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DDoS arrest
Police shut down global DDoS operation, arrest 20-year-old

Police officers from Poland’s Central Bureau for Combating Cybercrime (CBZC) have arrested a 20-year-old man suspected of carrying out global DDoS attacks targeting …

Microsoft OneDrive
Microsoft brings project-focused AI agents into OneDrive

Teams often rely on shared document collections to track project history, decisions, and operational knowledge. To support this workflow, Microsoft introduced Agents in …

glasses
Smart glasses are back, privacy issues included

AI smart glasses are the latest addition to fashion, and they include a camera, a microphone, AI, and privacy risks. After Google Glass failed to gain traction more than a …

attack
AI is driving a new kind of phishing at scale

Email remains a primary entry point for attackers, and security teams continue to manage high volumes of malicious messages that change form across campaigns. Attackers …

cybersecurity strategy
Cybersecurity planning keeps moving toward whole-of-society models

National governments already run cybersecurity through a mix of ministries, regulators, law enforcement, and private operators that own most critical systems. In that …

dark web
Incognito dark web drug market operator gets 30 years in prison

Rui-Siang Lin, a Taiwanese national, was sentenced to 30 years in U.S. federal prison for operating Incognito Market, one of the world’s largest illicit online narcotics …

Apple Xcode
Apple Xcode 26.3 adds coding agent support from OpenAI and Anthropic

Apple released Xcode 26.3 with new agentic coding capabilities designed to let AI systems carry out development tasks inside the IDE. The release supports agents such as …

Firefox AI controls
Firefox to let users manage and block AI features

Mozilla will add a set of controls in Firefox that let users manage and block GenAI features in the desktop browser. The controls will be included in Firefox version 148 on …

Microsoft
Microsoft sets a path to switch off NTLM across Windows

Windows is shifting to a more secure authentication approach, moving away from New Technology LAN Manager (NTLM) and toward stronger, Kerberos-based options. NTLM has been …

NSA
Where NSA zero trust guidance aligns with enterprise reality

The NSA has published Phase One and Phase Two of its Zero Trust Implementation Guidelines, providing structured guidance for organizations working to implement zero trust …

Pompelmi
Pompelmi: Open-source secure file upload scanning for Node.js

Software teams building services in JavaScript are adding more layers of defense to handle untrusted file uploads. An open-source project called Pompelmi aims to insert …

Microsoft
Microsoft sets new timeline for Sentinel transition to Defender portal

Microsoft has updated the timeline for transitioning the Microsoft Sentinel experience from the Azure portal to the Microsoft Defender portal from July 1, 2026 to March 31, …

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