Most enterprise security teams can tell you exactly how their databases are encrypted. They know who has access to their CRM and can pull audit logs for every sensitive document that’s been opened, copied, or shared in the last 90…
True Threats and True Crimes – Those Memes You Post Might Be Crimes
Does reposting a “86 47” meme constitute a criminal threat? Analyzing the James Comey indictment through the lens of Counterman v. Colorado and Elonis v. United States. The post True Threats and True Crimes – Those Memes You Post Might…
Brush shell 0.4.0 tightens script safety, widens platform support
Rust-based alternatives to traditional Unix shells continue to attract users who want bash compatibility alongside built-in features like syntax highlighting and history-based suggestions. Brush, a bash- and POSIX-compatible shell written in Rust, sits in that group, and version 0.4.0 brings…
Global Crackdown Arrests 276, Shuts 9 Crypto Scam Centers, Seizes $701M
A coordinated international operation involving U.S. and Chinese authorities has arrested at least 276 suspects and shut down nine scam centers used for cryptocurrency investment fraud schemes targeting Americans, resulting in millions of dollars in losses. The crackdown was led…
Reborn Gaming – 126 breached accounts
In April 2026, the gaming community Reborn Gaming suffered a data breach due to a vulnerability in cPanel and WebHost Manager (WHM). The breach exposed 126 unique email addresses along with IP addresses and Steam IDs. Reborn Gaming self-submitted the…
Identity Risk Intelligence vs Threat Intelligence: What’s the Difference?
Introduction: Two terms, one growing confusion In cybersecurity conversations today, two terms are showing up more frequently: Threat Intelligence Identity Risk Intelligence At a glance, they sound similar. Both deal with data, risk, and security insights. But they solve fundamentally…
Pipelock: Open-source AI agent firewall
AI coding agents run with shell access, environment variables containing API keys, and unrestricted internet connectivity, creating a single point of failure where one compromised tool call can leak credentials to an attacker-controlled domain. Pipelock, an open-source security harness developed…
Microsoft Just Broke Trust — And It Might Be the Right Move
Most people never think about root certificates. But almost everything online depends on them. This week, Microsoft Defender made a move that sounds small on the surface — removing a root certificate from Windows computers. In reality, it’s the kind of…
What researchers learned about building an LLM security workflow
Security operations centers are running into the same wall everywhere. Detection tools generate more alerts than analysts can work through, and the early stages of any investigation involve pulling together logs from several sources to decide whether something is worth…
Spotting third-party cyber risk before attackers do
In this Help Net Security video, Jeffrey Wheatman, SVP and Cyber Strategist at Black Kite, discusses how organizations can identify and manage third-party cyber exposures before attackers exploit them. He argues that businesses should move beyond a data-loss mindset toward…
Nvidia China Market Share Zero
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Your work apps are quietly handing 19 data points to someone
Office work in 2026 runs through a stack of mobile apps that sit on the same phones people use for banking, messaging family, and tracking their location. Ten of the most common workplace apps in use across U.S. companies, including…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-05-04 06h : 1 posts
1 posts were published in the last hour 3:11 : Five Eyes spook shops warn agentic is too wonky for rapid rollout
Five Eyes spook shops warn agentic is too wonky for rapid rollout
Prioritize resilience over productivity, say CISA, NCSC and their friends from Oz, NZ, Canada Information security agencies from the nations of the Five Eyes security alliance have co-authored guidance on the use of agentic AI that warns the technology will…
ISC Stormcast For Monday, May 4th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9916, (Mon, May 4th)
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Marcus & Millichap – 1,837,078 breached accounts
In April 2026, the commercial real estate brokerage firm Marcus & Millichap was named as one of multiple alleged victims of the ShinyHunters hacking and extortion group. Data alleged to have been obtained from the company was subsequently released publicly…
ChatGPT advanced account security adds passkeys and hardware keys
Journalists, elected officials, researchers, and political dissidents have spent years adapting their accounts to phishing-resistant authentication on consumer platforms. ChatGPT now joins that list. OpenAI has introduced Advanced Account Security, an opt-in setting that strips password-based sign-in from ChatGPT and…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-05-04 00h : 3 posts
3 posts were published in the last hour 21:58 : IT Security News Weekly Summary 18 21:55 : IT Security News Daily Summary 2026-05-03 21:34 : Salt Typhoon breach IBM subsidiary in Italy: a warning for Europe’s digital defenses
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IT Security News Daily Summary 2026-05-03
30 posts were published in the last hour 21:34 : Salt Typhoon breach IBM subsidiary in Italy: a warning for Europe’s digital defenses 19:5 : IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-05-03 21h : 1 posts 18:7 : Microsoft Defender Mistakenly…
Salt Typhoon breach IBM subsidiary in Italy: a warning for Europe’s digital defenses
April 2026 breach at Sistemi Informativi (IBM Italy) raises concerns over Chinese-linked cyber ops in Europe, including Salt Typhoon. In late April 2026, the Italian cybersecurity landscape was shaken by a significant breach targeting Sistemi Informativi, a company wholly owned…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-05-03 21h : 1 posts
1 posts were published in the last hour 18:7 : Microsoft Defender Mistakenly Flags DigiCert Root Certificates as Malware
Microsoft Defender Mistakenly Flags DigiCert Root Certificates as Malware
Microsoft Defender triggered widespread false positive alerts after a faulty security update caused it to flag two legitimate DigiCert root certificates as malicious, potentially disrupting SSL/TLS validation and code-signing operations across enterprise environments worldwide. A Defender antimalware signature update released…
CISA Highlights CVE-2026-31431 as an Active Linux Root Exploitation Risk
Several vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel have been recently disclosed that have attracted heightened scrutiny from the cybersecurity community, following evidence that they can be exploited to obtain full root-level control across a wide range of systems consistently. This…