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Microsoft catches hackers exploiting Zimbra bug before disclosure

Attackers were poking at a critical Zimbra mail server bug weeks before it was publicly disclosed, and then moved on to steal credentials, raid mailboxes, [...]

October 1, 2026

Why Mobile Device Management Needs Its Own Threat Model

October 1, 2026

MI5 warns UK academics their research may have helped Chinese spies

MI5 has warned that more than 100 UK-linked academics contributed to research projects allegedly funded to improve China’s spying capabilities. The [...]

October 1, 2026

Google makes Gemini 4 AI model available to a trusted few

Google has unveiled a new frontier AI model after months of delay. Gemini 4 Argon is designed to handle complex, long-horizon workloads spanning software [...]

October 1, 2026

CISO thought he had a ‘r3@lg00dp@$$w0rd’ but forgot to patch

Welcome back to PWNED, the weekly column where we warn you about weak security practices. This week’s terrifying tale involves a lack of important patching [...]

October 1, 2026

England’s schools are getting better at mopping up cyber incidents

England’s secondary schools are reporting slightly fewer cybersecurity incidents and faster recovery when disaster strikes, according to a survey by [...]

October 1, 2026

FBI tells ShinyHunters members to turn themselves in, after arrest of alleged leader

October 1, 2026

ShinyHunters suspect arrested, and is now investigated over alleged murder plots

October 1, 2026

UK privacy watchdog starts over with new board and Manchester HQ

Britain’s data protection watchdog has acquired a new legal identity and governance structure, although the familiar ICO initials are staying put. On [...]

October 1, 2026

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Advisory USN-8818-4 Important Privilege Escalation Patch

October 1, 2026

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Kernel Security Issues with CVE-2025-38724

October 1, 2026

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Linux Kernel FIPS Update USN-8730-7 CVE-2026-53131

October 1, 2026

Japanese Car-Sharing Site Times Car Data Breach Affects 6.6M Accounts

October 1, 2026

Ubuntu Linux Kernel 5.15 Critical Privilege Escalation Risk USN-8849-1

October 1, 2026

Ubuntu 24.04 Linux Kernel Important Local Privilege Escalation 8817-2

October 1, 2026

Ubuntu 8819-4 Linux Kernel FIPS Important Network & System Threat Fixes

October 1, 2026

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Linux Kernel Security Advisory USN-8850-1

October 1, 2026

Fewer women than ever in UK’s ‘old boys’ club’ cyber industry

The proportion of workers in the UK cybersecurity industry identifying as women has dropped to 16 percent, the lowest level since 2021. Gender diversity [...]

October 1, 2026

Microsoft doubles down on Rust

After many years of watching how Microsoft develops platforms and rolls out technologies to external users, one thing is clear: anything that is important [...]

October 1, 2026

The dream of enterprise semantics: Why this time is different

In most companies, the struggle to answer a new question fast has nothing to do with a lack of data. The problem is a lack of semantics. Or to put it [...]

October 1, 2026

OpenAI bets enterprises are ready to delegate real work to autonomous agents

OpenAI says true agentic AI has finally arrived, pushing beyond the trivial capabilities of early-stage virtual assistants. This week at OpenAI Dev Day, [...]

October 1, 2026

Internet Society Launches Global Online Trust and Safety Hub as Part of Its Safer Internet Initiative

September 30, 2026

Irony alert: OpenAI whines that Chinese model stole its special IP that it stole from everybody else

OpenAI, which hoovered up vast amounts of internet content amid copyright fights, has accused individuals associated with China’s Moonshot AI of being [...]

September 30, 2026

Stack Overflow expands Stack Internal to give AI agents ‘trusted’ enterprise knowledge

As enterprises increasingly turn to coding agents for building applications, Stack Overflow has added new capabilities to Stack Internal, its [...]

