The first vulnerability, CVE-2026-49200, is a broken access control flaw that allows unauthenticated attackers to access plaintext credentials from log archives, potentially leading to unauthorized system access.
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Anthropic grants Mythos access to 150 more organizations, plans wider release
Project Glasswing partners discovered more than 10,000 vulnerabilities in its first month.
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Sectigo Launches MCP Server for CLM
Sectigo has announced the general availability of what it says is the first globally available, production-ready Model Context Protocol server for certificate lifecycle management, expanding how enterprises can use AI agents to manage digital certificates. The MCP Server for Sectigo Certificate Manager allows administrators to perform certificate operations using natural language through MCP-compatible AI agents,…
AI, Cybersecurity, Exploits, Global Security News, Network Security
Oracle’s first monthly patch release fixes 35 flaws, including 11 rated ‘critical’
Oracle has released the first security fixes in its new monthly Critical Security Patch Update (CSPU) cycle, designed to address urgent vulnerabilities that can’t wait for the company’s quarterly patching. The initial batch addresses 35 flaws, including several for which exploit code is publicly available. In total, there are 11 flaws rated ‘critical’, 18 rated…
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How to Fight AI Brain Rot at School? For One Country, It’s With Free ChatGPT
The experiment offers one of the first large-scale looks at the effect that coordinated AI adoption can have on students’ reasoning, retention and confidence.
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Integris CEO on First Focus Acquisition, Global MSP Demand
Integris’ planned acquisition of First Focus is not just a geographic expansion play. According to founder and CEO Rashaad Bajwa, the deal gives the U.S.-based MSP a scaled platform in Australia and New Zealand at a time when SMB customers are beginning to ask harder questions about AI, data protection, and governance. First Focus expands…
Global Security News, malware
BTMOB Android RAT poses significant threat with easy-to-use builder
First identified in February 2025, BTMOB evolved from the SpySolr malware.
Global Security News, Russia
‘First VPN’ service used by cybercriminals dismantled in international operation
First VPN marketed itself on Russian-speaking cybercrime forums as a reliable tool for anonymity, offering features like anonymous payments and concealed infrastructure to help users evade law enforcement.
AI, Europe, Global Security News, Network Security, privacy, Russia
Global law enforcement operation takes First VPN offline
Police seized First VPN in a global crackdown, exposed its cybercrime users, and shut down infrastructure tied to ransomware and data theft. A major international law enforcement operation has taken First VPN offline, a service that had become a quiet staple for ransomware crews, data thieves, and other cybercriminals trying to hide in plain sight. “The coordinated…
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Cybercriminal VPN Dismantled in Europol Crackdown
First VPN, a service used by ransomware actors and fraudsters, was dismantled by Europol
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Authorities dismantle First VPN, used by ransomware actors
First VPN, a virtual private network service marketed to cybercriminals, promising anonymity for its users, was taken offline on May 19 and 20 as part of Operation Saffron. During the operation, French and Dutch authorities, with support from Europol and Eurojust, dismantled 33 servers linked to the service and interviewed the operator in Ukraine. The…
Global Security News, Network Security
Police seize “First VPN” service used in ransomware, data theft attacks
A virtual private network service called ‘First VPN,’ used in ransomware and data theft attacks, has been taken offline in a joint international law enforcement operation. […]
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Europol Seizes First VPN Used by Ransomware Gangs, Arrests Administrator
Europol has seized First VPN, a service used by ransomware gangs, arrested its administrator and gained access to data linked to thousands of users.
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Mind-Blowing Growth Is About to Propel Anthropic Into Its First Profitable Quarter
The startup expects a 130% revenue surge to $10.9 billion in the June quarter and its first operating profit, defying skeptics of the AI boom.
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GUEST ESSAY: AI can speed up communication, but it can also weaken human connection
The first warning sign came on stage. Related: Carol Sturka declares her agency I had turned to ChatGPT to help organize research notes for an upcoming keynote. I was pressed for time and wanted help spotting patterns I might have missed. That seemed harmless enough. Then the tool offered to help write the speech. I…
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The JPMorgan Sexual-Assault Lawsuit Was Already Messy. AI Is Making It Worse.
