The latest update for #Internxt includes "The Best Way to Share Photos Online Privately in 2026" and "How To Encrypt A File: A Detailed Guide to Securing Your Data and #Privacy".
The latest update for #Cloudflare includes "Cloudflare #AI Search: give your agents a search engine for your data" and "An API for MoQ: provision your own isolated relays".
The latest update for #BitSight includes "Thousands of Exposed Fuel Gauges Just Left the Internet" and "How Bitsight Helps Financial Institutions Align With Bank Negara Malaysia's RMiT Policy Document".
In May 2026, Presidential Decree No. 1258 vested the National Security Committee (KNB) of the Republic of Kazakhstan with additional responsibilities, including in the digital domain. thediplomat.com/2026/08/how-...
The latest update for #UTMStack includes "#AccessControl Models Explained for Modern Security Teams" and "Best Log Management Tools for 2026 Security".
#PulseSecurity unveils findings in The #CISO-Board Communication Gap, a research report drawing on more than 80 senior practitioners, examining how security leaders report to their boards and what gets lost between the two.
SilentRansomGroup claimed a ransomware attack on Mayer Brown, a global US law firm, disrupting services across operations. #UnitedStates#MayerBrown#Ransomware
The latest update for #Netwrix includes "The #AI agent working for you probably has more access than you do" and "What engineering leaders can learn from stoicism".
IDK, but this Dario seriously has an ego problem.... Anthropic has been hit with backlash after backlash lately and instead of taking accountability, he blames his employees? Damn he needs to see a therapist. #AI#Anthropic#Dario#Technology#US#News
#Sophos announces partnership with OpenAI to bring OpenAI frontier models to managed service providers (MSPs) through Sophos Fusion, the industry's most complete #AI-native #Cybersecurity Defense System.
"Sreya Halder, founder of The Mall app...posted content from inside the getaway...Halder referred to the brand trip as 'the dreamiest weekend upstate,' but once the backlash started to cloud the experience, Halder deleted any evidence of the trip." www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/li...
Am I missing something? Meta and these companies created software that is a threat to other companies' software, and even from reputable sources, we hear that the "AI model breached." It didn't breach. It was built and designed to do this.
Critical Cisco IMC bug gives attackers root, PoC is out (CVE-2026-20200)
Cisco has fixed a critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-20200) in its Integrated Management Controller (IMC), which allows an attacker to run commands as root through the controller’s web interface. The fix was p… #hackernews#news
Naïve, which provides infrastructure for AI agents to handle most business operations, raised a $28.5M Series A led by Nexus, bringing its total funding to $32M (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)
The latest update for #KnowBe4 includes "#AI Did Not Invent Social Engineering But It Did Industrialize It." and "Agent Risk Manager Moves into Early Access".
"US officials are now asking themselves why the hackers didn’t go further in causing damage at the water facilities."
Maybe because they did it for the lulz. You'd be shocked to learn how much "cyber f*ckery" is done simply because the hacker(s) thought it was funny. www.cnn.com/2026/08/06/p...
Tidy up your face rug! The #DEFCON Beard and Mustache Contest is back on the Contest Stage this Friday from 13:00-15:00. All faces, configurations, and beard constructions welcome.
The latest update for #Snyk includes "Continuous Offensive Security & #AI#Pentesting: 20 FAQs" and "A First Look at Evo Agentic #AppSec: Agentic Remediation and Malicious Code Defense".
The latest update for #Detectify includes "Operationalizing Secure by Design: a #CISO's guide to closing the gap between policy and reality" and "Introducing Apex Discovery to secure every domain you actually own".
The latest update for #Tigera includes "The New MCP Headers Are a Gift to Gateways" and "VM Migration – What Happens to Your NSX Segments in #Kubernetes?".
Moxa confirmed the Intellio hardware was discontinued back in 2021, but the driver only left the kernel recently after AI agents started poking at the dead code.
The latest update for #Egnyte includes "From Connected Project Data to Construction Intelligence: Building the Foundation for #AI-Powered Construction" and "How DoD's CMMC Phase II Pause Impacts Your Company".
