Where are you? What are you working on? Why are you doing that? Identity access and management platform Okta announced the general availability of its Okta for AI Agents, which will give customers the ability to do three things: locate agents, see what they’re doing, and shut them down if need be.…
Darksword is the second iOS exploit chain in a month A new exploit kit targeting iPhone users and stealing their sensitive data is being abused by "multiple" spyware vendors and suspected nation-state goons, security researchers said on Wednesday.…
Interlock's post-exploit toolkit exposed Ransomware criminals exploited CVE-2026-20131, a maximum-severity bug in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center software, as a zero-day vulnerability more than a month before Cisco patched the hole, according to Amazon security boss CJ Moses.…
Researchers map full org chart of the scam from dodgy recruiters to helpful Western collaborators Researchers at IBM X‑Force and Flare Research have uncovered data that sheds light on how North Korea's fake IT worker schemes operate and infiltrate companies in order to funnel money back to the regime and steal sensitive information.…
No 1 Space Operations Squadron will get a persistent stare capability The Ministry of Defence (MoD) plans to spend £17.5 million on a remotely-operated satellite monitoring facility in Cyprus, partly to protect the UK's secure communications system Skynet.…
CEF-Digital Info Session: 2026 Calls Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 03/18/2026 - 10:35 26 March 2026 Online Learn more about the calls "Equipment for smart European cable systems" (CEF-DIG-2026-SMART-CABLES) and "Backbone connectivity for Digital Global Gateways" (CEF-DIG-2026-GATEWAYS). GettyImages © Dragon Claws Main link https://hadea.ec.europa.eu/events/cef-digital-info-session-2026-calls-2026-03-2… Related topics Connecting Europe Facility Funding for Digital Related content Press release 17 March 2026 Commission makes available €200 million for submarine cable and digital infrastructure projects The European Commission has opened two new Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) calls worth €200 million for projects in high-capacity networks, including submarine cables. {"service":"share","version":"2.0","color":true,"networks":["x","facebook","linkedin","email","more"]}
Even without a navy, or air power, 'They'll still have the ability to hack' Businesses should expect that Iran will conduct more aggressive cyber-ops as the war escalates, according to security analysts.…
Big Tech donates $12.5 million to get things rolling Half a dozen Big Tech players have together delivered $12.5 million in grants towards a project that aims to help maintainers of open source projects to cope with AI slop bug reports.…
In less polite places, this is called ‘hacking back’ or ‘offensive cyber-ops’ Japan’s government yesterday decided to allow its Self-Defense Force to conduct offensive cyber-operations, starting on October 1st.…
Sell your soul to the orb Sam Altman has cooked up a plan to make his cryptocurrency/identity/eyeball-scanning-orb venture more useful by – you guessed it – adding agentic AI to the mix. Now the technology behind it will be used to identify the human behind bots.…
State-sponsored attackers joined by Chinese snoops and hackers-for-hire in latest round of economic penalties The Council of the European Union sanctioned Emennet Pasargad on Monday, a company used as a front for a series of Iranian cyberattacks.…
Midmarket security leaders aren't as secure as they think, says Intruder's report Partner Content The midmarket matters. JP Morgan estimates approximately 300,000 organizations generating $13T in annual revenue. Yet they occupy an awkward position in the security landscape. They're large enough to be attractive targets with complex digital estates, significant revenue, and valuable data, but not large enough to have the headcount, budget maturity, or tooling sophistication of an enterprise security team.…
SCION: Proven in banking and healthcare, slow to spread everywhere else Feature BGP, the Border Gateway Protocol, was not designed to be secure. It was designed to work – to route packets between the thousands of autonomous systems that make up the internet, quickly and at scale.…
Equipment for smart European cable systems - Works Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 03/17/2026 - 08:45 Opening: 17 March 2026 Closing: 30 June 2026 This call supports the upgrade of existing submarine telecommunications/digital infrastructures to “smart capabilities” enabling applications that monitor them as well as other surrounding critical infrastructures (e.g. power cables, pipelines, etc.) and/or their vicinity. Main link https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportuni… Related topics Digital connectivity Connecting Europe Facility Funding for Digital {"service":"share","version":"2.0","color":true,"networks":["x","facebook","linkedin","email","more"]}
Backbone connectivity for Digital Global Gateways - Studies Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 03/17/2026 - 08:19 Opening: 17 March 2026 Closing: 30 June 2026 This call for proposals will fund studies related to the deployment/significant upgrade of backbone networks that address risks, vulnerabilities and dependencies in the EU backbone infrastructure. GettyImages © Dragon Claws Main link https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportuni… Related topics Digital connectivity Connecting Europe Facility Funding for Digital {"service":"share","version":"2.0","color":true,"networks":["x","facebook","linkedin","email","more"]}
Admins may be even more exhausted by then, because securing Microsoft’s AI helper is not a trivial job Gartner analyst Dennis Xu has half-jokingly suggested banning use of Microsoft’s Copilot AI on Friday afternoons, because he fears at that time of week users may be too lazy to properly check its possibly offensive output.…
AI helped send weekly threat signal count from 80 million to 400 billion, then helped response time shrink from two days to 30 minutes Australia’s Commonwealth Bank built its own agentic AI threat hunting tools, because vendors are too slow to develop tools that can cope with emerging AI-powered threats, according to General Manager of Cyber Defence Operations Andrew Pade.…
Operations and hospital networks not affected, we're told Robotics-assisted surgical tech firm Intuitive said that unauthorized intruders gained access to some of its internal IT business applications after stealing an employee's credentials during a phishing attack.…
Hacktivists use proxy services from Russia, China for 'billions of designed-for-abuse connection attempts' Cybercrime has skyrocketed since the start of the Iran war, according to Akamai, which reports a 245 percent increase in everything from credential harvesting attempts to automated reconnaissance traffic aimed at banks and other critical businesses.…
Interpol says fraud schemes using the tech are 4.5x more profitable AI is apparently good for the bottom line if your business is crime. Financial fraud schemes carried out with the help of artificial intelligence are 4.5 times more profitable than those that aren't enhanced, according to Interpol's latest estimates.…