Dropzone AI has released the AI Threat Hunter, its newest AI agent that enables security teams to proactively search for threats across their environments around the clock. The AI Threat Hunter is the next agent joining the Dropzone’s Agentic SOC team, expanding what AI agents can do across the full spectrum of detection and response.…
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Observability Pipeline: Managing Telemetry at Scale
Observability began as a visibility problem. Yet, today it is framed just as much as a control challenge because teams have to manage the floods of telemetry moving daily through the business environment. Most organizations already collect large volumes of logs, metrics, events, and traces. The issue now lies in managing tons of that data…
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How to Reduce MTTR in Your SOC with Better Threat Intelligence
MTTR is where strategy meets reality. In security operations, it is the margin between a contained incident and a catastrophic breach. You can have perfect detection coverage, cutting-edge telemetry, and a wall of dashboards glowing like a spaceship cockpit. But if your team takes too long to respond, the attacker still wins the clock. Reducing Mean Time to Respond is not about shaving seconds for vanity metrics. It is about compressing the window in which damage happens. And the fastest way to do that is not more alerts, but better intelligence. Key Takeaways MTTR is…
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Trump administration isn’t pushing companies to conduct cyber offense, national cyber director says
National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross said Tuesday that the Trump administration isn’t aspiring to enlist the private sector to conduct offensive cyber operations, but instead to help the government by keeping them abreast of the threats they’re facing. The recently-released national cyber strategy talks about incentivizing companies to disrupt the networks of adversaries. “I’m not…
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Nvidia CEO Huang talks up ‘tokenomics’ — the new currency for AI
AI tokens are emerging as a kind of currency that will help in recruitment, budgeting and productivity, Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang said during a keynote address at the company’s GTC conference. (The show runs through Thursday in San Jose, CA.) AI tokens will also increasingly influence the progress and bottom line of companies, Huang said.…
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Chip wafer shortage will run through 2030 as AI demand overwhelms supply: SK Hynix chief
The global shortage of semiconductor wafers will not ease before the end of the decade, SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won said, delivering one of the most definitive long-range forecasts yet from the executive of the world’s leading supplier of high-bandwidth memory chips. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of Nvidia’s GTC Conference in San Jose,…
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System-level ‘coopetition’: Why Nvidia’s DGX Rubin NVL8 runs on Intel Xeon 6
Nvidia has selected Intel’s Xeon 6 processors as the host CPUs for its Nvidia DGX Rubin NVL8 systems. The DGX Rubin NVL8 is part of Nvidia’s next flagship AI system portfolio, designed to help companies accelerate agentic AI adoption. The DGX Rubin NVL8 systems are designed for large-scale AI workloads, combining eight Rubin GPUs with…
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Vultr Adopts NVIDIA Rubin Platform Along with Dynamo & Nemotron
Cloud infrastructure company Vultr is delivering an optimized inference stack on the NVIDIA Rubin platform and adopting NVIDIA Dynamo and NVIDIA Nemotron. NVIDIA and Vultr continue a long-standing partnership These moves represent a milestone in NVIDIA and Vultr’s long-standing collaboration, providing tokenomics to support enterprises with ready-to-deploy composable cloud infrastructure that leverages NVIDIA-optimized open-source model…
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Seagate Delivers Industry’s Highest Capacity Hard Drives with Next-Generation Mozaic 4+
Industry’s only HAMR-based platform supports economic viability of AI-scale data growth
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Microsoft shuffles leadership as Copilot and AI agents reshape its core products
Microsoft is undergoing a regime change that could have a direct impact on its core business. Rajesh Jha, EVP for experiences and devices, which covers Microsoft 365 and Windows, has announced his retirement, and a succession plan. Jha will “transition out” on July 1 but remain in an advisory capacity. Interestingly, the company is appointing…
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For March, Patch Tuesday delivers fixes for 83 vulnerabilities
The team at Readiness each month analyzes the latest Patch Tuesday updates from Microsoft and provides detailed, actionable testing guidance. The March release addresses 83 vulnerabilities across Windows, Office, SQL Server, Azure, and .NET — a moderate volume with two publicly disclosed zero-days affecting SQL Server and .NET (though neither is being actively exploited in…
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Report: AI Accelerates Attacks on Trusted Identities
A recent report from ConnectWise found that attackers are increasingly exploiting trusted identities, along with remote access infrastructure and software supply chains, while AI continues to accelerate in speed and scale. 2026 MSP Threat Report shows trusted identities and legitimate tools are top targets The research, ConnectWise’s 2026 MSP Threat Report, provides global threat intelligence…
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AI Ambition Outpacing Execution in Australian Customer Experience, Study Finds
GUEST RESEARCH: Australian businesses are optimistic about AI’s potential to elevate customer experience (CX) but lack of capacity and capability may make it challenging for them to achieve the results they’re seeking in the short term.
