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Arctera enhances Unified Platform for evidence-driven compliance workflows

Arctera has announced new capabilities to the Arctera Unified Platform enabling organizations to manage complex governance requirements by connecting signals, controls and …

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Citrix expands Platform Flex with observability and secure developer services

Citrix has announced new services for Citrix Platform Flex, extending its flexible credit model with additional options for delivering, monitoring and securing digital work …

SIM
Malicious SIMs can hijack smartphones, steal files, and lock them onto 2G

Researchers have found that compromised or malicious SIM cards can issue commands to some smartphones and cellular-connected devices, allowing attackers to steal information, …

ransomware
Ransomware gangs don’t need control system access to disrupt industrial production

Disrupting IT systems that support industrial environments can be enough to interrupt production, even when ransomware operators do not gain direct access to industrial …

OpenSSH
Locking your ssh-agent exposed local-only keys until OpenSSH 10.5

Lock your ssh-agent and it should sit there refusing to sign anything until you unlock it. In OpenSSH 10.4, locking it also switched off the check that tells the agent whether …

OpenAI
GPT-5.6-Cyber refuses security researchers’ requests far less often

GPT-5.6-Cyber is a new OpenAI model built on GPT-5.6 Sol, trained to find zero-day vulnerabilities and build exploit chains, with fewer refusals on higher-risk, dual-use work. …

question
Who will be the Stanislav Petrov in your organization?

The recent news coverage of “rogue AI” systems hacking innocent companies reminded me of one of the world’s most unsung heroes and genuinely someone who may well have saved …

network
An AI tool found 84 flaws in 5G network software and 23 of them still have no fix

Researchers at Nanyang Technological University turned a set of AI agents loose on the software that runs 4G and 5G phone networks, and the agents came back with 84 security …

Previously unseen entry vector used to breach Polish energy plant

The December 29 cyberattack on a Polish combined heat and power (CHP) plant was the first observed case of attackers gaining access to an OT network through a private APN, …

OpenAI
Your security vendor gets the frontier cyber model, you get the findings

Selected red team specialists can now use OpenAI’s cyber models to find and exploit weaknesses in client applications and infrastructure. Those clients never get the …

cybersecurity jobs
Cybersecurity jobs available right now: August 11, 2026

CTI Detection Engineer Department of Parliamentary Services | Australia | Hybrid – View job details As a CTI Detection Engineer, you will lead the detection lifecycle by …

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