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TL;DR Mate Security has closed a $35M Series A led by Canaan Partners with Insight Partners, Team8, and M12. Total funding now exceeds $50M, less than a year after stealth. The company’s bet is that AI security agents need organizational context, not just alert data, to make trustworthy
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Microsoft wants to fight AI-powered cyberattacks with AI defenders of its own. The company has unveiled Project Perception, a new agentic security system designed to hunt down weaknesses, investigate threats, and strengthen defenses at machine speed. Its argument is that conventional security tooling, built around the assumption of human attackers,
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A cyberattack on Georgia-based medical billing provider Medical Computer Business Services (MCBS) has exposed sensitive personal and health records of over 1.2 million individuals. MCBS, an Augusta-headquartered company, which provides billing, coding, accounts receivable, and administrative services for healthcare providers, disclosed the full scale of the breach in a
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If you're looking to get ahead for college in the fall, then a VPN is one of the most sensible back-to-school staples to tick off your list now. You're going to spend a lot of time connected to campus Wi-Fi and it's often not
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Data Protection Oasis Security recently raised $120 million in Series B funding for its agentic access management platform. Data security company Cyera announced on Tuesday that it has entered into an agreement to acquire agentic access management provider Oasis Security. Cyera confirmed to SecurityWeek multiple reports that this is a
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Credit: Philip Fong/Getty Images Nvidia has launched a new coalition of more than 30 major tech firms, including Microsoft, SpaceX, and the Linux Foundation, called the Open Secure AI Alliance. The aim of the group is to build and distribute open-source tools that improve safety and security against AI
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Washington rallies allies to shape next-generation networks after spending 18 months rattling them America wants its allies to come together and help it lead the way in defining 6G communications standards, with security and resilience seen as key goals for next-generation networks. The latest effort to corral international work on
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Hugging Face rebuilt around a third of its infrastructure from clean images as part of a sizable cleanup effort following the OpenAI security mishap earlier this month. The revelation is among several additional details disclosed in a postmortem published Monday by the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), with input from Hugging
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * Ransomware may not be on the decline after all, according to new research. * A single ransomware campaign's success can distort the historical data. * Ransomware remains a threat that business leaders must continue to
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Over the years, my travel checklist has grown from simply making sure I’ve packed all the essentials — that flight neck pillow is a must — to having a dedicated list of cybersecurity practices I follow before, during and after every trip. The online threat landscape has evolved, and so have
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Apple has rolled out iOS 26.6 and iPadOS 26.6, bringing one of its biggest security-focused software updates in recent months. While the update does not introduce major new features, it fixes 78 security vulnerabilities that could have affected iPhones and iPads. The company says there is no evidence
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Security researchers at Oasis Security have disclosed a vulnerability in Claude Desktop that could allow attackers to execute hidden prompts, access local files, exfiltrate conversation history, or execute code with a single click on a malicious link. The vulnerability, dubbed PromptFiction, affects the way Claude Desktop handled claude:// links. According