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SOC Prime’s DetectFlow Enterprise moves threat detection to the data ingestion layer
SOC Prime has announced the release of DetectFlow Enterprise, a solution that brings real-time threat detection to the ingestion layer, turning data pipelines into detection pipelines. Running tens of thousands of Sigma detections on live Kafka streams with millisecond MTTD using Apache Flink, DetectFlow Enterprise enables security teams to detect, tag, enrich, and correlate threat…
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SOC Prime Launches DetectFlow Enterprise To Enhance Security Data Pipelines with Agentic AI
BOSTON, MA — March 12, 2026 — SOC Prime today announced the release of DetectFlow Enterprise, a solution that brings real-time threat detection to the ingestion layer, turning data pipelines into detection pipelines. Running tens of thousands of Sigma detections on live Kafka streams with millisecond MTTD using Apache Flink, DetectFlow Enterprise enables security teams…
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News alert: Qevlar AI raises $30M to turn security alerts into actionable defense insights across SOCs
PARIS, March 10, 2026 — Qevlar AI, a leader in AI for transforming security operations centres (SOCs), has raised $30 million in funding for its autonomous AI SOC platform. The funding will support development of technology designed to turn alert investigations into security insights that help SOC teams strengthen their overall security posture. The round…
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It looks like Macs are becoming the value option
If I happened to be one of Apple’s newly-introduced M5 MacBook Pro systems, I would feel a bit as if the equally new MacBook Neo had just strutted into the party like the star of the song. Yes, the incredibly disruptive Neo is a strong option for almost anyone who needs an affordable general purpose computer. But let’s not…
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SolarWinds: 77% of IT Teams Lack Visibility Across Environments
Seventy-seven percent of IT teams lack full visibility across on-prem and cloud environments, according to SolarWinds’ 2026 State of Monitoring & Observability Report. The study examines how IT teams are navigating increasingly fragmented hybrid environments and how AI is reshaping modern observability. Balancing legacy and cloud IT environments SolarWinds, in partnership with UserEvidence, surveyed more…
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Microsoft seeks a stay on DoD’s effective ban on Anthropic offerings
Microsoft is urging a federal court in California to temporarily pause the US Department of Defense’s (DoD) effective ban on Anthropic’s AI offerings, arguing that the government’s “supply chain risk” label could have significant knock-on effects for its own defense technology business. In a filing backing Anthropic’s request for emergency relief, the company said the…
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March Patch Tuesday: Three high severity holes in Microsoft Office
Three high severity holes in Microsoft’s Office suite headline the 78 issues listed in the March Patch Tuesday releases, which, grateful CSOs will notice, contain no surprise zero day vulnerabilities. Still, Jack Bicer, director of vulnerability research at Action1, says these Office-related flaws should be treated “with urgency.” “Productivity tools remain one of the most…
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AI use can fry your brain, HBR study finds
A new study warns of the dangers of “brain fry” — a form of mental exhaustion linked to intensive AI use. The condition is described as mental fatigue that can occur when people use AI tools to an extent that exceeds their cognitive capacity. Symptoms can include mental fog, difficulty concentrating, slower decision-making, and sometimes…
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DroneShield Establishes European Manufacturing Footprint to Advance Sovereign Counter-UAS Capability
DroneShield (ASX:DRO) today announced the establishment of counter-UAS manufacturing in the EU, marking a major expansion of the Company’s European industrial footprint and manufacturing capacity. The announcement follows increased momentum across the continent, with national military investments growing under the ReArm Europe Plan / Readiness 2030 initiative, accelerating the need for mature, scalable, and sovereign…
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Powering Cyber Resilience Across APAC: Celebrating Check Point’s APAC FY25 Partner Award Winners
Recognising Excellence, Innovation, and Impact Across the Region
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Job disruption by AI remains limited — and traditional metrics may be missing the real impact
AI’s impact on human jobs is a hot topic of late, with all kinds of forecasting, reporting, and sounding of alarm bells. But two new analyses seem to indicate that AI isn’t yet fundamentally disrupting the employment landscape, and that traditional metrics don’t accurately capture its actual impact on work. According to a job cut…
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Oracle Faces Layoffs Amid Costly AI Push
