Open Enrollment is peak season for Medicare fraud – here’s how to tell real outreach from fakes and keep your details safe
October 15, 2026
Medicare scam calls, texts and ads: What to watch for this Open Enrollment
Spyware vendors found a way to make targeted ads even worse
The online advertising industry has found a new way to make itself even more unpopular, with one adtech outfit accused of helping spyware vendors infect [...]
October 15, 2026
ServiceNow makes it easier to build AI agents, gives them verifiable identities
ServiceNow is giving its AI Control Tower new features to make AI agents more governable — and a new name, Super Intelligence Control Tower (SICT), to [...]
October 15, 2026
Bank of America had to bring in 1,000 contractors to patch all the bugs Mythos identified
Bank of America recruited an additional 1,000 contractors to help patch all the vulnerabilities discovered by Anthropic’s Mythos model, the CEO said on [...]
October 15, 2026
X purges 13,000 accounts linked to suspected meddling ahead of US midterms
X says it has nuked more than 13,000 accounts involved in three suspected foreign influence operations targeting US political debate. In a post on [...]
October 15, 2026
Anthropic Warns Small AI Models Could Power Self-Spreading AI Worms
October 15, 2026
Google aims to make BigQuery spending on AI functions more predictable with token quotas
Google has made daily token quotas generally available for BigQuery’s generative AI functions to give enterprises a way to limit AI consumption by project [...]
October 15, 2026
Legal Aid Agency hackers made off with records dating back to 1978
Hackers who broke into the UK’s Legal Aid Agency last year stole records dating back nearly five decades, the government has admitted, revealing the [...]
October 15, 2026
US Air Force pilots used malware-laden USB drives to plan Afghanistan missions
Welcome, once again, to PWNED, the weekly column where we gawk at organizations that have made serious security mistakes. Normally, we’re talking about [...]
October 15, 2026
UK keeps AI safeguards in the maybe pile for Cyber Security BIll
UK officials have stopped short of committing to AI-specific measures in the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill despite ministers promising to legislate [...]
October 15, 2026
Your AI agent needs more than memory. It needs reliable state
Most teams building AI agents are pouring effort into better memory, longer context windows, conversation summaries, retrieval systems that pull up [...]
October 15, 2026
Building Fabric Apps with Microsoft’s Rayfin
Using vibe coding to scratch an itch has many of the same issues as using low-code and no-code development tools. That’s not surprising. Putting together [...]
October 15, 2026
When an agent acts, who is accountable?
For most of the history of enterprise software, accountability has been relatively easy to understand. A person logs in, a person has a set of permissions, [...]
October 15, 2026
Metropolitan Police’s unchecked use of shoplifting platform lands force in trouble with data watchdog
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has reprimanded London’s Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) and issued an enforcement notice after [...]
October 15, 2026
Debian LTS Firefox-ESR Security Update DLA-4836-1 CVE List
October 15, 2026
Jev and other decision models can still be tricked with prompt injection
Some of the excitement about decision models follows from TypeSafe AI’s claim that its Jev decision model cannot hallucinate and that “the [...]
October 15, 2026
Mageia Kernel Important Security Updates Multiple CVEs 2026-0506
October 15, 2026
Rocky Linux 10 curl Moderate Issues CVE-2026-10536 RLSA-2026-80512
October 15, 2026
Fedora 43 python3-docs Important Fixes for CVE-2026-19553 and More
New version of Python interpreter Security fix for CVE-2026-19553 Security fix for CVE-2026-82049 Security fix for CVE-2026-15310 Security fix for CVE-2026-19672
October 15, 2026
Fedora 43 FreeRDP Update 3.32.1 Security Advisory 2026-d51a33b2f5
October 15, 2026
SUSE Bind Important Threat Patch Advisory 2026-4664-1 CVE-2026-19033
October 15, 2026
SUSE Kernel Important Security Update 110 Fixes 2026-4665-1
October 15, 2026
openSUSE Kernel Important Security Fix Advisory 2026-4665-1
October 15, 2026
SUSE Kernel High-Priority Security Update Version 2026-4668-1
October 15, 2026
SUSE glibc Important Local Privilege Escalation Vuln 2026-4669-1
October 15, 2026
SUSE helm Major Security Update Releases – 2026-4674-1 Alert
October 15, 2026
SUSE Security Update Container-Suseconnect Critical 2026-4675-1
October 15, 2026
openSUSE webkit2gtk3 Critical Buffer Overflow Vulnern 2026-4676-1
October 15, 2026
SUSE WebKit2GTK3 Essential Security Patch Released 2026-4676-1
October 15, 2026
DSA-6562-1 chromium – security update
October 15, 2026
Ubuntu 26.04 urllib3 Important Denial of Service CVE-2026-97687
October 14, 2026
Slackware 15.0 libarchive Security Update SSA-2026-287-01
October 14, 2026
Cisco make-me-root email bug exploited as a 0-day by unknown crims
Cisco “strongly” implored customers to patch yet another critical, make-me-root vulnerability in its Secure Email Gateway (SEG), one that has already been [...]
