A data breach at Denmark’s Central Population Register (CPR) has exposed the personal information of 8.8 million people. These include people living in…
Top 10 Best Just-in-Time (JIT) Access Tools in 2026 [Ranked & Scored]
Credentials that always work are credentials worth stealing which is why mitigating how attackers exploit privileged access has driven organizations…
OpenAI Bots May Have Contributed To Wikimedia Outage
Wikimedia Foundation says unauthorised activity by rogue OpenAI agents may have contributed to partial outage in May
Top 10 Best SAST Tools in 2026 [Ranked & Scored]
The AI-code flood made one truth undeniable: static analysis only matters if developers fix what it finds. We scored ten SAST tools with fix-rate…
Engineer sentenced for locking over 3,000 devices on employer network
A former core infrastructure engineer at an industrial company headquartered in New Jersey was sentenced to 32 months in prison for locking thousands of…
Social Engineering Detection Moves Into the Live Conversation
Companies are pouring time and dollars into security awareness training, but little evidence shows it actually works against social engineering.
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-10-06 11h : 13 posts
13 posts published in the last hour 08:3112 Best Authentication-as-a-Service (AaaS) Providers Compared (2026): Features & Pricing 08:31Ransomware Affiliate Double-Crosses RaaS Operator to Steal Victim Funds 08:3112 Best Biometric Authentication Solutions Compared (2026): Features & Pricing 08:31Meeting For Cheshire Green…
12 Best Authentication-as-a-Service (AaaS) Providers Compared (2026): Features & Pricing
Auth0 (Okta’s developer line) remains the best AaaS for most teams the ecosystem and enterprise-credibility benchmark while Entra External ID and Amazon…
Ransomware Affiliate Double-Crosses RaaS Operator to Steal Victim Funds
An affiliate of The Gentlemen RaaS group ran a parallel leak site during extortion of two dozen victims
12 Best Biometric Authentication Solutions Compared (2026): Features & Pricing
iProov is the best high-assurance verification vendor the deepest liveness and injection-attack science while Entrust (Onfido) and Incode lead turnkey…
Meeting For Cheshire Green Belt Data Centre Sees Large Turnout
More than 100 attend meeting held by Innova to discuss plans for 148-acre data centre complex in green belt area near Manchester
11 Best Adaptive / Risk-Based Authentication Tools Compared (2026): Features & Pricing
Microsoft Conditional Access is the best adaptive engine for most workforces the deepest policy grammar at bundled cost while Duo wins pragmatic rollout,…
Meta, TikTok, X Challenge Ofcom Over Transparency Requests
Social media platforms complain in court that implementation of Online Safety Act transparency requirements is overly burdensome
11 Best Cloud Directory Services Compared (2026): Features & Pricing
Microsoft Entra ID is the best cloud directory for most organizations bundle gravity plus the clearest AD-exit road while JumpCloud wins the domainless…
The Hidden DoS Vector in SQL Parsers
SQL parsers are critical components of the modern data stack. They validate queries before they reach the database, transpile between dialects, and lint…
Dell Urges Customers to Patch Critical DSU Flaw That Can Give Attackers Root Access
Dell warns that a critical DSU flaw lets attackers run code as root. Customers should patch affected PowerEdge systems as soon as possible. Dell urged…
12 Best Secrets Management Tools Compared (2026): Features & Pricing
HashiCorp Vault remains the best dedicated secrets platform the dynamic-secrets benchmark, now under IBM while cloud-native stores win single-cloud…
OpenAI Safety Leader Exits Over Security Concerns
One of leaders of OpenAI’s safety team departs company, says AI firms aren’t being ‘nearly careful enough’
Critical WatchGuard Endpoint Security Flaw Exposes Kernel and Process Memory
A critical vulnerability exists in WatchGuard endpoint security products that could allow a local, authenticated attacker to bypass driver authentication…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-10-06 10h : 8 posts
8 posts published in the last hour 07:31Critical Atlassian Flaw Lets Unauthenticated Attackers Read Known Files Across 8 Products 07:31Atlassian CVE-2026-21589 Flaw Exposes Files in Jira and Confluence Data Center 07:31Google pauses bug bounties, ATB faces extortion, Exchange flaw exposes…
Critical Atlassian Flaw Lets Unauthenticated Attackers Read Known Files Across 8 Products
A critical flaw in 8 Atlassian Data Center products, which customers host themselves, allows an attacker with no login access to read specific files in…
Atlassian CVE-2026-21589 Flaw Exposes Files in Jira and Confluence Data Center
Atlassian has announced a critical vulnerability related to arbitrary file access that affects Jira Software Data Center and Confluence Data Center. This…
Google pauses bug bounties, ATB faces extortion, Exchange flaw exposes mailboxes
Google pauses open-source bug bounties amid AI spam Ukraine’s largest grocery chain hit by extortion attack Exchange flaw exposes other users’ mailboxes…
OpenAI Fires Researchers Amid Security Imbroglio
Company acknowledges firing three researchers, including technical liaison with outside firm investigating Hugging Face breach