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  1. Help Net Security

    Microsoft disrupts phishing network behind more than a billion scam messages

    Microsoft uncovered a criminal marketplace supplying tools and accounts used in phishing scams worldwide. Attackers used these resources to target organizations in healthcare, financial services, wholesale distribution, and IT across Japan, the United States, Australia, and India. Phishing kits and...

  2. CIO

    How to make sense of the agentic AI tools ecosystem

    For the past half century or more, the teams running enterprise software stacks have nurtured a vast ecosystem of tools to keep software humming along. They’ve built CI/CD pipelines, elaborate test suites, code repositories, and tools galore, all with the goal of keeping the systems up and running...

  3. Wired

    ‘Nightmare Scenario’: Zero-Click Spyware Is Infecting Phones via Targeted Ads

    Researchers at The Citizen Lab have for the first time released technical evidence of sophisticated mercenary spyware being distributed via online advertising.

  4. Infosecurity Magazine

    Microsoft Disrupts Global Yam Store Network Behind One Billion Phishing Messages

    Microsoft and partners reveal a major Chinese-language phishing network centered around the Yam Store marketplace

  5. CIO

    Token efficiency: Building AI that spends intelligence wisely

    Last year, my company decided to rebuild our enterprise AI platform, which our customers had been using for over a decade. But instead of simply updating it, we started over with a different ambition: to build an AI-native platform using AI. Using AI to rebuild a platform of that size gave us...

  6. Security Week

    CenterPoint Energy Data Breach Impacts 1 Million Texans

    Personal information such as names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and driver’s license numbers was compromised. The post CenterPoint Energy Data Breach Impacts 1 Million Texans appeared first on SecurityWeek.

  7. Wired

    The Best Permanent Outdoor Lights (2026): Govee, Eufy, Cync

    Permanent eave lights that attach to the exterior of your home are becoming more popular. But are they worth the effort and cost?

  8. CIO

    IT reinvention requires mastering the art of translation

    Today’s most successful IT leaders must be master translators, interpreting technical complexities with clarity and precision for the business units that rely on their services for into decisions and action. Deluxe Chief Technology and Digital Officer Yogaraj “Yogs” Jayaprakasam is among the best...

  9. Wired

    Artemis III Scientist Shares What to Expect From NASA’s Next Lunar Mission

    Though scaled back from initial plans of landing, the voyage will serve as a dress rehearsal for when humans return to the moon’s surface.

  10. Wired

    Over $600 Million in Polymarket Election Trades Took Place After Races Ended

    Contracts tied to elections in Ethiopia and Romania saw massive trading volumes after the outcomes were decided. “It’s obviously some form of volume manipulation,” one expert says.

  11. CIO

    What hundreds of Microsoft 365 deployments have taught me about cybersecurity

    I’ve spent more than 20 years running IT and security for organizations across California and around the country. Over that time, my team has taken over, deployed and cleaned up Microsoft 365 environments for law firms, commercial real estate companies, manufacturers, healthcare practices and...

  12. The Hacker News

    GhostAction Compromises About 1,900 GitHub Accounts, Targets Over 30,000 Repositories

    The credential-theft campaign known as GhostAction has ramped up, targeting more than 30,000 repositories across 3,000 users and organizations. The spike, according to GitGuardian, was observed on October 8 and 9, 2026. "This resulted from compromising the GitHub accounts of about 1,900 users. It...

  13. Infosecurity Magazine

    ICO Reprimands Met Over Third-Party Data Leak

    The ICO has handed the Metropolitan Police a reprimand and enforcement notice after privacy failings linked to the Auror platform

  14. Security Week

    CISO Conversations: James Robinson – Many Jobs, One Journey to Netskope CISO

    James Robinson never planned a cybersecurity career — seven companies and one deputy CISO role later, he leads security at Netskope. The post CISO Conversations: James Robinson – Many Jobs, One Journey to Netskope CISO appeared first on SecurityWeek.

  15. IT Pro

    Qlik achieves AWS Data Competency for relational database expertise

    The recognition highlights the company’s cross-environment data integration, governance, and preparation capabilities on AWSda

  16. IT Pro Cloud

    Qlik achieves AWS Data Competency for relational database expertise

    The recognition highlights the company’s cross-environment data integration, governance, and preparation capabilities on AWSda

  17. Help Net Security

    Optro automates GRC workflows with auditable AI agents

    Optro has expanded its portfolio of autonomous AI agents for enterprise risk teams. Its GRC Intelligence Platform combines purpose-built governance, risk, and compliance capabilities with human oversight, allowing agents to operate within team-defined guardrails and risk appetites. Every agent...

  18. Help Net Security

    Qualys introduces TruConfidence to orchestrate cyber risk remediation

    Qualys has announced TruRisk Eliminate 2.0 with TruConfidence, a new remediation intelligence and orchestration engine that powers Qualys’ vision for Autonomous RemOps, a new category for the frontier AI era. Built on Qualys’ extensive experience of deploying half a billion patches with less than...

  19. CIO

    Workday expands AI ambitions with C1.ai identity platform acquisition

    Fresh off its $1.1 billion acquisition of AI startup Sana, Workday is making another bet on enterprise AI, this time targeting the governance challenge. The company said it will acquire agentic identity platform C1.ai to help customers manage and secure AI agents operating across enterprise...

  20. The Hacker News

    Langflow's Critical Authenticated RCE Flaw Targeted in 1,423 Honeypot Exploit Attempts

    Threat actors are exploiting a critical security flaw in Langflow, according to an alert from Previdian. Langflow is an open-source platform that allows developers to build artificial intelligence (AI) applications and agentic workflows. In February 2025, DataStax, the parent company of Langflow...