First came the scandal. Then came the deepfakes.
Exploits, Global Security News
Windows 11 and Microsoft Edge hacked at Pwn2Own Berlin 2026
On the first day of Pwn2Own Berlin 2026, security researchers collected $523,000 in cash awards after exploiting 24 unique zero-days. […]
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It’s Patch Tuesday for Microsoft and Not a Zero-Day In Sight
It’s the first time in two years with no zero-days. But with 137 flaws to patch, including nine critical ones, admins still have plenty of work to do.
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Pwn2Own Berlin 2026 Hits Capacity as Rejected Hackers Release 0-Days
Pwn2Own Berlin 2026 reportedly reached full capacity for the first time, prompting rejected researchers to publicly disclose zero-day exploits targeting Firefox, NVIDIA, and AI platforms.
AI, Apps, Endpoint, Exploits, Global Security News, malware, Network Security, Risk Management, Russia
Developer workstations are the new beachhead
I spent the first week of April reading three separate threat intelligence reports that, on the surface, had nothing in common. One covered a North Korean campaign that had published over 1,700 malicious packages across five open-source ecosystems. Another detailed a malware operation using a Zig-compiled binary to silently infect every IDE on a developer’s…
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Lyrie.ai Joins First Batch of Anthropic’s Cyber Verification Program
Dubai-founded OTT Cybersecurity LLC also unveils the Agent Trust Protocol (ATP), the first open cryptographic standard for AI agent identity, scope, and action verification — slated for IETF submission. OTT Cybersecurity LLC, the company behind Lyrie.ai, today announced two milestones that together position the company as foundational infrastructure for the agentic AI era: acceptance into…
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Object First Launching Secure, Cloud-Based Fleet Manager
Object First, a ransomware-proof on-prem backup storage organization, is launching Object First Fleet Manager, a secure, cloud-based service to simplify management of distributed Ootbi backup storage deployments for Veeam environments. The offering is now generally available and built for enterprises and service providers with distributed backup storage infrastructures. Oobti users with active support contracts get…
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CDW Q1 Sales Rise, but Margin Concerns Hit Shares
CDW delivered stronger-than-expected sales growth in the first quarter of 2026, but shrinking margins and investor worries over profitability overshadowed the company’s gains, sending shares tumbling nearly 20% on Wednesday. CDW reports stronger sales and AI demand The IT solutions provider reported rising demand for infrastructure hardware and AI-related technology projects as businesses ramped up…
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Object First Fleet Manager simplifies distributed backup storage
Object First released Object First Fleet Manager, a cloud-based service that simplifies the management of distributed Ootbi backup storage deployments for Veeam Software environments. Built for enterprises and service providers with distributed backup storage infrastructures, Fleet Manager is available to Ootbi users with active support contracts at no additional cost. As backup infrastructure becomes more…
Global Security News, Government & Policy
Supporting the National Cyber Strategy: How TrendAI™ Helps
A deeper look at the first three pillars and outlining how our capabilities directly support government agencies working to bring this strategy to life.
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How the Story of a USB Penetration Test Went Viral
Two decades ago Dark Reading posted its first blockbuster — a story from a pen tester who sprinkled rigged thumb drives around a credit union parking lot and let curious employees do the rest. This episode looks back at the history-making column with its author Steve Stasiukonis, Dark Reading senior editor Becky Bracken, and Dark…
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Managing OT risk at scale: Why OT cyber decisions are leadership decisions
The first time I approached an OT environment, I assumed that the strategies effective in IT cybersecurity would be equally applicable. I was wrong. The experience revealed a fundamental difference, highlighting the need for a distinct approach to OT cyber risk management. The mistake was not technical. It was conceptual. I was treating OT as…
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Meta Reports Big Revenue Jump and Projected Spending Increase
Meta Platforms posted its biggest quarterly revenue jump in recent history in the first quarter but said it would spend even more money to build out AI data centers this year than forecast.
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Google Reports 81% Jump in Profits, Beating Wall Street Expectations
The tech giant’s revenue rises 22% in the first quarter.
