One year later: the power of 1.1.1.1 interns
A year ago, many companies were cutting intern and new-graduate hiring. We went the other way. We announced a goal to hire as many as…
Month: October 2026
IQVIA fined $7.8 million for failing to properly anonymize health data
Italy’s Data Protection Authority (GPDP) has fined IQVIA €7 million ($7.8M) over poor data-processing practices that the agency says could have put roughly one million…
Zammad Zero-Day Chain Lets AI Agent Hijack Sessions, Execute Code and Escalate to Root
An AI agent breached the Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure by chaining two previously unknown flaws in Zammad, an open source helpdesk platform. The September…
Cybersecurity Awareness Month “cannot be the strategy”: why awareness must become a year-round capability
Every October, security teams roll out refreshed training, posters and phishing simulations. But according to Rob Gregory, CISO at Optiv, organizations that treat the month as the centerpiece…
ClingSTUN Malware Turns Vulnerable IoT Devices Into Persistent Remote Proxy Nodes
ClingSTUN, a Linux backdoor that exploits unpatched internet-facing devices and converts them into persistent, remotely controlled proxy nodes. The malware combines startup persistence, process concealment,…
Reflection’s Beam trails top open models on coding tests but claims lower inference compute
Reflection AI has built Beam, a 501-billion-parameter open-weight model for coding and agent tasks, and plans to publish the weights under an Apache 2.0 license…
Apple Plans Tighter macOS Full Disk Access Controls Over AI Agent Data Access
Ravie LakshmananOct 05, 2026Vulnerability / Artificial Intelligence Apple has announced that it’s taking steps to tighten controls around a macOS setting called Full Disk Access…
Metropolitan Police awards Atos with £350m IT deal
The Metropolitan Police has agreed a contract with Atos that will support its ongoing efforts to modernise and simplify applications. In full, the £350m six-year…
Australia’s Firmus to allocate half of IPO to existing investors
Australian data centre operator Firmus plans to allocate about half of its up to US$5.5 billion ($7.9 billion) initial public offering, including the over-allotment option,…
Exploitation Hits Rejetto HFS Vulnerability Discovered by AI
Threat actors are exploiting a critical vulnerability in Rejetto HTTP File Server (HFS) to bypass authentication and gain remote code execution (RCE), VulnCheck warns. Tracked…
MI5 Raises Alarm Over Chinese Funding of UK Academic Research
MI5 Raises Alarm Over Chinese Funding of UK Academic Research Pierluigi Paganini October 05, 2026 MI5 warns UK universities that over 100 academics may have…
Walk, don’t run, but never stand still on AI transformation
By Tim Morris, Chief Security Advisor, Americas, Tanium Recently, the Australian Government disclosed that an AI agent had accessed a Medicare statistics portal without authorisation.…