Belgian cybersecurity company Aikido Security NV today announced that it has acquired Root.io Inc., a company that offers patching for vulnerable open-source software at the exact versions organizations are already running. Founded in 2020 as Slim.AI Inc., the startup...

Apple enterprise management firm Jamf Holding Corp. today launched Beacon by Jamf Threat Labs, a premium threat hunting service that puts the company’s research and detection engineers directly inside customer environments to hunt for attacks targeting Apple’s macOS....

Agentic ecosystem security startup Vorlon Inc. today launched Guardian, a real-time enforcement gateway that aims to block risky actions by artificial intelligence agents before a transaction completes rather than flagging them after the fact. The product targets a...

Protective DNS and content filtering company DNSFilter Inc. today launched an expanded partner program for managed service providers, restructuring its channel into three tiers as new company research found most MSPs are struggling to keep pace with the security their...

Agentic security company Straiker Inc. today revealed that it has raised $64 million in new funding to expand a platform built that secures the artificial intelligence agents now spreading across enterprise systems. The Mountain View, California-based company sells...

Within hours of the first U.S.-Israel strikes against Iran in February 2026, hacktivists went to work launching massive distributed denial-of-service attacks. Both pro- and anti-Iranian groups targeted oil and gas providers, telecommunications companies, military and...

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd. is joining an initiative that IBM Corp. and its Red Hat unit launched in May to fix open-source software vulnerabilities. The companies announced the move today. U.K.-based Deloitte launched in the middle of the 18th century as an...

AI tokenization has become essential for enterprises seeking to balance data security with innovation, enabling sensitive data to be used safely in AI workloads without compromising utility or compliance. That requirement is reshaping how data security leaders think...

Threat hunting startup Nebulock Inc. revealed today that it has raised $25 million in new funding to push its autonomous hunting platform into broader “hunt-first” security analytics. Founded in 2023, Nebulock offers autonomous, vendor-agnostic threat hunts driven by...

A major overhaul of the Model Context Protocol due next month removes several longstanding protocol-level security risks but hands developers a fresh set of attack surfaces to defend, according to research published today by Akamai Technologies Inc. The analysis...

Reform of the Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025 aims to cut a year off the approval process for Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs) in England and Wales – a category that now includes datacenters. The Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local...

Several versions of firmware released by Chinese network device manufacturer Tenda have been found to embed an undocumented authentication backdoor that enables administrative access to the devices' web management interfaces, the CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC)...

The NTSC television standard is a masterpiece of mid-century engineering, to pack a color image into the transmission bandwidth of a monochrome one, and to do so while maintaining backward compatibility with earlier monochrome TV sets. In terms of its timings and...

When the Flemish Government set out to renovate its Brussels headquarters, it had two strategic aims. The first was to create a workplace that encouraged hybrid workers to come to the office more regularly, by fashioning a space that fostered connection, teamwork,...

Broadcom has signed a deal to provide Apple with custom chips until 2031. The chips and code shop has supplied Apple with silicon since the late 2000s when its wireless products found a home in early iPhone models. Broadcom’s silicon has found its way into iThings...

Samsung has delivered guidance for its second quarter results and forecast profits 19 times higher than it managed in the same period of 2025. In Q2 last year, the Korean giant’s sales totalled ₩75.7 trillion ($49.7 billion) and operating profit landed at ₩4.68...

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Starting this September, Target will start tracking store and warehouse employees’ unexcused absences and lateness with a points system, according to a report by Business Insider. Employees will receive a quarter of a point for being more than eight minutes late to...

BeyondTrust has released updates to address two critical security flaws affecting Remote Support (RS) and Privileged Remote Access (PRA) products that, if successfully exploited, could allow unauthenticated attackers to take control of susceptible devices. The...

IBM has posted an announcement that teases the introduction of rack-mounted and single-frame versions of its z17 mainframes. Big Blue’s documentation for the z17 mentions only a model called the ME1 that scales from single-rack to four-rack systems. The Tuesday...

Spud guns are a staple of summertime fun for the maker set, especially on the Eagleland side of the pond, combining as they do two of our favourite things: firearms and calories. Nine out of ten Canadians agree that there’s nothing quite like a high-speed poutine– but...

In its short life, Anthropic has captured hearts, minds, and wallets – and spooked the US government – but it hasn’t actually turned a profit. That’s not stopping CEO Dario Amodei from signing a two-decade lease with crypto-mining outfit turned AI datacenter operator...

The Intel 80386 is a rather fascinating slice of computer history. It marked the first 32 bit X86 processor, and was a staple of early desktop computing. Like all chips, it has a number of quirks, one of which being the fact that all commands are executed in...

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A new report suggests Netflix viewers aren’t sticking around for Season 2. The bigger issue may be that binge-watching itself is no longer the advantage it once was.

An AI agent carried out the technical execution of a real-world ransomware attack for the first known time, but new details show a human still chose the victim, set up the infrastructure, and supplied stolen credentials — meaning it wasn't quite the fully autonomous...