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Microsoft Defender 365
Microsoft Defender update lets SOC teams manage, vet response tools

Microsoft introduced library management in Microsoft Defender to help security analysts working with live response manage scripts and tools they use to triage, investigate and …

Amazon AWS
AWS coding agents gain new plugin support across development tools

AI coding assistants have become a routine part of many development workflows, helping engineers write, test, and deploy code from IDEs or command line interfaces. One recent …

industry bubble
OT teams are losing the time advantage against industrial threat actors

In many industrial environments, internet-facing gateways, remote access appliances, and boundary systems sit close enough to production networks that attackers can move from …

cybersecurity jobs
Cybersecurity jobs available right now: February 17, 2026

Chief Security Officer Seven Eleven Club & Hotels | India | On-site – No longer accepting applications As a Chief Security Officer, you will oversee physical, …

OpenAI
ChatGPT gets new security feature to fight prompt injection attacks

OpenAI has introduced Lockdown Mode and Elevated Risk labels in ChatGPT to help users and organizations reduce the risk of prompt injection attacks and other advanced security …

Vim 9.2
Vim 9.2 adds scripting updates, diff improvements, and experimental Wayland support

Vim 9.2 adds a range of incremental changes focused on scripting, usability, and cross-platform support. The update includes improvements to completion behavior, expanded Vim9 …

Apple security
Apple privacy labels often don’t match what Chinese smart home apps do

Smart home devices in many homes collect audio, video, and location data. The apps that control those devices often focus on the account owner, even when the technology also …

MOS
MOS: Open-source modular OS for servers and homelabs

A growing number of homelab builders and small server operators are testing an open source operating system that combines basic server management, storage control, and …

OpenAI
OpenAI released GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, a real-time coding model

OpenAI has released a research preview of GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, an ultra-fast model for real-time coding in Codex. It is available to ChatGPT Pro users in the latest versions …

CISA
Why secure OT protocols still struggle to catch on

Industrial control system networks continue to run on legacy communication protocols that were built for reliability and uptime, not authentication or data integrity. In many …

Ubuntu
Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS arrives with cumulative security and bug fixes

Security teams running Ubuntu in production often delay major OS upgrades until the next point release arrives with accumulated patches and newer hardware support. Ubuntu …

chess
Cyber risk is becoming a hold-period problem for private equity firms

Private equity firms have spent years treating cybersecurity as an IT hygiene issue inside portfolio companies. That approach is getting harder to sustain as ransomware, data …

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