GuardOS is an iPhone application that combines device security checks, VPN access, Safari content filtering, QR link scanning, and storage cleanup. It is…
Srsly Risky Biz: Russia’s digital detox boomerang
Tom Uren and Amberleigh Jack talk about Russian targeting of Ukrainian data centres. That’s not good, but it looks like Russia is very poorly prepared for…
Microsoft separates decision-making from generative AI with a new model
Microsoft has launched Decision-1, an AI model that returns probabilities for predefined answers, allowing software applications to use its outputs…
IT Security News Roundup: 2026-10-15 Overnight
IT Security News: Overnight roundup, 2026-10-15 Summary This news cycle highlights severe active exploitation across enterprise perimeter devices, alongside growing security and operational challenges surrounding artificial intelligence technologies. Vulnerabilities in edge infrastructure from Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, and Ivanti are…
Cisco Secure Email Gateway 0-Day Vulnerability Actively Exploited in Attacks
Cisco has warned that attackers are actively exploiting a critical zero-day vulnerability in Cisco Secure Email Gateway that can give them root access to…
ISC Stormcast For Thursday, October 15th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10138, (Thu, Oct 15th)
This post has no text preview — click the link below to read the original article. This article has been indexed from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green Read the original article: ISC Stormcast For Thursday, October 15th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10138,…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-10-15 04h : 7 posts
7 posts published in the last hour 01:31Panchan’s Mining Island [Guest Diary], (Wed, Oct 14th) 01:31Product Walkthrough: Bitdefender AI Visibility and Control 01:31‘123456’ password linked to Denmark data breach affecting 8.8M people 01:01Scientists recreate a bizarre quantum effect that stops…
Panchan’s Mining Island [Guest Diary], (Wed, Oct 14th)
[This is a Guest Diary by Zachary Norwood, an ISC intern as part of the SANS.edu BACS program]
Product Walkthrough: Bitdefender AI Visibility and Control
A user opens a browser tab, pastes data into a chat assistant, and nothing is installed. A developer adds a coding assistant as an editor extension, and…
‘123456’ password linked to Denmark data breach affecting 8.8M people
Local media reports three weakly protected accounts at small IT biz whose access to national register was abused
Scientists recreate a bizarre quantum effect that stops a particle cold
Oxford physicists have recreated a bizarre quantum effect in which a particle responds to a magnetic field without ever traveling through it. Using a…
Introducing macOS Mirage: Next-Generation Apple Silicon Dynamic Analysis and Sigma Detections
In November 2015, we released our first in-house macOS sandbox, Box of Apples , followed by an update in March 2018 that introduced HTML behavior reports,…
Flock CEO defends surveillance technology amid national backlash: ‘We shouldn’t pause progress’
At TechCrunch Disrupt, Flock CEO Garrett Langley defended his company’s surveillance technology despite growing privacy concerns, arguing that its…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-10-15 03h : 3 posts
3 posts published in the last hour 00:31Hackers heat up supermarket fridges, spoiling food across France 00:01CVE-2026-97229: Critical Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution in GitLab 00:00IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-10-15 02h : 7 posts
Hackers heat up supermarket fridges, spoiling food across France
A cyberattack on supermarket temperature-control systems in France left spoiled food, empty shelves, and reports of fires.
CVE-2026-97229: Critical Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution in GitLab
Overview On October 12, 2026, GitLab published a critical patch release for CVE-2026-97229 , an integer overflow or wraparound ( CWE-190 ) in the CI/CD…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-10-15 02h : 7 posts
7 posts published in the last hour 23:31Threat Actor Abuses Agentic AI Pentesting Framework to Target South Korean Financial Institutions 23:31Smashing Security podcast #488: How a ransomware negotiator ended up arrested at his own conference 23:31Attackers claim to have stolen…
Threat Actor Abuses Agentic AI Pentesting Framework to Target South Korean Financial Institutions
IntroductionZscaler ThreatLabz analyzed a recently active exploitation campaign in which a threat actor abused ARTEX to target South Korean financial…
Smashing Security podcast #488: How a ransomware negotiator ended up arrested at his own conference
A ransomware negotiator attended a cybersecurity conference, only to be arrested by the FBI in connection with its investigation into the ShinyHunters…
Attackers claim to have stolen 80 million South African patient records in massive Ampath Laboratories data breach (Disputed)
Luis Monzon reports: Ampath Laboratories, one of South Africa’s largest pathology service providers, has been hit by a cyberattack, with the attacker…
Physicists discover “astonishing” property of light that defies expectations
Scientists have uncovered a surprising hidden ability of light that allows it to develop spinning, twisting behavior as it travels through empty space,…
Palo Alto Networks warns of PAN-OS RCE flaw exploited in attacks
Palo Alto Networks has released security updates for a high-severity PAN-OS RCE zero-day, tracked as CVE-2026-0322, that has been exploited in attacks…
LG Smart TVs Vulnerable to Pre-Auth Root Takeover From Local Network
Three vulnerabilities in LG’s webOS can be chained to give an attacker on the same local network root access to certain smart TVs without a PIN or any…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-10-15 01h : 15 posts
15 posts published in the last hour 22:31Unit 42 Uncovers PEERSTITCH, a Stealthy FortiGate Implant 22:31UK Regains Early Access to AI Models After Reported White House Reversal 22:31U.S. CISA adds Microsoft Windows Shell flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog 22:06IT…