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Microsoft Visual Studio 2026
Visual Studio cloud agents now run inside GitHub Copilot

Microsoft’s April update to Visual Studio introduces cloud agent integration in GitHub Copilot, enabling developers to offload tasks to remote infrastructure for scalable, …

Windows
CISA, Microsoft warn of active exploitation of Windows Shell vulnerability (CVE-2026-32202)

Attackers are exploiting CVE-2026-32202, a zero-click Windows Shell spoofing vulnerability that causes victims’ systems to authenticate the attacker’s server, CISA …

Fedora Linux
Fedora Linux 44 ships with GNOME 50 and KDE Plasma 6.6

The Fedora Project released Fedora Linux 44, delivering updated desktop environments, revised installer behavior, and several lower-level system changes across its editions …

Scott Schnoll
The Exchange Online security controls organizations keep getting wrong

In this Help Net Security interview, Scott Schnoll, Microsoft MVP for Exchange, breaks down the Shared Responsibility Model, where Microsoft secures the cloud while …

Inspect
AI prompt confidentiality and false citations worry researchers

Academic researchers using commercial AI tools for literature review and idea generation are sending unpublished research questions, draft hypotheses, and proprietary domain …

identity
Identity discovery: The overlooked lever in strategic risk reduction

If you ask a CISO what keeps them up at night, the answer usually isn’t “lack of tools.” It’s uncertainty. Uncertainty about what they don’t see. Uncertainty about how far an …

Simplex
Product showcase: SimpleX Chat removes user identifiers from messaging

SimpleX Chat is a free, private, open-source messenger that uses encryption and does not require user identifiers. It is available on mobile and desktop platforms, including …

Fido Alliance
FIDO Alliance wants to keep AI agents from going rogue on online payments

AI agents are beginning to shop, log in, and complete tasks with little direct input. That shift is pushing the security industry to rethink how trust works when actions are …

lock
Police arrest 10 suspected members of Black Axe cybercrime gang

A coordinated police operation in Switzerland has targeted suspected members of the Black Axe criminal network. On 28 April 2026, authorities carried out house searches across …

udemy
ShinyHunters claims it stole 1.4 million records from Udemy

The ShinyHunters group claims it has breached the Udemy, one of the world’s largest online learning platforms. According to Have I Been Pwned, the leaked dataset contained 1.4 …

sentence
Alleged Chinese hacker extradited to US over cyberattacks targeting COVID-19 research

Chinese national Xu Zewei was extradited from Italy to the United States to face charges tied to an alleged cyber espionage campaign that breached thousands of computers …

security operations
The metrics killing your SOC, and what to use instead

Security operations centres risk being rendered entirely ineffective if organizations measure them using the wrong performance indicators, according to Dave Chismon, CTO for …

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