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Your AI agent’s system prompt is not a security control

An AI agent told in its system prompt to show a user only what that user is cleared to see will hand over more the moment someone talks it into doing so. Gee Rittenhouse, VP …

Help Net Security
Seemplicity Response Options accelerates vulnerability mitigation

Seemplicity announced Response Options for vulnerability management and exposure management workflows. This new capability gives security teams multiple, actionable paths to …

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Your threat feed is someone else’s database: What ingesting malware intel at scale takes

The advice is to consume shared threat intelligence. Join the ISAC. Wire the community feeds into your pipeline. This looks like a fine advice and I agree to it. What nobody …

David Halbreich
When AI quietly breaks things, who pays?

David Halbreich, an insurance recovery partner at Reed Smith, breaks down how AI companies should handle coverage gaps that come up as the industry grows. He covers straddle …

Windows
Windows memory integrity switches on automatically for eligible devices in October 2026

Beginning in October 2026, Windows quality updates start enabling memory integrity protection on eligible devices with little or no additional configuration. On machines where …

Microsoft Exchange
Nearly 22,000 Microsoft Exchange servers remain exposed to critical security flaw (CVE-2026-62911)

Nearly 22,000 Microsoft Exchange servers remain unpatched against CVE-2026-62911, a critical authentication bypass vulnerability, according to daily scans from the …

The Agentic Software Development Guide
Download: The Agentic Software Development Guide

AI makes it easy to ship more code. It does not make that code easier to trust. Most teams don’t fail because their developers can’t use AI. They fail because the dev’s job …

Sangoma Switchvox
Exploitation of Sangoma Switchvox flaw is underway (CVE-2026-9586)

A threat actor is actively targeting internet-exposed Sangoma Switchvox instance through a recently patched SQL injection flaw (CVE-2026-9586), and organizations running them …

Phishing
Attackers are going after prominent individuals through OAuth phishing, FBI warns

Attackers are targeting prominent individuals, their relatives and personal contacts to gain persistent access to their accounts, including private emails and files, the FBI …

SonicWall
SonicWall SMA 1000 appliances under attack via zero-day flaws

Attackers are exploiting two previously undisclosed vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-83548, CVE-2026-83549) in SonicWall SMA 1000 appliances, the vendor confirmed on Tuesday. The …

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A battery storage cyberattack would look exactly like a badly tuned controller

Batteries connected to the grid make money by reacting to frequency, pushing power out when it sags and soaking it up when it rises. A few hundred of them moving together, on …

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Global sinkhole operation ends Sality botnet’s 23-year run

Sality, a peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet that had been running for 23 years and infecting more than 15,000 machines worldwide, has been taken down in a joint operation by …

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