between AI ambition and operational reality, as IT teams struggle with visibility, staffing, and shadow IT despite rising budgets. While most organizations are increasing investment and expressing optimism around AI, the report shows many lack the governance, time, and infrastructure needed to translate that momentum into…
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Telemetry Pipeline: How It Works and Why It Matters in 2026
A telemetry pipeline has become a core layer in modern security operations because teams no longer send data from applications, infrastructure, and cloud services straight into a single backend and hope for the best. In 2026, most environments are distributed across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem systems, which means more services, more data sources, more formats,…
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Why Prevention Isn’t Enough: Shifting to True Operational Resilience in 2026
As cyber threats grow in sophistication and scale, traditional prevention-first security models are proving insufficient for modern enterprises. This article examines the evolution toward operational resilience, emphasizing the protection of identity systems, rapid containment, and recovery as essential capabilities. It explores how organizations can adopt an “assume breach” mindset, strengthen identity infrastructure, and build recovery-focused…
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News alert: DDoS attacks surge 150%—Gcore analysis shows faster, cheaper more frequent attacks
LUXEMBOURG, Luxembourg, March 24, 2026, CyberNewswire— Gcore, the global infrastructure and software provider for AI, cloud, network, and security solutions, today announced the findings of its Q3-Q4 2025 Gcore Radar report DDoS attack trends. The report reveals growing attack volumes, increasingly sophisticated tactics, and changes in attack locations driven by evolving botnet infrastructure. The DDoS attack…
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“It is not the customer’s job to know what they want” rings true in cyber
Ever since I embarked on the founder journey and started working on my own startup, I’ve developed different perspectives and some strong opinions about founder life. In today’s issue, I am going to share one of them – about the fact that there has never been a billion-dollar security company built based on Gartner’s* insight…
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Darktrace Launches AI-Native Email Security Service for MSSPs
Phishing emails are getting smarter, and Darktrace wants to ensure the people fighting them can keep up. Darktrace brings managed security service capabilities to the channel The Cambridge-based AI cybersecurity company announced Tuesday the launch of its first managed security service offering, built specifically for Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs), enabling partners to deliver AI-powered…
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Microsoft maps Windows 11 quality overhaul after acknowledging gaps
Microsoft is planning a broad push to improve Windows 11. The development comes just months after the company publicly admitted that the operating system fell short on performance, following user criticism. Users have been experiencing inconsistencies, recurring bugs, and performance issues. The company has now outlined a clear roadmap to enhance performance and reliability. The…
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Streamline physical security to enable data center growth in the era of AI
AI is the new space race for data centers, and consistency at speed is the rocket fuel that colocation and hyperscale providers need to reach orbit. Everything you already know about physical security still applies but it won’t matter unless you have the right plan and partnerships in place to scale without sacrificing quality. Growth…
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Lightstorm Upgrades JGA Submarine Cable with Ciena to Support 400Gbps Services Enabling Next-Generation Cloud and AI Connectivity Between Japan and Australia
COMPANY NEWS: Lightstorm, a leading cloud and AI network infrastructure platform delivering high-performance terrestrial and subsea connectivity across Asia-Pacific, today announced the successful quadrupling of client service capacity of its Japan–Guam–Australia (JGA) submarine cable system. Powered by Ciena’s WaveLogic coherent optical technology, the upgrade significantly increases capacity and performance across the JGA route. This enables scalable,…
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Water utilities strengthen cybersecurity through cooperation
Water utilities are finding that letting information flow can flush out cybersecurity problems. The water industry has a security issue: Many utilities operate with ageing systems and minimal IT or cybersecurity personnel. But by coordinating responses to cyber-attacks, participants in a pilot program run by the Cyber Readiness Institute (CRI) and the Center on Cyber…
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The dark side of chatbots with ‘personality’
They say you can find anything on Amazon. Now, you can even get a personality. Not for yourself, but for your AI “friend,” Alexa. Amazon has announced four new “conversation styles” or “personalities” for its voice-interaction Alexa+ AI chatbot. Users can now choose between “Brief,” “Chill,” “Sweet,” and “Sassy” styles and pick from a range…
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9 Best Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) Solutions in 2026
This guide is for IT leaders, network administrators, and security teams evaluating next-generation firewalls (NGFWs), and it covers how they work, key features, and what to look for in 2026 solutions. NGFWs have evolved beyond traditional firewalls to deliver deep packet inspection, application awareness, and integrated threat prevention, helping organizations defend against increasingly sophisticated attacks.…
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Intezer AI SOC removes MDR limits with autonomous triage and optimization
Intezer has expanded capabilities in its AI SOC platform designed for teams who have outgrown their traditional managed detection and response (MDR) services. Internal SOC teams can now focus on supervising outcomes rather than grinding through alerts, with Intezer providing autonomous triage and investigation, continuous optimization for their SIEM and EDR detection rules and expert…
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Jet Technologies Doubles PDQ Labels’ Digital Output with Second Screen L350 Installation
Jet Technologies has completed the installation of a second Screen Truepress Jet L350UV SAI at PDQ Labels, making it the first converter in the ANZ region with two machines, doubling its inkjet output capacity for the next phase in its digital production strategy.
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Anthropic ban heralds new era of supply chain risk — with no clear playbook
The Trump administration’s decision to ban AI company Anthropic from Pentagon assets and other government systems as a “supply chain risk” could force CISOs into a position few have faced before: preparing to identify, isolate, and potentially remove a specific AI technology from across their organizations without a clear understanding of where it resides or…
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Copilot and Claude Signal a New AI Services Market
In 2026, the conversation around AI coworkers has become a key talking point in the enterprise industry. Anthropic introduced its Claude Cowork program earlier this year, a solution that transcends traditional AI chatbots and appears capable of doing real, task-driven work on its own. Not long after, Microsoft announced its own take on an agentic…