Attackers spent five months silently stealing emails from a stock exchange executive’s Outlook account in a suspected espionage operation. A threat actor quietly sat inside a senior executive’s Outlook account at a major global stock exchange for roughly 150 days, from October 2025 to March 2026. Broadcom’s Symantec and Carbon Black threat-hunting team investigated the…
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Websites can spy on user activity by analyzing SSD behavior
Websites have spent years collecting information about visitors through browser fingerprinting, tracking scripts, and other techniques designed to identify devices and monitor behavior. Researchers have demonstrated another method that relies on something most users would never expect a website to observe: activity on their SSD (Solid-State Drive), the storage device where applications and files are…
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The Gentlemen are coming for your files, and then your network
Ransomware operators have spent years refining the art of locking files. Now, some are working harder to get those lockers to every reachable system first. Microsoft’s recent warning of the Gentlemen ransomware revealed its operators using a self-propagating Go-based encryptor capable of moving laterally through compromised environments and deploying itself across additional systems. “Modern ransomware…
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Cisco Live 2026 Preview: AI, Security, and Partner Changes
Ahead of its annual North American conference in Las Vegas, Cisco has spent the last few months rolling out a steady stream of AI-focused announcements touching nearly every corner of its business, from networking and cybersecurity to certifications and channel programs. Recent earnings report shows record revenue due to AI infrastructure demand The company’s latest…
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Apple’s iPhone satellite ambition goes beyond rescuing hikers
Apple has spent billions of dollars to develop satellite connectivity for iPhone; I very much doubt it did so solely to rescue stranded hikers. The company will most certainly have had a bigger prize in its sights when it first began working with GlobalStar (now owned by Amazon). The most logical reason to invest in satellite…
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Stop treating AI governance as a review layer. Make it release infrastructure
I’ve spent years building compliance into security products. FedRAMP and Department of War Impact Level authorizations, vulnerability management pipelines: They all follow the same pattern. Build the product, then prove it meets requirements. The compliance layer sits outside the engineering workflow. It reviews what already exists. That model worked when the product stayed static between…
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$20 per zero-day is already the WordPress plugin reality
Vulnerability researchers have spent the past year arguing about whether AI agents can find real bugs at scale or whether they mostly generate noise. A pipeline built in three days by researchers from TrendAI and CHT Security supplies an answer, along with a price tag that the security industry will have to reckon with. The…
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Why your AI strategy stops where the PLC starts: Hard lessons from the OT frontlines
I spent two days at a substation connecting a major offshore wind farm to the grid. The control room featured three new AI-ready dashboards and a board mandate to “leverage machine learning for resilience.” It also had a maintenance laptop running Windows 7, literally taped to the inside of a cabinet because the Velcro had…
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SpaceX Postpones Launch of Newly Redesigned Starship
The company estimates it has spent $15 billion developing its next-generation rocket.
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SpaceX Set to Launch Upgraded Starship on Pre-IPO Test Flight
The company estimates it has spent $15 billion developing its next-generation rocket.
