Security teams are turning to AI to survive alert overload
The World Economic Forum white paper “Empowering Defenders: AI for Cybersecurity” identified AI as the biggest driver of change in cybersecurity for 94% of s...
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Week in review: cPanel vulnerability actively exploited, DigiCert breach, LinkedIn job scams
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Your work apps are quietly handing 19 data points to someon...
Dirty Frag: Unpatched Linux vulnerability delivers root access
A week after Copy Fail, another Linux local privilege escalation vulnerability dubbed “Dirty Frag” has been revealed, along with a PoC exploit. What is Dirty...
Ivanti EPMM vulnerability exploited in zero-day attacks (CVE-2026-6973)
Ivanti has released fixes for 5 high-severity vulnerabilities in its Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) solution, one of which (CVE-2026-6973) has being exploite...
Google is turning Android Studio into a policy watchdog
Google has expanded Play Policy Insights in Android Studio to help developers catch policy issues while coding, including warnings for common problems such a...
Helping North Korean IT remote workers is becoming a fast track to prison
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Snyk integrates Claude to advance AI-native application security
Snyk has announced it is leveraging Anthropic’s Claude models to advance software security. Snyk has integrated Claude into the Snyk AI Security Platform, en...
Avantra’s new AI can diagnose SAP failures in seconds
Avantra launched Avantra 26, an advancement in AI-driven operations, strengthening native integration with SAP Cloud ALM, and delivering automated visibility...
Securonix launches AI threat research agent and ThreatWatch validation tool
Securonix announced the Securonix Threat Research Agent and ThreatWatch for ThreatQ, expanding how security teams research threats, validate exposure, and tu...
OpenAI tunes GPT-5.5-Cyber for more permissive security workflows
OpenAI is rolling out GPT-5.5-Cyber, a variant of its latest AI model, in limited preview for verified cybersecurity professionals and organizations through ...
Transilience AI unveils Security Operating System for cloud remediation
Transilience AI has announced the general availability of its Full Stack Security Operating System for the cloud, platform designed to solve one of enterpris...
Object First Fleet Manager simplifies distributed backup storage
Object First released Object First Fleet Manager, a cloud-based service that simplifies the management of distributed Ootbi backup storage deployments for Ve...
May 2026 Patch Tuesday forecast: AI starts driving security industry changes
Project Glasswing. This is one of three major security industry changes I’ll cover today.
Roblox chat moderation gets bypassed by leet speak and code words
Roblox runs an automated chat filter at the scale of billions of messages per day. An independent audit of about two million chat messages from four of the p...
Mental health apps are collecting more than emotional conversations
People use mental health apps to talk about depression, trauma and suicidal thoughts in moments they may not share with anyone else. Many users likely assume...
Product showcase: NetGuard open-source firewall for Android
NetGuard is a free, open-source firewall for Android phones and tablets that provides users with a simple way to block internet access. Android does not allo...
Your coworker might be selling company logins, and thinks it’s fine
Employee behavior once considered unacceptable is becoming tolerated across various industries, particularly in IT and telecommunications, and at all levels ...
New infosec products of the week: May 8, 2026
Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past week LastPass, Operant AI, Sysdig, and VIAVI.
What Mozilla learned running an AI security bug hunting pipeline on Firefox
Over the past several months, Mozilla ran an agentic harness powered by Claude Mythos Preview across Firefox’s source code, identifying 271 security bugs tha...
$250 million cryptocurrency heist funded luxury fashion, nightclub parties, and private jets
20-year-old California resident Marlon Ferro, known online as “GothFerrari,” was sentenced to 78 months in prison for his role in a cryptocurrency theft oper...