French aerospace, defense and cybersecurity technology giant Thales SE has announced the availability of Luna 8, a new, first-of-its-kind hardware security module that can help enterprises protect their most sensitive data and cryptographic keys from hackers armed...

Exposure management startup ArmorCode Inc. today used Black Hat USA 2026 in Las Vegas to detail an expansion of its agentic artificial intelligence platform, adding four planned agents and three new sources of context aimed at narrowing what security teams remediate...

Autonomous security solutions startup Horizon3.ai Inc. today announced it has raised $250 million in a Series E round on a valuation of more than $2 billion to build out its sales operation and expand into Australia and Singapore. Horizon3.ai closed its Series D in...

Offensive security startup Terra Security Inc. today launched Prevention, a feature that writes the firewall rules needed to block an attack its artificial intelligence agents have already proven works. Prevention is available now. Terra built it for the gap between a...

Networking and security company Cato Networks Ltd. today introduced Cato Agentic Threat Prevention, a capability that uses autonomous agents to predict the route an attacker is likely to take through a customer’s network. Protections for that specific environment are...

Artificial intelligence has become a target for attackers rather than only a tool they use, according to CrowdStrike Holdings Inc.’s “2026 Threat Hunting Report,” released today. The annual report draws on observations from CrowdStrike’s OverWatch threat hunting team...

Okta Inc. said today it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Permiso Security Inc., a startup whose software hunts for attackers abusing identities across cloud accounts, software-as-a-service applications and, more recently, artificial intelligence agents. No...

Artificial intelligence has propelled the cybersecurity world into a new phase, driven by startlingly advanced autonomous attacks and an urgent need to adopt technology to defend against them. This week’s launch of the Open Secure AI Alliance provided further evidence...

Shares of Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. closed 8.2% lower today after it posted mixed second quarter earnings. The cybersecurity provider generated $260 million in adjusted operating income during the three months ended June 30. That translated into adjusted...

Cloud security startup Upwind Security Inc. today unveiled AI Agent Context Scanner, which inspects the instructions, tools and connections feeding artificial intelligence agents before those agents act on them. The company also moved its AI Detection & Response...

Agentic security startup Cantina formally launched today and said it has raised $8 million in funding to automate the security work that happens after a vulnerability is found. The company was started by security researchers and engineers who spent years finding flaws...

Boeing on Tuesday celebrated the certification of its latest passenger plane, the 737-7 MAX, 15 years after it announced the type and seven years after the first model rolled off the production line. The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) certified the plane on...

This is why cloud-inspired networks win: virtual switches are all consistent Since opening up our draft of the 7th edition of Computer Networks: A Systems Approach for comments, we have not yet been inundated with feedback, but we did get a very helpful comment about...

Georgia has been confirmed as one of the attacked states after Clayton County reported a pump station disruption. The post Water Sector Cyberattacks Reportedly Hit at Least 12 States appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Wispr Flow's new terms of service indicate it will introduce a notetaker that generates meeting summaries and action items.

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Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed what has been described as a "long-standing supply chain attack" on QuickFox, a virtual private network (VPN) and network acceleration tool designed for overseas Chinese users. According to Fortinet FortiGuard Labs, the supply...

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Who says an old dog can’t do new tricks? The Atari ST has got to qualify as an “old dog” 41 years after launch, and if playing Full Motion Video (FMV) cutscenes– from DOS games of a decade later– doesn’t count as a new trick, we’re not sure what does. In this case,...

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For decades, Wieden+Kennedy has defined the brands that shape culture. Now, as economic uncertainty, AI, and shifting consumer expectations rewrite the rules of business, CEO Neal Arthur breaks down why understanding your audience is no longer just the marketing...

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AMD has posted strong second quarter results and forecast even better future financials once its Helios rack systems and Instinct MI400-series GPUs reach buyers. “In data center AI, the growing number and scale of Helios and MI450-series deployments position the...

Styrofoam – or closed-cell extruded polystyrene (XPS) foam if you want to be precise – is one of those materials that is both super versatile for packaging and insulation, but also a menace when it comes to disposal, even if you ignore that the monomer styrene (C8H8)...

The UK’s AI Security Institute has observed AI models performing what it calls “unsanctioned action” 19 times during security tests. The Institute (AISI) revealed the incidents in a Tuesday post and technical report that details tests it conducted to see if AI models...

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