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  • The Unintended Consequences: Why “Quick Fix” Security May Compromise Life Safety

    The Unintended Consequences: Why “Quick Fix” Security May Compromise Life Safety 2026-10-12 at 12:00 By In the wake of increasing safety concerns, school administrators understandably face immense pressure to act quickly to fortify their classrooms. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

  • South Korean bank launches Bitcoin-backed business loans: Report

    South Korean bank launches Bitcoin-backed business loans: Report 2026-10-12 at 11:45 By Cointelegraph by Ezra Reguerra Jeonbuk Bank reportedly began offering Bitcoin-backed loans to corporate customers, with a third-party custodian holding the cryptocurrency used as collateral. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

  • Critical SonicWall Vulnerability Exploited Days After Disclosure

    Critical SonicWall Vulnerability Exploited Days After Disclosure 2026-10-12 at 11:36 By Ionut Arghire CVE-2026-102255 is a pre-authenticated SSRF flaw that could allow attackers to perform unauthorized operations. The post Critical SonicWall Vulnerability Exploited Days After Disclosure appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

  • Let’s Encrypt Cuts Default Certificate Validity to 64 Days Ahead of 45-Day Switch

    Let’s Encrypt Cuts Default Certificate Validity to 64 Days Ahead of 45-Day Switch 2026-10-12 at 10:53 By Ionut Arghire Beginning February 2027, all newly issued certificates will have a 64-day validity period by default. The post Let’s Encrypt Cuts Default Certificate Validity to 64 Days Ahead of 45-Day Switch appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article…

  • Windows PCs missing key updates could lose security fixes in 2027

    Windows PCs missing key updates could lose security fixes in 2027 2026-10-12 at 10:39 By Anamarija Pogorelec Microsoft is advising users and businesses to update Windows devices before digital certificates used to verify Windows Update servers expire in May and June 2027. The certificates expire on May 17 or June 19, depending on the Windows…

  • CyberXero Uses Claude Code in Campaign That Stole Over 628,000 Ukrainian Records

    CyberXero Uses Claude Code in Campaign That Stole Over 628,000 Ukrainian Records 2026-10-12 at 10:26 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a two-pronged artificial intelligence (AI)-augmented initial access campaign targeting WordPress sites, e-commerce platforms, and critical infrastructure entities in Ukraine. The activity, which brings together commodity offensive tools like Cobalt Strike with an AI…

  • Let’s Encrypt TLS certificate lifetimes to drop from 90 to 64 days starting February 2027

    Let’s Encrypt TLS certificate lifetimes to drop from 90 to 64 days starting February 2027 2026-10-12 at 10:23 By Sinisa Markovic Websites that rely on Let’s Encrypt will soon have to renew their TLS certificates more often. Starting February 10, 2027, the certificate authority will issue certificates valid for 64 days by default, down from…

  • Global watchdog flags stablecoin risks, AI threats ahead of G20

    Global watchdog flags stablecoin risks, AI threats ahead of G20 2026-10-12 at 09:30 By Cointelegraph by Ezra Reguerra The Financial Stability Board flagged cross-border stablecoin risks and AI-related cybersecurity threats while urging G20 policymakers to support stronger safeguards. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

  • Geopolitics and the cyber resilience gap belong in your threat model

    Geopolitics and the cyber resilience gap belong in your threat model 2026-10-12 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Akshay Joshi, Head of the Centre for Cybersecurity at the World Economic Forum, talks about how AI, geopolitics and industrialized fraud are changing cyber risk. He discusses findings from the Global Cybersecurity…

  • Strands Box: Open-source sandbox for AI agents

    Strands Box: Open-source sandbox for AI agents 2026-10-12 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz AWS released Strands Box, an open source sandbox for AI agents that pairs operating-system isolation with rules that can weigh what an agent has already done before letting it act again. Box is in developer preview and runs on Macs with Apple…

  • AI vulnerability patching has a grading problem

    AI vulnerability patching has a grading problem 2026-10-12 at 07:45 By Anamarija Pogorelec Researchers at Northwestern University tested AI coding agents on 112 real security bugs. They found that a patch which stops a crash often fails the checks the project’s maintainers wrote for the fix. With Claude Opus 4.7, third of the patches that…

  • French lawmakers back reporting rule for crypto wallets over $112K

    French lawmakers back reporting rule for crypto wallets over $112K 2026-10-12 at 07:45 By Cointelegraph by Felix Ng Holders could face fines of up to 10,000 euros for failing to declare qualifying assets. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

  • What makes some open source updates so difficult?

