Security awareness has long relied on teaching people to spot the obvious warning signs. Steve Povolny, Vice President of AI Strategy & Security Research…
Top 10 Best Secrets Detection Tools in 2026 [Ranked & Scored]
Attackers don’t crack what they can copy and leaked API keys sit in git history, Slack threads, and cloud workloads waiting. Evaluating the landscape…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-10-08 12h : 41 posts
41 posts published in the last hour 09:32Wiretapping change sparks big privacy fight in the Golden State 09:32CISA Highlights the Value of Cyber Decoys. FortiDeceptor Puts Them to Work. 09:32CVE-2026-96940: Microsoft Fixes Exchange Server Flaw For Which Exploitation Is More…
Wiretapping change sparks big privacy fight in the Golden State
An update to a state wiretapping law will end private lawsuits over some internet tracking and surveillance, pitting businesses against privacy groups and…
CISA Highlights the Value of Cyber Decoys. FortiDeceptor Puts Them to Work.
See how FortiDeceptor puts CISA’s cyber decoy guidance into practice to help organizations detect threats and accelerate response
CVE-2026-96940: Microsoft Fixes Exchange Server Flaw For Which Exploitation Is More Likely
Microsoft released emergency updates for Exchange Server to fix CVE-2026-96940, a high-severity flaw that can let attackers gain higher privileges.…
Critical Healthcare Systems Aren’t Quantum-Ready
A study of 2.5 million devices across 50 healthcare organizations suggests the sector has a long way to go in getting ready for the post-quantum…
Hackers obtain counterfeit TLS certificates for Google and other large services
Compromise of 3 domain registries allows hackers to walk off with unauthorized certs.
The Man Behind a West Bank Telegram Channel Trying to Keep Palestinian Drivers Safe
With no accurate Big Tech mapping app to help him, Anas Hattab launched a Telegram group to get himself home at night. Now nearly 350,000 Palestinians…
Welcome to the Jungle: What We Found Inside 15,465 Public MCP Servers
In 2024, MCP (Model Context Protocol) set out to become the USB-C of AI: one standard for connecting models, agents, and IDEs to tools and data. The…
Denmark Population Registry Breach Exposes 8.8 Million Citizens
Denmark is grappling with one of the most significant data breaches in its history after unauthorized actors gained access to the Central Population…
What is MATCHBOIL? The Russia-aligned malware that installs a spying backdoor
ESET researchers traced almost two years of changes to MATCHBOIL, a downloader that the Russia-aligned group UAC-0099 uses to plant a second program on…
Protecting citizens, preserving rights
How can law enforcement make effective use of data and technology while ensuring that fundamental rights and the rule of law remain protected? This…
Incident affecting ASOS customers
ASOS has said it is investigating a cyber incident and that some customer personal information may have been accessed.
Asos app delivers a data leak threat instead of fast fashion
Rogue notification claims Snowflake instance compromised, but customer info theft remains unverified
US cyber resilience, oversight tested in series of attacks
Attacks targeting key industrial sites and unforced errors among leading AI companies are raising alarm bells.
AI has accelerated coding. Now software organizations must redesign everything around it
Software teams running AI coding tools are generating more output than ever before. Commits are up. Pull requests move faster. By the numbers, developer…
Chinese Man May Be Linked To South Korean Bank Hacks
Researchers find indications that 26-year-old in Guangdong province may be behind AI-assisted data breaches of South Korean banks
LibreOffice says ‘no AI’ is now a software feature
The maker of the open source document editor says it has no plans to add AI to its software’s default configuration, citing user privacy.
ISC Stormcast For Wednesday, October 7th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10126, (Wed, Oct 7th)
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Fake Decryption Tools Masked $11M Markup in Ransomware Recovery Scheme
Zohar Pinhasi was paying ransoms to obtain decryption keys and then charging victims substantially more for remediation.
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…
Cannabis smuggling from North America and Thailand into Europe: Europol highlights growing threat
Cannabis smuggling from North America and Thailand in Europe has seen a sharp rise, driven by oversupply in legal markets and the adaptability of…
Check Point PromptGuardX: Securing the Files AI Agents Trust
Key Highlights Prompt injection is becoming an execution risk. Instructions hidden in external content can attempt to activate an AI agent’s tools, APIs…