Descope has updated its Agentic Identity Hub to provide MCP developers and AI agent builders with standards-based identity infrastructure for their AI systems. Organizations can now use Descope to manage AI agents as first-class identities alongside human users, add OAuth…
Critical CERT-In Advisories – January 2026: SAP, Microsoft, and Atlassian Vulnerabilities
January 2026 was a wake-up month for enterprise security teams. In a single week, CERT-In released three high-severity advisories exposing critical flaws across SAP, Microsoft, and Atlassian, the very platforms that run finance systems, identity layers, developer pipelines, and collaboration…
Waiting for AI superintelligence? Don’t hold your breath
AI’s impact on systems, security, and decision-making is already permanent. Superintelligence, often referred to as artificial superintelligence (ASI), describes a theoretical stage in which AI capability exceeds human cognitive performance across domains. Whether current systems are progressing toward cybersecurity superintelligence…
AI’s appetite for data is testing enterprise guardrails
Privacy programs are taking on more operational responsibility across the enterprise. A new Cisco global benchmark study shows expanding mandates, rising investment, and sustained pressure around data quality, accountability, and cross-border data management tied to AI systems. Privacy programs grow…
Ivanti expands Neurons platform with agentic AI and autonomous endpoint management
Ivanti announced AI advancements to the Ivanti Neurons platform, introducing solutions that transform how IT and security teams harness AI-driven intelligence to achieve impactful business outcomes. These features include agentic AI capabilities for Ivanti Neurons for IT Service Management (ITSM),…
Cybersecurity jobs available right now: January 27, 2026
CISO micro1 | USA | Remote – View job details As a CISO, you will define the enterprise security vision and implement a zero-trust architecture across systems and data pipelines. You will secure AI Labs environments, oversee identity and access…
New Lawsuit Claims that Meta Can Read All the WhatsApp Users Messages
A new class-action lawsuit accuses Meta Platforms of misleading billions of WhatsApp users by claiming their messages are protected by unbreakable end-to-end encryption. Filed in the San Francisco federal court, the suit alleges the company secretly stores, analyzes, and grants…
Microsoft Office Zero-day Vulnerability Actively Exploited in Attacks
Microsoft released emergency out-of-band security updates on January 26, 2026, to address CVE-2026-21509, a zero-day security feature bypass vulnerability in Microsoft Office that attackers are actively exploiting. The flaw, rated “Important” with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.8, relies…
Clawdbot-Style Agentic Assistants: What Your SOC Should Monitor, Triage, and Contain
What SOC teams need to monitor, triage, and contain when clawdbot-like agentic AI assistants. Includes detection signals, triage questions, and a containment playbook. The post Clawdbot-Style Agentic Assistants: What Your SOC Should Monitor, Triage, and Contain appeared first on D3…
Initial Stages of Romance Scams [Guest Diary], (Tue, Jan 27th)
[This is a Guest Diary by Fares Azhari, an ISC intern as part of the SANS.edu BACS program] This article has been indexed from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green Read the original article: Initial Stages of Romance Scams [Guest…
SoundCloud – 29,815,722 breached accounts
In December 2025, SoundCloud announced it had discovered unauthorised activity on its platform. The incident allowed an attacker to map publicly available SoundCloud profile data to email addresses for approximately 20% of its users. The impacted data included 30M unique…
ISC Stormcast For Tuesday, January 27th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9782, (Tue, Jan 27th)
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IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-01-27 03h : 2 posts
2 posts were published in the last hour 1:31 : The 7 Essential Elements of a Compliance Framework You Need to Know 1:31 : Clawdbot Is What Happens When AI Gets Root Access: A Security Expert’s Take on Silicon Valley’s…
The 7 Essential Elements of a Compliance Framework You Need to Know
Key Takeaways Regulatory expectations continue to expand. Oversight bodies increasingly look beyond documentation to how organizations manage compliance risk in practice. In this environment, compliance functions best when supported by a structured framework. While industries and jurisdictions vary, effective, high-quality…
Clawdbot Is What Happens When AI Gets Root Access: A Security Expert’s Take on Silicon Valley’s Hottest AI Agent
Clawdbot is the viral AI assistant everyone’s installing—but giving AI agents full system access raises critical security questions. After scaling identity systems to 1B+ users, here’s my take on why machine identity management matters more than ever in the age…
Who Operates the Badbox 2.0 Botnet?
The cybercriminals in control of Kimwolf — a disruptive botnet that has infected more than 2 million devices — recently shared a screenshot indicating they’d compromised the control panel for Badbox 2.0, a vast China-based botnet powered by malicious software…
Judge Delays Minnesota ICE Decision While Weighing Whether State Is Being Illegally Punished
A federal judge ordered a new briefing due Wednesday on whether DHS is using armed raids to pressure Minnesota into abandoning its sanctuary policies, leaving ICE operations in place for now. This article has been indexed from Security Latest Read…
What exciting new developments are happening in NHIs?
Are Organizations Prepared for the Challenges of Non-Human Identities? Understanding Non-Human Identities in Cybersecurity How do organizations safeguard their machine identities? One emerging focus is the management of Non-Human Identities (NHIs), a paramount aspect of digital protection. NHIs comprise machine…
Why be optimistic about the future of secrets management?
How Does Non-Human Identity Management Revolutionize Secrets Security? Is your organization effectively managing its non-human identities (NHIs)? With the growing complexity of interconnected systems and the surge of machine identities, securing these non-human entities has become a cornerstone in protecting…
How smart can NHIs be in complex enterprise environments?
What Are Non-Human Identities and Why Do They Matter in Complex Enterprise Environments? Where digital transformation accelerates work processes, the concept of Non-Human Identities (NHIs) becomes increasingly important among enterprise environments. But what exactly are NHIs, and why should organizations…
Can Agentic AI operate independently in high-stakes areas?
Can Independent Agentic AI Safeguard Our Critical Systems? Have you ever wondered how we can entrust critical operations to independent systems? The emergence of Agentic AI, with its capacity to operate autonomously, has sparked considerable discussion about its potential role…
Department of Know: Davos worries, UK-China tensions, calendar concerns
Link to episode page This week’s Department of Know is hosted by Rich Stroffolino with guests Krista Arndt, associate CISO, St. Luke’s University Health Network, and Jason Shockey, CISO, Cenlar FSB Thanks to our show sponsor, Conveyor Ever dream of…
Claude expands tool connections using MCP
Anthropic has added interactive tool support to its Claude AI platform, a change powered by the open Model Context Protocol (MCP). The update lets users work directly with external applications inside Claude’s interface rather than relying solely on text interactions…
10 cybersecurity trends to watch in 2026
<p>As cybersecurity leaders begin 2026, they face yet another year of escalations. The attack surfaces they defend are becoming bigger and more complex, while the risks and threats facing their organizations are increasing in volume, velocity and sophistication.</p> <p>It’s a…