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GitLab Flaw Drew Probing Within Hours
October 07, 2026
On September 10th, GitLab released a patch for versions 19.3.2, 19.2.6, and 19.1.8 of GitLab Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) after the discovery of a critical flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-85706. Within hours, watchTowr…
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Forescout Finds Major Gaps in OT, Medical Device Segmentation
October 06, 2026
Enterprise network segmentation may look stronger on paper than it is in practice, according to new research from Forescout. Only 13% of network segments containing operational technology devices were dedicated solely to OT. For Internet…
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Palantir, Nvidia, and Booz Allen Restrict Anthropic Over 30 Day Log Retention
October 05, 2026
Several major technology companies, including Palantir, Nvidia, and Booz Allen, have restricted or threatened to drop frontier AI models unless OpenAI and Anthropic can offer stronger guarantees on the safety of their sensitive data and…
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Only 4 of 800+ Clients Came Close to Their Ransomware Recovery Targets
October 04, 2026
Disaster recovery company Fenix24 recently released a report, “The State of Recoverability 2026,” exploring the resilience of organizations against ransomware threats through how well they meet ransomware recovery targets. Examining engagements with more than 800…
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65% of Companies Have Had an AI Agent Act Outside its Scope
September 30, 2026
Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) recently published a research report prepared for Cequence Security, “Agents Without Guardrails: The Agentic AI Governance Gap in the Enterprise.” The report reveals a number of alarming statistics, with an initial…
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CISA Updates Insider Threat Guide for AI, Remote Work, and Employee Departures
September 29, 2026
CISA updated its Insider Threat Mitigation Guide on Sept. 9, expanding a framework first published in 2020 to account for how much the workplace has changed. The update gives more attention to remote work and…
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OpenAI Agents Turned German Wiki Into Message Board
September 23, 2026
Independent researchers recently uncovered a previously undisclosed incident in which OpenAI agents used an obscure German-language programming wiki as a message board. The agents shared answers to evaluation tasks and notes about their operating environment,…
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Fake IT Support Calls on Microsoft Teams Breached 150 Employees
September 22, 2026
A recent publication from Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 research team offers insight into Microsoft Teams voice phishing (vishing) campaigns. This activity, dubbed Spring Ring, ran from January through April 2026 and was discovered based…
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Fileless Rootkit Hides Malicious Script on F5 Servers
September 21, 2026
New research from Sophos X-Ops dismantles a core assumption behind years of web shell detection: that malicious code must eventually touch disk. That assumption went out the door when Sophos X-Ops discovered a Linux rootkit…
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Socure Raises $156M at $5.2B Valuation, Buys Fravity to Fight AI Fraud
September 28, 2026
Trust infrastructure provider Socure recently announced a strategic growth investment round valuing the company at $5.2 billion, raising $156 million. The investors were led by Summit Partners and also included Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Wells Fargo,…
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Palo Alto Networks Buys Console to Automate Security Operations
September 27, 2026
For years now, alert volumes have consistently outpaced the capacity of human analysts to address and remediate every flagged issue. Traditional security operations center (SOC) workflows are built around dashboards, queues, and manual triage, often…
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Surfshark Acquires Data Removal Firm Optery in Second US Deal
September 15, 2026
Personal and private information has circulated since the advent of the internet and has been increasingly surfacing in recent years through search engines, broker databases, and AI summaries. Data brokers buy and sell this information,…
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Fortinet Acquires Virtue AI to Secure Autonomous Agents at Runtime
August 28, 2026
In recent years, the explosive growth of artificial intelligence (AI) tools and agents has reshaped the digital landscape and brought on many new and evolving risks. The deployment of autonomous AI agents in business environments…
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Okta Buys Permiso for $200 Million to Police AI Agents After Login
August 18, 2026
Identity and access management (IAM) company Okta recently signed a definitive agreement to acquire Permiso Security, with the deal expected to close in Q3 of Okta’s 2027 fiscal year. While the exact terms of the…
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Cyera Adds Oasis Security for $1B to Close the AI Agent Identity Gap
August 11, 2026
The ongoing AI explosion and recent growth of agentic AI usage have created a security landscape with new and evolving risks. Enterprises are deploying AI agents within their networks at a rapid pace, outstripping any…
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Palo Alto Networks Buys Its Way Into Watching Everything
August 02, 2026
On July 21st, 2026, Palo Alto Networks announced its intent to acquire user-focused observability provider Embrace under undisclosed terms. The deal adds Real User Monitoring (RUM) functionality to the company’s existing Observability platform. The acquisition…
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Telemetry Giant Bets $100M That the SIEM Era Is Ending
July 28, 2026
The state of the modern enterprise and security strategies has led to an environment where security teams are drowning in telemetry volume and alert noise, unable to adequately address real concerns among a flood of…
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Why Barracuda Bet Against the Platform Giants
July 22, 2026
In the era of AI, cyberattacks are increasingly targeting both human and non-human identities alike. As technology continues to advance, small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) operate and manage sprawling, thinly resourced identity environments, often without…
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