“Sloppy thinking used to cost you a slow afternoon,” said Roy Itzhaky, Security Researcher in the CTO’s office at Linx Security. “Now it costs you a fleet of agents running confidently in the wrong direction.” Across the global cyber landscape, the enterprise attack surface has massively and irrefutably altered as a result of the AI...Read More
A 90-day period between hiring and onboarding is creating a blind spot in enterprise identity security, according to HYPR’s State of HR Identity Fraud Detection report. “Adversaries no longer need to breach a network when they can pass a remote interview and receive authentic credentials directly from IT,” said Bojan Simic, CEO of HYPR. “Human...Read More
S&P Global has agreed to acquire OpenZeppelin, the smart contract security firm whose open-source libraries and audits have underpinned an estimated $37 trillion in onchain value transfers since 2015, according to a joint announcement from OpenZeppelin on Thursday. Financial terms were not disclosed, and the deal remains subject to customary closing conditions. OpenZeppelin has completed...Read More
For Wisconsin parents, the most disturbing aspects of their teen’s phone probably have little to do with screen time. Bigger questions surround what happens inside the apps: notifications, endless feeds, the urge to keep checking and personalized recommendations. Families sense these problems even when scientists can’t prove causation or define a diagnosis. Wisconsin’s Assembly Bill...Read More
The EU announced a long-awaited social media ban for teens on Thursday (17 September), expecting Big Tech to align its deliberately addictive designs to child safety measures. But the issue, critics say, will be enforcing it. The legislation unveiled by the commission during the Strasbourg plenary aims to ban social media for children under the...Read More
NightmareStresser Goes Offline in Global DDoS-for-Hire Crackdown Pierluigi Paganini September 17, 2026 The DOJ seized domains behind NightmareStresser, a DDoS-for-hire service tied to hundreds of thousands of attacks since 2022, as part of Operation PowerOFF. Renting a DDoS attack used to be as easy as renting a movie. Pick a target, pay a few dollars,...Read More
A critical vulnerability in Check Point’s Security Management and Log Servers could allow an attacker without login credentials to run code as root on those servers over the network. The Security Management Server is the system that controls firewall policy and administrator access. Check Point has released a fix through its LivePatch update channel and...Read More
The U.S. Coast Guard and FBI boarded a Liberian-flagged very large crude carrier bound for Galveston, Texas, and a second energy tanker headed for another Texas port in the Gulf of Mexico after investigators found indications that foreign cyber actors had compromised their networks. Iranian state media claimed hackers seized control of propulsion, navigation, cargo,...Read More
One of the best performing sectors over the past year has been cybersecurity. As the artificial intelligence build continues, the cries for more regulation grow louder. While that could slow down the speed of growth with data centers and the tech buildout, it makes cybersecurity more important. Cybersecurity favorites CrowdStrike (CRWD) , Fortinet (FTNT) ,...Read More
A day after European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen teased the EU KIDS Act during the State of the Union address to European Parliament, the Commission formally rolled out the proposal, which contains bracketed age restrictions and platform requirements around minors’ access to social media. The proposed regulation imposes a blanket ban on children...Read More
