May 2026

Instructure Reaches Ransom Agreement with ShinyHunters to Stop 3.65TB Canvas Leak 2026-05-12 at 10:41 By American educational technology company Instructure, the parent company of Canvas, said it reached an “agreement” with a decentralized cybercrime extortion group after it breached its network and threatened to leak stolen information from thousands of schools and universities. In an

OpenAI Launches Daybreak for AI-Powered Vulnerability Detection and Patch Validation 2026-05-12 at 10:41 By OpenAI has launched Daybreak, a new cybersecurity initiative that brings together frontier artificial intelligence (AI) model capabilities and Codex Security to help organizations identify and patch vulnerabilities before attackers find a way in using the same issues. “Daybreak combines the intelligence

iOS 26.5 Brings Default End-to-End Encrypted RCS Messaging Between iPhone and Android 2026-05-12 at 09:27 By Apple on Monday officially released iOS 26.5 with support for end-to-end encryption (E2EE) to Rich Communication Services (RCS) in beta as part of a “cross-industry effort” to replace traditional SMS with a more secure alternative. To that end, E2EE

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella defends OpenAI’s for-profit status, shares past nerves over Altman ouster 2026-05-12 at 04:56 By Marc Vartabedian OAKLAND, CALIF. — Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella defended OpenAI’s pivot to for-profit status and discussed his company’s hopes for a juicy return on its investment during Monday testimony in Elon Musk’s suit against the AI

TeamPCP Compromises Checkmarx Jenkins AST Plugin Weeks After KICS Supply Chain Attack 2026-05-11 at 23:59 By Checkmarx has confirmed that a modified version of the Jenkins AST plugin was published to the Jenkins Marketplace. “If you are using Checkmarx Jenkins AST plugin, you need to ensure that you are using the version 2.0.13-829.vc72453fa_1c16 that was

OpenAI employees cashed out $6.6B in stock sales last fall, earning up to $30M each: report 2026-05-11 at 21:02 By Thomas Barrabi Approximately 75 employees maxed out their sales and received the full $30 million, the report said. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

Top 2026 Security Conferences 2026-05-11 at 21:02 By Security magazine offers a roundup of security conferences taking place in 2026.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

cPanel CVE-2026-41940 Under Active Exploitation to Deploy Filemanager Backdoor 2026-05-11 at 21:02 By A threat actor named Mr_Rot13 has been attributed to the exploitation of a recently disclosed critical cPanel flaw to deploy a backdoor codenamed Filemanager on compromised environments. The attack exploits CVE-2026-41940, a vulnerability impacting cPanel and WebHost Manager (WHM) that could result

Hackers Used AI to Develop First Known Zero-Day 2FA Bypass for Mass Exploitation 2026-05-11 at 21:02 By Google on Monday disclosed that it identified an unknown threat actor using a zero-day exploit that it said was likely developed with an artificial intelligence (AI) system, marking the first time the technology has been put to use

Sergey Brin’s ‘MAGA girlfriend’ denies pushing Google co-founder right: ‘If I could control him, I’d be married with a baby right now’ 2026-05-11 at 19:49 By Ariel Zilber “The Democrats redpilled him. I didn’t have to do anything,” Gerelyn “GG” Gilbert-Soto told Bari Weiss’s online publication The Free Press last week. This article is an

Top dating app removes key matching features — signaling big changes to come for finding love online 2026-05-11 at 19:49 By Brooke Steinberg Wolfe Herd, who returned to the dating app as CEO last year, has been discarding core features of the dating app in a move toward more AI-driven features. This article is an