    What makes some open source updates so difficult? 2026-10-12 at 07:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Many organizations adopt open source software because they see it as a cheaper alternative to proprietary development. Maintaining it, however, still requires engineering effort, according to Google’s case study, “How much does it cost to maintain a copy of an open…

  • XRP Ledger defends emergency patch for unlimited XRP bug

    XRP Ledger defends emergency patch for unlimited XRP bug 2026-10-12 at 06:59 By Cointelegraph by Felix Ng The XRP Ledger Foundation pushed back against claims that its emergency security patch was forced on network operators. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

  • Bill Gates issues warning on ‘bad people’ exploiting a lack of AI safeguards to commit cyberattacks

    Bill Gates issues warning on ‘bad people’ exploiting a lack of AI safeguards to commit cyberattacks 2026-10-12 at 02:16 By Fox News Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates warned Sunday that artificial intelligence could fuel a wave of cyberattacks over the next year. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View…

  • Ransomware negotiator arrested on federal charges as FBI probes hacking of personnel files

    Ransomware negotiator arrested on federal charges as FBI probes hacking of personnel files 2026-10-12 at 02:02 By Fox Business A Canadian cybersecurity executive who negotiates with ransomware hackers faces federal extortion-related charges as authorities investigate a hacking group that claims to have stolen sensitive FBI employee information This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology…

  • Ledger attack spreads to EU, AI finds ’18 trillion XRP’ bug: Hodler’s Digest

    Ledger attack spreads to EU, AI finds ’18 trillion XRP’ bug: Hodler’s Digest 2026-10-12 at 01:57 By Cointelegraph by Andrew Fenton An user reports buying a tampered Ledger from a big retailer in Europe. Security researchers use AI to uncover a “$94 billion” XRP bug — but receive just a $250K bounty. This article is…

  • Saylor teases Strategy Bitcoin buying after ending September with STRC buybacks

    Saylor teases Strategy Bitcoin buying after ending September with STRC buybacks 2026-10-11 at 20:11 By Cointelegraph by Robert Lakin Investors will have to wait an extra day to find out if and how much Strategy added to its Bitcoin treasury in the first week of October. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View…

  • Coldcard says it’s investigating how phishing link appeared on its X account  

    Coldcard says it’s investigating how phishing link appeared on its X account   2026-10-11 at 13:22 By Cointelegraph by Michael Millard Company advised users not to visit or interact with the link in question and said will share any further verified updates. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

  • Ledger confirms unauthorized hardware implant; losses may exceed $86M

    Ledger confirms unauthorized hardware implant; losses may exceed $86M 2026-10-11 at 12:01 By Cointelegraph by Michael Millard Ledger said the incident appeared to be isolated to a single reseller and its Southeast Asian market. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

  • Week in review: FortiBleed is still active, Patch Tuesday forecast

    Week in review: FortiBleed is still active, Patch Tuesday forecast 2026-10-11 at 11:00 By Help Net Security Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Three questions a hospital CISO should ask a healthcare fintech vendor In this Help Net Security interview, Drew McCombs, CTO and CISO at…

  • CFTC proposals aimed at separating prediction markets from casino gambling  

    CFTC proposals aimed at separating prediction markets from casino gambling   2026-10-11 at 10:44 By Cointelegraph by Michael Millard The two measures attempt to set the stage for a potential US Supreme Court battle over federal and state jurisdiction. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

  • P7 DarkSword iOS Exploit Kit Adds Crypto Wallet Data Theft and Remote Commands

    P7 DarkSword iOS Exploit Kit Adds Crypto Wallet Data Theft and Remote Commands 2026-10-11 at 07:24 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a previously unseen variant of the DarkSword iOS exploit kit called P7 DarkSword. “Compared with the variants we usually observe, P7 reduces its on-device footprint, adds on-device keychain and crypto-wallet theft, and…

  • Protesters rage over ‘bulls—’ AI technology that could wipe out an entire profession

    Protesters rage over ‘bulls—’ AI technology that could wipe out an entire profession 2026-10-10 at 22:15 By Fox News Demonstrators gathered outside the D.C. council building to oppose legislation that could bring driverless cars by 2028 This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

  • Startup claims its AI avatar can pass for human in job-interview with creepy new model

    Startup claims its AI avatar can pass for human in job-interview with creepy new model 2026-10-10 at 19:29 By Shane Galvin Tavus AI’s new Griffin model fooled 48% of job interview candidates into thinking they were speaking with a real human, not an AI avatar. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News |…

  • Insider Cyber Extortion Plot Against Industrial Firm Lands Engineer in Prison

    Insider Cyber Extortion Plot Against Industrial Firm Lands Engineer in Prison 2026-10-10 at 14:00 By Kevin Townsend The former core infrastructure engineer deleted admin accounts, reset hundreds of passwords, and demanded 20 bitcoin to spare the company’s servers. The post Insider Cyber Extortion Plot Against Industrial Firm Lands Engineer in Prison appeared first on SecurityWeek.…

