August 2026

OpenAI locks down Astra over potential critical cyber capabilities

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OpenAI locks down Astra over potential critical cyber capabilities 2026-08-10 at 10:09 By Anamarija Pogorelec OpenAI’s internal evaluation of its upcoming model, Astra, found significant advances in agentic coding and cybersecurity, leading the company to conclude that it cannot rule out the model reaching the critical capability level for cybersecurity under its Preparedness Framework. The […]

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GitHub Dependabot malware alerts now cover eight ecosystems

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GitHub Dependabot malware alerts now cover eight ecosystems 2026-08-10 at 10:01 By Mirko Zorz GitHub has flagged npm malware since March 2026. Anyone pulling in a bad PyPI, Maven, RubyGems, NuGet, Go, crates.io, or PHP Composer package has had no such warning, because GitHub’s malware detection only ever watched one ecosystem. That changed this month.

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Modern Wireless-First Security Solutions Deliver Multiple Benefits for Mixed-Use Properties

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Modern Wireless-First Security Solutions Deliver Multiple Benefits for Mixed-Use Properties 2026-08-10 at 10:00 By The most common longstanding security and safety challenges of mixed-use properties generally fall into 4 categories.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

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OpenAI’s Next AI Model Astra Shows Cyber Performance Strong Enough to Trigger Pause

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OpenAI’s Next AI Model Astra Shows Cyber Performance Strong Enough to Trigger Pause 2026-08-10 at 08:50 By OpenAI has announced that it’s pausing some “internal activities” involving its upcoming artificial intelligence (AI) model Astra after an internal evaluation found it had made significant advancements in agentic coding and cybersecurity. In response to the discovery, the

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Chainloop: Open-source evidence store and policy engine for the software supply chain

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Chainloop: Open-source evidence store and policy engine for the software supply chain 2026-08-10 at 08:30 By Sinisa Markovic Chainloop is an open source evidence store for the software supply chain. A command line tool runs inside a GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, or Dagger pipeline, picks up what the build produced, uploads those files to content-addressable

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Product showcase: Enpass Password Manager breaks away from the proprietary cloud model

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Product showcase: Enpass Password Manager breaks away from the proprietary cloud model 2026-08-10 at 08:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Enpass is a password manager that stores passwords, passkeys, payment cards, identities, secure notes, software licenses, and other sensitive information in encrypted vaults. Vaults remain on the device or in a cloud storage service selected by the

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Critical Flaws Discovered in Belgian eID Software Used by 2 Million People

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Critical Flaws Discovered in Belgian eID Software Used by 2 Million People 2026-08-10 at 07:44 By Eduard Kovacs The vulnerabilities affected software used by eight of Belgium’s ten largest banks and over 60 government agencies. The post Critical Flaws Discovered in Belgian eID Software Used by 2 Million People appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article

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BIP-110 dies with a whimper, CLARITY vote punted: Hodler’s Digest, Aug. 9

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BIP-110 dies with a whimper, CLARITY vote punted: Hodler’s Digest, Aug. 9 2026-08-10 at 03:32 By Cointelegraph by Andrew Fenton BIP-110 forks itself into oblivion with a “2-block chain” and CLARITY will finally get a Senate vote in September. The odds say that vote will be a No. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com

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Ex-US defense secretary calls CLARITY Act a ‘national security bill’

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Ex-US defense secretary calls CLARITY Act a ‘national security bill’ 2026-08-10 at 03:31 By Cointelegraph by Felix Ng Former US Defense Secretary Mark Esper says the CLARITY Act is not merely a financial services bill, its a national security one. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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Scott Wiener forced into screeching U-turn after Nancy Pelosi raged at Connie Chan ads

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Scott Wiener forced into screeching U-turn after Nancy Pelosi raged at Connie Chan ads 2026-08-10 at 00:22 By Zain Khan The California senator is pulling the ConnieChan.ai chatbot and related ads after the campaign stunt overshadowed his attacks on his congressional rival’s record on housing and transit. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology

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Three in five Americans favor stronger oversight of social media companies: poll

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Three in five Americans favor stronger oversight of social media companies: poll 2026-08-09 at 21:44 By Reuters The poll, which was conducted over the six days ended Aug. 3, comes as companies like Meta Platforms and Google’s YouTube face mounting legal pressure over their treatment of young users. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News |

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Apple testing China’s CXMT memory chips for iPhones and MacBooks: report

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Apple testing China’s CXMT memory chips for iPhones and MacBooks: report 2026-08-09 at 21:01 By Reuters Apple held early talks with CXMT, which is China’s largest chipmaker by market value, about supplying components with the goal of using them in some devices sold in China, the report said, citing people familiar with the matter. This article is

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Brazil targets crypto fraud with up to 24-hour transfer hold

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Brazil targets crypto fraud with up to 24-hour transfer hold 2026-08-09 at 12:10 By Cointelegraph by Ezra Reguerra The rules, effective Jan. 1, 2027, cover transactions above $10,000 sent to overseas providers or self-custody wallets, along with other transfers flagged for review. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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Week in review: Cisco fixes IMC bug, Patch Tuesday forecast, Black Hat USA 2026

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Week in review: Cisco fixes IMC bug, Patch Tuesday forecast, Black Hat USA 2026 2026-08-09 at 11:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Mapping the malware blast radius a single alert won’t show you In this interview with Help Net Security, Mike Wiacek,

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BTCPay restricts remote Lightning access after attackers steal funds

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BTCPay restricts remote Lightning access after attackers steal funds 2026-08-09 at 08:46 By Cointelegraph by Ezra Reguerra Foundation and Citadel21 reported drained Lightning nodes, but the total amount stolen and number of affected operators remain unknown. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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Bitcoin’s BIP-110 enters mandatory signaling with miner support below 3%

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Bitcoin’s BIP-110 enters mandatory signaling with miner support below 3% 2026-08-09 at 00:17 By Cointelegraph by Ezra Reguerra The deployment milestone tests whether enforcing nodes can sustain the change amid limited miner signaling and discussion of a hard-fork fallback. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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Nancy Pelosi rages at ‘sexist and racist’ AI chatbot mocking her would-be successor

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Nancy Pelosi rages at ‘sexist and racist’ AI chatbot mocking her would-be successor 2026-08-08 at 20:06 By Titus Wu A parody artificial intelligence chatbot launched by a candidate trying to replace Nancy Pelosi in Congress was taken down Friday after the former House speaker attacked the bot for being “sexist.” This article is an excerpt from

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Critical One-Click Vulnerability in Atlassian’s Rovo AI Exposed Enterprise Data

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Critical One-Click Vulnerability in Atlassian’s Rovo AI Exposed Enterprise Data 2026-08-08 at 14:30 By Eduard Kovacs The RovoBlast attack method identified by Varonis researchers could have been exploited to steal Confluence, Jira and SharePoint data. The post Critical One-Click Vulnerability in Atlassian’s Rovo AI Exposed Enterprise Data appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an

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