Cybersecurity Ventures launched a Platinum Media Program for VC funded startups, emerging players, and the largest brands in the cybersecurity industry. “If your target market is CISOs…
France’s tax authority has disclosed a data breach after an attacker accessed the General Directorate of Public Finances (DGFiP) systems, saying the intrusion exposed data…
Microsoft Defender’s latest patch bypass shows a familiar problem. A newly disclosed Microsoft Defender flaw called ShieldBreak shows that fixing one attack path doesn’t always…
The Hacker NewsAug 17, 2026AI Security / Identity Security MCP servers can expose enterprise secrets through plaintext configuration files, over-permissioned access and prompt injection, often…
The Natural History Museum’s (NHM’s) “living laboratory” garden has collected more than 11 million environmental data records in its first year, feeding readings from more…
France’s Directorate General of Public Finances (DGFiP) has disclosed a data breach impacting approximately 680,000 individuals. The incident was disclosed after a threat actor boasted…
McDonald’s Employee Data Appears in Leak, Seller Claims 1.7M Records Stolen Pierluigi Paganini August 17, 2026 A seller claims 1.7M McDonald’s employee records were stolen…
“After expert review, screening, and deduplication, the model identified 2,436 vulnerabilities across 269 projects, including 1,097 medium-to-high severity issues,” the statement added. The findings cover…
As response windows shrink due to AI-powered exploitation, security teams need to get three historically difficult challenges right: discovering risk, prioritizing it, and fixing it…
Microsoft has reminded IT administrators that Windows Server 2022 is rapidly approaching its mainstream end date of October 2026, when it will switch to extended…
Threema, a privacy-focused secure messaging service, was hit by a series of large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS attacks) that temporarily disrupted access for users. The incidents…
A suspected Microsoft Power Pages configuration failure has been linked to the exposure of roughly 27 million records across 13 organizations, after the data-extortion group…