Oracle is apparently preparing to cut thousands of jobs as the company ramps up spending on AI. Or, more specifically, the infrastructure needed to support AI workloads. The layoffs could begin as soon as this month and would affect multiple divisions, according to reports. The move comes as Oracle pours billions into building data centers…
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Anthropic Claude Opus AI model discovers 22 Firefox bugs
Anthropic used Claude Opus 4.6 to identify 22 Firefox vulnerabilities, most of which were high severity, all of which were fixed in Firefox 148, released in January 2026. Anthropic discovered 22 security vulnerabilities in Firefox using its Claude Opus 4.6 AI model in January 2026. Mozilla addressed these issues in Firefox 148. The researchers state…
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Submarine cables move to the center of critical infrastructure security debate
The cables running along the ocean floor carry the overwhelming majority of the world’s cross-border data traffic, and for most of their operational history they have attracted little strategic attention. That is changing. A new sector report from Capacity Insights draws on interviews with senior executives across the subsea industry to examine how demand growth,…
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Trump’s cyber strategy emphasizes offensive operations, deregulation, AI
The White House released President Donald Trump’s long-awaited cybersecurity strategy, a lean seven-page blueprint that breaks from past approaches by placing offensive cyber operations at the center of US policy. Developed by the Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD), the strategy emphasizes disrupting adversaries, deregulating industry, and accelerating the adoption of artificial intelligence while…
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The long-awaited Trump cyber strategy has arrived
President Donald Trump released his administration’s cyber strategy Friday, promoting offense operations in cyberspace, securing federal networks and critical infrastructure, streamlining regulations, leveraging emerging technologies and strengthening the cybersecurity workforce. Trump also signed an executive order Friday directing agencies to take action to combat cybercrime and fraud. A little more than half of the five…
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Channel M&A Roundup: February 2026 Consolidation Trends
During the month of February, the channel witnessed several key acquisitions and a couple of mergers aimed at increasing revenue and supporting partners. Among the moves are acquisitions by 11:11 Systems, Scale Computing, and Proofpoint, which continue to pursue strategic acquisitions to grow their businesses and expand their services. Proofpoint acquires Acuvity Cybersecurity and compliance…
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VulnCheck Raises $25M to Expand Channel Threat Intelligence
VulnCheck has raised $25 million in Series B funding as demand grows for exploit intelligence platforms that help enterprises and government agencies respond to vulnerabilities in real time. The cybersecurity company plans to use the capital to expand its threat intelligence capabilities and scale its global channel partner program. We spoke with Mike Deskewies, head…
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SIEM vs Log Management: Observability, Telemetry, and Detection
Security teams are no longer short on data. They are drowning in it. Cloud control plane logs, endpoint telemetry, identity events, SaaS audit trails, application logs, and network signals keep expanding, while the SOC is still expected to deliver faster detection and cleaner investigations. That is why SIEM vs log management is not just a…
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February 2026 Recap: Channel Sees New Hires in a Variety of Roles
January saw a flurry of organizations hiring for the new year, including many CEOs. So many, in fact, that it required a Part 1 and Part 2. February’s leadership changes include several impactful hires from organizations such as QuSecure, Syncro, ConnectWise, and KnowBe4. Channel Insider takes a look around the channel each month to round…
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U.S. CISA adds Qualcomm and Broadcom VMware Aria Operations flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Qualcomm and Broadcom VMware Aria Operations flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Google Chromium CSS, Microsoft Windows, TeamT5 ThreatSonar Anti-Ransomware, and Zimbra flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Below are the flaws added to the catalog: CVE-2026-22719 (CVSS…
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Anthropic won’t kill cyber, but it will kill some companies
Over the past several weeks, social media has been exploding with predictions that “cyber is dead”. It doesn’t take much insight to jump on that bandwagon, as Anthropic’s announcement of Claude Code Security indeed sent the cybersecurity public market into turmoil, with some companies losing as much as 20% of their market cap. Contrary to…
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What is digital employee experience — and why is it more important than ever?