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Classic 350 Performance Explained: Built for Comfort, Torque, and Everyday Enjoyment
GUEST OPINION: The first few minutes on the Royal Enfield Classic 350 tell you everything about its idea of performance. You do not chase revs, you settle into a rhythm. It feels familiar, yet quietly refined. The throttle feels measured, the exhaust note lands like a heartbeat, and the bike seems to ask you to…
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Beam launches in Australia bringing purpose-built AI to the social services sector
First AI suite built by support workers, for support workers, lands in Melbourne to help NDIS sector respond to increasing strain 94% of support workers reported increased job satisfaction, as Beam enabled them to focus on talking to people over paperwork
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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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Tracking Corporate Layoffs in 2026
Private-sector job cuts were down 1% in the first quarter, but AI led to 40% more job cuts in tech.
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Former OpenAI research scientist launches new AI model for Tencent
Tencent has updated its Hunyuan AI model, its first major release since it recruited Yao Shunyu, a leading AI scientist from OpenAI. Tencent’s Hy3 model, currently available in preview, offers improvements in areas from complex reasoning to coding. The Chinese technology conglomerate is playing catch-up with other Chinese AI developers including ByteDance, Alibaba and DeepSeek.…
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NCSC Backs Passkeys, Hailing a New Era of Sign-in
The UK’s NCSC has fully backed passkeys as consumers’ first choice for login, citing progress with FIDO and successful use across the NHS
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A year in, Zoom’s CISO reflects on balancing security and business
In this Help Net Security interview, Sandra McLeod, CISO at Zoom, reflects on her first year in the role. She talks about moving from reactive firefighting to business strategy, and what she heard from engineers, the board, and customers during her early months. McLeod discusses how she prepared for incident management, the dual job of…
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Phishing reclaims the top initial access spot, attackers experiment with AI tools
Phishing returned as the leading method attackers used to break into organizations in the first quarter of 2026, accounting for over a third of engagements where initial access could be determined, according to Cisco Talos. It is the first quarter phishing has led the category since Q2 2025, when exploitation of public-facing applications took over…
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Network ‘background noise’ may predict the next big edge-device vulnerability
Attackers rarely exploit an edge-device vulnerability indiscriminately. Typically, they first test how widely the flaw can be used and how much access it can provide, then move on to steal data or disrupt operations. Pre-attack surveillance and planning leaves a lot of noise in its wake. These signals — particularly spikes in traffic that are…
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Introducing Canva AI 2.0: Reimagining how the world creates
We’ve always believed imagination is the most powerful force in the world. Now, for the first time, it’s also the starting point for creation. Powered by the world’s first foundation model built for creativity, say hello to Canva AI 2.0.
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Curity looks to reinvent IAM with runtime authorization for AI agents
In 2026, enterprise developers are building and deploying the first generation of powerful, increasingly autonomous AI agents at incredible speed. Now comes the hard part: working out how to secure them. Vendors in the space are facing multiple challenges. To begin with, traditional identity and access management (IAM) tools were never designed to secure anything…
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Curity looks to reinvent IAM with runtime authorization for AI agents
In 2026, enterprise developers are building and deploying the first generation of powerful, increasingly autonomous AI agents at incredible speed. Now comes the hard part: working out how to secure them. Vendors in the space are facing multiple challenges. To begin with, traditional identity and access management (IAM) tools were never designed to secure anything…
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PC sales rise in Q1 despite memory shortage — IDC
In the first quarter of 2026, 65.6 million PCs were sold worldwide, according to data released this week by IDC. That represents a 2.5% increase compared to the same quarter a year ago. The research firm attributed the increase to customers moving to buy PCs now ahead of expected significant price hikes. The fact that…
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April 2026 Patch Tuesday forecast: Spring-cleaning of a preview
I just blinked and the first quarter of the year is GONE. Where does the time go? I looked back at my article from last month where I touched on the use of AI and some of the vulnerabilities associated with it and realized it was good precursor to some themes at RSAC this year.…
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DataBench to collaborate with the First Person Cooperative
DataBench Founder and CEO David Christmas has agreed to form a partnership with First Person Cooperative, the San Francisco-based architects of the ‘First Person Initiative,’ an international multi stakeholder collaboration whose goal is to solve one of the oldest and hardest problems on the internet: how to prove you are a unique person online with…
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OPSWAT adds predictive AI engine to MetaDefender for pre-execution threat detection
OPSWAT has announced OPSWAT Predictive Alin AI, its first proprietary AI-based threat detection engine for the MetaDefender Platform. This AI-based innovation introduces a new category of capability within the MetaDefender Platform, a high-confidence predictive layer that works alongside existing detection and prevention engines to assess malicious intent before execution, driving greater efficiency across the platform.…
Global Security News, Government & Policy
U.S. Public Sector Under Siege: Threat Intelligence for Q1 2026
The first quarter of 2026 has reinforced a hard truth: U.S. government agencies and educational institutions are operating in the most hostile cyber threat environment ever recorded.