  • The Third-Party Agent Problem: Why Security Built for AI You Chose Misses the Agents You Didn’t

    The Third-Party Agent Problem: Why Security Built for AI You Chose Misses the Agents You Didn’t 2026-10-10 at 14:00 By In environments studied for the 2026 State of Agent Security Report, roughly 1,280 third-party products now embed AI. About 282 of them sit behind single sign-on. The other thousand are invisible to identity infrastructure by…

  • Anthropic Cuts Live Internet Access for Internal AI Tests After Claude Exploits Injection Flaws

    Anthropic Cuts Live Internet Access for Internal AI Tests After Claude Exploits Injection Flaws 2026-10-10 at 13:01 By Anthropic on Friday said it’s cutting off live internet access for all its internal evaluations following the discovery of new incidents in which its artificial intelligence (AI) models exhibited misaligned behavior and targeted real websites. The AI…

  • Tech chief says EU can fend off rogue AI risk: Report

    Tech chief says EU can fend off rogue AI risk: Report 2026-10-10 at 12:48 By Cointelegraph by Michael Millard There are global concerns following incidents at OpenAI ‌and Anthropic, and fears have arisen that rogue AI agents may venture beyond human control. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

  • Sam Altman-backed Bitcoin life insurer, Meanwhile, raises more funds

    Sam Altman-backed Bitcoin life insurer, Meanwhile, raises more funds 2026-10-10 at 10:10 By Cointelegraph by Michael Millard The round follows increased international demand for Meanwhile’s Bitcoin life insurance policies amid broader macro instability. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

  • Anthropic AI model sends false homicide tip to Philadelphia police website

    Anthropic AI model sends false homicide tip to Philadelphia police website 2026-10-10 at 02:33 By Reuters Philadelphia police say an Anthropic AI model submitted a fake homicide tip to their website during an automated testing process. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

  • AI companies plot how to respond if catastrophic hacking incident causes ‘revolt’: report

    AI companies plot how to respond if catastrophic hacking incident causes ‘revolt’: report 2026-10-10 at 01:39 By Thomas Barrabi The preparations are focused on creating contingency plans in the event that one of their AI models causes major public harm – such as a hack targeting the power grid, water supply or banking system, Axios…

  • Kalshi probes shady bets on new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia: report

    Kalshi probes shady bets on new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia: report 2026-10-10 at 01:23 By Ariel Zilber Kalshi is probing a series of shady bets about the new White House press secretary, according to a report published hours after Katie Zacharia was named to the high-profile job. This article is an excerpt from…

  • Credential-Stealing GitHub Actions Workflows Planted in Tens of Thousands of Repositories

    Credential-Stealing GitHub Actions Workflows Planted in Tens of Thousands of Repositories 2026-10-10 at 00:22 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an ongoing credential-theft campaign that has compromised two high-profile open-source maintainer accounts to push a malicious workflow into over 340 repositories. “Using the account of Takashi Kitao, author of the 18,400-star game engine pyxel,…

  • OpenAI Fires 3 Safety Researchers in Dispute Over AI Risks

    OpenAI Fires 3 Safety Researchers in Dispute Over AI Risks 2026-10-10 at 00:07 By Associated Press The ChatGPT maker said the researchers “violated clear policies on handling sensitive information.” The post OpenAI Fires 3 Safety Researchers in Dispute Over AI Risks appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

  • US plans to seize $1B in crypto linked to Iran this week: Scott Bessent

    US plans to seize $1B in crypto linked to Iran this week: Scott Bessent 2026-10-09 at 23:39 By Cointelegraph by Turner Wright The Treasury Department has announced several digital asset seizures related to sanctions on Iran as part of US sanctions. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

  • Here are 10 terms you need to know to understand artificial intelligence

    Here are 10 terms you need to know to understand artificial intelligence 2026-10-09 at 23:32 By Taylor Herzlich, Emily Lang From AGI and recursive self-improvement to p(doom), we’ve got you covered. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

  • New York permanently bars Celsius founder Mashinsky in $35M fraud settlement

    New York permanently bars Celsius founder Mashinsky in $35M fraud settlement 2026-10-09 at 23:14 By Cointelegraph by Nate Kostar The agreement resolves a 2023 civil fraud lawsuit against the Celsius founder and permanently bars him from the cryptocurrency, securities and commodities industries. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