On any given day, an organization’s employees might be using smartphones, laptops, desktop computers, tablets, a variety of cloud and networking services, a host of enterprise applications and mobile apps, and other digital tools. Many of them might be working remotely, and nearly all of them will be operating with tight security and data privacy…
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The FBI’s cyber chief is using Winter SHIELD to accelerate China prep, threat intelligence sharing
The FBI’s cyber chief is prioritizing preparation for stepped-up Chinese threats, enhanced confrontation of adversaries in cyberspace and quicker intelligence sharing with industry as the bureau enters the second and final month of a unique cybersecurity awareness campaign. Brett Leatherman, who took over as assistant director of the FBI’s cyber division last summer, listed those…
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Amazon Leads Massive OpenAI Capital and Compute Deal
OpenAI just announced that it has raised $110 billion in a single private funding round, led by Amazon with significant contributions from Nvidia and SoftBank. The deal values the company at roughly $840 billion after the investment, according to Reuters. Amazon’s $50 billion followed by $30 billion each from NVIDIA and SoftBank The breakdown is…
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pureLiFi unveils LiFi architecture to extend gigabit capacity indoors
pureLiFi is addressing a key fixed wireless access (FWA) challenge by delivering reliable indoor signal performance through LiFi, a wireless communication technology that transmits data through the light spectrum instead of traditional radio frequencies. The latest LiFi systems leverage technology trusted by international security agencies for classified networks, demonstrating that LiFi’s capacity and military-grade security…
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Innovation without exposure: A CISO’s secure-by-design framework for business outcomes
The brief for security leaders has changed. It used to be enough to reduce risk and keep the lights on. Now you are expected to enable AI adoption, connect more “things” to the network, modernize cloud at pace and still demonstrably reduce exposure, often without the comfort of ever-expanding budgets. In that environment, innovation is…
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Cheap enterprise PCs? Not anytime soon — analysts
Historic price hikes for PCs are likely to linger for a long time, prompting many enterprises to put hardware upgrades on hold, analysts said. PC prices — for both enterprise and consumer buyers — are expected to jump by about 17% this year, Gartner analyst Ranjit Atwal told Computerworld. And the era of the $500…
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Firmus signs multi-year agreement with global hyperscale customer
Firmus Technologies (“Firmus”) has signed a long-term contract with aleading global technology company for dedicated AI infrastructure capacity at Project Southgate’s first deployment in Australia.
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Firmus signs multi-year agreement with global hyperscale customer
Firmus Technologies (“Firmus”) has signed a long-term contract with a leading global technology company for dedicated AI infrastructure capacity at Project Southgate’s first deployment in Australia.
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OpenAI launches stateful AI on AWS, signaling a control plane power shift
Stateless AI, in which a model offers one-off answers without context from previous sessions, can be helpful in the short-term but lacking for more complex, multi-step scenarios. To overcome these limitations, OpenAI is introducing what it is calling, naturally, “stateful AI.” The company has announced that it will soon offer a stateful runtime environment in…
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Juniper PTX Flaw Could Allow Full Router Takeover
Juniper Networks has disclosed a critical vulnerability in Junos OS Evolved that could allow an unauthenticated attacker to gain root-level control of affected PTX Series routers. These routers are widely used in service provider, telecom, and cloud environments. The vulnerability “… allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to execute code as root,” said the company in…
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Zero-Days, Data Breaches, and AI Risks Define This Week’s Cybersecurity Landscape
Major Threats & Vulnerabilities Zero-Day Exploits and Critical CVEs Cisco SD-WAN Zero-Day Grants Root Access has been actively exploited since 2023, allowing attackers to bypass authentication and gain root privileges. Cisco urges administrators to patch immediately, secure management planes, and monitor for rogue peers. ServiceNow AI Platform Vulnerability could allow unauthenticated remote code execution through…
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Global Memory Shortage Deepens Amid AI Surge
The global memory shortage is intensifying as AI-driven data center memory demand accelerates, forcing OEM price hikes and reshaping procurement strategies for MSPs and IT resellers. AI data center memory demand accelerates DRAM, HBM shortage The issue is simple but severe. AI servers demand far more memory than consumer devices. High-bandwidth memory (HBM), used to…
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Why application security must start at the load balancer
For a long time, I thought of the load balancer as a performance device. Its job was to distribute traffic, improve uptime, and make applications feel fast. Security was something that happened elsewhere, on firewalls, inside WAFs or deep in the application code. That perspective changed early in my consulting career. I worked with a…
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Ransomware groups switch to stealthy attacks and long-term access