October 14, 2026
What Your IP Address Reveals Every Time You Visit a Website
October 14, 2026
Ubuntu U-Boot Key Denial of Service Buffer Overflow Risks USN-8930-1
October 14, 2026
Private Instagram Downloaders Are Parsers, Not Privacy Bypass Tools
October 14, 2026
Ubuntu Apache HTTP Server USN-8931-1 Critical Issues Revealed
October 14, 2026
openSUSE python312 Important Security Issues Patch 2026-4659-1
October 14, 2026
openSUSE 15.6 Kernel Important Security Update Advisory 2026-4660-1
October 14, 2026
openSUSE xorg-x11-server Critical Buffer Overflow Alerts 2026-4663-1
October 14, 2026
Security researchers spent 6 days doing their Chromework, built 1B user exploit
Researchers at security startup Xbow used OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol model to help chain three zero-day vulnerabilities in Chrome into an exploit capable [...]
October 14, 2026
Ivanti patches Connect Secure zero-day after researchers confirm in-the-wild attacks
Ivanti customers are being urged to update Connect Secure and check for compromise after attackers exploited a newly disclosed zero-day vulnerability. On [...]
October 14, 2026
Rocky Linux 10 Kernel Important Security RLSA-2026-81406
October 14, 2026
openSUSE Tumbleweed Python EngineIO Moderate Fix CVE-2019-13611
October 14, 2026
openSUSE python313-paramiko Important Security Advisory 2026-12025-1
October 14, 2026
Google positions Gemini 4 Argon for long-horizon agentic work
Google has launched Gemini 4 Argon, a new flagship AI model aimed at complex enterprise and software-development workloads, pairing claims of stronger [...]
October 14, 2026
What’s old is new: Lightwell discovers novel zero-day vulnerability in core Java framework
Enterprise IT runs on decades-old foundational code. The prevailing assumption around these mature components is that if code has been sitting untouched in [...]
October 14, 2026
5 agentic AI trade-offs to consider before production
Companies across industries are moving quickly to build agentic AI systems. But getting an agent to work in a prototype is very different from getting one [...]
October 14, 2026
OpenAI engineer charged after boardroom bug found wrapped in toilet paper
The Department of Justice has charged an OpenAI engineer with attempting to intercept oral communications after allegedly planting a recording device in an [...]
October 14, 2026
Seven ways to encourage critical thinking in AI users
Employees are increasingly using large language models (LLMs) and AI agents to get work done. Many are using agents to complete tasks, and others are using [...]
October 14, 2026
The value of software is approaching $0
Imagine a vendor comes to you and explains how they can dramatically de-risk your infrastructure. They have a new software product or SaaS that detects [...]
October 14, 2026
What building an Android weather app taught me about designing for reliability
I spent 13 years building Android apps, and for most of them, the backend was someone else’s problem. Building Weather Pal, my own forecast app, broke that [...]
October 14, 2026
It’s time to rewrite all that old code
The first substantial software project I ever undertook (at least it seemed substantial at the time) was porting the famous text-based Star Trek game from [...]
October 14, 2026
Ransomware gets personal: ‘We-know-where-you-are kind of stuff’
Tim Beasley, a senior incident response consultant at Semperis, was investigating a cyberattack involving Russia’s Midnight Blizzard when a package [...]
October 14, 2026
Mageia 10 Gnumeric Important Heap Use-After-Free CVE-2026-97222
October 14, 2026
Fedora 43 avr-binutils Important Buffer Overflow Fix CVE-2026-19582
October 14, 2026
Fedora 43 xdg-dbus-proxy Security Advisory FEDORA-2026-e1cac11588
October 14, 2026
Actionable Threat Intelligence: How Linux Teams Use Threat Reports
A threat report names an address in your server logs. Should you block it?
October 14, 2026