'Uber rapture' leaves passengers and drivers behind in Nigeria and Uganda
No time for a fare-thee-well as app hails a ride out of two more markets
Security & Lifecycle News
Aggregated from vendor advisories, security research, and industry publications.
Microsoft says KB5120998 Windows update resets desktop settings
Microsoft has confirmed that desktop settings are lost or reset on some Windows devices after installing the KB5120998 August 2026 preview update. [...]
AI Agent Firewall Startup AIR Security Emerges From Stealth With $50 Million
The startup’s firewall evaluates AI skills, plugins and MCP servers for malicious instructions, excessive permissions and software supply chain risks. The post AI Agent Firewall St…
'Breeze Comet' Tears Into Brazilian & Global Financial Systems
Brazil's most sophisticated threat group is making light work of the country's financial systems, putting money directly into its own pocket.
US Becomes Top Target in RMM Phishing Campaign Spanning 46 Countries
An RMM phishing campaign initially associated with Canadian targeting due to its use of Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) tax forms as lures has turned out to be part of a broader campai…
Researching Employment Scams
Researchers built a fake company to study fake employee scams.
Windows 11 update sends some desktops into an unwanted goth phase
Hello darkness, my old friend... I've trusted Redmond once again
Plex warns users to patch security vulnerabilities immediately
Plex urged users this week to update their desktop clients and media servers immediately to patch multiple security vulnerabilities. [...]
153 Million Driver License Images Offered on Dark Web
Cybercriminals are offering digital scans of US and Canadian driver’s licenses, likely stolen from IDScan.net. The post 153 Million Driver License Images Offered on Dark Web appear…
Which came first, Windows 95's taskbar or NeXT's Dock? Neither
Reg hack accidentally rattles Microsoft folks' cages… again
Attackers Turn Trusted Node.js Runtime Into Malware Delivery Tool in Targeted Attacks
Threat actors are leveraging the trusted Node.js JavaScript runtime in multiple cyber attacks as a way to deploy malicious payloads. According to a new report published by the Sym…
Over 3 Million WordPress Sites Affected by Migration Plugin Vulnerability
The high-severity SQL injection flaw (CVE-2026-19949) could allow unauthenticated attackers to achieve remote code execution. The post Over 3 Million WordPress Sites Affected by Mi…
Shai-Hulud's Reach Just Grew to 469 Credential Locations. Here's What That Means
In early August, GitGuardian researchers found that a recent Shai-Hulud infostealer worm variant had evolved to scan for credentials across 469 locations across developer environme…
Cisco Warns of Unpatched Secure Email Flaws, Patches Critical Switch Vulnerabilities
Publicly disclosed S/MIME flaws could expose encrypted email content, while critical IOS XR and Nexus bugs could enable remote code execution and authentication bypass. The post Ci…
Spurs boots VMware, cites 85% licensing saving
Part of wider infrastructure replacement upgrade project with HPE
UK's Online Safety Act has made 'absolutely no difference,' kids say
Children's Commissioner also furious with Ofcom over a string of failures
Microsoft Teams, Outlook fail to launch on ARM-based Windows PCs
Microsoft is working to fix a known issue that causes crashes and launch failures for Microsoft Teams and New Outlook users after installing updates released since the August 2026 …
Pegasus Zero-Click Spyware Exploit Infects Serbian Student Movement Member's iPhone
The iPhone belonging to a member of Serbia's student protest movement was infected with NSO Group's Pegasus spyware, according to new findings from the Citizen Lab in collaboration…
British wind power to drive Maersk container ship
Rotor sails claimed to deliver fuel and emissions savings of 21%
Your VMware renewal invoice ate your AI budget – what now?
SPONSORED POST: A free event with Nutanix on Oct 7 can win some of it back
Terminated employee cost company hundreds of thousands of dollars because nobody revoked access
They had more access than the average Joe, and IT didn't track what needed to be cut off
To keep the AI hacking genie bottled up, try one-way networks
Sandboxes, permissions, and VMs aren't enough to keep frontier models at bay. "Data diodes" might do the job
Researcher Releases FalconFlank PoC Showing Privilege Escalation in CrowdStrike Falcon
The security researcher known as Chaotic Eclipse (aka INFINITE NIGHTMARE, MSNightmare, and Nightmare-Eclipse) has dropped a new zero-day dubbed FalconFlank, a proof-of-concept (PoC…
CISA Adds Seven Exploited Flaws as Attackers Deploy Reverse Shells and Crypto Miners
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added seven security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog after they landed in a…
Dell’s $95B AI backlog shows the infrastructure crunch is far from over
Dell Technologies is acknowledging that infrastructure and storage supply still can’t keep up with agentic AI’s insatiable appetite for resources. The company this week reported…
SonicWall reports two major security holes under active exploit
SonicWall on Monday reported two major security holes in its Secure Mobile Access 1000 series appliances, both of which it said are being actively exploited, and published patches …
Zuck's Muse to Spark joy with open weights release 'soon'
While you wait, Meta says it’s taught the model to stop wasting tokens and ask for help a bit more often
VMware swings its focus back to low-end server virt, promises vSphere Standard upgrade
Found the time to focus and ‘corrected’ incentives that saw sales drive users to full private clouds
Arista warns customers ahead of next week’s security disclosures
Arista Networks has taken the unusual step of warning customers that next week, it will release multiple security advisories affecting Arista EOS and VeloCloud. AI-driven changes t…
Claude Mythos only model to complete full cyber kill chain, experts say
Cyber Weapon Index finds AI attacks 'imminent'