A Vast Trove of Exposed Social Security Numbers May Put Millions at Risk of Identity Theft

A database left accessible to anyone online contained billions of records, including sensitive personal data that criminals ...
Yahoo Finance

HITRUST 2025 H2 Threat Analysis Confirms HITRUST Assessments Continue to Mitigate Top Attack Techniques as Adversaries Accelerate Use of AI-Driven Tactics

FRISCO, Texas, Feb. 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- HITRUST, the leading provider of information security assurance for risk management and compliance, today released its 2025 H2 Cyber Threat Adaptive (CTA) ...
TechRepublic

Security Flaw in WordPress Plugin Puts 400,000 Websites at Risk

Security Flaw in WordPress Plugin Puts 400,000 Websites at Risk Your email has been sent A vulnerability in a widely used WordPress accessibility plugin could allow ...

Microsoft Confirms SQL Zero-Day Security Vulnerability—Here’s The Fix

Microsoft has confirmed that a hacker who successfully exploits a zero-day SQL vulnerability could gain system administrator privileges. Here’s how to fix it.

The New Turing Test: How Threats Use Geometry to Prove 'Humanness'

Malware is evolving to evade sandboxes by pretending to be a real human behind the keyboard. The Picus Red Report 2026 shows 80% of top attacker techniques now focus on evasion and persistence, ...
Reuters

Exclusive: White House uses USAID funds for budget director Vought's security, documents show

WASHINGTON, Feb 13 (Reuters) - The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, President Donald ...
Wall Street Journal

Pentagon Used Anthropic’s Claude in Maduro Venezuela Raid

Anthropic’s artificial-intelligence tool Claude was used in the U.S. military’s operation to capture former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, highlighting how AI models are gaining traction in the ...
Forbes

What Are The Most Common Cyber Security Threats?

With nearly two decades of retail management and project management experience, Brett Day can simplify complex traditional and Agile project management philosophies and methodologies and can explain ...
Jacobin on MSN

Big Tech Oversees Itself at Homeland Security

The official charged with overseeing the Department of Homeland Security’s artificial intelligence operations and massive surveillance dragnet came to the job from Anduril Industries, a powerful ...