Ransomware attackers are switching tactics in favor of more stealthy infiltration, as the threat of public exposure of sensitive corporate data is becoming the main mechanism of extortion. Picus Security’s annual red-teaming report shows attackers shifting away from loud disruption toward quiet, long-term access — or from “predatory” smash-and-grab tactics to “parasitic” silent residency. Four…
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Concentric AI Inks ANZ Distribution Deal with Sektor
Concentric AI has signed a distribution agreement with cyber and information security distributor Sektor, marking its latest effort to expand into the Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) markets. Under the agreement, Sektor will serve as Concentric AI’s authorized distributor across the ANZ region, supporting regional channel partners, resellers, MSSPs, and system integrators with enablement, go-to-market…
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The farmers and the mercenaries: Rethinking the ‘human layer’ in security
There’s a phrase that’s become gospel in cybersecurity: “Employees are the last line of defense.” We’ve built an entire industry around it. Billions of dollars in security awareness programs, mandatory simulations and user-reporting workflows across endpoints, applications and collaboration tools. All predicated on a premise that sounds reasonable until you examine what we’re actually asking.…
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Google GTIG disrupted China-linked APT UNC2814 halting attacks on 53 orgs in 42 countries
Google and partners disrupted UNC2814, a suspected China-linked group that hacked 53 organizations across 42 countries. Google, with industry partners, disrupted the infrastructure of UNC2814, a suspected China-linked cyber espionage group that breached at least 53 organizations in 42 countries. The group has been active since at least 2017, and was spotted targeting governments and…
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Finding Signal in the Noise: Lessons Learned Running a Honeypot with AI Assistance [Guest Diary], (Tue, Feb 24th)
[This is a Guest Diary by Austin Bodolay, an ISC intern as part of the SANS.edu BACS program] Over the past several months, I have gained practical insight into the challenges of deploying and operating a honeypot, even within a relatively simple environment. This work highlighted how varying hardware, software, and network design—can significantly alter…
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The CLAIR Model: A Synthesized Conceptual Framework for Mapping Critical Infrastructure Interdependencies [Guest Diary], (Wed, Feb 25th)
[This is a guest diary contributed by Claire Perry (LinkedIn)] The structural integrity of modern society is predicated upon a dense and often opaque network of interconnected systems. For decades, the modeling of these systems remained siloed within specific domains: industrial processes were governed by the hierarchical constraints of the Purdue Model, while corporate…
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Across party lines and industry, the verdict is the same: CISA is in trouble
“Decimated.” “Amateur hour.” “Pretty much fallen apart.” “It’s really hard to find something positive to say right now.” It’s been a little more than one year into the second Trump administration, and there’s a large consensus, if not total unanimity, among those who have worked with and for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency: It…
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Lazarus APT group deployed Medusa Ransomware against Middle East target
North Korea’s Lazarus Group used Medusa ransomware in an attack on an unnamed Middle East organization, researchers report. The North Korea-linked Lazarus APT Group, also known as Diamond Sleet and Pompilus, has been spotted deploying Medusa ransomware against an unnamed organization in the Middle East, according a new report from the Symantec and Carbon Black…
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Boards don’t need cyber metrics — they need risk signals
Security teams live in a world of numbers. Dashboards depict counts of blocked attacks, phishing clicks, vulnerabilities discovered, patches applied, alerts triaged, and incidents closed. Over the past decade, the cybersecurity industry has become adept at measuring activity with increasing precision. Experts say what remains far less consistent is whether those measurements help boards govern…
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VMware Aria Vulnerabilities Expose RCE Risk
Broadcom has disclosed three vulnerabilities in VMware Aria Operations, including one that could allow unauthenticated remote code execution during product migrations. One of the flaws, CVE-2026-22719, can allow an attacker “… to execute arbitrary commands which may lead to remote code execution in VMware Aria Operations while support-assisted product migration is in progress,” said Broadcom…
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What Is a Security Data Pipeline Platform: Key Benefits for Modern SOC
Security teams are drowning in telemetry: cloud logs, endpoint events, SaaS audit trails, identity signals, and network data. Yet many programs still push everything into a SIEM, hoping detections will sort it out later. The problem is that “more data in the SIEM” doesn’t automatically translate into better detection. It often translates into chaos. Many…
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VMware Aria Operations flaws could enable remote attacks
Broadcom patched multiple VMware Aria Operations flaws, including high-severity issues that could enable remote code execution. Broadcom has released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities affecting VMware Aria Operations. VMware Aria Operations is an IT operations management platform that helps organizations monitor and optimize virtual, cloud, and hybrid environments. It provides performance monitoring, capacity planning,…
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Snowflake Cortex Code Expands Towards Supporting Any Data, Anywhere