September 30, 2026

SUSE ntfs-3g Moderate DoS Heap Buffer Overflow Vuln 2026-4399-1

September 30, 2026

DSA-6530-1 pcre2 – security update

September 30, 2026

DSA-6529-1 libwebsockets – security update

September 30, 2026

openSUSE gdb Important Out-Of-Bounds Write Vuln 2026-4400-1

September 30, 2026

SUSE gdb Important Out-of-bounds Write Vulnern CVE-2026-13732

September 30, 2026

SUSE python313 Medium DoS and Buffer Overflow Vulnerability 2026-4401-1

September 30, 2026

SUSE Python-PyYAML Important Code Execution Risk Advisory 2026-4402-1

September 30, 2026

openSUSE Python-Tornado6 Important HTTP Request Smuggling Fix 2026-4403-1

September 30, 2026

SUSE Python-Tornado6 Important Denial of Service Vulnern 2026-4403-1

September 30, 2026

SUSE python-tornado Important Multiple Vulnerabilities 2026-4404-1

September 30, 2026

MALFEX npm Attack Spreads Windows RAT, Steals Discord and Browser Data

September 30, 2026

16-year-old researcher found a Microsoft bug, got admin access to databases with 17.3 trillion rows

A 16-year-old security researcher named Faav found an authentication flaw in Microsoft’s Titan analytics service that allowed him to gain administrator [...]

September 30, 2026

Debian Firefox-esr Critical Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities DSA-6533-1

September 30, 2026

Debian LTS pgextwlist Security Update DLA-4806-1 CVE-2023-39417

September 30, 2026

Ubuntu 26.04 Authen-SASL Major Network Vulnerability Report USN-8858-1

September 30, 2026

Debian 12 mkvtoolnix Critical Heap Buffer Overflow Vuln DLA-4805-1

September 30, 2026

Debian DSA-6532-1 Resolves Tor Denial of Service Vulnerabilities

September 30, 2026

Timeshare exit scams: From fake buyers to recovery fraud

Con artists are targeting timeshare owners who want out – and some victims are hit twice

