LinkedIn fights for the right to tell customers when the feds want their data
Microsoft’s top lawyer argued Tuesday that legislators “must make secrecy [orders] the exception” in government subpoenas demanding information about LinkedI...
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Big Tech’s AI safety rift signals disruption and disparity for enterprises
A growing divide among leading AI companies over how to secure increasingly powerful models is beginning to translate into challenges for enterprise IT, with...
Oracle’s September patches put Fusion Middleware back in the hot seat
Oracle’s September 2026 Critical Security Patch Update has arrived with 673 new security patches spanning 17 Oracle product families, with Oracle E-Business ...
AI agent authorization risks remain a gap in new NIST-CISA token security guidance
AI agents’ actions are out of scope for new guidance from US authorities on securing identity and access tokens, but there is still plenty enterprises can do...
You don’t have to join the hack-back program to inherit its risk
The obvious question about Washington’s new private offensive cyber program is which security vendors will join it. The CSO question is what happens to you w...
AI made software development unrecognizable. Is cybersecurity next?
The rapid emergence of AI has radically changed a host of professions, with software engineering and development perhaps the most transformed of all pursuits...
Hundreds of OpenAI agents attack RubyGems platform
A swarm of hundreds of OpenAI agents uploaded “malicious packages” to RubyGems and tried to steal API keys, the Ruby community gem hosting service revealed F...
Critical Cisco Secure Email Gateway zero-day gives attackers root access
Cisco released emergency patches for a critical vulnerability in its Secure Email Gateway appliance that could allow attackers to take over the device by sim...
Exposed Vite servers are being probed for AWS and Azure credentials
Attackers have opened a new front in their war on software developers: Vite servers, which they are probing for sensitive data including cloud credentials, i...
Exaforce extends its AI security tool to monitor more than just Claude
Exaforce is offering to help enterprise security teams discover and monitor AI agents using security telemetry they already collect, rather than requiring ye...
AI is exposing a security structure built for yesterday’s threats
Organizations are investing more in security than ever before, yet many still struggle with a fundamental problem: they are preparing for tomorrow’s crisis w...
Threat actors are coming for your AI assets to operationalize their use of AI
Both state-affiliated cyberespionage group and cybercrime gangs are targeting AI-related documents, configuration files, and proprietary models during intrus...
A maximum severity GitLab flaw could turn your CI/CD server into an attacker’s treasure trove
Yet another security vulnerability has been discovered in GitLab infrastructure, this one a perfect 10 in severity. CVE-2026-85706, the second flaw GitLab ha...
What the 3M ChatGPT case reveals about AI governance
One detail in the Watson Grinding explosion litigation involving 3M changed the way I think about prompt governance. An engineering expert retained by 3M had...
How to level up from security pro to security leader
There comes a time in a cybersecurity professional’s life when being a tech expert is no longer enough. The next step may lead to management or the C-suite, ...
Why AI raises the stakes for exposure validation
AI dominated the conversation at Fal.Con 2026, but one of the most important takeaways wasn’t simply how AI is changing cyber defense.
Update your firewall rules: Teams and Copilot are changing address
Microsoft is changing the destination address of two of its most popular services: starting this month, it will redirect M365 and Teams web users to copilot....
ConnectWise patches critical ScreenConnect authentication failure after five days
ConnectWise has issued a security update for ScreenConnect, five days after warning customers the product could allow files to be transferred and executed th...
India’s STPI serves TerminalFix-style attack via fake Cloudflare check
A website linked to India’s Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) is serving a spoofed Cloudflare verification page that silently copies a malicious stri...
Anthropic finds evidence of a fourth AI escaping from containment
Anthropic has owned up to a fourth security incident involving its AI model, Claude, escaping onto the open internet and attacking other organizations during...