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Most enterprise security programs were built to protect servers, endpoints, and cloud accounts. None of them was built to find a customer intake form that a product manager vibe coded on Lovable over a weekend, connected to a live Supabase database, and deployed on a public URL indexed by Google.
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Dive Brief Tech unemployment dropped to 3.5% in April. Meanwhile, companies such as Cloudflare and Coinbase announced AI-related layoffs. Published May 8, 2026 Dive Brief: * New job postings for technology occupations, including tech support, cybersecurity engineers and software developers, hit a three-year high in April just as several companies
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Chaos erupted at schools and colleges throughout the US on Thursday as a cyberattack disrupted online learning platform Canvas just as students were due to take final exams. Canvas parent company Instructure said that as of Friday morning, the platform was back online. Instructure said it temporarily took Canvas offline
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TL;DR Hackers breached five Polish water treatment plants using default passwords and internet-exposed control systems. Poland is spending a billion euros on cybersecurity; 70 per cent of American water utilities fail the same basic standards. Hackers breached five Polish water treatment plants in 2025, gaining access to the industrial
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During my years leading IT strategy at the Department of Defense and the Navy, I witnessed firsthand the frustrating paradox that continues to plague government artificial intelligence initiatives: we're sitting on mountains of valuable data that could revolutionize mission outcomes, yet we can't actually use most
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Microsoft’s Xbox gaming division has seemingly turned on a dime under the leadership of new CEO Asha Sharma. One of the big shifts has been to nix the “this is an Xbox” campaign that sought to make anything and everything into "an Xbox." However, the company is
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The Tech Panda takes a look at recent funding events in the tech ecosystem, seeking to know where the cash is flowing. Startup: MochaTrade Sector: Trading Amount: Undisclosed Led by: Y Combinator &Pioneer Fund MochaTrade, a trading platform that intends to offer perpetual futures on United States stocks, commodities
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Resident Evil Requiem has been a hit for Capcom, becoming the fastest selling game in the legendary franchise. To keep the momentum going the company announced that it would continue to release updates that include story DLC and a secret mini game. While fans will need to wait a bit
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A Virginia man, Sohaib Akhter, faces decades in prison after a jury convicted him of being involved in a scheme to delete approximately 96 databases containing US government data. The events of the case transpired around two weeks before the twin brothers allegedly involved were fired from their jobs at
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * Canvas was disrupted this week by a cyberattack. * Many students are unable to access the popular educational portal. * Instructure says data was stolen; what Canvas users should do next. Canvas is at the center of
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In Brief 10:20 AM PDT · May 8, 2026 Poland’s intelligence service said it detected attacks on five water treatment plants where hackers could have taken control of the industrial equipment inside, including, in the worst case, tampering with the safety of the water supply. The story is relevant
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* Researcher Hyunwoo Kim discloses Dirty Frag, a nine‑year‑old kernel flaw enabling root privilege escalation across major Linux distros * The exploit chains two page‑cache write bugs, works reliably without race conditions, and currently has no CVE or patch * Mitigation requires disabling vulnerable kernel modules, but this breaks IPsec
