Final round of inaugural “AI x Cybersecurity Challenge” held today The final round of the inaugural “AI x Cybersecurity Challenge”, jointly organised by the Digital Policy Office (DPO), the Chinese Academy of Cyberspace Studies, the Hong Kong Cybersecurity Professional Association, and China Mobile Hong Kong Company Limited, was held at Cyberport today (August 23). The...Read More

In brief Microsoft disclosed a critical remote code execution vulnerability affecting its Entra ID cloud identity service. CVE-2026-69836 received a CVSS score of 10.0 and requires no existing privileges or user interaction to exploit. Microsoft said it fixed the vulnerability and confirmed it was not exploited in the wild. Microsoft disclosed a critical vulnerability in...Read More

Crypto4A achieves FIPS 140-3 Level 3 validation for QASM™, the cryptographic module at the core of its next-generation quantum-safe HSM OTTAWA, ON, Aug. 20, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Canadian cybersecurity company Crypto4A Technologies Inc. has achieved a global first in the race to protect governments, financial systems, critical infrastructure and defence networks from the emerging threat posed...Read More

Hackers linked to Iran shut down a British power plant for four days in what is believed to be the first successful Iranian cyberattack to force a UK electricity-generating facility offline, The Telegraph reported. The attack did not disrupt Britain’s broader electricity supply because the facility was relatively small, according to the report. But its...Read More

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A British power plant was forced offline for four days in what The Telegraph reported on Saturday was an unprecedented cyberattack linked to Iran. The incident is believed to be the first known case in which hackers affiliated with the Iranian regime successfully shut down a power facility in Britain. Officials reportedly consider it the...Read More

Iranian hackers carried out a cyberattack on a small energy facility in the United Kingdom, which managed to halt its operations for four days, The Telegraph writes, reports UNN. Details The attack was the first known case in which an Iran-linked hacking group managed to effectively disable a British energy facility. The facility’s employees spent...Read More

Future cybersecurity threats may not look much like past ones. Artificial intelligence is changing how attackers find vulnerabilities, automate attacks and probe digital systems. At the same time, federal agencies, businesses and communities are expanding their use of AI. Related story AI is a cybersecurity problem — and also a solution These factors create a...Read More

AUSTIN, Texas, August 20, 2026 (Newswire.com) – Living Security, the global leader in Human Risk Management (HRM), today announced the featured speaker lineup for its 2026 Cybersecurity Awareness Month program, bringing together five experts whose careers span cybercrime prosecution, intelligence operations, online safety advocacy, insider threats, and human behavior risk. The speakers are part of...Read More

(Daily Caller News Foundation) – OpenAI said it would pause its frontier artificial intelligence development to alleviate safety concerns as labs have breached containment. The ChatGPT parent company introduced heightened safety practices after discovering that its latest model, Astra, raised potential cybersecurity concerns, Axios reported. This comes at a time when many frontier AI labs...Read More