AI, Global Security News, malware, Network Security
Chaos malware expands from routers to Linux cloud servers
Chaos, Go-based malware first documented by Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs, has historically targeted routers and edge devices. A new variant observed in March 2026 shows the malware operating against misconfigured Linux cloud servers, a category of infrastructure the botnet had not previously prioritized. Darktrace’s malware research team documented the compromise through its CloudyPots program, a…
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McDonald’s CEO Responds to the Viral Big Arch Backlash
Watch as McDonald’s chief takes his first on-camera bite since going viral.
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McDonald’s CEO Responds to the Viral Big Arch Backlash
Watch as McDonald’s chief takes his first on-camera bite since going viral.
AI, Compliance, Global Security News, Government & Policy, Network Security
Introducing the Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS Universal Configuration and LZA Compliance Workbook
November 20, 2025: Date this information was first published. We’re pleased to announce the availability of the latest sample security baseline from Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS (LZA)—the Universal Configuration. Developed from years of field experience with highly regulated customers including governments across the world, and in consultation with AWS Partners and industry experts, the…
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March 2026 Leadership Moves: Google Cloud Partner Chief Departs & More
As the first quarter of 2026 comes to a close, organizations around the channel have made significant moves to their leadership teams. Key figures have been appointed, promoted, or departed from their positions to make way for new faces. Take a look around at some of the signature moves that enterprises have made as they…
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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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5 unexpected takeaways and one big prediction from RSAC
This year’s RSAC was different. A big part of that is because for the first time, I showed up not as a product leader or industry insider, but as a founder of a venture-backed cybersecurity startup. From presenting in front of George Kurtz, CJ Moses, Robert Herjavec, and Bartley Richardson as one of just six…
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BP Pulse brings EV charging power to Melbourne Airport
bp pulse has broken ground to build its first large-scale Electric Vehicle (EV) charging hub in Australia, with 24 charging bays at Melbourne Airport planned for completion in 2026.
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New macOS Infinity Stealer uses Nuitka Python payload and ClickFix
Infinity Stealer targets macOS via fake Cloudflare CAPTCHA, using Nuitka; first such campaign per Malwarebytes. Researchers at Malwarebytes spotted a new macOS infostealer, named Infinity Stealer, using a Python payload compiled with Nuitka. It spreads via ClickFix, tricking users with fake Cloudflare CAPTCHA pages. “A fake verification page instructs the visitor to open Terminal, paste…
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Baidam Appoints Anita Sheridan-Roddick As Chief Revenue Officer To Champion Growth
COMPANY ANNOUNCEMENT: Hot on the heels of being named CEO of Baidam, Australia’s leading First Nations information technology provider, Beau Hodge has appointed Anita Sheridan-Roddick (formerly National Sales Director) as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO).
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EV woes mean Honda set to record first net loss since listing in 1957
For the first time since its listing in 1957, Honda Motor, a iconic Japanese carmaker, is set to record a net loss.
AI, Data Breaches, Exploits, Global Security News, malware
TeamPCP Supply Chain Campaign: Update 001 ? Checkmarx Scope Wider Than Reported, CISA KEV Entry, and Detection Tools Available, (Thu, Mar 26th)
This is the first update to the TeamPCP supply chain campaign threat intelligence report, “When the Security Scanner Became the Weapon” (v3.0, March 25, 2026). That report covers the full campaign from the February 28 initial access through the March 24 LiteLLM PyPI compromise. This update covers developments since publication. Checkmarx ast-github-action: All 91 Tags…
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SANS: Top 5 Most Dangerous New Attack Techniques to Watch
For the first time, SANS Institute’s five top attack techniques all have one thing in common – AI.
