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,…
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California AG sues 23andMe over 2023 breach exposing health data
California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit against 23andMe, now Chrome Holding Co., over the company’s failure to protect sensitive customer genetic and personal information. […]
AI, Cybersecurity, Europe, Funding, Global Security News, Government & Policy
Federal audit reveals NIST’s NVD is plagued by poor planning and duplication
A Department of Commerce inspector general report released Thursday found that the National Institute of Standards and Technology has mismanaged a critical cybersecurity vulnerability database through poor planning, inefficient operations, duplicate federal programs, and failure to communicate with users. The National Vulnerability Database, maintained by NIST since 2005, collects information about computer security flaws and…
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Anthropic confirms Claude Mythos-class models will roll out to the public
Anthropic has confirmed that it plans to bring Mythos-class models to the general public after delaying the rollout due to security risks to public and private software. […]
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AGI could be here in three years, says DeepMind CEO
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis believes progress toward artificial general intelligence (AGI) is moving faster than expected and that society now has only a few years to prepare. He believes AGI could arrive around 2030, though acknowledges it could be here in 2029 — or even sooner. In an interview with Axios, Hassabis said that…
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Tenable Hexa AI automates remediation across attack surfaces
Tenable has announced the general availability of Tenable Hexa AI, the agentic AI engine of the Tenable One Exposure Management Platform. Tenable Hexa AI is an advanced agentic AI for cybersecurity solution, equipped with advanced multi-step reasoning and Model Context Protocol (MCP) support, enabling custom agent building and workflows that accelerate risk reduction at machine…
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General Motors to pay $12.75 million over driver data sales
General Motors has agreed to a $12.75 million settlement with California over allegations that it unlawfully sold drivers’ location and behavioral data to brokers, marking the largest penalty in the history of the state’s Consumer Privacy Act. Prosecutors say GM made approximately $20 million nationwide from the sales. “General Motors sold the data of California…
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Sam Altman’s Business Dealings Under GOP Scrutiny Ahead of OpenAI’s IPO
The Republican-led House Oversight Committee says it is investigating, and six GOP state attorneys general are calling for SEC review after a WSJ article.
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GM agrees to $12.75M California settlement over sale of drivers’ data
California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced a proposed $12.75 million settlement agreement with General Motors (GM) over allegations that the company violated the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). […]
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Transilience AI unveils Security Operating System for cloud remediation
Transilience AI has announced the general availability of its Full Stack Security Operating System for the cloud, platform designed to solve one of enterprise security’s most persistent challenges: bridging the gap between detection and remediation. New platform replaces fragmented tool sprawl with an agent-powered, human-guided second brain, moving security posture from Detected to Eliminated. Cloud…
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Kloudfuse 4.0 delivers AI-governed observability and scalable workload isolation
Kloudfuse has announced the general availability of Kloudfuse 4.0. The release helps enterprises meet rising compliance requirements, adopt AI-driven observability with production-grade governance, and scale their observability infrastructure without platform bottlenecks, while keeping every byte of telemetry data inside their own cloud environment. Kloudfuse 4.0 addresses three converging pressures: the FIPS 140-2 sunset on September…
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux adds post-quantum security and AI-driven automation in latest releases
Red Hat has announced the upcoming general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.2 and 9.8. Building on the innovation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, the latest versions help address security threats, speed AI innovation and minimize operational drift. What Red Hat announced Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.2 and 9.8 provide a strategic and…
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Ten years later, has the GDPR fulfilled its purpose?
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the EU’s adoption of the General Data Protection Regulation, which became mandatory for all companies beginning on May 25, 2018. The aim of the GDPR was simple, but important: to improve individuals’ control over their personal data. This regulation replaced Directive 95/46/EC with the clear purpose of unifying data…
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Cequence Agent Personas bring granular control and governance to enterprise AI agents
Cequence Security has announced the general availability of Agent Personas in Cequence AI Gateway. These capabilities give enterprises granular, infrastructure-level control over what AI agents can do, down to individual tool calls, closing a critical privilege gap that identity alone cannot address. As organizations deploy AI agents to connect to enterprise applications via the Model…
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NASA Employees Duped in Chinese Phishing Scheme Targeting U.S. Defense Software
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has revealed how a Chinese national posed as a U.S. researcher as part of a spear-phishing campaign to obtain sensitive information from the space agency, as well as from government entities, universities, and private companies, in violation of export control…
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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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NAKIVO v11.2: Ransomware Defense, Faster Replication, vSphere 9, and Proxmox VE 9.0 Support
NAKIVO Inc. announced the general availability of NAKIVO Backup & Replication v11.2, focused on fast, reliable, and proactive data protection. […]
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Anthropic in Talks to Invest $200 Million in New Private-Equity Venture
General Atlantic, Blackstone, and Hellman & Friedman are among the private-equity firms in discussions to back the project.
