The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), on August 5, 2026, added three flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation in the wild. The list of vulnerabilities is as follows - CVE-2026-9198...

Walmart’s Greg Cathey shares that direct feedback isn’t about being harsh—it’s a leadership muscle that improves with practice.

For the past three years [Christopher Mitchell] has been working on his replica of a British Rail Class 800 control cab for a physical train simulator, with the July blog update providing many details on the progress. The Class 800 series of trains is relatively new,...

The Open Secure AI Alliance today proposed a set of guidelines for reporting cybersecurity incidents involving artificial intelligence agents, one week after the group was formed. The proposal is called Shared AI Findings Exchange, or SAFE, and was published as a...

Obsidian Security Inc. has raised an $85 million Series D funding round at a post-money valuation of $1.1 billion as enterprises increasingly look to secure autonomous artificial intelligence agents accessing cloud applications, Chief Executive Hasan Imam said today...

Runtime security startup Oligo Security Ltd. said today that it had raised $60 million in new funding to accelerate product innovation and expand global go-to-market operations. Oligo’s software sits alongside applications in production. A sensor built on eBPF, the...

Rubrik Inc. today unveiled Rubrik Agent Identity, a service that governs what artificial intelligence agents are allowed to do by granting access one tool call at a time. The company announced the service at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas. The service is an...

ServiceNow Inc. today unveiled six security products and a group of artificial intelligence agents it says can carry vulnerability and incident work through to closure without an analyst driving each step. The launch is ServiceNow’s biggest security push since it...

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,...