Cato Networks has announced an auto-adaptive threat prevention engine within its SASE platform, enabling enterprises to proactively block advanced threats that use legitimate tools and targets. Cato Dynamic Prevention continuously evaluates activity in full context, correlating signals from across Cato’s…
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New Defender deployment tool streamlines Windows device onboarding with single executable
Microsoft’s Defender deployment tool for Windows helps administrators manage device onboarding at scale with updated progress visibility and additional controls. Simplified deployment with added administrative controls The tool adapts to the operating system and supports endpoint security across a broad…
Anthropic poaches users from rival chatbots with easier migration
The controversy over Anthropic’s negotiations with the Pentagon has driven increased interest in Claude. Negotiations between the Department of Defense and Anthropic collapsed after a deadline for an agreement expired without a deal. The Pentagon had pressed the company to…
Android’s March 2026 security patch fixes over 100 flaws, one under targeted exploitation
The Android March 2026 security patch addresses vulnerabilities across dozens of components and includes one CVE confirmed under active exploitation. Devices running a patch level of 2026-03-05 or later receive fixes for all disclosed issues. Android March 2026 security patch…
Samsung brings Digital Home Key to Samsung Wallet, extending secure access to the home
Samsung Electronics has announced the launch of Digital Home Key, a new feature within Samsung Wallet built on Aliro, a standardized smart lock access protocol that enables Samsung Galaxy users to unlock compatible smart door locks using their smartphone. This…
AI went from assistant to autonomous actor and security never caught up
Enterprise AI deployments have shifted from pilot programs to production systems handling customer data, executing business transactions, and integrating with core infrastructure. That has exposed a significant gap between what AI agents can do and what security teams can observe…
5 years of shifting cybersecurity behavior
Online security is built through routine decisions made across devices and accounts. People choose how to create passwords, how often to reuse them, and how much effort to invest in protecting personal data. The National Cybersecurity Alliance and CybSafe’s Oh,…
Healthcare organizations are accepting cyber risk to cut costs
Healthcare organizations are cutting cybersecurity budgets under financial pressure even as the threats targeting their systems intensify. A PwC survey of 381 global healthcare executives, conducted between May and July 2025, puts numbers to the gap between the risks the…
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Meta AI in WhatsApp organizes chats and reopens privacy issues
The trend of integrating AI into digital platforms continues. In the latest Android beta release (2.26.9.4), the company has introduced a feature that allows users to organize their chat history with the help of Meta AI. Organize WhatsApp chats with…
IPFire ships its 200th core update with a new domain blocklist and kernel upgrade
Network firewall distribution IPFire released Core Update 200, marking the 200th incremental update to the 2.29 branch. The release bundles a kernel upgrade, a beta domain blocklist service, security patches for OpenSSL and glibc, and a range of component updates.…
Anthropic’s Claude hit by widespread service outage (updated)
Anthropic suffered widespread service disruptions Monday morning, leaving thousands of users unable to access its Claude AI platform. Most users reporting problems said they encountered errors when attempting to log in. The first notice was posted at 11:49 UTC. In…
Anthropic’s Claude hit by widespread service outage
Anthropic suffered widespread service disruptions Monday morning, leaving thousands of users unable to access its Claude AI platform. Most users reporting problems said they encountered errors when attempting to log in. The first notice was posted at 11:49 UTC. In…
NetQuest launches NetworkLens for hyperscale AI threat detection
NetQuest has announced NetQuest NetworkLens, a new portfolio of hyperscale real-time network intelligence datasets engineered to power AI-driven cyber threat detection and advanced security analytics. As cyber defense increasingly relies on machine learning, behavioral detection, and data pipelines, the network…
pureLiFi unveils LiFi architecture to extend gigabit capacity indoors
pureLiFi is addressing a key fixed wireless access (FWA) challenge by delivering reliable indoor signal performance through LiFi, a wireless communication technology that transmits data through the light spectrum instead of traditional radio frequencies. The latest LiFi systems leverage technology…
UK reduces cyberattack fix times from two months to eight days
The UK government has launched a new vulnerability monitoring service (VMS) that promises to reduce the time needed to fix critical cyber weaknesses across the public sector. Scanning government systems for critical cyber flaws The service, launched as part of…
Motorola turns to GrapheneOS for smartphone security upgrade
Motorola is strengthening smartphone security through a long-term partnership with the GrapheneOS Foundation, a mobile security nonprofit that develops a hardened operating system based on the Android Open Source Project. GrapheneOS includes protections designed to reduce entire classes of vulnerabilities,…
Security debt is becoming a governance issue for CISOs
Application security backlogs keep expanding across large development portfolios. Veracode’s 2026 State of Software Security Report puts numbers behind a familiar operational pattern, fixes lag discovery, and older weaknesses stay open across release cycles. 2026 findings against the 2025 baseline…
Your dependencies are 278 days out of date and your pipelines aren’t protected
Applications continue to ship with known weaknesses even as development workflows speed up. A new Datadog State of DevSecOps 2026 report examines how dependency management and pipeline practices are influencing exposure across cloud native environments. Across the environments studied, 87%…
BlacksmithAI: Open-source AI-powered penetration testing framework
BlacksmithAI is an open-source penetration testing framework that uses multiple AI agents to execute different stages of a security assessment lifecycle. A multi-agent structure for offensive workflows BlacksmithAI runs as a hierarchical system in which an orchestrator coordinates task execution…