COMPANY NEWS: Cortex Code CLI extends beyond Snowflake workflows to support popular data systems starting with dbt and Apache Airflow®, delivering AI assistance across environments, regardless of where that data lives Developers can apply Snowflake’s secure, context-aware AI coding agent directly within their environments to build and optimise data pipelines more efficiently Cortex Code CLI…
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Ransomware, Zero-Days, and Data Breaches Shape This Week’s Cybersecurity Landscape
This week, a Dell vulnerability is being actively exploited, an Apache flaw allows bypass of RBAC, and over 41% of OpenClaw skills are vulnerable. Major Threats & Vulnerabilities Zero-Day Vulnerabilities A zero-day vulnerability in Dell RecoverPoint is being actively exploited to deploy web shells and backdoors in VMware environments. This highlights the urgent need for…
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With ‘Frontier,’ OpenAI hopes to own the enterprise agent stack
With its new Frontier platform, announced earlier this month, OpenAI is looking to position itself as the best option for managing enterprise AI agents. But to succeed, the company that delivered the popular ChatGPT in 2022 will need to show it can manage the complexity of large-scale agent deployments — and do so better than …
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CVE-2026-1731 fuels ongoing attacks on BeyondTrust remote access products
Attackers are exploiting CVE-2026-1731 in BeyondTrust RS and PRA to deploy VShell, gain persistence, move laterally, and control compromised systems. Threat actors are actively exploiting a recently disclosed critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-1731 (CVSS score: 9.9), in BeyondTrust Remote Support (RS) and Privileged Remote Access (PRA). The flaw is being used to conduct a wide…
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Attackers exploit Ivanti EPMM zero-days to seize control of MDM servers
Attackers are actively exploiting two critical zero-day vulnerabilities in Ivanti’s Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) to gain unauthenticated control of enterprise mobile device management infrastructure and install backdoors engineered to persist even after organizations apply available patches. “Two critical zero-day vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-1281 and CVE-2026-1340) affecting Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) are being actively exploited in the wild, affecting…
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Apache Tomcat Vulnerability Circumvents Access Rules
A vulnerability in Apache Tomcat enables users to bypass certain access controls by leveraging legacy HTTP/0.9 requests. Under specific configurations, the issue could allow attackers to circumvent defined security constraints. “If a security constraint was configured to allow HEAD requests to a URI but deny GET requests, the user could bypass that constraint on GET…
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Genetec’s Framework for Long-Term Technological Leadership
At the Genetec Global Press Summit ‘26 in Montreal, Canada, Genetec CEO and President Pierre Racz spoke about long-running pillars for technological leadership: cooperation, architecture, and truth. Why Racz believes cooperation is the key to lasting tech relationships Racz highlighted that values-based cooperation is a strategic foundation, emphasizing the relational over technical. The cooperation between…
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Apple’s enterprise partners evolve their channel approach
Enterprise tech markets are complex, not just because of technology but also because every business has different needs, strategies, compliance requirements, and customers. The diversity means that when it comes to tech deployment, channel resellers play an important role in tech purchasing. The role of channel resellers “We’re seeing tremendous momentum around Mac in the…
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Delinea Appoints Three Senior Leaders to Accelerate Growth Across EMEA and APAC
COMPANY ANNOUNCEMENT: Strategic hires underscore continued international expansion and investment in customer and partner success
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Keeping Google Play & Android app ecosystems safe in 2025
Posted by Vijaya Kaza, VP and GM, App & Ecosystem Trust The Android ecosystem is a thriving global community built on trust, giving billions of users the confidence to download the latest apps. In order to maintain that trust, we’re focused on ensuring that apps do not cause real-world harm, such as malware, financial fraud,…
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Ivanti EPMM Vulnerabilities Actively Exploited in the Wild
Two vulnerabilities in Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) are being actively exploited in the wild, putting thousands of enterprise mobile management systems at risk. The flaws allow unauthenticated attackers to remotely execute arbitrary code on vulnerable servers, potentially giving them full control over corporate mobile device management (MDM) environments. “Palo Alto Networks Cortex Xpanse has…
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Chinese hackers exploited zero-day Dell RecoverPoint flaw for 1.5 years
For the past 18 months, a Chinese cyberespionage group has been exploiting a prevously unknown vulnerability in Dell’s RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines, a VM disaster recovery solution. The flaw, patched by Dell this week, allows unauthenticated attackers to gain command execution on the underlying OS as root. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-22769, stems from hardcoded…
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Zero-Day in Dell RecoverPoint Enables GRIMBOLT Backdoor
A zero-day vulnerability in Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines is being actively exploited to deploy backdoors and pivot deeper into enterprise networks. The flaw has reportedly been abused since at least mid-2024 by a suspected China-linked threat cluster. “Beyond the Dell appliance exploitation, Mandiant observed the actor employing novel tactics to pivot into VMware virtual…
