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  1. Help Net Security

    Digitate adds AI agents for patch planning, service desks, and SAP operations

    Digitate has announced ignio Hummingbird, the latest release of its agentic AIOps platform. Hummingbird introduces AI agents that bring operational expertise to specific IT tasks, move from diagnosis through approved action and verification, and operate within enterprise change, approval and audit...

  2. CTO Magazine

    How to Overcome Ageism Against Women in the Workplace?

    Ageism Against Women Is Holding Talent Back. It’s Time for Leaders to Act. Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is often discussed through the lens of gender, race, and background. Age is just as important. Yet it remains one of the most overlooked forms of workplace bias. Women are usually...

  3. Help Net Security

    345,000 email addresses stolen in cyberattack on Germany’s far-right party AfD

    Over 345,000 unique email addresses were exposed in the September 2026 breach at German far-right political party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD). Breach notification service Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) added the data to its database on 27 October, listing email addresses and email messages as the...

  4. Help Net Security

    Swimlane connects custom detections to AI-led investigation and response

    Swimlane has announced new capabilities in the Swimlane Turbine platform that allow security teams to run their own detection logic against large volumes of data and send resulting alerts directly into Swimlane AI SOC for investigation and response. The October release also adds two-way Model...

  5. Infosecurity Magazine

    AI Is Turning CISOs Into Business-Risk Translators, Says Nvidia’s Head of Cyber

    Nvidia’s Mark Weatherford says CISOs must translate AI cybersecurity risks into business priorities, clarify risk ownership and balance innovation with security controls

  6. Help Net Security

    VikingCloud gives businesses a scorecard for AI governance readiness

    VikingCloud has launched AI Governance Services, a new set of compliance and risk assessments that find the AI tools in use across a business, show where security controls fall short, and deliver a remediation plan to close the gaps. Multi-location brands struggle to hold every location to one...

  7. Infosecurity Magazine

    Energy Giant Engie Notifies Customers of Supply Chain Breach

    An undisclosed number of Engie customers have had their data compromised after a supply chain incident

  8. Security Week

    Upwind Security Raises $400 Million at $3.8 Billion Valuation

    The massive funding round comes just days after reports emerged that Upwind had attracted acquisition interest from several companies, including Datadog The post Upwind Security Raises $400 Million at $3.8 Billion Valuation appeared first on SecurityWeek.

  9. NY Times

    AI Is Finding a Flood of Bugs, and Silicon Valley Is Rushing to Fix Them

    A.I. has uncovered a horde of software flaws, which engineers are racing to fix before they can be exploited and abused by hackers.

  10. Security Week

    Chrome and Firefox Updates Patch Over 200 Vulnerabilities

    The Chrome 156 update fixes 52 bugs, while Firefox 159 was rolled out with 167 security patches. The post Chrome and Firefox Updates Patch Over 200 Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.

  11. Help Net Security

    Upwind secures $400 million to protect AI across endpoints, code, and cloud

    Upwind Security has raised $400 million in Series C funding to expand its cloud and AI security platform, bringing the company’s total funding to more than $800 million. Bessemer Venture Partners led the round, with participation from all existing Upwind investors, including Greylock Partners...

  12. Security Week

    TLS Flaws Found in GoAhead Web Server Used in Hundreds of Millions of Devices

    FoxIO disclosed three GoAhead TLS bugs that can let revoked certificates through or expose some encrypted sessions to eavesdroppers. The post TLS Flaws Found in GoAhead Web Server Used in Hundreds of Millions of Devices appeared first on SecurityWeek.

  13. Wired

    Amazon Kindle Paperwhite (2026) and Colorsoft (2026) Review: Best for Accessories

    The latest generation of Kindle’s 7-inch e-readers have a new look and new accessories. But are they worth the upgrade given Amazon’s new Kindle prices?

  14. The Hacker News

    Hackers Target Critical Oracle E-Business Suite RCE Flaw Days After Security Patch

    Threat actors are beginning to probe for a newly patched critical vulnerability in Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS), according to threat intelligence firm Defused Cyber. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-101767 (CVSS score: 9.8) in the Oracle Application Object Library of Oracle E-Business...

  15. CSO Online

    Fake ChatGPT, Claude apps spread malware via signed AI binaries

    Attackers are distributing malware through fake ChatGPT and Claude desktop applications, using legitimate, digitally signed executables from OpenAI and Anthropic to load malicious code onto victims’ Windows systems, according to Check Point Research. The campaign, tracked as Yoba, uses fake GitHub...

  16. Help Net Security

    Tailscale fixes SSH flaws allowing lateral movement within tailnets

    Tailscale, the company behind the popular software-defined mesh networking and connectivity platform of the same name, has shipped fixes for several vulnerabilities, including some in Tailscale SSH that could let an attacker who already had access to a device in the network gain more privileges on...

  17. Help Net Security

    Ukrainian ransomware hacker sentenced, $11 million reward offered for co-conspirator

    A Ukrainian national who participated in ransomware attacks targeting hospitals, government entities, law firms, and other businesses was sentenced to five years and 10 months in prison. Artem Stryzhak, 36, pleaded guilty in December 2025 to two counts of conspiracy to commit fraud, extortion, and...

  18. CSO Online

    Gheist turns GitHub Actions into a secret extraction service

    A threat actor dubbed Gheist is turning compromised GitHub accounts into credential-harvesting platforms. By planting malicious GitHub Actions workflows in private repositories, the attackers can expose repository and environment secrets, then retrieve them through GitHub APIs before deleting...

  19. Wired

    Amazon Adds an Alexa Photo Frame and a Bedside Clock to Its Echo Family

    The new Echo Studio also gets a camera, and the Echo Show 16 debuts an AI-generated Alexa interface.

  20. Security Week

    China-Linked Hackers Exploit PHP2Shell to Root Firewalls

    The attackers chained PHP2Shell and Fragnesia exploits and hacked two servers of a US government-affiliated organization. The post China-Linked Hackers Exploit PHP2Shell to Root Firewalls appeared first on SecurityWeek.