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Cybersecurity is now the price of admission for industrial AI

Industrial organizations are accelerating AI deployment across manufacturing, utilities, and transportation and running straight into a security problem. Cisco’s 2026 …

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Cloudflare tracked 230 billion daily threats and here is what it found

Cloudflare’s network blocks over 230 billion threats per day. The volume indicates how routine and automated the attack cycle has become, and the patterns behind that …

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$100 radio equipment can track cars through their tire sensors

When people consider what might track their movements, they think of smartphone apps, GPS services, or roadside cameras. The tires of a new car rarely enter that equation. …

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Healthcare organizations are accepting cyber risk to cut costs

Healthcare organizations are cutting cybersecurity budgets under financial pressure even as the threats targeting their systems intensify. A PwC survey of 381 global …

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5 years of shifting cybersecurity behavior

Online security is built through routine decisions made across devices and accounts. People choose how to create passwords, how often to reuse them, and how much effort to …

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IPFire ships its 200th core update with a new domain blocklist and kernel upgrade

Network firewall distribution IPFire released Core Update 200, marking the 200th incremental update to the 2.29 branch. The release bundles a kernel upgrade, a beta domain …

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UK reduces cyberattack fix times from two months to eight days

The UK government has launched a new vulnerability monitoring service (VMS) that promises to reduce the time needed to fix critical cyber weaknesses across the public sector. …

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Your dependencies are 278 days out of date and your pipelines aren’t protected

Applications continue to ship with known weaknesses even as development workflows speed up. A new Datadog State of DevSecOps 2026 report examines how dependency management and …

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Security debt is becoming a governance issue for CISOs

Application security backlogs keep expanding across large development portfolios. Veracode’s 2026 State of Software Security Report puts numbers behind a familiar operational …

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AI risk moves into the security budget spotlight

Enterprises are pushing AI deeper into workflows that touch sensitive data across cloud platforms and SaaS apps. The 2026 Thales Data Threat Report, based on a survey of 3,120 …

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Ransomware activity peaks outside business hours

Intrusions continue to center on credential access and timed execution outside standard business hours. The Sophos Active Adversary Report 2026 analyzes 661 incident response …

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DeVry University’s CISO on higher education cybersecurity risk

In this Help Net Security interview, Fred Kwong, VP, CISO at DeVry University, outlines how the university balances academic openness with cyber risk. He describes how systems …

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