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Sonnet 4.6 Explained: Anthropic’s New Mid-Tier Model Is Here
Claude Sonnet 4.6 dropped today, and the headline isn’t just “it’s better.” It’s that developers with early access preferred it over Anthropic’s own top-tier Opus model 59% of the time. That’s the cheaper model beating the expensive one. First up, the tl;dr If you only have two minutes, here’s what you need to know. Sonnet…
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One Process, Every Metric: How Better Alert Enrichment Transforms SOC Performance
Every security alert represents a decision point. Act too slowly, and a threat becomes a breach. Act without context, and analysts drown in noise. At the center of both failure modes is a single, often underestimated process: alert enrichment. Key Takeaways Alert enrichment is the operational multiplier. Its quality determines the effectiveness of every other SOC investment — detection tools, SIEM…
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ArmorText Debuts Sovereign Edition for Operational Resilience
ArmorText, an organization dedicated to safeguarding communication globally for organizations, has debuted ArmorText Sovereign Edition. ArmorText Sovereign Edition built to support collaboration as geopolitical security risks rise This new solution enables deployment of globally reachable, multi-tenant secure communications hosted entirely on local infrastructure to ensure communication continuity even when connectivity is disrupted. The Edition addresses…
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ArmorText Debuts Sovereign Edition for Operational Resilience
ArmorText, an organization dedicated to safeguarding communication globally for organizations, has debuted ArmorText Sovereign Edition. ArmorText Sovereign Edition built to support collaboration as geopolitical security risks rise This new solution enables deployment of globally reachable, multi-tenant secure communications hosted entirely on local infrastructure to ensure communication continuity even when connectivity is disrupted. The Edition addresses…
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CVE-2026-22769: Critical Dell RecoveryPoint Zero-Day Exploited in the Wild
SOC Prime has recently covered a wave of actively exploited zero-days across major ecosystems, including Apple’s CVE-2026-20700 and Microsoft’s CVE-2026-20805, alongside a fresh Chrome zero-day case. But the avalanche of threats keeps marching into 2026. Recently, researchers from Mandiant and Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) detailed the active exploitation of CVE-2026-22769, a maximum-severity hardcoded-credential vulnerability…
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Successful upsizing of debt capacity from $450 million to $500 million
Macquarie Technology Group Limited (ASX: MAQ) is pleased to announce the successful completion of a $50 million incremental debt facility, increasing MAQ’s secured revolving loan facility to $500 million.
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Discipline is the new power move in cybersecurity leadership
For years, I was fortunate to live many years, earning enough budget to deploy cybersecurity programs. I worked the same playbook: run a risk assessment, show a few quick wins, build a business case and the budget would follow. It took effort, but after a few cycles, the process almost felt predictable. One recent experience…
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The defense industrial base is a prime target for cyber disruption
Cyber threats against the defense industrial base (DIB) are intensifying, with adversaries shifting from traditional espionage toward operations designed to disrupt production capacity and compromise supply chains. In this Help Net Security interview, Luke McNamara, Deputy Chief Analyst, Google Threat Intelligence Group, explains how attackers target the broader defense ecosystem and why identity has become…
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Chinese hackers exploited a Dell zero-day for 18 months before anyone noticed
Researchers uncovered more worrying details about a long-running cyber espionage campaign suspected to be backed by the Chinese government, exemplifying how such attacks often go undetected until they’ve already caused significant damage. Google Threat Intelligence Group and Mandiant said the Chinese threat group UNC6201 has been exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual…
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CVE-2026-25903 Impacts Apache NiFi Users
A vulnerability has been disclosed that potentially impacts organizations using Apache NiFi to manage data pipelines. The issue could allow lower-privileged users to modify restricted components within a data flow due to missing authorization checks. “The missing authorization requires a more privileged user to add a restricted component to the flow configuration, but permits a…
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New report finds APAC enterprises facing agentic AI technical challenges
GUEST RESEARCH: APAC-based organisations experience the largest technical hurdles in agentic AI
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Why ‘secure-by-design’ systems are non-negotiable in the AI era
Moody’s recently reported that global investment in data centers will surpass $3 trillion over the next five years, driven by AI capacity growth and hyperscaler demand. As big tech companies, banks, and institutional investors pour capital into these projects, data center developers and their financial sponsors must prioritze cybersecurity. Moody’s said that data center investments…
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Real-time Analytics News for the Week Ending February 14
In this week’s real-time analytics news: Apache Software Foundation (ASF) announced that Apache HugeGraph has become a Top-Level Project (TLP). The post Real-time Analytics News for the Week Ending February 14 appeared first on RTInsights.
