KPMG tells staff facing the axe: Here's £100, now zip it
Staff in AI, Cyber, SAP and Testing told the consultation is over, with notices due Friday
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Social Engineering Detection Moves Into the Live Conversation
Companies are pouring time and dollars into security awareness training, but little evidence shows it actually works against social engineering. The post Social Engineering Detecti…
Engineer sentenced for locking over 3,000 devices on employer network
A former core infrastructure engineer at an industrial company headquartered in New Jersey was sentenced to 32 months in prison for locking thousands of devices on his employer's n…
Only the finest Swedish Bork will do for Stockholm station
No, this is not GRUB of the meatball variety
Critical Atlassian Flaw Lets Unauthenticated Attackers Read Known Files Across 8 Products
A critical flaw in 8 Atlassian Data Center products, which customers host themselves, allows an attacker with no login access to read specific files in each product's web applicati…
FBI Removes Accenture Contractor After Patch Failure Led to ShinyHunters Breach
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has removed an Accenture contractor for their alleged role in a ShinyHunters-breach that led to the theft of personal details of thou…
OpenAI rolls out weak sauce watermarking for AI text
Compliance, we've heard of it
Denmark Says Attackers Accessed CPR Data for 8.8 Million People via Company Account
Unauthorized parties have gained access to the names, addresses, and personal identification numbers of about 8.8 million people, living and dead, in Denmark's national population …
Scientists find planet made on new matter recipe, and it formed after a Red Giant ate a solar system
Death of a star may not be game over for the inner solar system after all
ClickFix Smuggles Payloads Through Browser Cache to Bypass Windows Run Limits
A new type of ClickFix attack is using compromised websites to trick users into executing a malicious payload cached in a web browser's cache. "Instead of downloading and executin…
Atlassian warns of critical file access flaw in its datacenter products
Tells users ‘action required’ – but maybe don’t make that action a Jira ticket, because it has this bug
Security researcher claims they found KVM guest-host escape flaw
Firecracker MicroVMs, which started at AWS, seem to be the problem
Schneider Electric drops $22.6B on PTC as datacenter boom rains money on infra companies
Part of a bigger play for smarter power infra
OpenAI is adding invisible watermarks to ChatGPT and Codex text in the EU
OpenAI is preparing to add invisible watermarks to text generated by ChatGPT and Codex in the European Union. [...]
ClingSTUN Turns Vulnerable IoT Devices Into Proxy Nodes
The Linux backdoor exploits 24 known flaws to compromise IoT devices and uses legitimate public STUN servers to obscure communications.
Citrix NetScaler security snafus get even worse amid more 0-day reports
The new vuln, CVE-2026-88779, is a memory overflow bug that leads to denial of service
Rejetto HFS servers now actively scanned for critical RCE flaw
Hackers are actively scanning for a Rejetto HFS weak signing key vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-61500, that allows session forgery, account takeover, and remote code execution …
Tech Bytes: Inside The Velocity Room – A New Community for AI Infrastructure Professionals (Sponsored)
Today on the Tech Bytes podcast, you’re invited to The Velocity Room. The Velocity Room is a community for IT professionals with a focus on AI infrastructure and security. On today…
NB594: Visa Offers AI Security Software Free of Charge; Meta’s 1Pb Subsea Cable Puts Petal to the Metal
Take a Network Break! We discuss listener follow-up on orbital data centers, and hit the Red Alert for a string of Citrix NetScaler vulnerabilities. Visa releases its homegrown age…
Cohere offers to put agents in lockdown mode with strict ACLs
Like OpenClaw but with access control
Micro data center company launches stackable data center for edge and AI
Australian micro data center specialist Zella DC has introduced a modular data center platform designed to bring more computing capacity into locations where conventional racks and…
AWS seeks to automate cloud optimization with new AI agent
AWS is applying AI to the challenge of evaluating and improving cloud environments with a public preview of a new agentic service aimed at automating the discovery and optimization…
FBI confirms 'multiple' arrests related to ShinyHunters hack
Another few bite the dust
IBM expands mainframe networking options as AI reshapes enterprise infrastructure
IBM’s mainframe has come a long way from the time when it operated as a specialized networking island. Today, IBM Z is designed to be a high-performance participant in the wider en…
Windows 11 26H2 blighted by new audio issue
AC-3 decoder drama also hits Windows 11 25H2 and 24H2
IQVIA fined $7.8 million for failing to properly anonymize health data
Italy's Data Protection Authority (GPDP) has fined IQVIA €7 million ($7.8M) over poor data-processing practices that the agency says could have put roughly one million patients at …
Altman-backed Volantis reveals plan to vault the memory wall by baking photonics into AI accelerators
Who said you had to use wires to connect memory to compute?
Microsoft Exchange Flaw Lets Authenticated Attackers Read Other Users' Mailboxes
Microsoft has released out-of-band security updates to address a high-severity flaw in Microsoft Exchange Server that could allow an attacker to escalate privileges under certain c…
New memory player CXMT begins mass production of DRAM platform
Chinese memory-chip manufacturer ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) has begun mass production of its fifth-generation DRAM technology platform, marking another step in the company…