September 30, 2026

Ubuntu 26.04 Kdenlive Important Command Execution Risk USN-8856-1

September 30, 2026

Rocky Linux Kernel Important Bug Fixes and Enhancements RLSA-2026-72624

September 30, 2026

Rocky Linux Thunderbird Critical Security Patch RLSA-2026-73130

September 30, 2026

Rocky Linux 10 gawk Important Code Execution DoS RLSA-2026-73429

September 30, 2026

Rocky Linux 10 GDB Severe Out-of-Bounds Write Vulnerability RLSA-2026-73427

September 30, 2026

Rocky Linux 9 Expat Serious Denial of Service XML Injection RLSA-2026-72663

September 30, 2026

Rocky Linux 9 gawk Moderate Buffer Overflow Fix RLSA-2026-73512

September 30, 2026

Rocky Linux Node.js Important Security Bug Fix RLSA-2026-73838

September 30, 2026

Rocky Linux gdb Important Buffer Overflow Risk RLSA-2026-73426

September 30, 2026

Rocky Linux 9 Kernel Important Fixes and Enhancements RLSA-2026-72623

September 30, 2026

Debian LTS DLA-4802-1 Python-Django Critical Cache Exposure

September 30, 2026

Global Group Ransomware Abuses WinMerge to Deploy Encryptor

September 30, 2026

openSUSE gpsd Moderate Update CVE-2026-60122 Advisory 2026-11891-1

September 30, 2026

openSUSE Emacs Moderate Update CVE-2026-96442 Severity 2026-11889-1

September 30, 2026

openSUSE gimp Critical Remote Access Vulnerabilities Fix 2026-11890-1

September 30, 2026

openSUSE Chromedriver Moderate Security Issue SU-2026-11888-1

September 30, 2026

openSUSE Tumbleweed libtesseract5 Moderate Vulnerability CVE-2026-11887

September 30, 2026

openSUSE python311 Moderate Code Issues Vuln 2026-11886-1

September 30, 2026

openSUSE Tumbleweed libpoppler-cpp3 Important Security Fix 2026-11885-1

September 30, 2026

openSUSE Tumbleweed pi-coding-agent Moderate Security Issues 2026-11884-1

September 30, 2026

openSUSE netty Important Security Fix for 30 Issues 2026-11882-1

September 30, 2026

openSUSE Tumbleweed pcapplusplus-devel Moderate Update 2026-11883-1

September 30, 2026

Key Considerations for Ubuntu OpenStack Keystone Auth Issues USN-8854-1

September 30, 2026

Mageia Borgbackup Security Update Notification 2026-0143

September 30, 2026

Mageia 10 Engrampa Bugfix ZST File Issue Vulnern 2026-0142

September 30, 2026

Mageia 10 task-lxde Security Update for Bugfix 2026-0141

September 30, 2026

Legit Security launches agentic remediation for open-source dependency vulnerabilities

September 30, 2026

Debian LTS libsmpp34 Serious Memory Corruption Vulnerability DLA-4804-1

September 30, 2026

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Linux Kernel Critical Memory Escape Privilege 8818-5

September 30, 2026

Ubuntu 24.04 22.04 Linux Kernel Critical Memory Bypass Flaw USN-8817-3

September 30, 2026

Ubuntu 26.04 OpenVPN Critical Denial of Service Threat USN-8852-1

September 30, 2026

Unsloth’s model picker had a code-execution problem

True to its name, AI-model-training tool Unsloth would do more work than it was asked to when developers checked out a model: It would also allow arbitrary [...]

September 30, 2026

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS OpenSBI Denial of Service Vulnern USN-8853-1

September 30, 2026

Securing AI agents requires securing the systems around them

Enterprise AI is changing from software that primarily generates information to software that can take action. AI agents can call APIs, invoke tools, [...]

September 30, 2026

GitLab Patches Critical CI/CD Flaws That Can Run Code on Servers

Two critical GitLab flaws can turn authenticated continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) configuration into code execution on self-managed servers.

September 30, 2026

Amazon Prime Phishing Scam Uses Fake Billing Alert to Steal Logins and Card Details

September 30, 2026

Pentagon personnel database breach exposes personal data of millions

September 30, 2026

More than half of UK businesses lack confidence in basic cyber skills

More than half of UK businesses lack confidence in their ability to perform at least one basic cybersecurity task, according to the government’s [...]

September 30, 2026

AI cuts software developers some slack

My mom used to say that Hodges’s law was “Junk expands to fill the space allotted for it.” We lived in three houses over the years, each one bigger than [...]

September 30, 2026

Validating AI models and agents with property-based testing

Testing deterministic systems is relatively straightforward. Create an assertion that the system should pass, and automate validating it against a series [...]

September 30, 2026

Observability for AI-native systems: New SLIs beyond latency and error rate

When HTTP 200 means nothing An AI assistant can return a response in under a second, maintain 99.9% availability and still give customers a fabricated [...]

September 30, 2026

8 Top Red Teaming Service Providers for Enterprise Adversary Emulation

September 30, 2026

UK rail cops’ £320K face-scanning spree nets zero matches

British Transport Police (BTP) spent more than £320,000 putting half a million commuters through live facial recognition cameras, only for the system to [...]

September 30, 2026

Spectre bug is back, this time to haunt JIT engines

The Spectre microarchitecture vulnerability has returned yet again, this time to vex just-in-time (JIT) engines that generate machine code for browsers, [...]

September 30, 2026

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS libdbi-perl Critical DoS and Code Exec Vuln 8841-1

September 30, 2026

Mageia 10 Whatsie Bugfix Update Dark Theme Issue 2026-0140

September 30, 2026

Mageia 10 9 urpm-ng Bugfix Migration Advisory 2026-0139

September 30, 2026

Fedora 43 libxmp Medium Playback Bugfix Advisory 2026-47ffcebe44

September 30, 2026

Fedora 43 Thunderbird Software Upgrade with version 2026-a387125860

September 30, 2026

Fedora 43 RootlessKit Update DoS Fix CVE-2026-56855 & CVE-2026-78662