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Smashing Security podcast #468: High-speed train hacks and homicidal lawnmowers
A 23-year-old radio enthusiast spent £300 on a piece of kit from the internet, and used it to bring four packed high-speed trains to a screeching halt. His defence in court? Possibly the most creative excuse we’ve heard all year. Meanwhile, owners of $4,000 robot lawnmowers are discovering that their gadget can be hijacked over…
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The AI backdoor your security stack is not built to see
Enterprises deploying LLMs have spent the past two years building defenses around a reasonable assumption: malicious behavior leaves a trace in the input. Scan for suspicious tokens, filter unusual characters, watch for prompt injection patterns. New research from Microsoft and the Institute of Science Tokyo demonstrates that this defensive posture has a blind spot, and…
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Fedora Hummingbird brings the container security model to a Linux host OS
Container image security pipelines have spent the past several years pushing toward minimal footprints, hermetic builds, and continuous CVE remediation. The Fedora Project is now applying that same approach to the host operating system. At Red Hat Summit 2026, Fedora announced Fedora Hummingbird, a container-based rolling Linux distribution delivered as an OCI image. “The Linux…
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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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AI Agents Are Creating a New Cybersecurity Blind Spot
The cybersecurity industry has spent years focusing on visibility. Dashboards expanded. Detection tooling improved. Telemetry volumes exploded. Yet one of the biggest emerging risks in 2026 is not hidden malware or an unknown zero-day. It is the rapid deployment of AI agents that organisations barely understand, cannot fully inventory, and often cannot meaningfully govern. AI…
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ChatGPT advanced account security adds passkeys and hardware keys
Journalists, elected officials, researchers, and political dissidents have spent years adapting their accounts to phishing-resistant authentication on consumer platforms. ChatGPT now joins that list. OpenAI has introduced Advanced Account Security, an opt-in setting that strips password-based sign-in from ChatGPT and Codex accounts and replaces it with passkeys or physical security keys. What enrollment changes Enrolled…
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Stopping AiTM attacks: The defenses that actually work after authentication succeeds
The security industry has spent years building better authentication. Longer passwords, second factors, hardware tokens. And attackers responded by moving past authentication entirely. Adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) phishing does not steal credentials and replay them. It sits between the user and the legitimate service, watches a real authentication succeed in real time, and walks away with the…
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Ubuntu 26.04 LTS delivers memory-safe system tools and live patching for Arm servers
Linux distributions have spent the past few years absorbing GPU vendor toolchains, Rust-based system components, and more stringent encryption defaults. Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, codenamed Resolute Raccoon, pulls most of those threads together into a single release that will receive standard security support until April 2031. Rust moves into the system layer One of the more…
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DetectFlow: Deploying Detections at Scale Without the Engineering Overhead
The Problem: Achieving Threat Detections at Scale At SOC Prime, we have spent over a decade making detection engineering easier for organizations of every size. Each year, as threats multiply and environments grow more complex, the traditional approach puts SOC Managers in an impossible position — responsible for coverage they cannot achieve with the tools…
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No Exploit Needed: How Attackers Walk Through the Front Door via Identity-Based Attacks
The cybersecurity industry has spent the last several years chasing sophisticated threats like zero-days, supply chain compromises, and AI-generated exploits. However, the most reliable entry point for attackers still hasn’t changed: stolen credentials. Identity-based attacks remain a dominant initial access vector in breaches today. Attackers obtain valid credentials through credential stuffing
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AI-ready skills are not what you think
Enterprises have spent the past two years rushing to make their workforces “AI-ready.” But many early training programs — focused on prompt writing and chatbot skills — are proving poorly suited to the realities of AI-powered work. The reason is simple: the skills that matter most once AI enters real workflows have less to do…
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Cisco Targets AI Trust with Galileo Deal
If the original Galileo spent his time figuring out how things move and fall, Cisco is now tackling a version of that problem in AI, trying to understand how these systems behave once set loose. The company announced plans to acquire Galileo Technologies, an AI observability startup focused on helping enterprises monitor and evaluate how…
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iTWire TV: After three years steering Australia’s robotics peak body, Nicci Rossouw hands over the controls with a packed expo, a gala night, and one clear message: buy Australian
Nicci Rossouw has spent three years running Robotics Australia Group, the country’s peak body for everything from warehouse arms to underwater hull-scrubbers. On May 1, she hands the CEO role to Paul Mason, co-host of the Manufacturing Tech Australia podcast and a mechatronics engineer with 20-plus years across product development, manufacturing, and commercialisation.
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After three years steering Australia’s robotics peak body, Nicci Rossouw hands over the controls with a packed expo, a gala night, and one clear message: buy Australian
Nicci Rossouw has spent three years running Robotics Australia Group, the country’s peak body for everything from warehouse arms to underwater hull-scrubbers. On May 1, she hands the CEO role to Paul Mason, co-host of the Manufacturing Tech Australia podcast and a mechatronics engineer with 20-plus years across product development, manufacturing, and commercialisation.