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Real-time Analytics News for the Week Ending February 14
In this week’s real-time analytics news: Apache Software Foundation (ASF) announced that Apache HugeGraph has become a Top-Level Project (TLP). The post Real-time Analytics News for the Week Ending February 14 appeared first on RTInsights.
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FTC digs deeper into Microsoft’s bundling and licensing practices
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) seems to be doubling down on its investigation of Microsoft and the tech giant’s potentially shady bundling and licensing practices. According to a Bloomberg report, the federal agency has been issuing civil investigative demands (CIDs) to companies that compete with Microsoft in the business software and cloud computing markets.…
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FTC digs deeper into Microsoft’s bundling and licensing practices
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) seems to be doubling down on its investigation of Microsoft and the tech giant’s potentially shady bundling and licensing practices. According to a Bloomberg report, the federal agency has been issuing civil investigative demands (CIDs) to companies that compete with Microsoft in the business software and cloud computing markets.…
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New threat actor UAT-9921 deploys VoidLink against enterprise sectors
A new threat actor, UAT-9921, uses the modular VoidLink framework to target technology and financial organizations, Cisco Talos reports. Cisco Talos spotted a previously unknown threat actor, tracked as UAT-9921, using a new modular attack framework called VoidLink. The group targets organizations in the technology and financial services sectors. The flexible design of VoidLink suggests…
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Acting CISA chief says DHS funding lapse would limit, halt some agency work
Acting Director Madhu Gottumukkala said it could affect everything from responding to threats to finalizing CIRCIA regulations.
The post Acting CISA chief says DHS funding lapse would limit, halt some agency work appeared first on CyberScoop.
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News alert: GitGuardian raises $50M to tackle non-human identities crisis, AI agent security gap
NEW YORK, Feb. 11, 2026, CyberNewswire — GitGuardian, a leading secrets and Non-Human Identity (NHI) security platform and #1 app on GitHub Marketplace, today announced a $50 million Series C funding round led by global software investor Insight Partners… (more…)
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Kimwolf Botnet Swamps Anonymity Network I2P
For the past week, the massive “Internet of Things” (IoT) botnet known as Kimwolf has been disrupting The Invisible Internet Project (I2P), a decentralized, encrypted communications network designed to anonymize and secure online communications. I2P users started reporting disruptions in the network around the same time the Kimwolf botmasters began relying on it to evade…
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Task management software gets an agentic boost
The digital workplace has outgrown the simple project checklists you may have once associated with task management apps. The software has moved from passive repositories for to-do lists to active participants in workflows. In 2026, the biggest shift in task management applications is the rise of agentic AI. The category has moved from simple automation…
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CISOs must separate signal from noise as CVE volume soars
In 2026, the cybersecurity industry is expected to cross a threshold it has never reached before: More than 50,000 publicly disclosed software vulnerabilities in a single year. According to a new forecast from the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST), the median projection for 2026 is roughly 59,000 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs).…
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SolarWinds WHD zero-days from January are under attack
SolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD) is under attack, with recent incidents exploiting a chain of zero-day and patched vulnerabilities dating back to late 2025, an analysis of customer reports by security company Huntress has found. Until now, it has been unclear which combination of recent WHD vulnerabilities were behind a series of compromises of customer…
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Java Adoption Accelerates for AI Workloads, Azul Survey Finds
Java is increasingly being positioned as a core language for enterprise AI development, even as organizations accelerate plans to move away from Oracle Java due to pricing and licensing concerns, according to Azul’s newly released 2026 State of Java Survey & Report. The annual study is based on responses from more than 2,000 Java professionals…
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SecureW2 Debuts Global Channel Program
Passwordless security leader SecureW2 is launching its new global partner program. Stephen Newhauser tapped to lead new program and drive partner revenue growth The Nexus partner program is designed to drive growth, open new revenue streams, and offer high rewards through a performance-based tiering framework aligned to partner engagement and deal involvement. The program will…
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How to govern agentic AI so as not to lose control
This year will mark the turning point where artificial intelligence will stop assisting and start acting. We will witness a qualitative leap towards agent-based or agentive AI, capable of making autonomous decisions, managing complex workflows, and executing end-to-end tasks without constant intervention. However, this autonomy carries with it a serious warning for businesses: the ability…
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Anthropic’s DXT poses “critical RCE vulnerability” by running with full system privileges
When LayerX Security published a report on Monday describing what it called “a critical zero-click RCE vulnerability in [Anthropic’s] Claude Desktop Extensions (DXT) that allows a malicious Google Calendar invite to silently compromise an entire system,” analysts, consultants, security leaders, and even Anthropic didn’t dispute the facts. But the revelation did reignite the debate about…