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US races to halt AI recreations of dead pilots’ voices

The NTSB temporarily blocked public access to its crash investigation database after online sleuths used AI and sound spectrum imagery…

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The New Economics of Fraud: Cheaper, Faster, and More Convincing

Scams are a rapidly growing consumer risk, with nearly $1 billion in scam activity identified from July to December 2025,…

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Russian satellites close in on ICEYE radarsat

Four Russian Kosmos military satellites recently adjusted their orbits to closely align with a Finnish-American radar surveillance satellite, ICEYE-X36, raising…

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Google Accidentally Reveals Details of Unpatched Chromium Bug

A serious unpatched Chromium vulnerability allows JavaScript to continue running as a background service worker even after the browser is…

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Police Hacked a VPN Where Criminals Felt ‘Safe’

European authorities infiltrated and dismantled First VPN, a service popular on Russian-language cybercrime forums, arresting its administrator and gathering intelligence…

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Texas AG sues Meta, alleging WhatsApp lacks true encryption

Texas Attorney General has sued Meta, alleging that WhatsApp's end-to-end encryption is not as secure as claimed, and that Meta…

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DirecTV Sues O.J. Simpson for $58,000 in Piracy Dispute

A satellite TV piracy case against a Miami resident initially seemed mundane, but became intriguing when the judge realized DirecTV…

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Microsoft open-sources new tools for building and testing AI agents

Microsoft released two internal AI security tools, Clarity and RAMPART, to bring rigorous safety discipline to AI agent development, both…

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Authorities Shut Down First VPN, a Ransomware Haven

International law enforcement, including French and Dutch authorities with Europol and Eurojust support, dismantled the cybercriminal-focused VPN service First VPN…

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How to Spot a Crypto Drainer Before It Empties Your Wallet

Crypto drainers have evolved from isolated phishing attempts into structured Drainer-as-a-Service (DaaS) platforms that operate like legitimate software companies, relying…

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Critical Cisco Secure Workload flaw elevates users to Site Admin

Cisco patched CVE-2026-20223, a maximum-severity vulnerability in its Secure Workload platform that allows unauthenticated attackers to gain Site Admin privileges…

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75% of Companies Ship Vulnerable Code On Purpose: Checkmarx

75% of organizations admit to knowingly shipping vulnerable code, and AI-powered threats have reduced the average time to exploit a…

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Microsoft Defender Flaws Exploited in Active Attacks (CVE-2026-41091, CVE-2026-45498)

Attackers are actively exploiting two Microsoft Defender vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-41091 (a local privilege elevation bug that can grant SYSTEM privileges) and…

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Virtru Puts Data Protection at the Core of File Collaboration

Virtru Collaborate is a FedRAMP authorized file sharing solution that uses Trusted Data Format (TDF) to encrypt files, with protection…

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Tenable Hexa AI automates attack surface remediation

Tenable has launched Tenable Hexa AI, an agentic AI engine for the Tenable One Exposure Management Platform. Hexa AI features…

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Grafana Labs Breach Traced to TanStack Attack

Grafana Labs confirmed its security incident stemmed from the broader TanStack supply chain attack, where compromised dependencies from the library…

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Microsoft warns of active Defender zero-day exploits

Microsoft has issued an urgent security update for two zero-day vulnerabilities in its Microsoft Defender antivirus engine that are actively…

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CTERA adds AI automation for unstructured data

CTERA has launched CTERA InsightAI, an agentic AI intelligence layer integrated into its Intelligent Data Platform, designed to provide deeper…

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Trump delays AI security order, says language ‘could have been a blocker’

President Trump postponed an executive order requiring government oversight of AI models before public release, citing dissatisfaction with its wording…

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How AI is Reshaping Travel Tech Security

The travel industry's security challenge stems from its unique model of high data velocity and complex transactions chaining dozens of…

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