YouTubers targeted with fake sponsorships and “channel verification” phishing
Scammers are going after YouTube creators’ Google accounts by posing as a brand looking for sponsorship partners. By sending out personalized emails that reference a…
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Authorities seize sites selling hacked, stolen intimate images of 17,000 women and girls
The FBI and French law enforcement have seized two websites that sold hacked and stolen sexually explicit images and videos of young women and girls,…
GitHub adds AI to catch passwords before a code push
GitHub has announced an AI detector, developed with Microsoft Applied Sciences, to help prevent developers from uploading passwords and other credentials to code repositories. The…
How AI can fix cybersecurity compliance: From dashboards to continuous execution
Most compliance work goes into proving security, not improving it. That isn’t because the rules are unreasonable. Regulators, customers, and cyber insurers are right to…
Cisco quantum network controller lets apps order entanglement on demand
Cisco has built a Quantum Network Controller, a research prototype that lets an application ask a quantum network for entanglement and leaves the network to…
Gremlin Foresight AI finds system weaknesses and verifies the fixes
Gremlin has announced the general availability of Gremlin Foresight AI. Following a successful beta, Gremlin Foresight AI has proven it can identify and address reliability…
Exploitation attempts against critical Atlassian flaw have begun (CVE-2026-21589)
One day after Atlassian released patches fixing a critical arbitrary file access vulnerability (CVE-2026-21589) in its self-managed Data Center products, and a few hours after…
ASOS confirms data breach after “hacked” app alert reaches shoppers
UK fashion retailer ASOS has confirmed a data breach after a notification claiming hackers had broken into its data was sent to shoppers through its…
OpenSSH 10.6 enables a post-quantum signature algorithm, so experimental keys need replacing
The OpenSSH team released version 10.6 on Oct. 6 and said it will ship releases more often for now to get bugfixes into users’ hands…
Dell System Update flaw allows attackers to gain root privileges (CVE-2026-86360)
Dell is urging customers to patch a vulnerability (CVE-2026-86360) in Dell System Update (DSU) that could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to execute arbitrary code…
Atlassian urges immediate patching of critical Data Center file access vulnerability (CVE-2026-21589)
Attackers who know where to look can read files from Atlassian Data Center installations without logging in, the company has warned. About CVE-2026-21589 CVE-2026-21589, a…
Rogue OpenAI agents made unauthorized Wikipedia edits and millions of requests to Wikimedia
Rogue OpenAI agents made unauthorized edits on Wikimedia wikis and sent millions of automated requests to Wikimedia’s public APIs, traffic that may have contributed to…