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OpenAI Launches Daybreak for Secure by Design Software

OpenAI's Daybreak initiative uses advanced AI to help developers build "secure by design" software by embedding security into the development…

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WhatsApp Launches Fully Private Meta AI Chat Feature

WhatsApp has launched "Incognito Chat," a private mode for interacting with Meta AI where Meta cannot access conversation content, building…

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4 Questions to Uncover Programmatic Ad Fraud

Programmatic ad fraud costs $26.8 billion annually, with connected TV (CTV) becoming a prime target as fraud detection lags behind…

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AI Nobel Winner’s Fix for Everything

AI-powered hacking has become an industrial-scale threat with the discovery of the first zero-day exploit built entirely by AI, while…

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SAP patches critical flaws in Commerce Cloud and S/4HANA

SAP's May 2026 security patches address 15 vulnerabilities, including two critical flaws in Commerce Cloud (CVSS 9.9) and S/4HANA (CVSS…

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Attackers Use ClickFix and PySoxy Proxying for Persistent Access

Attackers are increasingly using legitimate open-source tools like ClickFix and PySoxy to establish persistent, undetected access after social engineering attacks.…

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South Staffordshire Water Hit With £1m Fine Over Data Breach

The UK's data watchdog fined South Staffordshire Water nearly £1 million for a two-year data breach affecting over 633,000 individuals,…

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Claude Mythos Finds Single Curl Flaw; Experts Split on Significance

Curl's lead developer Daniel Stenberg dismisses the Claude Mythos project's single-vulnerability finding as marketing hype rather than a meaningful security…

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Anthropic’s AI Hunts Vulnerabilities for Japanese Banks

Three major Japanese banks (MUFG, Mizuho, SMFG) will join the restricted preview of Anthropic's Claude Mythos, an advanced AI tool…

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Meta AI Chat Gets Fully Encrypted, Private Mode

Meta has launched Incognito Chat, an AI feature with end-to-end encryption that prevents Meta or anyone else from viewing conversation…

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Forza Horizon 6 players hit with bans for playing early

Playground Games is issuing severe penalties, including franchise-wide and hardware bans, to players who accessed a leaked build of Forza…

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US lawmakers press Instructure for answers on Canvas data breaches

U.S. House Homeland Security Committee Chair Andrew Garbarino has requested Instructure CEO Steve Daly testify about two data breaches that…

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Android-iPhone Texts Now End-to-End Encrypted

End-to-end encrypted messaging is rolling out in beta for conversations between the latest iOS and Android versions, marking a historic…

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CheckMarx Jenkins package compromised by infostealer

Hacker group TeamPCP published a malicious version (2026.5.09) of the Checkmarx Jenkins AST plugin on the Jenkins Marketplace, marking the…

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Foxconn Ransomware Attack Underscores Ongoing Security Risks

The ransomware group Nitrogen claims to have stolen 8 TB of sensitive data, including schematics from major clients like Apple…

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GhostLock Tool Exploits Windows API to Block File Access

A security researcher released GhostLock, a proof-of-concept tool that exploits the Windows CreateFileW API by setting `dwShareMode = 0` to…

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QR Code Conspiracy Theory Sparks Chaos Before Georgia Midterms

Garland Favorito, a prominent conspiracy theorist, has fueled Georgia's election security debate by claiming QR codes on paper ballots could…

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Why Traditional App Security Fails on the Patching Treadmill

The traditional "find-and-fix cycle" of reactive vulnerability patching creates a treadmill effect where security teams work hard but never advance,…

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Why Password Changes Fail to Stop Active Directory Breaches

A password reset in Active Directory or hybrid Entra ID environments does not instantly invalidate old credentials across all authentication…

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Hackers Use AI to Create First Zero-Day Exploit

For the first time, cybercriminals used AI to identify and exploit a zero-day vulnerability, specifically to bypass two-factor authentication on…

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