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iTWire TV: HPE’s April Neoh on AI Bias, Trust, and Why the Scales Still Aren’t Balanced
GUEST INTERVIEW: April has spent roughly 20 years in tech. She’s watched the suits get replaced by suits wearing sneakers. She’s seen decisions go from months-long deliberation cycles to minimum viable products shipped at pace. And now, as Account Executive for High Performance Computing and AI at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, she’s watching AI reshape the…
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HPE’s April Neoh on AI Bias, Trust, and Why the Scales Still Aren’t Balanced
GUEST INTERVIEW: April has spent roughly 20 years in tech. She’s watched the suits get replaced by suits wearing sneakers. She’s seen decisions go from months-long deliberation cycles to minimum viable products shipped at pace. And now, as Account Executive for High Performance Computing and AI at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, she’s watching AI reshape the…
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Social engineering attacks on open source developers are escalating
North Korean hackers spent weeks socially engineering an Axios maintainer through a fake Slack workspace, a cloned company identity, and a fabricated Microsoft Teams call that tricked him into installing a RAT posings as a software update. They used the access they gained to inject malware into npm packages downloaded 100+ million times a week.…
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Building AI defenses at scale: Before the threats emerge
At AWS, we’ve spent decades developing processes and tools that enable us to defend millions of customers simultaneously, wherever they operate around the world. Every day, our security and threat intelligence teams are doing work with AI and automation that most people never see. Our AI-powered log analysis system has reduced the time SecOps engineers…
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8 ways to be more productive in Windows 11
You’ve probably spent a lot of time through the years gathering productivity tips for your favorite applications — after all, that’s where you get most of your work done. If you’re like most people, though, you’ve managed to find your way around Windows 11 but figured there’s not much you can do to improve your productivity in…
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Nigerian romance scammer jailed after being caught out by fellow fraudster
A Nigerian fraudster spent years posing as a woman online, romancing unsuspecting American men out of their savings – until he accidentally tried the same trick on a fellow scammer, who told him to “learn how to do a clean job.” The recovered chat logs helped put him behind bars for 15 years. Read more…
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Why AI for financial crime is becoming a core operating advantage
GUEST OPINION: Fraud and compliance teams have spent years trying to keep pace with rising alert volumes, faster payment flows, more complex fraud patterns, and growing regulatory expectations. The problem is that most of these teams are still being asked to solve modern financial crime with operating models built for a slower, more predictable environment.
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How AI Coding Tools Crushed the Endpoint Security Fortress
Security vendors have spent years building up defenses around the endpoint, but one researcher says AI coding tools have brought the walls down.
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The AI safety conversation is focused on the wrong layer
Organizations have spent years accumulating fragmented identity systems: too many roles, too many credentials, too many disconnected tools. For a workforce of humans, that fragmentation was manageable. Humans log in, log out, and make decisions slowly enough that gaps in control rarely turned into immediate incidents. AI agents operate differently. “AI agents change that completely,”…
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FIRESIDE CHAT: In the AI age, your MFA, authentication apps can be compromised in minutes
The authentication layer that corporate America spent a decade building is now a liability. Listen to the podcast:The day MFA became the problem That’s the blunt assessment of Kevin Surace, chairman of Token, a Rochester, N.Y.-based security company whose biometric hardware is drawing attention from enterprise security teams and federal regulators alike. Surace made the…
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How Ceros Gives Security Teams Visibility and Control in Claude Code
Security teams have spent years building identity and access controls for human users and service accounts. But a new category of actor has quietly entered most enterprise environments, and it operates entirely outside those controls. Claude Code, Anthropic’s AI coding agent, is now running across engineering organizations at scale. It reads files, executes shell commands,…
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AI Facial Recognition Error Jails Tennessee Grandmother for Months
A Tennessee grandmother spent nearly six months in jail after a facial recognition system incorrectly identified her as a suspect in a bank fraud investigation in North Dakota, more than 1,200 miles from her home. The case is drawing renewed scrutiny around the risks of relying heavily on artificial intelligence in criminal investigations. “I’ve never…
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Agentic attack chains advance as infostealers flood criminal markets
Cybercriminals spent much of 2025 automating their operations, shifting from one-off attacks to systems that can run entire intrusion cycles with minimal human input. Data collected from criminal forums, illicit marketplaces, and underground chat services shows a threat environment where stolen identity data, unpatched vulnerabilities, and ransomware operations are interdependent. The findings come from Flashpoint’s…
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OpenAI’s Sam Altman Calls for De-Escalation in Anthropic Showdown With Hegseth
Anthropic has spent weeks at odds with the Pentagon over the scope of how its Claude AI tools can be used.
