In this Help Net Security interview, Frederic Bull, Security Officer at Gremlin, talks about what AI means for security teams. The conversation covers why…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-09-17 08h : 5 posts
5 posts published in the last hour 05:31A flat cybersecurity budget doesn’t have to mean weaker coverage 05:31Critical Check Point Vulnerability Allows Remote Root Code Execution Without Authentication 05:02AI is adding to the review load on open-source projects, many of…
A flat cybersecurity budget doesn’t have to mean weaker coverage
Cheri Hotman, Managing Partner of Hotman Group, works as a vCISO and vGRC leader. In this Help Net Security video, she talks about holding coverage steady…
Critical Check Point Vulnerability Allows Remote Root Code Execution Without Authentication
Check Point has issued a high-severity security alert for CVE-2026-91843, which is a critical stack overflow vulnerability in the login process of its…
AI is adding to the review load on open-source projects, many of them thinly funded
AI coding tools are making open source software harder to maintain and secure, according to six authors writing for the Association for Computing…
GNOME 51 adds passkey logins, offline maps and drawn PDF signatures
GNOME 51, the new version of the Linux desktop, came out on September 16 under the codename A Coruña. The release adds offline maps and live transit…
AWS’s new sign-up gives accounts spend caps, email invites, and agent-set permissions
New AWS customers can now sign up with a Google, GitHub, or Apple login, start with $100 in Free Tier credits, and build inside a “project” where AWS and…
The world must establish red lines for autonomous AI weapons
AI is transforming warfare and international conflict. Autonomous weapon systems pose a genuine threat to civilians. The war in Ukraine has become a…
ISC Stormcast For Thursday, September 17th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10098, (Thu, Sep 17th)
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, September 17th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10098,…
Windows 11 KB5124008 Update Breaks Active Directory Domain Trust and Blocks User Logins
Microsoft is investigating reports that the Windows 11 KB5124008 security update is breaking Active Directory domain trust on some enterprise computers,…
AI agents can modify themselves without humans telling them to do so
This is a test – it is only a test
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-09-17 00h : 9 posts
9 posts published in the last hour 21:56IT Security News Roundup: 2026-09-16 21:55IT Security News Daily Summary 2026-09-16 21:31Revolut gave customer IDs and financial data to a government impostor 21:31Architecting a secure landing zone in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud…
IT Security News Daily Summary 2026-09-16
200 posts published today 21:31Revolut gave customer IDs and financial data to a government impostor 21:31Architecting a secure landing zone in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud 21:31Prophet Security research finds AI is cutting SOC investigation times, but nearly half of…
Revolut gave customer IDs and financial data to a government impostor
The digital bank was tricked into releasing sensitive customer information, including IDs, to an attacker using a legitimate government email domain.
Architecting a secure landing zone in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud
The AWS European Sovereign Cloud is a new, independent cloud for Europe, physically and logically separate from existing AWS Regions and operated within…
Prophet Security research finds AI is cutting SOC investigation times, but nearly half of in-house builds fail to stick
Security teams are turning to AI as they struggle to investigate the volume of alerts coming into the SOC, according to new research from Prophet…
LNK Metadata
I ran across this Ctrl-Alt-Intel blog post today, which discusses RustGate v2, and noticed that for all of what was addressed in the blog, there wasn’t a…
BambooToken: The Malware That Speaks MQTT to Stay Under the Radar
Lumen exposes BambooToken, a stealthy malware family using MQTT and sideloading to quietly infect targets across Asia and beyond. BambooToken is a new…
CISA decides weekly vulnerability bulletin isn’t necessary anymore
Agency’s shift from static CVSS scores to risk-based prioritization sends the old format packing September 28
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-09-16 23h : 3 posts
3 posts published in the last hour 20:31Microsoft’s Patching 20:01Revolut Confirms Data Breach Through Fake Government Requests 20:00IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-09-16 22h : 7 posts
Microsoft’s Patching
Once a month, Microsoft pushes a security update to all Windows users. Tomorrow’s is a new record : Microsoft’s patch for September is a doozy, with a…
Revolut Confirms Data Breach Through Fake Government Requests
An unauthorized party used a legitimate government email domain to fraudulently request Revolut customer data
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-09-16 22h : 7 posts
7 posts published in the last hour 19:31Sexually Explicit Deepfake Sites Target 100-Plus Politicians in Europe 19:02Museum heists turn violent: new Europol report on cultural property theft tactics 19:02Hackers Exploit Maximum Severity Flaw in GitLab 19:02China’s Answer to AI Safety:…
Sexually Explicit Deepfake Sites Target 100-Plus Politicians in Europe
An analysis of 160 deepfake websites reveals politicians in 22 countries appear on them. Nearly all of them are women.