At a press conference outside Madison Square Garden, politicians, musicians, and privacy advocates argued for tighter restrictions on how public venues…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-08-15 00h : 5 posts
5 posts published in the last hour 21:55IT Security News Daily Summary 2026-08-14 21:31Friday Squid Blogging: Searching for the Colossal Squid 21:31‘Near-autonomous’ AI agents attack Taiwan’s nuclear safety agency 21:01The Department of Know: Ransomware gangs, Copilot apps, and drones phone…
IT Security News Daily Summary 2026-08-14
200 posts published today 21:31Friday Squid Blogging: Searching for the Colossal Squid 21:31‘Near-autonomous’ AI agents attack Taiwan’s nuclear safety agency 21:01The Department of Know: Ransomware gangs, Copilot apps, and drones phone home 21:00IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-08-14 23h :…
Friday Squid Blogging: Searching for the Colossal Squid
Fascinating video about searching for life undersea. The video basically makes the point that our bright white searchlights are scaring everything away,…
‘Near-autonomous’ AI agents attack Taiwan’s nuclear safety agency
Some say the world will end in fire, some say an agentic swarm
The Department of Know: Ransomware gangs, Copilot apps, and drones phone home
Read the full stories at CISOSeries.com This week’s Department of Know is hosted by Sarah Lane, with guests Peter Gregory , author of over 50 books on…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-08-14 23h : 4 posts
4 posts published in the last hour 20:02Claude Agents Started a ‘Turf War’ That Escalated to Self-Replicating Malware 20:02What we know about the alleged Iranian hacks on US water utilities 20:01SAP Commerce Cloud RCE Flaw Actively Exploited 20:00IT Security News…
Claude Agents Started a ‘Turf War’ That Escalated to Self-Replicating Malware
Anthropic found Claude agents sabotaging rivals and escalating to self-replicating malware during controlled tests of multiagent AI behavior and conflict.
What we know about the alleged Iranian hacks on US water utilities
Over the last couple of weeks, hackers have targeted and broken into the systems of several water plants in the United States. Here’s what we know and…
SAP Commerce Cloud RCE Flaw Actively Exploited
SAP Commerce Cloud flaw CVE-2026-58231 is being actively exploited in the wild.
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-08-14 22h : 4 posts
4 posts published in the last hour 19:31Retail Cybersecurity in the Age of Agentic AI: Are Retailers and E-commerce Providers Ready? 19:31What we know about the alleged Iranian hacks on U.S. water utilities 19:01DentaQuest Breach Affects 15 Million in Largest…
Retail Cybersecurity in the Age of Agentic AI: Are Retailers and E-commerce Providers Ready?
Retail Cybersecurity in the Age of Agentic AI: Are Retailers and E-commerce Providers Ready? lee.potok@thal… Wed, 08/12/2026 – 07:40 The 2026 Thales…
What we know about the alleged Iranian hacks on U.S. water utilities
Over the last couple of weeks, hackers have targeted and broken into the systems of several water plants in the United States. Here’s what we know and…
DentaQuest Breach Affects 15 Million in Largest US Health Data Breach Reported in 2026
DentaQuest says a May 2026 network breach affected 15 million people, exposing Social Security numbers and dental or vision health information.
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-08-14 21h : 9 posts
9 posts published in the last hour 18:3140,000 WordPress Sites affected by Authentication Bypass Vulnerability in User Profile Builder WordPress Plugin 18:31CEVA Logistics Cyberattack Disrupts European Warehouses and Shipments 18:31Putting OpenAI Cyber Models to Work for Defenders 18:315 Infrastructure Controls…
40,000 WordPress Sites affected by Authentication Bypass Vulnerability in User Profile Builder WordPress Plugin
On July 14th, 2026, we received a submission for an Authentication Bypass vulnerability in User Profile Builder, a WordPress plugin with more than 40,000…
CEVA Logistics Cyberattack Disrupts European Warehouses and Shipments
CEVA Logistics suffered a cyberattack disrupting European operations, with eight warehouses affected and shipments halted at impacted sites. CEVA…
Putting OpenAI Cyber Models to Work for Defenders
Unit 42 is putting the latest frontier cyber models to work across customer environments to find, validate and help remediate the attack paths that matter…
5 Infrastructure Controls for Securing AI Agents
The Disturbing Discovery In July 2026, the AI Red Team at NVIDIA published findings of a six-month assessment review of enterprise AI agents, ranging from…
Spectre rears its ugly head again as researchers show some RISC-V chips are susceptible
Eight years on, we’re still paying to hide the future glimpsed during speculative execution
Shell Investigates Clop Data Theft Claims Tied to PTC Flaw
Shell is investigating a potential security incident after Clop claimed it stole 89 GB of data.
1.6M RingCentral accounts’ data dumped after ShinyHunters extortion attack
Another one bites the dust
RingCentral Breach Data Includes 1.6M Email Addresses, HIBP Says
HIBP says the RingCentral breach exposed 1.6 million email addresses plus names, phone numbers, and addresses, raising phishing concerns.
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-08-14 20h : 4 posts
4 posts published in the last hour 17:31Apple warned hundreds of users of mercenary spyware attacks 17:01CrowdStrike 2026 Threat Hunting Report: Exploitation Window Closes as AI Use Accelerates 17:01VINclarity Publishes Investigation Into Alleged Scam and Fraud Reputation Attack Across Search…