Microsoft at Black Hat 2026: When the Attacker Comes Through the Front Door You Trust
Black Hat 2026 Keynote Report — Cyber Defense Magazine By Dr. Arun Lakhotia Black Hat 2026: The Supply-Chain Trust Series — Cyber Defense Magazine. Part…
Month: August 2026
Compromised Rust Crate With 18,000+ Downloads Steals Source Code During Builds
A malicious update to the Rust crate called onering has been discovered, which exfiltrates source code changes from developers’ machines during the build process. Security…
A $25 template helped scammers build hundreds of phantom bank domains
A phrase on a suspicious website turned into an investigation of phantom banks built to support scams, according to new research from Allure Security. Molly…
Your Mac already has a built-in firewall. Here’s how to get more from it
Your Mac comes with a built-in firewall, but it’s probably not something you’ve given much thought to. A firewall helps control incoming connections—requests from apps…
Suspected Russian Hackers Abuse Google OAuth and WhatsApp Linking to Hijack Accounts
Three distinct suspected Russian cyber espionage threat clusters have been observed leveraging legitimate authentication flows to single out individuals working in academia, aerospace and defense,…
Will Scottish datacentre ruling nudge spec builds into the open?
Planning authorities in Scotland must now notify ministers within seven days of validating any datacentre application that exceeds 50MW of power capacity, under a direction…
Minister to launch smart device security labelling pilot at Connecting Technology Summit
The conversation around securing connected devices in Australia is entering its next phase and smart product vendors and manufacturers are preparing to put their products…
Atlassian, Splunk Patch Dozens of Critical, High-Severity Vulnerabilities
Atlassian and Splunk this week announced patches for over 250 vulnerabilities across their products, including dozens of critical- and high-severity flaws. On Tuesday, Atlassian published…
U.S. CISA adds a MLflow flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
U.S. CISA adds an MLflow flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Pierluigi Paganini August 20, 2026 U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds…
The push to designate AI as the next critical infrastructure sector
Artificial intelligence has never been more important to the federal government. Under the Trump administration, AI has been adopted rapidly across the private sector and…
Citrix issues critical security updates for its NetScaler devices
“There are no public indicators that these two new flaws are being exploited at the moment, but that is likely to change within hours, given…
AWS Network Firewall now supports rule hit count
As firewall rule sets grow in complexity, security teams face a common challenge: manual log analysis is used to determine which rules are actively matching…