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Kali Linux 2026.1 released with 8 new tools, new BackTrack mode
Kali Linux 2026.1, the first release of the year, is now available for download, featuring 8 new tools, a theme refresh, and a new BackTrack mode for Kali-Undercover. […]
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Darktrace Introduces Darktrace / Adaptive Human Defence, a New Generation of Personalised, Real-Time Security Training and Protection
The first solution that uses an understanding of each individual’s behavior to integrate email security controls with personalised security awareness training; training is personalised based on your inbox activity, and its outcomes used to further strengthen the email security controls in place Unique adaptive coaching tailors the difficulty and content of phishing simulations to each…
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Saviynt Unveils Industry’s First Identity Control Plane for AI Agents
COMPANY NEWS: Saviynt delivers the first enterprise-grade platform with the full capabilities to govern AI agents from discovery through runtime
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Weekly Update 496
Watching OpenClaw do its thing must be like watching the first plane take flight. It’s a bit rickety and stuck together with a lot of sticky tape, but squint and you can see the potential for agentic AI to change the world as we know it. And I don’t think that’s hyperbolic. A lot of…
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Australia’s first Semiconductor Roadmap
The Semiconductor Sector Service Bureau (S3B) has announced it is leading the development of Australia’s first National Semiconductor Roadmap, a 15-year strategic plan designed to strengthen the nation’s semiconductor capability, competitiveness and supply-chain resilience.
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Rubrik Data Protection for Google Workspace Helps Enterprise Customers Achieve End-to-End Cyber Resilience
COMPANY NEWS: One of the first unified cyber resilience platforms for Google Workspace; provides customers with comprehensive protection across data, identity, and AI Accelerates recovery of operations to minutes, from days; keeps original data and systems intact
AI, Apps, china, Europe, Global Security News, Government & Policy, Network Security, Russia
Data Centers Are Military Targets Now
In retaliation for the ongoing U.S.–Israeli war, Iran responded with a novel form of counterattack. For the first time in military history, private sector data centers came under deliberate attack. In an era when companies known for e-commerce, social networks, and search engines have also become close collaborators with militaries, is bombing their servers fair…
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Australian fintech sector to be worth $71 billion by 2035
The first comprehensive analysis of the economic contribution of the Australian fintech sector shows the sector could become a key driver of Australia’s future growth.
Cybersecurity, Global Security News
Why Cybersecurity Is Now Mission-Critical in Formula 1’s Data-Driven Era
At first glance, Formula 1 is about speed, precision, and engineering excellence. But behind the cars and the spectacle lies a less visible battleground: cybersecurity.
AI, Apps, Endpoint, Global Security News
ManageEngine Endpoint Central Advances Towards Autonomous Endpoint Security with EDR and Secure Private Access
Company Unveils the First Natively Built Platform Combining UEM, Endpoint Security (EPP with EDR), Digital Employee Experience (DEX), and Secure Private Access Introduces AI-powered endpoint threat detection and automated remediation Enforces Zero Trust access to intranet applications through device trust verification Free trial available at https://mnge.it/EDR
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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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7.2 Terawatt-Hours of Wasted Power. Shipping Containers. WinDC’s Radical Bet on Portable AI Factories in Australia – and the world!
WinDC, with help from Armada and friends, just unveiled the country’s first portable AI factory on Sydney Harbour. Their pitch: stop fighting the grid. Move the compute to where the electrons already are.
