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Police shut down global DDoS operation, arrest 20-year-old

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Police shut down global DDoS operation, arrest 20-year-old 2026-02-05 at 12:45 By Sinisa Markovic Police officers from Poland’s Central Bureau for Combating Cybercrime (CBZC) have arrested a 20-year-old man suspected of carrying out global DDoS attacks targeting high-profile and strategically important websites. Arrest (Source: Poland’s Central Bureau for Combating Cybercrime) The suspect faces six criminal […]

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Microsoft launches LiteBox, a security-focused open-source library OS

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Microsoft launches LiteBox, a security-focused open-source library OS 2026-02-05 at 11:29 By Anamarija Pogorelec Microsoft has released LiteBox, a project intended to function as a security-focused library OS that can serve as a secure kernel for protecting a guest kernel using virtualization hardware. LiteBox was developed in collaboration with the Linux Virtualization Based Security (LVBS) […]

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Microsoft brings project-focused AI agents into OneDrive

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Microsoft brings project-focused AI agents into OneDrive 2026-02-05 at 11:29 By Sinisa Markovic Teams often rely on shared document collections to track project history, decisions, and operational knowledge. To support this workflow, Microsoft introduced Agents in OneDrive, allowing users to create AI assistants built from selected files and folders. The feature allows users to group […]

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Smart glasses are back, privacy issues included

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Smart glasses are back, privacy issues included 2026-02-05 at 09:11 By Sinisa Markovic AI smart glasses are the latest addition to fashion, and they include a camera, a microphone, AI, and privacy risks. After Google Glass failed to gain traction more than a decade ago, the category is seeing renewed interest as companies redesign the […]

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Measuring AI use becomes a business requirement

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Measuring AI use becomes a business requirement 2026-02-05 at 09:11 By Anamarija Pogorelec Enterprise teams already run dozens of AI tools across daily work. Usage stretches from code generation and analytics to customer support drafting and internal research. Oversight remains uneven across roles, functions, and industries. A new Larridin survey of enterprise leaders places measurement […]

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Cybersecurity planning keeps moving toward whole-of-society models

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Cybersecurity planning keeps moving toward whole-of-society models 2026-02-05 at 09:11 By Sinisa Markovic National governments already run cybersecurity through a mix of ministries, regulators, law enforcement, and private operators that own most critical systems. In that environment, guidance circulating among policymakers outlines how national cybersecurity strategies increasingly tie together risk management, workforce planning, technology standards, […]

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AI is driving a new kind of phishing at scale

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AI is driving a new kind of phishing at scale 2026-02-05 at 09:11 By Sinisa Markovic Email remains a primary entry point for attackers, and security teams continue to manage high volumes of malicious messages that change form across campaigns. Attackers generate large numbers of messages with small variations in wording, structure, and delivery paths. […]

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Incognito dark web drug market operator gets 30 years in prison

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Incognito dark web drug market operator gets 30 years in prison 2026-02-04 at 18:17 By Sinisa Markovic Rui-Siang Lin, a Taiwanese national, was sentenced to 30 years in U.S. federal prison for operating Incognito Market, one of the world’s largest illicit online narcotics marketplaces. Incognito Market splash page and graphical interface Incognito Market operated on […]

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Major vulnerabilities found in Google Looker, putting self-hosted deployments at risk

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Major vulnerabilities found in Google Looker, putting self-hosted deployments at risk 2026-02-04 at 13:25 By Help Net Security Researchers at Tenable have disclosed two vulnerabilities, collectively referred to as “LookOut,” affecting Google Looker. Because the business intelligence platform is deployed by more than 60,000 organizations in 195 countries, the flaws could give attackers a path […]

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Apple Xcode 26.3 adds coding agent support from OpenAI and Anthropic

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Apple Xcode 26.3 adds coding agent support from OpenAI and Anthropic 2026-02-04 at 11:56 By Sinisa Markovic Apple released Xcode 26.3 with new agentic coding capabilities designed to let AI systems carry out development tasks inside the IDE. The release supports agents such as Anthropic’s Claude Agent and OpenAI’s Codex. Coding agents can break down […]

