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week in review
Week in review: FortiBleed is still active, Patch Tuesday forecast

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Three questions a hospital CISO should ask a healthcare fintech vendor In …

NVIDIA
High-severity NVIDIA vulnerability lets unauthenticated attackers crash GPU monitoring

Hundreds of internet-exposed graphics processing unit (GPU) servers were open to a high-severity flaw in NVIDIA’s DCGM Exporter (CVE-2026-47483) that lets unauthenticated …

Anthropic
Anthropic offers free AI security scans to open-source maintainers

Anthropic’s OSS Scanner is a new, free service that uses the company’s strongest AI models to find security vulnerabilities in open-source software. Maintainers who opt in …

botnet
FBI disrupts Flax Typhoon hacking tools used in global cyberattacks

The FBI seized seven domains used to operate Microscan and FishHub, two hacking tools linked to Chinese state-sponsored hackers known as Flax Typhoon that were used to target …

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, …

patch tuesday
October 2026 Patch Tuesday forecast: Time for an Office cleanup

September 2026 Patch Tuesday set an all-time record with 973 CVEs addressed across the Microsoft portfolio. We’re only four months into the Patch Apocalypse and everyone seems …

Christiaan Beek
What the BPFDoor backdoor tells us about attacks on the network edge

A backdoor that makes no noise is hard to catch, and that’s the point of BPFDoor. The Linux malware waits for a special “magic packet” before it acts. In …

Europe
Thousands of wind and solar park systems sit exposed on the internet across Europe

Modat and NCSC-NL, the Dutch government’s cybersecurity center, found 8,547 internet-facing systems at wind farms and solar parks in 35 countries in and around the EU …

NFC
PCI SSC calls for human approval of AI agent actions involving cardholder data

The PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) has published Security Considerations for AI Systems, guidance covering the protection of data supplied to AI systems in payment …

automation
Companies want autonomous IT operations but hesitate to let AI act alone

Ninety percent of companies want to move toward autonomous IT operations over the next two years, with agentic AI, software that plans and carries out multi-step tasks on its …

lock
Authorities seize sites selling hacked, stolen intimate images of 17,000 women and girls

The FBI and French law enforcement have seized two websites that sold hacked and stolen sexually explicit images and videos of young women and girls, and arrested their …

YouTube
YouTubers targeted with fake sponsorships and “channel verification” phishing

Scammers are going after YouTube creators’ Google accounts by posing as a brand looking for sponsorship partners. By sending out personalized emails that reference a …

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