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Eye
Safari blocks trackers that turn your email into a tracking ID

Apple’s new anti-tracking protections in Safari and WebKit, the open-source web engine used by Safari, block connections to identity resolution services that turn email …

ransomware
Ransomware pressure now reaches employees’ homes and families

Ransomware attackers threatened employees’ family members or friends at 37% of organizations surveyed for Semperis’ 2026 Ransomware Risk Report. The survey covered 1,200 IT …

SimpleLogin
Product showcase: SimpleLogin keeps your email address private with aliases

SimpleLogin is an email alias service from Proton that forwards messages to an existing mailbox. Users create addresses for registrations, purchases, and correspondence, …

AI
AI agents keep access to company data after their work is done

IT teams responsible for identity security are concerned about AI agents’ ongoing access to company systems and the actions they take on users’ behalf, according to a …

lock
Hardcoded MCP credentials found in public GitHub files

Hardcoded API keys, access tokens and other credentials used by AI coding tools have been found in publicly accessible MCP configuration files on GitHub, according to research …

CISO
AI adoption brings new security headaches for already stretched CISOs

CISOs are taking on AI governance without a matching increase in resources or expertise, adding to an already broad remit spanning data protection, identity, resilience and …

AWS
AWS limits AI agents’ data access, even when manipulated

AWS has detailed an approach for propagating user authorization context through AI agents, allowing access controls to be enforced by infrastructure and downstream services …

fraud
AI is making fraud harder to spot and identity harder to prove

Online fraud has become a routine concern for consumers and businesses that rely on digital accounts, payments and customer service. Experian’s 2026 U.S. Identity & Fraud …

non-human identities
Non-human identities are 91% of everything active in production

A backup job fires at two in the morning. A scanner walks the same AWS account an hour later, a deployment pipeline assumes a role at four, and a logging agent runs straight …

LastPass Authenticator
Product showcase: LastPass Authenticator brings Face ID, Apple Watch, and cloud backup to 2FA

LastPass Authenticator is a free app that provides two-factor authentication (2FA) for accounts and any service that supports time-based one-time passwords (TOTP). It supports …

AppViewX product showcase
Product Showcase: AppViewX Agent Identity Security

AI is multiplying enterprise identities as quantum computing reshapes the cryptographic trust that secures them, and enterprises need to solve both together. Traditional …

authentication
Only 28% of financial workforce MFA is phishing-resistant

Passwords remain part of many workforce authentication flows in financial organizations, making phishing and credential theft major identity security risks, according to a new …

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