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Europol goes after The Com’s ransomware and extortion networks
Law enforcement agencies across 28 countries have spent the past year building cases against a loosely organized collective known as The Com, a decentralized network of mostly teenagers and young adults linked to high-profile ransomware attacks, financial extortion, and the coercion of vulnerable children. Europol announced the first operational results of Project Compass, reporting 30…
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Vulnerabilities grew like weeds in 2025, but only 1% were weaponized in attacks
Would-be attackers spent 2025 swimming in a sea of more than 40,000 newly published vulnerabilities, VulnCheck said in a report released Wednesday, but only 1% of those defects, just 422, were exploited in the wild. As the deluge of vulnerabilities grows every year, and CVSS ratings lose significance for vulnerability management prioritization, some defenders are…
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Mark Zuckerberg Grilled on Usage Goals, Underage Users at California Trial
The Meta CEO said the company no longer issues goals for its teams for time spent by users on its platforms.
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The DJI Neo 2 drone is the perfect drone for family, beginners, and hobbyists
Consumer drones have spent the past decade evolving from niche enthusiast gadgets into genuinely accessible creative tools, and few companies have driven that transition more effectively than DJI. Its aircraft are consistently regarded as the benchmark for stability, imaging quality and ease of use. Though, historically, drones required a learning curve that intimidated newcomers. The…
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The democratization of AI data poisoning and how to protect your organization
Smart organizations have spent the last three years protecting their AI tools from skilled prompt injection-style attacks. The assumption has been that poisoning the foundational model, the real brains behind AI systems, requires technical expertise, privileged access, or a coordinated threat group. That assumption no longer holds, and it marks a significant shift in how…
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Cyber risk is becoming a hold-period problem for private equity firms
Private equity firms have spent years treating cybersecurity as an IT hygiene issue inside portfolio companies. That approach is getting harder to sustain as ransomware, data theft, and regulatory pressure interfere with value creation during the hold period. Has cybersecurity risk had any financial impact on your portfolio companies? (Source: Kroll) A recent Kroll survey…
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Rimini Street pivots beyond third-party support, betting on agentic AI for ERP innovation
Rimini Street has spent nearly two decades building a formidable reputation as a leading provider of third-party enterprise software support. Now, according to Chief Revenue Officer Steve Hershkowitz, the company is repositioning itself as the global leader in independent third-party support for enterprise software applications.
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Rimini Street pivots beyond third-party support, betting on agentic AI for ERP innovation
Rimini Street has spent nearly two decades building a formidable reputation as a leading provider of third-party enterprise software support. Now, according to Chief Revenue Officer Steve Hershkowitz, the company is repositioning itself as the global leader in independent third-party support for enterprise software applications.
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Australian children spent more than two hours a day on TikTok in 2025 prior to ban: Qustodio report
GUEST RESEARCH: Australian kids spent more time on Roblox for mobile than any other nation studied, averaging 87 minutes per day, while on desktop the average time spent was 133 minutes Children’s use of ChatGPT app has increased by 417 per cent since 2024
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The Edifier NeoBuds Pro 3 earbuds bring spatial audio, serious ANC, and a premium feel without premium-brand pricing
Edifier has spent the past few years quietly building a reputation for delivering high-performance audio products that punch well above their price point. The new NeoBuds Pro 3 continue that trajectory, bringing together spatial audio with head tracking, wide-band adaptive active noise cancellation (ANC), and audiophile-grade Bluetooth codecs in a compact true wireless form factor.