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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 …

light
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 …

botnet
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 …

DuckDB AWS
DuckDB stays open source while the team behind it goes to work for Amazon

Hannes Mühleisen and Mark Raasveldt started as AWS employees. The two built DuckDB, an analytical database that runs inside your process instead of on a server somebody has to …

Becky Palmer
National Life Group CISO expects more vulnerabilities in six months than in thirty years

In this Help Net Security interview, Becky Palmer is VP and CISO at National Life Group, answers five questions about defending against AI-driven attacks. The discussion …

Google
Scareware ads keep running on Google’s transparency tool, even after they’re reported

A team of NYU and Radboud University researchers spent a year building a tool to find deceptive software ads inside Google’s public ad archive. It works. It also exposed …

Sift
Open-source secrets scanning tool Sift hunts credentials in Microsoft 365, Slack, and Jira

Sift is a free, open-source command line tool that searches for passwords, API keys, and other sensitive data across the places a company keeps its work: local disks, Windows …

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