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* Check Point patches critical VPN auth‑bypass flaw (CVE‑2026‑50751) used in ransomware attacks * Zero‑day exploited since early May, with Qilin deploying ransomware in at least one case * Customers urged to apply fixes and mitigations immediately Check Point has declared it fixed a vulnerability in its VPN products
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Humans are a cantankerous bunch. We don’t agree on much. But if there’s one certainty in this world – one North Star we can all get behind – it’s that the AI industry has never been quiet. And it’s been particularly noisy of late. We’ve had Musk
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Authorities say the breach only exposed public chat rooms, but alleged attacker claims to have accessed far more data French officials are investigating a compromise of the government’s encrypted messaging service Tchap after attackers hijacked an account and gained access to public chat rooms. The incident came to light
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A data breach notice submitted to the Maine Attorney General’s office has named Discord Inc. as the affected company, but the filing includes several details that make the claim difficult to treat as confirmed. The notice, submitted on June 8, 2026, lists Discord Inc. of San Francisco, California, as
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Dive Brief Businesses generally aren’t taking a proactive enough approach to blocking schemes that spoof their leaders’ identities, according to a new report. Published June 9, 2026 First published on Dive Brief: * The cybersecurity industry devotes a lot of attention to how AI helps hackers analyze vulnerabilities more quickly
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AI is disruptive. Anthropic’s ClaudeMythos model, and its successors, promise to be even more disruptive: they could threaten the existing bug bounty and/or in-house offensive security industries. AI has been widely adopted by both cybersecurity attackers and defenders. Attackers use it to help find bugs and craft attacks
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As attention remains focused on generative AI and productivity tools, a more urgent question is emerging across financial services and the wider technology sector which is can cybersecurity realistically keep pace with machine-speed threats? Recent discussion around Anthropic’s “Mythos” system has intensified these concerns, with cybersecurity specialists warning about
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Cybercrime isn’t random. Groups like ShinyHunters don’t just target vulnerable systems. They target moments in time when any disruption hurts most. From an attacker’s perspective, timing creates leverage. Likewise, ransomware operators have long targeted hospitals because downtime has immediate consequences. When healthcare systems go down, hospitals can’
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Event Date: July 21, 2026 Event Time: 11:00 A.M. – 1:30 P.M. EDT The NIST National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) is proud to host a quarterly Cybersecurity Connections event and networking lunch in partnership with the Maryland Department of Commerce and Montgomery County, MD. Event Overview
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Identity has always revolved around trust. For decades, organizations have invested heavily in securing customer and partner identities. But this year, the spotlight will turn inward. The next frontier in digital identity will center on the workforce itself, confirming who people are, how they are verified, and how trust extends
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Check Point on Monday warned that a critical-severity authentication bypass vulnerability affecting its VPN and firewall products has been exploited in the wild as a zero-day. Tracked as CVE-2026-50751 (CVSS score of 9.3), the security defect is described as a logic flow weakness in the validation process of Remote
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Business technologies drive value for an enterprise, but beyond the technical characteristics, it can be challenging for a CIO, CFO or IT team to know exactly how to calculate the business value of one of the most foundational technologies for today’s data-centric business – enterprise storage. Traditionally, enterprise storage has
