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Microsoft makes Windows SSO prompts easier to manage

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Microsoft makes Windows SSO prompts easier to manage 2026-07-16 at 11:47 By Anamarija Pogorelec Microsoft is introducing a new registry-based policy that lets IT administrators automatically accept Windows SSO permissions on Windows 11 versions 24H2 and 25H2 devices managed with Microsoft Entra ID. Users with personal Microsoft accounts and devices outside policy-managed environments will continue […]

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Zoom Patches Critical Windows Flaw That Could Enable Account Takeover

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Zoom Patches Critical Windows Flaw That Could Enable Account Takeover 2026-07-16 at 11:36 By Zoom has released security updates for a critical security flaw impacting Zoom Workplace for Windows that could facilitate account takeover. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-53412 (CVSS score: 9.8), affects Zoom Desktop Client for Windows, Zoom VDI Client for Windows, and Zoom

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Police dismantle investment fraud ring that stole €100 million a month

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Police dismantle investment fraud ring that stole €100 million a month 2026-07-16 at 11:30 By Sinisa Markovic Dutch police, working alongside Belgian authorities and Europol, have dismantled a major criminal network accused of operating a global investment fraud scheme through dozens of fraudulent call centers. Investigators estimate the organization generated more than €100 million a

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Old UEFI Shims Expose Systems to Secure Boot Bypass

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Old UEFI Shims Expose Systems to Secure Boot Bypass 2026-07-16 at 10:59 By Ionut Arghire Signed by Microsoft, the vulnerable UEFI shim bootloaders could be abused on any system, regardless of the OS. The post Old UEFI Shims Expose Systems to Secure Boot Bypass appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek

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VS Code agent host runs Copilot, Claude, and Codex in a dedicated process

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VS Code agent host runs Copilot, Claude, and Codex in a dedicated process 2026-07-16 at 10:45 By Anamarija Pogorelec Developers who lean on AI coding agents often keep several editor windows open at once, each tied to its own session. The 1.129 release of Visual Studio Code reworks that setup with a dedicated agent host.

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Robinhood Chain memecoin launchpad Vlad.fun halts after ‘internal integrity’ issue

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Robinhood Chain memecoin launchpad Vlad.fun halts after ‘internal integrity’ issue 2026-07-16 at 10:43 By Cointelegraph Vlad.fun suspended its platform after discovering a “serious internal integrity issue” involving members of its team, without disclosing the nature of the alleged misconduct. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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Nightmare Eclipse Drops ‘LegacyHive’ Windows Zero-Day 

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Nightmare Eclipse Drops ‘LegacyHive’ Windows Zero-Day  2026-07-16 at 09:48 By Ionut Arghire The researcher stripped the proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit to prevent immediate exploitation of the vulnerability. The post Nightmare Eclipse Drops ‘LegacyHive’ Windows Zero-Day  appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

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Hyperion DeFi to deploy 500K HYPE for Hyperliquid HIP-3 markets

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Hyperion DeFi to deploy 500K HYPE for Hyperliquid HIP-3 markets 2026-07-16 at 09:41 By Cointelegraph by Yohan Yun The deal gives Hyperion an equity stake in Skew and a share of listing-service revenue as it expands the utility of its HYPE treasury assets. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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Trend Micro, Tanium, ESET and Tenable Patch Severe Product Vulnerabilities

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Trend Micro, Tanium, ESET and Tenable Patch Severe Product Vulnerabilities 2026-07-16 at 09:08 By Eduard Kovacs The cybersecurity companies patched critical and high-severity vulnerabilities in some of their products. The post Trend Micro, Tanium, ESET and Tenable Patch Severe Product Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

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Reading between the lines of a cyber insurance policy

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Reading between the lines of a cyber insurance policy 2026-07-16 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz Enterprises in regulated industries often carry cyber insurance policies because contracts require it or boards ask for documented risk transfer. The global market for these policies reached about $16 billion in premiums in 2024. Coverage has become widespread. Payouts have

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What public money does to open-source projects

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What public money does to open-source projects 2026-07-16 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz Most of the software running inside a typical company was written by volunteers the company never paid. Open-source code sits under web apps, build pipelines, and the machine learning stacks getting so much attention right now. Roughly 96 percent of codebases carry

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Ransom demands are down, email is the top way attackers get in

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Ransom demands are down, email is the top way attackers get in 2026-07-16 at 08:00 By Mirko Zorz An employee opens an email that looks like any other, clicks a link, and gives up a password without noticing. A stolen login opens a door deeper in the network. Files stop opening a few days later.

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Companies keep getting breached by vulnerabilities they already knew about

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Companies keep getting breached by vulnerabilities they already knew about 2026-07-16 at 07:30 By Mirko Zorz Scanning tools have gotten good at their work. Organizations now find more weaknesses across more of their systems than at any earlier point in the industry’s history. A survey from the security firm Vicarius points to a gap that

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Trump to meet with senators over CLARITY Act on Thursday: Politico

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Trump to meet with senators over CLARITY Act on Thursday: Politico 2026-07-16 at 07:18 By Cointelegraph by Felix Ng US President Donald Trump is set to meet with several senators on Thursday as negotiators race to get the CLARITY Act across the line before the Senate’s August recess. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com

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Finance phishing works because it sounds boringly normal

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Finance phishing works because it sounds boringly normal 2026-07-16 at 06:53 By Anamarija Pogorelec Finance departments process a constant stream of invoices, contracts, payment notices, and procurement emails, making email one of the most common initial access vectors for threat actors. According to Cofense, attackers exploit those workflows with phishing emails that resemble legitimate business

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GPT-Red beat human red teamers on a prompt injection test

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GPT-Red beat human red teamers on a prompt injection test 2026-07-16 at 06:49 By Mirko Zorz GPT-Red is an automated red-teaming model that OpenAI trains to find prompt injection weaknesses. It works the way a human red-teamer does. It sends a prompt, watches how a GPT model responds, and iterates toward a goal such as

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OkoBot Malware Framework Injects Seed Phrase Phishing Into Ledger and Trezor Apps

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OkoBot Malware Framework Injects Seed Phrase Phishing Into Ledger and Trezor Apps 2026-07-16 at 05:06 By A malware framework called OkoBot has been running on Windows machines since April 2025, and one of its modules is built to con hardware wallet owners out of their recovery phrase. On an infected PC, the request comes from

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TuxBot v3 Evolution Shows Signs of LLM-Assisted IoT Botnet Development

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TuxBot v3 Evolution Shows Signs of LLM-Assisted IoT Botnet Development 2026-07-16 at 05:06 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a previously unreported Internet-of-Things (IoT) botnet framework dubbed TuxBot v3 Evolution that shows signs of being developed with assistance from a large language model (LLM), albeit with not so successful results. “While the AI complied

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