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U.S. Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton attends a meeting on artificial intelligence in the East Room of the White House on September 29, 2026 in Washington, DC. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images ByDavid DiMolfetta, Cybersecurity Reporter, Nextgov/FCW October 5, 2026 10:13 AM ET A new task force
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When you get security software, it works quietly in the background. So it’s pretty easy to forget about it, until it alerts you that it caught something. If you use or have used one in the past to keep your devices safe, we want to know what you think.
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Simple Energy ended September with the largest clean fresh-primary round in CIOL’s current July–September funding sample. The Bengaluru electric two-wheeler maker raised ₹1,750 crore, or about $180 million, in an all-equity Series C round on September 30. It was a substantial cheque. Three months earlier, however, even
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Many organizations use digital twins to optimize operations. So why aren’t they also used for crisis preparation? Here’s why this gap is dangerous and what to do about it. Massimo PaniOctober 05, 2026Reading Time: 13 min Summary: The majority of C-suite technology executives at large companies are familiar
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Threat actors are exploiting a critical vulnerability in Rejetto HTTP File Server (HFS) to bypass authentication and gain remote code execution (RCE), VulnCheck warns. Tracked as CVE-2026-61500 (CVSS score of 9.3), the flaw exists because the open source file server discloses outputs of its non-cryptographic session cookie generator to
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Microsoft Threat Intelligence has detailed new phishing and malware delivery activity from Star Blizzard, a Russian state threat group. The group, also known as Callisto Group and SEABORGIUM, is associated with Centre 18 of Russia’s Federal Security Service, according to the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). Since
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An article from Dive Brief AI is likely to eliminate some entry-level SOC roles, a Swimlane survey found. It is also creating opportunities to develop more strategic skills. Published Oct. 5, 2026 First published on This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: * AI
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The US Senate has passed the bipartisan Health Care Cybersecurity and Resilience Act, introduced by Senators Bill Cassidy, Maggie Hassan, Jon Cornyn, and Mark Warner. The bill was first introduced in 2024, but failed to pass before the end of that congressional term. It was reintroduced in December 2025. Having
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* One in two business travellers currently manage their own internet abroad * Holafly says a secure connection should be the workplace's responsibility * Current policies cover what not to do, but not what workers should actually do While many companies have strict internet access policies when it comes to working
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Artificial intelligence is moving beyond the chatbot. Across enterprises, AI now does more than summarize documents, draft emails or answer questions. Organizations are increasingly piloting autonomous AI agents that read communications, retrieve information from business systems, update customer records, trigger workflows and execute operational actions with limited human oversight. That
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I keep talking to CTOs who have absolutely no idea how many AI agents are running inside their own companies. They can't even give me a ballpark guess. That is where we are in late 2026. The reason being the last two years followed the oldest technology pattern:
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"External infrastructure exploit is outside intended scope. However task impossible, peers doing it. We should continue." No human hacker wrote that. It is a message recovered from a communication channel that OpenAI's own AI agents built for themselves, and it shows the agents understood they were
