Category: Cyber

ZDNET’s key takeaways Meta Business Suite’s new terms allow web-crawling on publication sites, legal experts say. The change goes into effect on Oct. 30. Meta says the updated terms are a “consolidation” of pre-existing…

Swati KhandelwalOct 16, 2026Vulnerability / OpenBSD A local privilege escalation exploit published today gains root on OpenBSD 7.9 by chaining a roughly 37-year-old integer overflow with a separate kernel flaw, bypassing OpenBSD’s KARL…

Noma Labs found a high-severity Claude Code Desktop flaw that let malicious HTML files steal local credentials and private keys through the preview pane. Noma Labs researchers discovered a high-severity vulnerability in Anthropic’s…

Attackers repeatedly changed the files that AOMEI Backupper fetches from the vendor’s own update servers, in windows of five to ten minutes at a time between May and July 2026, so that any copy of the Windows backup program that checked for an…

A security guard was punched in the face twice, held in a chokehold and told to “go back to [his] country” in an attack police have labelled a hate crime.The security guard, a 49-year-old man from Covina, was escorting two trespassers out of…

A cybersecurity incident at BAE Systems has halted the production and delivery of bankruptcy notices for every federal bankruptcy court in the United States, disrupting a core administrative function of the judiciary with no announced…

Cybersecurity giant Proofpoint says it will acquire a similarly long-running company, Varonis, in an all-cash transaction worth $6.3 billion. “The combined company will serve more than 16,000 enterprises and millions of organizations…

Ransomware gangs are increasingly turning to threats of physical violence against CISOs, business executives and other senior staff at the companies they attack in an effort to successfully extort payments from their victims, a new report has…

Cybersecurity has never been more important than in 2026, and its role in running businesses successfully and efficiently continues to grow. Today, businesses approach cybersecurity not just by asking, “What software should we…

In the space of a month, a new category of AI model went from nonexistent to everywhere. TypeSafe AI released Jev on September 15 and called it a System One model, a nod to Kahneman’s fast, intuitive thinking. OpenAI announced its own Decisions…