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Why Annual Penetration Tests Are No Longer Enough

Traditional annual penetration tests are becoming less effective as organizations rapidly expand cloud, hybrid, and AI-driven environments that change far faster than yearly assessment cycles can keep up with.  According to Lydia Zhang, President and Co-Founder of Ridge Security, modern infrastructure, applications, APIs, and dependency chains evolve continuously, creating constantly shifting attack surfaces that static…

Another Universal Linux Local Privilege Escalation (LPE) Vulnerability: Dirty Frag, (Fri, May 8th)

Less than two weeks after the public disclosure of the Copy Fail vulnerability (CVE-2026-31431), another local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability in the Linux kernel has been revealed. Referred to as “Dirty Frag,” this vulnerability was discovered and reported by Hyunwoo Kim (@v4bel) [1]. In this diary, I will provide a brief background on Dirty Frag,…

The State of AI Risk Management in 2026 Reveals a Growing Confidence Gap

As enterprise adoption of artificial intelligence accelerates, a new report warns that organizations may be far less prepared to manage AI risk than they believe.  The State of AI Risk Management 2026 report from the Purple Book Community highlights a widening disconnect between perceived control and operational reality, exposing critical gaps in how companies govern…

Crypto industry may be running out of time to prepare for quantum attacks

Google’s latest research suggests the cryptocurrency industry may have less time than expected to prepare for quantum computing. In a whitepaper, Google examines risks to elliptic curve cryptography, the system securing most blockchain networks. The researchers revisit earlier assumptions about how difficult it would be for a quantum computer to break these protections, concluding that…

Everpure smashes AI infrastructure bottlenecks with Data Stream, Evergreen//One for AI, and the world’s fastest storage systems

Enterprise AI may be booming but the reality inside many organisations is far less glamorous: stalled pilots, overwhelmed infrastructure teams, and GPUs sitting idle waiting for data. Everpure has made its first major announcement since rebranding (from Pure Storage) and it’s a big one that brings welcome news to tech leaders around the world.

Smartsheet Channel Exec on Partners, Platforms, and 2026

As more enterprises look to streamline technology stacks and accomplish more with less, vendors and OEMs are finding themselves in an evolving market focused on bringing integrated solutions to customers through partners. We spoke with Scott Strubel, head of Americas partner sales at Smartsheet, about how market trends influence the ways vendors work with partner…

OpenAI responds to Claude Cowork with its own platform to help build, deploy, and manage AI agents

Less than a week after Anthropic released 11 open-source plugins that enable Claude Cowork to execute a series of automated processes in areas ranging from customer support to IT operations, OpenAI responded Thursday with a similar platform it calls Frontier.   It said that its offering “gives agents the same skills people need to succeed…