Optus chasing “near real-time” data as regulatory pressure looms
Key points Optus is using Confluent's Oracle CDC and LogMiner with Kafka to pull 400 data tables into its Databricks...
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Salesforce snaps up Braze
Salesforce is buying Braze in a deal valued at about $5.66 billion ($8 billion), bolstering its AI push with tools...
Build Your Payment Security Expertise with PCI SSC eLearning
Keeping pace with the evolving payment security landscape requires current knowledge and practical expertise—but finding time for training can be...
Nikkei data breach affected over 1.8 million records
Nikkei data breach affected over 1.8 million records Pierluigi Paganini October 20, 2026 Nikkei disclosed a data breach affecting over...
Google Cloud Outage in London Disrupts Revolut Banking Services
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AI didn’t create your IT data problem, it just exposed it
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Critical FortiSIEM Flaw Gets Public Exploit PoC for Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution
Ravie LakshmananOct 20, 2026Vulnerability / Enterprise Security Cybersecurity researchers have released a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for a recently patched critical...
Qilin and INC Ransomware Groups Exploit Palo Alto Networks Flaw to Bypass MFA
Ravie LakshmananOct 20, 2026Vulnerability / Network Security Palo Alto Networks has disclosed that it's continuing to observe exploitation of a...
Hackers Use Autonomous AI Agents to Breach Company Websites, Target Over 1,200 Sites
A Chinese-speaking criminal pointed autonomous AI agents at company websites and let them break in with almost no help, and...
Pegasus Spyware Infection Confirmed on Serbian University Rector’s iPhone Days Before Election
The iPhone of Vladan Đokić, rector of the University of Belgrade and a prominent supporter of Serbia's student protest movement,...
WhatsApp Hid Instructions in Help Pages Telling Its AI Chatbot Not to Recommend Privacy Regulators
WhatsApp's help pages carried hidden instructions for its support chatbot that told it not to recommend a data protection authority...
DHS Orders DeepSeek Removed from Federal IT Systems Over Security Risks
The US government is moving to remove DeepSeek from federal civilian IT systems, citing concerns that the Chinese AI company’s...
White House Begins 120-Day AI Safety Review Amid Growing Security Concerns
The White House is giving its new AI task force 120 days to examine the risks of increasingly powerful AI...
BRONZE SANDCASTLE deploys modified Meterpreter shells
Counter Threat Unit™ (CTU) and SophosLabs researchers investigated a cluster of incidents attributed to the BRONZE SANDCASTLE threat group. The...
AfD Email Breach Exposes 421,000 Messages in Anonymous Online Archive
AfD Email Breach Exposes 421,000 Messages in Anonymous Online Archive Pierluigi Paganini October 20, 2026 A data breach exposed AfD...