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Las Vegas, Nevada, August 4th, 2026/CyberNewswire/--The Cybersecurity Excellence Awards today announced the winners of the 2026 Community Choice Award, selected through 79,455 votes cast during the awards season. AI security ranked among the highest-voted award categories this season. The results arrive during Black Hat USA week, where
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Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto via Getty Images ByAlexandra Kelley, Staff Correspondent, Nextgov/FCW August 4, 2026 05:46 PM ET OpenAI’s latest GPT-5.6 models were made available for government work via the FedRAMP-authorized ChatGPT Enterprise offering, weeks after one of the advanced models was involved in executing an autonomous
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For many apps, granting permission to access your device’s precise location makes sense. Your favorite weather app needs to know where you are to get the day’s forecast, or your go-to fitness app for tracking your running route. But some apps are also inadvertently sharing their users’ location
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As policymakers debate how to govern increasingly powerful AI systems like OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol and Anthropic’s Mythos, a Chinese open-weight model has narrowed the gap with the industry’s leaders. GLM-5.2, the open-weight AI model from China’s Z.ai, is only a few months behind
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The week-old Open Secure AI Alliance (OSAA), an industry group spearheaded by Nvidia that has already grown to over 120 companies, has developed a cutely named working group, the Shared AI Findings Exchange, or SAFE. The group is already presenting proposals for open comment, and The Linux Foundation, a member
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* Bitdefender reported Roblox players lured by a fake “undetected” Xeno Executor mod spreading malware * Infection chain delivers a Java‑based RAT and infostealer stealing browser data, online accounts, payment info, and crypto wallets * Malware also enables surveillance and remote control; campaign peaked in March 2026 and remains active against Roblox’
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bixpicture/Getty Images ByJustin Herman, Federal Civilian Government Director, Cognition August 4, 2026 01:40 PM ET COMMENTARY | The agencies that build that capability will define what good looks like for the next decade. * Cyber Defense Ask anyone on an agency security team what the worst mornings look like. A
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Many companies are showcasing their cybersecurity products and services this week at the 2026 edition of the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas. To help cut through the clutter, the SecurityWeek team is publishing a digest summarizing vendor announcements at Black Hat USA 2026, including new products and services, updates
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Hackers are in the midst of a massive theft of cryptocurrency from supposedly secure offline hardware wallets, according to blockchain security firms monitoring the heists. At least a dozen different hackers are said to be targeting Bitcoin owners who use the hardware crypto wallet Coldcard, made by Coinkite. At this
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Years after federal regulators invoked national security grounds to push three Chinese state-owned telecommunications providers out of the American market, the companies never fully left, a new House probe has found. China Telecom, China Mobile and China Unicom retained equipment, data-center space and connections to other networks in the United
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Experts warn hotfix not optional. MSPs warned attacker gains 'full administrative access to an N-central console' The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added an exploited N-able vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, giving federal agencies three days to patch a flaw that could
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Cybersecurity researchers at Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 have uncovered three novel post-compromise attack vectors that allow local malware on Windows PCs to quietly hijack Google-synced passkeys, bypassing biometric checks and PIN prompts. Dubbed Pass-TA-Key, Silver Pass-TA-Key, and Golden Pass-TA-Key, the techniques target the Google Password Manager in Chrome