🚨 ACTIVE EXPLOITATION: A critical RCE flaw in Microsoft SharePoint (CVE-2026-50522) is being exploited in the wild. Attackers can steal machine keys for persistent access even after patching. Patch immediately! #SharePoint#CyberSecurity#RCE
A sophisticated supply chain attack on the QuickFox VPN for Windows delivers the FDMTP backdoor. The campaign, linked to APT group Twill Typhoon (Mustang Panda), uses a trojanized installer to selectively target victims. #SupplyChainAttack#APT
Heart of America Medical Center in ND discloses a major data breach after a ransomware attack by the 'Embargo' group. The breach exposed patient SSNs and full medical records. #Ransomware#DataBreach#Healthcare#HIPAA
A guilty plea just landed in the 2024 Snowflake customer breaches. Not a platform flaw, just cloud accounts left without MFA. Your platforms inherit the identity discipline you bring to them. krebsonsecurity.com/2026/08/cana...#CloudSecurity#IAM
Is humanity expected, by those driving AI tech today, to just sit back shutup and follow along? I don't think so! It's way past time for regulation to enter in. 🤔
Munich-based NavVis, which provides enterprises with spatial data on factories, plants, buildings, and more, raised an $85M Series D led by The Jordan Company (Rahul Raj/EU-Startups)
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Generative AI enables cheaper, faster cyberattacks while simultaneously making software less secure, challenging defenders to keep pace with criminals and state actors.
🔐 Found the biggest backdoor yet in Chinese routers sold under dozens of brand names – apparently your Wi‑Fi has been a spy for years.
Time to swap that ‘budget’ box w/ a trusted VPN‑ready device before your data gets a free ride to who‑knows‑where.
OpenAI shut down Cambodia scam accounts, Amgen confirmed cloud data theft, and Apple moved to curb AI-generated bug bounty noise amid attacks on ports, Wall Street, and supply chains. #OpenAI#Cambodia#Apple
Microsoft plans to end support for Manifest V2 extensions in Edge starting this month, following Google Chrome, and for enterprise users in early 2027 (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)
A New Mexico court ordered Meta to pay $567 million more in a child safety case, bringing its total fines to $942 million. The judge also ordered Meta to hide Like counts from minors and cap their app usage at 90 hours a month.
The New 'Rogue AI' Panic Doesn't Hold Up To Scrutiny, And It Traces Back To One Company's Mistakes
Anthropic, OpenAI, and Meta all reported the same kind of breach this month. All five incidents trace back to the same company. www.dossier.today/p/the-new-ro...
"Cybersecurity is rapidly changing as [AI] models become more capable in ways that can both strengthen cyberdefenses and enable attacks at unprecedented speed and scale."
The Big Tech kill switch isn't as dangerous as ransomware. It is ransomware. The minor difference is that both Big Tech and the respective government can lock you out. Critically, that applies to all proprietary software, not just US Big Tech. #digitalsovereignty#ransomware
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Stolen npm maintainer credentials enabled a worm to publish malicious package versions with preinstall hooks that executed before tests and security checks.
...it is seriously time to rein this in now as later could be "too late". The fact that Open AI bots set up a message board of their own to discuss illicit actions should be worrying.
Let an EFF staffer judge your beard! Compete, spectate, or heckle at the intersection of facial hair and hacker culture. Four categories: Full Beard, Partial Beard, Moustache Only, Freestyle. Fri 8/7, 1pm, Contest Stage. #DEFCONwww.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Black Hat Events USA 2026 showcased a wave of security launches centered on AI agents, cloud runtime protection, identity security and autonomous threat response.
“We must lessen our critical dependence on foreign technology”– Vladimir Putin. Read on for how western sanctions and paranoia about the internet as a threat to regime security has isolated Russian tech industry here: www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-res...
OpenAI pauses internal work on its Astra AI model, citing new security standards after recent hacks. This isn't the first time an AI has gone rogue this year... {kcurry.bsky.social/@link}
Hugging Face and OpenAI Saga Reveals AI Safety Gaps – Hugging Face was subjected to an intense cyberattack from a then-unknown actor. The speed and coordination of the attack led Hugging Face’s security team to conclude it was the work of an AI agent. A pros... https://tinyurl.com/27a5oot8#AISafety
“OpenAI ‘cannot rule out’ that its upcoming model Astra has ‘critical’ cyber capabilities, a designation that has prompted the company to expand safety testing and pause internal activities that do not meet stricter security requirements” www.axios.com/2026/08/07/o...@axios.com
HackerOne's new AI‑driven remediation tool automatically triages vulnerabilities, allowing security teams to focus on the most critical issues. #HackerOne#AI#vulnerability
CISA updates SBOM baseline for 2026. CISOs need to understand what's in their software supply chain—new guidance makes it clearer what to demand from vendors and track internally.
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UNC6671 uses vishing to steal credentials and MFA tokens via spoofed login portals, then exfiltrates data from Microsoft 365 and Okta using automated scripts.
OpenAI makes GPT-5.6 Luna the new default for ChatGPT Free and Go users with unlimited text chats. Plus and Pro get an updated Sol model with improved accuracy alternativeto.net/news/2026/8...
DTNS for Friday August 7, 2026 with Tom Merritt and Huyen Tue Dao - OpenAI is planning a smart doughnut, but will it have a hole? Also, Google open sources the solution to hurricane preparedness.
Listen here: shows.acast.com/dtns/episode...
