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…
Month: August 2026
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…
Intelligence Insights: August 2026 | Red Canary
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Critical Elementor Pro bug exposes WordPress sites to RCE attacks
A critical vulnerability in the Elementor Pro WordPress plugin could allow attackers to upload executable files for remote code execution on the server. Identified as…
AWS Shows How to Stop a Hijacked AI Agent From Reading Data the User Cannot Access
Enterprises are racing to deploy AI agents that pull from databases, document repositories, SaaS platforms, and internal knowledge bases to automate workflows. But a quiet…
Black Hat 2026: The Supply-Chain Trust Series
Black Hat 2026 Series Introduction — Cyber Defense Magazine By Dr. Arun Lakhotia Black Hat 2026: The Supply-Chain Trust Series. This is the series home. It…
Why compliance does not guarantee cyber resilience
Cyber security has become one of the most audited and regulated areas of enterprise technology. Yet an organisation can satisfy every requirement on paper and…