The Citizen Lab’s Ron Deibert warns the US government is pushing for pervasive surveillance and says certain technology executives are all too happy to…
OpenAI Fires Researchers Amid Security Imbroglio
Company acknowledges firing three researchers, including technical liaison with outside firm investigating Hugging Face breach
Critical Atlassian File Access Flaw Draws Attacks Across Eight Products
CVE-2026-21589 is being exploited after a public PoC, putting self-hosted Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket and other Atlassian products at risk.
Building your AI vulnerability harness, Part 1
Vulnerability scanners produce findings faster than manual triage can process them. Your developers ship more code with more dependencies, and the volume…
FBI Removes Accenture Contractor After Patch Failure Led to ShinyHunters Breach
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has removed an Accenture contractor for their alleged role in a ShinyHunters-breach that led to the theft…
Google Chrome Update Fixes 247 Security Flaws, Including 4 Critical Bugs
Google Chrome 155 fixes 247 security vulnerabilities, including four Critical use-after-free flaws. See what security teams should do now.
How a (Weirdly Chill) Celebrity Thinks About Personal Cybersecurity
At a recent event for security firm NordVPN, NBA superstar Shaquille O’Neal revealed that he got hacked—and warned the public about the need to “have…
Midnight Blizzard Targets Hotel Wi-Fi: Malware and Phishing Put Travelers at Risk
Midnight Blizzard is abusing hotel Wi-Fi captive portals to deliver malware and steal credentials from travelers, putting corporate devices and accounts…
Criminals Invade Solihull Home In Violent Crypto Attack
Three robbers and fourth remote mastermind attack Solihull businessman with hammers, threaten pregnant wife in targeted crypto robbery
Texas AG Says Oracle Health’s 2025 Breach Affected 20M Individuals
A Texas AG filing says Oracle Health’s 2025 breach affected nearly 20 million people, while major questions about access and attribution remain.
Configuring your AI vulnerability harness, Part 2: The steering file
This post shows you how to configure an AI model to perform structured, evidence-based vulnerability triage with the consistency of a seasoned security…
Google’s October Android Update Patches 7 Critical Security Vulnerabilities
Google’s October Android security update patches seven critical vulnerabilities, including flaws that do not require user interaction.
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-10-08 00h : 11 posts
11 posts published in the last hour 21:58IT Security News Roundup: 2026-10-07 21:55IT Security News Daily Summary 2026-10-07 21:31Anthropic Gives Vetted Defenders Fewer Claude Guardrails 21:31Denmark Says Attackers Accessed CPR Data for 8.8 Million People via Company Account 21:31Bin Lorries…
IT Security News Daily Summary 2026-10-07
200 posts published today 21:31Anthropic Gives Vetted Defenders Fewer Claude Guardrails 21:31Denmark Says Attackers Accessed CPR Data for 8.8 Million People via Company Account 21:31Bin Lorries Complete Cornwall Mobile Network Survey 21:31ClickFix Smuggles Payloads Through Browser Cache to Bypass Windows…
Anthropic Gives Vetted Defenders Fewer Claude Guardrails
Anthropic has merged Project Glasswing into a tiered access program for its advanced cyber LLMs, including Opus, Sonnet, and Mythos.
Denmark Says Attackers Accessed CPR Data for 8.8 Million People via Company Account
Unauthorized parties have gained access to the names, addresses, and personal identification numbers of about 8.8 million people, living and dead, in…
Bin Lorries Complete Cornwall Mobile Network Survey
Devices carried by food waste trucks across Cornwall carry out detailed survey of mobile coverage across county
ClickFix Smuggles Payloads Through Browser Cache to Bypass Windows Run Limits
A new type of ClickFix attack is using compromised websites to trick users into executing a malicious payload cached in a web browser’s cache. “Instead of…
Hackers hijack Google domains after breaching ccTLD registries
Hackers obtained unauthorized HTTPS certificates for several Google domains and hijacked domains in the country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs) for Ghana,…
Security researcher claims they found KVM guest-host escape flaw
Firecracker MicroVMs, which started at AWS, seem to be the problem
EU law enforcement chiefs gather to discuss new challenges in EU security
The Convention was opened by Jürgen Ebner, Europol’s Acting Executive Director, and Justin Kelly, Commissioner of the Irish An Garda Síochána.Jürgen…
Atlassian warns of critical file access flaw in its datacenter products
Tells users ‘action required’ – but maybe don’t make that action a Jira ticket, because it has this bug
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-10-07 23h : 32 posts
32 posts published in the last hour 20:32CISA to keep cyber pay incentives, but less staff will qualify 20:32Anonymous Proxies Review 2026: Proxy Types, Security Use Cases and Who It’s For 20:31ClingSTUN Turns Vulnerable IoT Devices Into Proxy Nodes 20:31Insider…
CISA to keep cyber pay incentives, but less staff will qualify
Justin Doubleday reports: The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is continuing to offer cyber pay incentives to retain skilled technical…