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Scans for “adminer”, (Wed, Mar 18th)
A very popular target of attackers scanning our honeypots is “phpmyadmin”. phpMyAdmin is a script first released in the late 90s, before many security concepts had been discovered. It’s rich history of vulnerabilities made it a favorite target. Its alternative, “adminer”, began appearing about a decade later (https://www.adminer.org). One of its main “selling” points was simplicity.…
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Virtue AI brings continuous stress testing to enterprise AI agents
Virtue AI has announced Agent ForgingGround with built-in Red-Teaming Agents, the first enterprise-scale testing ground designed to continuously evaluate and stress-test AI agents (including multi-agent systems) before, during, and after deployment. As organizations adopt large-scale AI agents, many enterprises are unprepared to manage agent risk. AI agents can call tools, access sensitive data, and execute…
Exploits, Global Security News
Apple Fixes WebKit Vulnerability Enabling Same-Origin Policy Bypass on iOS and macOS
Apple on Tuesday released its first round of Background Security Improvements to address a security flaw in WebKit that affects iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20643 (CVSS score: N/A), has been described as a cross-origin issue in WebKit’s Navigation API that could be exploited to bypass the same-origin policy when processing maliciously…
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Apple pushes first Background Security Improvements update to fix WebKit flaw
Apple has released its first Background Security Improvements update to fix a WebKit flaw tracked as CVE-2026-20643 on iPhones, iPads, and Macs without requiring a full operating system upgrade. […]
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Does breastmilk lose nutrients when heated? Understanding heat and milk nutrition
GUEST OPINION: Most experts agree that a baby’s first food – milk from mom – is packed with everything little ones need. Packed full of proteins, good fats, germ-fighting antibodies, natural enzymes, plus key vitamins, it fuels early growth and helps build strong defences. Since its makeup is so sensitive, plenty of caregivers stress over…
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WinDC and Armada join forces to turn Australia’s renewable energy advantage into a global AI hub
COMPANY NEWS: Australia’s first portable AI factory has arrived in Australia, built on clean energy that the national grid cannot absorb and positioned to attract global technology investment to Australian soil.
AI, Global Security News
Baidam appoints Beau Hodge as CEO
COMPANY ANNOUNCEMENT: Baidam, a leading First Nations information technology provider, has announced the appointment of Beau Hodge to the role of CEO. Hodge has held a succession of senior roles within Baidam since joining nearly five years ago.
AI, Apps, Exploits, Global Security News, Risk Management
ENISA Technical Advisory on Secure Package Managers: Essential DevSecOps Guidance
ENISA’s first Technical Advisory on Secure Package Managers helps developers safely use third-party packages. ENISA has released its first Technical Advisory on Package Managers, focusing on how developers can safely consume third-party packages. The document (March 2026, v1.1) follows public feedback incorporating 15 contributions from stakeholders, experts, and the open-source community. “This document focuses on…
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UiPath Achieves AIUC-1 Certification, Setting New Standard for AI Agent Security and Reliability
COMPANY NEWS: Agentic Automation leader becomes the first enterprise automation platform to meet independent verification standard for safe AI agent deployment
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The OT security time bomb: Why legacy industrial systems are the biggest cyber risk nobody wants to fix
When I first secured a production line, part of the control system was still running on an unpatched Windows XP machine tucked under a lab table — right next to the state-of-the-art GMP manufacturing setup that produced millions in value every day. Everyone knew that the system was a risk, but no one was willing…
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SailPoint expands AI-powered identity security with adaptive identity framework
SailPoint announced significant advancements to its AI-powered SailPoint Platform, introducing the first in a series of capabilities that advance its adaptive identity vision, an approach designed to address the critical security challenges of IT environments. New features include: Privilege: SailPoint is delivering total visibility into privilege risk with the launch of privilege discovery and classification…
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The Narwal Flow mops up the competition but its app needs reworking
It has been a decade and a half since I reviewed my first robot vacuum cleaner. It had no intelligent navigation. It simply bounced off walls at random angles. Since then we’ve seen a long list of improvements in robovacs.
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Cisco Live Amsterdam 2026: XDR + Splunk ES
Cisco Security and Splunk protected Cisco Live Amsterdam with the first conference Security Operations Center. Learn about the latest innovations for the SOC of the Future.
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Baidam and Deadly Coders join forces to ignite STEM career pathways for First Nations students
COMPANY ANNOUNCEMENT: Baidam, a leading First Nations information technology provider, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Deadly Coders, an Indigenous-owned not-for-profit dedicated to engaging Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students in STEM.
