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The entrance of major AI companies into healthcare is a meaningful and welcome development, accelerating the technical foundation available to the industry. Their models are increasingly capable of processing long clinical records, interpreting complex terminology, comparing documentation against evidence and generating coherent summaries from large volumes of information. For clinicians, operators, and administrative teams who…
Artificial intelligence has crossed a threshold in cybersecurity, and the numbers back it up. CrowdStrike’s 2026 Threat Hunting Report, released August 3, 2026, found that 88% of vulnerabilities with a public proof-of-concept exploit were weaponized within 48 hours during the first half of the year. Days after that, IBM’s 2026 Cost of a Data Breach…
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency added a vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on September 2, 2026, that looks different from the usual entries on that list. CVE-2026-59822 does not target a firewall, a VPN gateway, or a mail server. It targets LiteLLM, an open-source proxy that routes traffic between applications and large…
A Brazilian court has ordered Microsoft to restore a banned Xbox account and its entire digital game library, in a ruling that lands at the exact moment console makers are being forced to admit, in writing, that players never really own the games they buy. The case, decided July 11, 2026, is small in dollar…
Japan’s National Police Agency confirmed 123 ransomware cases in the first six months of 2026, the highest half-year total since the agency began compiling this data in 2020. The figure, released Thursday and first reported by The Japan Times, is up by seven cases from the same period a year earlier. It lands during a…
osquery turns every laptop, server, and container host into a queryable SQL database. Instead of grepping log files or SSHing into a box to check what processes are running, you write a SELECT statement. Meta built it internally, open-sourced it in 2014, and it now sits under the osquery Foundation inside the Linux Foundation, licensed…
AWS Security Hub turned into a genuinely different product this year. What used to be a finding aggregator that dumped GuardDuty, Inspector, Macie, and Config alerts into one dashboard is now billed as an “AI and multicloud security control plane,” according to reporting from SiliconANGLE in July 2026. The pricing model changed, the partner ecosystem…
The company will increase its US market presence and will expand its engineering and go-to-market teams. The post HelmGuard Raises $7.3 Million for Agentic GRC and Security appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Brett Leatherman said that industry has the wrong idea about what the FBI does with the data it collects during incidents, which is used to help victims and investigations alike. The post FBI cyber chief worries private sector not sharing enough cyber threat information appeared first on CyberScoop.
The remarks, to both CyberScoop and at the Billington CyberSecurity Summit, dovetail with the release of a new bureau cyber strategy. The post FBI officials say AI is bolstering adversaries, emphasizing need to focus on cyber basics, patching appeared first on CyberScoop.