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GitHub-hosted malware campaign uses split payload to evade detection
A large-scale malware delivery campaign has been targeting developers, gamers, and general users through fake tools hosted on GitHub, Netskope researchers have warned. These “lures” are highly polished and appear legitimate, occasionally mimicking real projects, thus making them difficult to distinguish from safe software. A dual-component trojan is delivered Netskope threat researchers first discovered a…
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Black Duck Signal secures AI-generated code with agentic application security
Black Duck has announced the general availability of Black Duck Signal, an agentic AI application security solution purpose-built to secure AI-generated code in autonomous development workflows. As agentic AI coding assistants increasingly design, code and deliver production software, organizations face a new class of application risk, created at unprecedented speed and scale. Black Duck Signal…
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NCA Boss Warns That Teens Are Being “Radicalized” Into Cybercrime Online
The National Crime Agency’s director general warns that technology is rapidly reshaping crime
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Flare Foretrace helps employees detect and fix identity risks to strengthen enterprise security
Flare has unveiled the general availability of Foretrace, a new business-to-business-to-employee (B2B2E) product that delivers enterprise-grade identity protection directly to employees. Built on the same threat intelligence infrastructure used by security teams to defend their organizations, Foretrace allows individuals to monitor and remediate their personal digital identity exposures. The spread of infostealer malware and the…
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Stellar Cyber 6.4.0 reduces alert noise and speeds investigations with Autonomous SOC capabilities
Stellar Cyber has announced he general availability of version 6.4.0 of its platform. With this release, Stellar Cyber delivers new Autonomous SOC capabilities designed to reduce alert noise, accelerate investigations, and transform the day-to-day experience of security analysts. Ushering in the human-augmented Autonomous SOC Security teams are overwhelmed by escalating alert volumes and increasingly complex…
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AWS European Sovereign Cloud achieves first compliance milestone: SOC 2 and C5 reports plus seven ISO certifications
In January 2026, we announced the general availability of the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, a new, independent cloud for Europe entirely located within the European Union (EU), and physically and logically separate from all other AWS Regions. The unique approach of the AWS European Sovereign Cloud provides the only fully featured, independently operated sovereign cloud…
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Datadog MCP server delivers live observability to AI agents and IDEs
Datadog has announced the general availability of its MCP Server. For developers embedding AI agents into development and operational workflows, the Datadog MCP Server provides access to live observability data, enabling teams to debug with their preferred AI coding agents or integrated development environments (IDEs), use real-time telemetry, and take action within established security and…
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EU court adviser says banks must immediately refund phishing victims
Athanasios Rantos, the Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU), has issued a formal opinion suggesting that banks must immediately refund account holders affected by unauthorized transactions, even when it’s their fault. […]
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Enigma AI enables internal trust governance to asset-to-asset communications
Enigma Networks has announced the general availability of its Internal Trust Governance platform, Enigma AI, which continuously determines and validates which communications are necessary and safe across enterprise networks. Just as identity and access management (IAM) governs trust for users, Enigma AI governs trust between internal systems and assets, introducing a new control plane for…
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New York sues Valve for promoting illegal gambling via game loot boxes
New York Attorney General Letitia James sued video game developer and publisher Valve Corporation for using game loot boxes to facilitate illegal gambling activities among children and teenagers. […]
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Former Defense Contractor Boss Gets 7+ Years for Selling Zero Days
A former general manager of a US defense contractor has been sentenced after selling zero days to Russia
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Binding Operational Directive 26-02 sets deadlines for edge device replacement
In this Help Net Security video, Jen Sovada, General Manager, Public Sector at Claroty, explains CISA’s Binding Operational Directive 26-02 and what it means for federal agencies. The directive requires agencies to inventory, report, decommission, and replace unsupported edge devices such as firewalls, routers, switches, load balancers, and wireless access points. Unsupported devices don’t receive…