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Google plans to give Private AI Compute a memory that follows users across devices

Google plans to give Private AI Compute a memory that follows users across devices 2026-09-24 at 12:32 By Anamarija Pogorelec Google plans to add private, server-side memory to Private AI Compute, enabling AI assistants to maintain continuity across devices while providing privacy protections normally associated with on-device processing. Private AI Compute is Google’s cloud platform […]

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Apple’s new iOS 27 feature looks for signs you’re being scammed

Apple’s new iOS 27 feature looks for signs you’re being scammed 2026-09-24 at 11:02 By Anamarija Pogorelec Apple introduced a scam-prevention feature called Impersonation Risk Detection with iOS 27 and iPadOS 27. The feature allows supported apps to request a risk assessment when a user takes an action that could be connected to an active […]

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What to do first when you get 90 days to secure AI agent data

What to do first when you get 90 days to secure AI agent data 2026-09-24 at 08:00 By Mirko Zorz In this interview with Help Net Security, Kelly Herrell, CEO at Nol8, explains where AI agents create exposure inside organizations. The first thing to examine is the data path: what an agent can reach, what […]

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Your security program knows about the firewall, but does it know about the elevator?

Your security program knows about the firewall, but does it know about the elevator? 2026-09-24 at 07:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec By early August, attackers had hit water systems in at least seven U.S. states. The FBI and EPA said the intruders remotely accessed internet-facing programmable logic controllers, the small industrial computers that run pumps and […]

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Europe’s technology backbone is becoming a cyber target

Europe’s technology backbone is becoming a cyber target 2026-09-24 at 07:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Disruptive attacks on public-facing services, financially motivated cybercrime and compromises of shared technology providers are increasing cybersecurity risks across Europe. ENISA’s Threat Landscape 2026 identifies cybercrime, state-linked activity, foreign information manipulation and interference, hacktivism and vulnerability exploitation as key threats. Geopolitical […]

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Claude Opus 5.5 cuts costs and adds safeguards for autonomous AI

Claude Opus 5.5 cuts costs and adds safeguards for autonomous AI 2026-09-23 at 11:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Claude Opus 5.5 is available across Anthropic’s platforms, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. Developers can access it through the Claude Platform using the model name claude-opus-5-5. It includes watermarking measures designed to comply with the […]

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Product showcase: Scamwise checks the red flags before you take the bait

Product showcase: Scamwise checks the red flags before you take the bait 2026-09-23 at 08:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Scamwise is a free scam-checking service from Savi that examines suspicious messages, emails, websites, phone numbers, images, and real-world situations for signs of fraud. The service works in any web browser on desktop, mobile, or tablet, with […]

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The next intellectual property thief may sound like your CEO

The next intellectual property thief may sound like your CEO 2026-09-22 at 15:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Impersonation, phishing and domain-name abuse are the most concerning types of online intellectual property infringement, according to CSC’s The State of Online IP Risk 2026 report. Internet and branded content, online marketplaces and paid search were the channels most […]

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Somewhere in your traffic logs, a bot is doing more than looking

Somewhere in your traffic logs, a bot is doing more than looking 2026-09-22 at 13:30 By Mirko Zorz Akamai has watched verified AI crawlers, ChatGPT among them, move from reading web pages to sending high-frequency POST requests. In a 30-day analysis of its global customers, ecommerce accounted for 44.8% of those AI bot POST transactions, […]

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A cheap fake base station can still track 5G subscribers

A cheap fake base station can still track 5G subscribers 2026-09-22 at 09:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Researchers from the i2CAT Foundation, the University of Murcia, and NEC Laboratories Europe built a low-cost tool called 5G-Shark that lures a target phone onto a fake base station and questions it, then used it to audit commercial 5G […]

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The TASK#STOMP Windows backdoor takes Wi-Fi passwords, screenshots, and business files

The TASK#STOMP Windows backdoor takes Wi-Fi passwords, screenshots, and business files 2026-09-21 at 17:00 By Mirko Zorz Researchers have taken apart TASK#STOMP, a Windows backdoor that searches a victim’s drives for business documents, uploads them to attacker servers, and then stays put to grab each new or edited document. The same malware steals saved Wi-Fi […]

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Google hit with €403 million GDPR fine over location tracking

Google hit with €403 million GDPR fine over location tracking 2026-09-21 at 15:23 By Anamarija Pogorelec Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined Google €403 million (about $463 million) over its processing of users’ location data and ordered the company to bring that processing into compliance within six months. The inquiry examined Google’s practices from […]

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Product showcase: Helmit alerts parents when online conversations show signs of trouble

Product showcase: Helmit alerts parents when online conversations show signs of trouble 2026-09-21 at 08:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Helmit is a parental control app that combines AI-powered social media monitoring with screen time management, web filtering, location tracking, and safety alerts. It identifies potentially concerning interactions and surface the messages associated with an alert. Helmit […]

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Intent injection attacks are a new worry for AI-native 6G networks

Intent injection attacks are a new worry for AI-native 6G networks 2026-09-21 at 07:30 By Sinisa Markovic Intent-based networking (IBN) lets operators state the outcome they want and leaves its translation into network policy to software, an approach AI-native 6G designs have moved to the forefront. Researchers at the University of Ottawa and Nokia Bell […]

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AI compliance issues hit 2 in 5 large companies, and legacy workflows are a big factor

AI compliance issues hit 2 in 5 large companies, and legacy workflows are a big factor 2026-09-21 at 07:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Forty percent of large companies had an AI-related compliance or governance issue in the past 12 months, according to 1,000 senior IT, operations, and transformation leaders surveyed by Sapio Research. Those leaders said […]

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Android apps can now check security patches down to individual device components

Android apps can now check security patches down to individual device components 2026-09-18 at 11:38 By Anamarija Pogorelec New AndroidX Security State libraries provide a more granular way to determine how securely patched an Android device is. The stable Security State v1.1.0 and Security State Provider v1.0.0 libraries allow developers to check the security status […]

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Hardcoded MCP credentials found in public GitHub files

Hardcoded MCP credentials found in public GitHub files 2026-09-18 at 08:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Hardcoded API keys, access tokens and other credentials used by AI coding tools have been found in publicly accessible MCP configuration files on GitHub, according to research from Hush Security’s The State of MCP Configuration: The Identity Security Gaps report. The […]

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98% of fraudulent hires have company credentials by the time they’re caught

98% of fraudulent hires have company credentials by the time they’re caught 2026-09-18 at 08:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec A 90-day period between hiring and onboarding is creating a blind spot in enterprise identity security, according to HYPR’s State of HR Identity Fraud Detection report. “Adversaries no longer need to breach a network when they can […]

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Most WordPress pros still lack a breach recovery plan

Most WordPress pros still lack a breach recovery plan 2026-09-18 at 07:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Melapress, a maker of WordPress security plugins, surveyed 319 WordPress professionals and found that most had dealt with at least one known security incident. The respondents build and run WordPress sites for a living: agency staff, developers, designers, site owners […]

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