  • TP-Link Sued by Four More U.S. States Over Router Security and China Ties

    TP-Link Sued by Four More U.S. States Over Router Security and China Ties 2026-10-09 at 22:33 By Four more U.S. states sued router maker TP-Link Systems on October 6, bringing the total to five, with  Texas filing a suit in February. Florida, Iowa, Montana and Nebraska allege the California company misled buyers about how secure…

  • Researchers Publish Working Exploit for Pre-Auth AnyDesk Linux Flaw That Gives Root Access

    Researchers Publish Working Exploit for Pre-Auth AnyDesk Linux Flaw That Gives Root Access 2026-10-09 at 22:33 By Security researchers have published a full working exploit for a pre-authentication remote code execution flaw in AnyDesk Linux that gives attackers root access before anyone approves the connection. AnyDesk patched the flaw in version 8.0.3 in June, but its changelog described the…

  • Anthropic Launches Free AI Vulnerability Scanner for Open-Source Projects

    Anthropic Launches Free AI Vulnerability Scanner for Open-Source Projects 2026-10-09 at 22:33 By Anthropic on Thursday unveiled OSS Scanner as an opt-in vulnerability scanner to help secure the open-source ecosystem using artificial intelligence (AI). “It’s an opt-in service informed by our experience using Claude to find vulnerabilities during Project Glasswing,” Anthropic said. “Projects that join…

  • THORChain exec accuses Tether of temporarily freezing USDT vaults

    THORChain exec accuses Tether of temporarily freezing USDT vaults 2026-10-09 at 22:04 By Cointelegraph by Turner Wright Chad Barraford, technical co-founder of the network, said that the funds were frozen and then unfrozen without explanation. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

  • FBI Arrests Another ShinyHunters Suspect Reportedly Involved in Its Jobs Portal Hack

    FBI Arrests Another ShinyHunters Suspect Reportedly Involved in Its Jobs Portal Hack 2026-10-09 at 20:45 By The FBI has arrested another suspected co-conspirator of ShinyHunters, FBI Director Kash Patel said on October 9 in a post on X. ShinyHunters is the extortion group that said in September it had breached the FBI’s jobs portal and stolen sensitive data…

  • P7 DarkSword iOS Exploit Kit Adds Crypto Wallet Data Theft and Remote Commands

    P7 DarkSword iOS Exploit Kit Adds Crypto Wallet Data Theft and Remote Commands 2026-10-09 at 19:29 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a previously unseen variant of the DarkSword iOS exploit kit called P7 DarkSword. “Compared with the variants we usually observe, P7 reduces its on-device footprint, adds on-device keychain and crypto-wallet theft, and…

  • 8,500+ European Wind, Solar Systems Exposed

    8,500+ European Wind, Solar Systems Exposed 2026-10-09 at 19:00 By The Dutch National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC-NL) and cybersecurity organization Modat discovered more than 8,500 exposed systems linked to European wind farms and solar parks.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

  • Stock bull market nears 4-year anniversary driven by AI spending — but there are looming risks

    Stock bull market nears 4-year anniversary driven by AI spending — but there are looming risks 2026-10-09 at 18:13 By Reuters As bull markets go, the current one could be classified as middle-aged. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

  • AI-Powered Pentest Tool Used to Breach South Korean Banks

    AI-Powered Pentest Tool Used to Breach South Korean Banks 2026-10-09 at 18:00 By Infrastructure for a targeted campaign against South Korean financial institutions has been discovered.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

  • High-severity NVIDIA vulnerability lets unauthenticated attackers crash GPU monitoring

    High-severity NVIDIA vulnerability lets unauthenticated attackers crash GPU monitoring 2026-10-09 at 16:27 By Sinisa Markovic Hundreds of internet-exposed graphics processing unit (GPU) servers were open to a high-severity flaw in NVIDIA’s DCGM Exporter (CVE-2026-47483) that lets unauthenticated attackers crash the monitoring service and may disrupt AI workloads, according to Lava. Lava reported the flaw to…

  • Flax Typhoon Exploits Five Flaws as CISA Sets October 11 Deadline for Federal Agencies

    Flax Typhoon Exploits Five Flaws as CISA Sets October 11 Deadline for Federal Agencies 2026-10-09 at 16:27 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added five security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following their abuse by a China-linked threat actor known as Flax Typhoon. The vulnerabilities in question…

  • The AI Velocity Paradox: Why Security Is Decades Behind AI Ambition

    The AI Velocity Paradox: Why Security Is Decades Behind AI Ambition 2026-10-09 at 15:29 By As enterprises race to deploy autonomous AI agents to accelerate business, a new report reveals they are tethered to security architectures built for a different era. The “Horizons of Identity Security” report from SailPoint highlights a critical “velocity paradox,” in…

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