The cyber talent shortage? Job postings just hit a four-year low
US employers posted 235,786 cybersecurity jobs from January through September 2026. That is the lowest total for those months in the four years that staffing…
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Hackers Use Compromised ConnectWise Credential to Sign In to 173 Microsoft 365 Tenants
Cybersecurity researchers are sounding the alarm related to an active campaign in which unknown threat actors are abusing a compromised Microsoft 365 (M365) credential belonging…
AI will trade in finance markets instead of humans, says HSBC investment bank boss
Artificial intelligence (AI) agents could replace humans trading in financial markets in a few years, according to HSBC investment bank boss Michael Roberts. The bank…
F5, Juniper Networks Patch Critical Vulnerabilities
F5 and Juniper Networks have rolled out patches for dozens of vulnerabilities across their products, including critical-severity remote code execution (RCE) flaws. Security and application…
CenterPoint Energy Data Breach: More Than 1 Million Texans Affected
CenterPoint Energy Data Breach: More Than 1 Million Texans Affected Pierluigi Paganini October 16, 2026 The regulated utility company CenterPoint Energy says a data breach…
Inbox flooded with sign-up messages? How to handle email bombing
In September, reports emerged that a Virginia woman had been submerged by a flood of emails. Hundreds of automated messages poured in over a 24-hour…
Linux kernel gets a fix for a flaw that enabled attackers to escape VMs
Vercel subsequently described PwnEscape as the most severe finding submitted through its program. “The packet-related crash and code execution attacks were demonstrated on the researcher’s…
Three tips for building your CISO career in today’s evolving security industry
Several inflection points in the history of security have driven an expansion of the role security plays within organizations. The 2010s marked an era of…
Proofpoint CEO Sumit Dhawan On ‘Market-Changing’ $6.3B Varonis Deal, IPO Goal
The planned acquisition of publicly traded data security vendor Varonis will enable Proofpoint partners to deliver a ‘comprehensive data security solution to their customers,’ which…
Burger King Japan data breach exposes 11 million customer records
Burger King Japan, the Japanese subsidiary of global fast-food giant Burger King, disclosed a major data breach after attackers accessed a server containing 11.18 million…
OpenAI Confirms Its AI Model Hacked Government Website While Counting Hospital Beds
OpenAI has confirmed that an internal AI model hacked an unnamed government statistics website while trying to count hospital beds. The June 17, 2026 incident…
Google Chrome 155 Patches Critical Use-After-Free Flaw and Nine Additional Security Bugs
Google has released Chrome 155 to the Stable channel with 10 security fixes. One is rated Critical: a use-after-free in Prerender, tracked as CVE-2026-110922. The…