At TechCrunch Disrupt, Flock CEO Garrett Langley defended his company’s surveillance technology despite growing privacy concerns, arguing that its…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-10-15 03h : 3 posts
3 posts published in the last hour 00:31Hackers heat up supermarket fridges, spoiling food across France 00:01CVE-2026-97229: Critical Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution in GitLab 00:00IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-10-15 02h : 7 posts
Hackers heat up supermarket fridges, spoiling food across France
A cyberattack on supermarket temperature-control systems in France left spoiled food, empty shelves, and reports of fires.
CVE-2026-97229: Critical Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution in GitLab
Overview On October 12, 2026, GitLab published a critical patch release for CVE-2026-97229 , an integer overflow or wraparound ( CWE-190 ) in the CI/CD…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-10-15 02h : 7 posts
7 posts published in the last hour 23:31Threat Actor Abuses Agentic AI Pentesting Framework to Target South Korean Financial Institutions 23:31Smashing Security podcast #488: How a ransomware negotiator ended up arrested at his own conference 23:31Attackers claim to have stolen…
Threat Actor Abuses Agentic AI Pentesting Framework to Target South Korean Financial Institutions
IntroductionZscaler ThreatLabz analyzed a recently active exploitation campaign in which a threat actor abused ARTEX to target South Korean financial…
Smashing Security podcast #488: How a ransomware negotiator ended up arrested at his own conference
A ransomware negotiator attended a cybersecurity conference, only to be arrested by the FBI in connection with its investigation into the ShinyHunters…
Attackers claim to have stolen 80 million South African patient records in massive Ampath Laboratories data breach (Disputed)
Luis Monzon reports: Ampath Laboratories, one of South Africa’s largest pathology service providers, has been hit by a cyberattack, with the attacker…
Physicists discover “astonishing” property of light that defies expectations
Scientists have uncovered a surprising hidden ability of light that allows it to develop spinning, twisting behavior as it travels through empty space,…
Palo Alto Networks warns of PAN-OS RCE flaw exploited in attacks
Palo Alto Networks has released security updates for a high-severity PAN-OS RCE zero-day, tracked as CVE-2026-0322, that has been exploited in attacks…
LG Smart TVs Vulnerable to Pre-Auth Root Takeover From Local Network
Three vulnerabilities in LG’s webOS can be chained to give an attacker on the same local network root access to certain smart TVs without a PIN or any…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-10-15 01h : 15 posts
15 posts published in the last hour 22:31Unit 42 Uncovers PEERSTITCH, a Stealthy FortiGate Implant 22:31UK Regains Early Access to AI Models After Reported White House Reversal 22:31U.S. CISA adds Microsoft Windows Shell flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog 22:06IT…
Unit 42 Uncovers PEERSTITCH, a Stealthy FortiGate Implant
We investigated an intrusion where attackers exploited CVE-2024-47575 to target 500+ firewalls and deploy PEERSTITCH, a memory-resident ARM64 malware.
UK Regains Early Access to AI Models After Reported White House Reversal
UK researchers regain access to advanced AI models for safety testing as ministers consider stronger incident reporting and expand government cyber…
U.S. CISA adds Microsoft Windows Shell flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Microsoft Windows Shell flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S.…
IT Security News Roundup: 2026-10-14 Evening
IT Security News: Evening roundup, 2026-10-14 Summary This news cycle highlights a dual surge in severe infrastructure breaches and aggressive security enforcement, ranging from physical operational attacks on supermarket cooling systems to major multi-vendor patching campaigns. Critical zero-day and maximum-severity…
Authorities charge alleged OLVX cybercrime marketplace operator in North Macedonia
Officials disrupted the cybercrime marketplace in April and arrested the alleged 20-year-old operator at that time. Illicit sales reportedly exceeded…
Fridge hack costing millions and sparking fires stemmed from poor security
Incident hitting 700 supermarkets exploited outdated devices exposed to the Internet.
Data Governance Is a Security Control, Not a Compliance Checkbox
I’ve spent years fixing broken Glue jobs and Lake Formation permissions as an AWS support engineer, then moved to pre-sales architecture for banking data…
Ivanti ICS Zero-Day Attacks Highlight Vendor Patching Hurdles
CVE-2026-104935, a high-severity authentication bypass + RCE vulnerability, was only partially discovered and patched in July, leaving an opening for…
What Your IP Address Reveals Every Time You Visit a Website
Your IP address can reveal your location, ISP, connection type, and VPN use to websites, ad networks, and trackers before a page even loads.
The best place to run AI agents
Every few weeks, another enterprise leader asks me the same question: Should our AI agents run in the cloud or in our own data center? It sounds like a…
Cisco make-me-root email bug exploited as a 0-day by unknown crims
Both Switchzilla and CISA sound the alarm
AI distrust is GitHub’s opportunity
Developers have never been more inclined to use AI, yet never less inclined to trust its output. In Stack Overflow’s surveys, the proportion of…