Europe, Funding, Global Security News, Government & Policy
Augur lands $15 million funding to strengthen critical infrastructure security
Augur has announced a $15 million seed round led by Plural, with participation from First Kind, SNR, Flix, and Tiny VC. The funding will support the deployment of Augur’s technology as governments, operators, and venue owners across Europe face rising security threats to vulnerable public spaces and critical national infrastructure. The changing threat landscape The…
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MISSION SUCCESS: Australian Hypersonic Pioneer Achieves First Flight
COMPANY NEWS Hypersonix’s DART AE completes its first flight, reaching hypersonic speeds greater than Mach 5, (5 times the speed of sound), after launch from NASA’s Wallops Island.
AI, Cybersecurity, Global Security News, Risk Management
AI doesn’t think like a human. Stop talking to it as if it does
Autonomous agents take the first part of their names very seriously and don’t necessarily do what their humans tell them to do — or not to do. But the situation is more complicated than that. Generative (genAI) and agentic systems operate quite differently than other systems — including older AI systems — and humans. That…
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AWS successfully completed its first surveillance audit for ISO 42001:2023 with no findings
In November 2024, Amazon Web Services (AWS) was the first major cloud service provider to announce the ISO/IEC 42001 accredited certification for AI services, covering: Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Q Business, Amazon Textract, and Amazon Transcribe. In November 2025, AWS successfully completed its first surveillance audit for ISO 42001:2023, Artificial Intelligence Management System with no findings.…
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NATO approves iPhone and iPad to handle classified info
In an impressive and unique industry first that reflects the work Apple has done on mobile device security since the first iPhone arrived almost 20 years ago, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) says iPhones and iPads running iOS 26 are secure enough to handle classified information in NATO-restricted environments — pretty much out-of-the-box. That’s going…
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ServiceNow plans automation of L1 Service Desk roles, promises more AI ‘specialists’ to come
ServiceNow plans to unleash the first member of its Autonomous Workforce, the Level 1 Service Desk AI specialist, next quarter. The agent will autonomously diagnose and resolve common IT support requests such as password resets, provisioning of software access, and network troubleshooting. It will base its actions on information from enterprise knowledge bases, historical incident…
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VAST Data Introduces Polaris to Orchestrate Globally Distributed AI Data Infrastructure Across Hybrid Multicloud Environments
Industry’s first global control plane purpose-built for AI data infrastructure spanning hyperscale cloud and datacentre deployments
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ThreatsDay Bulletin: Kali Linux + Claude, Chrome Crash Traps, WinRAR Flaws, LockBit & 15+ Stories
Nothing here looks dramatic at first glance. That’s the point. Many of this week’s threats begin with something ordinary, like an ad, a meeting invite, or a software update. Behind the scenes, the tactics are sharper. Access happens faster. Control is established sooner. Cleanup becomes harder. Here is a quick look at the signals worth…
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What really caused that AWS outage in December?
For the first time, AWS has confirmed that one of its AI systems did indeed delete and recreate one of its environments in December, shutting down part of that service for about 13 hours. What happened behind the scenes — including an aggressive AWS statement against the media outlet that initially reported the issue —…
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Roku’s New Ad Deals and Cost Cuts Help It End a Three-Year Profit Slide
Investments in digital ads help propel the streaming video platform to its first year in the black since 2021.
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HPE bets on AMD ‘Helios’ rack-scale AI and puts Ethernet at the centre of scale-up
HPE says it will be among the first vendors to offer AMD’s Helios rack-scale AI architecture, a turnkey system designed for trillion-parameter model training and high-throughput inference.
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PromptSpy abuses Gemini AI to gain persistent access on Android
PromptSpy is the first Android malware to abuse Google’s Gemini AI, enabling persistence and advanced spying features. Security researchers at ESET have uncovered PromptSpy, the first known Android malware to exploit Google’s Gemini AI to maintain persistence. The malware can capture lockscreen data, block uninstallation attempts, collect device information, take screenshots, and record screen activity…
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PromptSpy is the first Android malware to use generative AI at runtime
Researchers have discovered the first known Android malware to use generative AI in its execution flow, using Google’s Gemini model to adapt its persistence across different devices. […]
AI, Global Security News, malware
PromptSpy is the first known Android malware to use generative AI at runtime
Researchers have discovered the first known Android malware to use generative AI in its execution flow, using Google’s Gemini model to adapt its persistence across different devices. […]