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Global Threat Map: Open-source real-time situational awareness platform

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Global Threat Map: Open-source real-time situational awareness platform 2026-02-04 at 08:32 By Mirko Zorz Global Threat Map is an open-source project offering security teams a live view of reported cyber activity across the globe, pulling together open data feeds into a single interactive map. It visualizes indicators such as malware distribution, phishing activity, and attack […]

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How Secure by Design helps developers build secure software

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How Secure by Design helps developers build secure software 2026-02-04 at 08:06 By Help Net Security Security isn’t just a feature, it’s a foundation. As cyber threats grow more sophisticated and regulations tighten, developers are being asked to do more than just write clean code. They’re being asked to build software that’s secure by design […]

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Why incident response breaks down when it matters most

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Why incident response breaks down when it matters most 2026-02-04 at 07:45 By Help Net Security In this Help Net Security video, Jon David, Managing Director, NR Labs, discusses why incident response often breaks down during a breach. Drawing on years of experience watching real attackers operate across many industries, he walks through what tends […]

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Auto finance fraud is costing dealers up to $20,000 per incident

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Auto finance fraud is costing dealers up to $20,000 per incident 2026-02-04 at 07:08 By Anamarija Pogorelec Auto retailers see fraud as a regular part of selling and financing vehicles, something that shows up often enough to plan around, according to Experian. Income and identity fraud lead the list Most fraud problems start with the […]

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Russian hackers are exploiting recently patched Microsoft Office vulnerability (CVE-2026-21509)

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Russian hackers are exploiting recently patched Microsoft Office vulnerability (CVE-2026-21509) 2026-02-03 at 17:21 By Zeljka Zorz Russian state-sponsored hackers Fancy Bear (aka APT 28) are exploiting CVE-2026-21509, a Microsoft Office vulnerability for which Microsoft released an emergency fix last week. The exploitation CVE-2026-21509 allows unauthorized attackers to bypass a security feature (OLE mitigations in Microsoft […]

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Download: Tines Voice of Security 2026 report

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Download: Tines Voice of Security 2026 report 2026-02-03 at 16:01 By Help Net Security Security teams everywhere are adopting AI. Yet manual work persists, workloads are rising, and burnout continues to climb. To understand what’s really changing, Tines surveyed 1,800+ security leaders and practitioners worldwide. The findings show where AI is delivering value, how security […]

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Notepad++ supply chain attack: Researchers reveal details, IoCs, targets

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Notepad++ supply chain attack: Researchers reveal details, IoCs, targets 2026-02-03 at 15:34 By Zeljka Zorz Rapid7 researchers have attributed the recent hijacking of the Notepad++ update mechanism to Lotus Blossom (aka Billbug), a Chinese state-sponsored group known for targeting organizations in Southeast Asia for espionage purposes. On Wednesday, Kaspersky researchers shared the insights they’ve gleaned […]

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Sandisk brings SPRandom to open source for large SSD testing

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Sandisk brings SPRandom to open source for large SSD testing 2026-02-03 at 15:15 By Anamarija Pogorelec Enterprise storage environments already run long qualification cycles as solid-state drive capacities rise and validation teams try to mirror production workloads. Preconditioning steps now consume days of lab time for a single device, especially in data centers supporting AI […]

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Firefox to let users manage and block AI features

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Firefox to let users manage and block AI features 2026-02-03 at 15:15 By Sinisa Markovic Mozilla will add a set of controls in Firefox that let users manage and block GenAI features in the desktop browser. The controls will be included in Firefox version 148 on February 24, 2026. “We believe choice is more important […]

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OpenAI releases Codex macOS app for agent-based software development

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OpenAI releases Codex macOS app for agent-based software development 2026-02-03 at 13:17 By Anamarija Pogorelec OpenAI has launched the new Codex app for macOS, a dedicated workspace for managing multiple AI coding agents in parallel. The app is designed to help developers reduce repetitive work and focus on higher-level engineering tasks. Codex can write features, […]

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