Articles for the IT Professional. Today's edition includes 128 articles from 35 sites. We chose these from 9022 articles found on 133 sites.
A high-severity Roundcube Webmail vulnerability patched in May is now being actively exploited in attacks, according to the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security. [...]
FedRAMP's new VDR and VER requirements make vulnerability management more continuous, with faster scanning, tighter remediation deadlines, and stronger evidence requirements. Anecdotes explains why th...
My conversation with Dan Gookin, the original For Dummies author and now mayor of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, started as a publishing reunion. It ended with a much larger question: What happens when the sof...
We all know by now that Copilot can help you write and rewrite text in Word, often with mediocre results. But there’s more to Microsoft’s generative AI tool than just slopping out words. In fact, Co...
For the German vendor, greater challenges may lie ahead, as rivals seek to control the user experience
Unsurprisingly, Apple is working on an iOS 27 update that will fix an issue affecting some iPhone 18 Pro users where Face ID is failing and forcing a restart.A Face ID bug is causing restarts for a sm...
Apple is testing iOS 27.0.1 for iPhone, according to web traffic analytics for 9to5Mac. The update will likely focus on bug fixes and performance improvements. more…
It's not affecting many people at all, but if your iPhone 18 Pro or iPhone 18 Pro Max is not working on AT&T, this is what you need to do.AT&T has reportedly acknowledged problems with the eSIMs for t...
Welcome back. In Part 1 we learned what an MCP server is and built a real one — a VM inventory tool that reads your Azure estate with Azure Resource Graph and reports it by region and availability zon...
Outlook PST files still cause plenty of headaches for admins and end users alike. Large files, sudden corruption after a crash, network sharing issues, or just the usual “Outlook can’t open this file”...
After burning $80 billion on the failed metaverse pivot — and billions more on desperate “me too” offerings in the AI space — Meta is looking to leverage its massive ad dominance to colonize the agent...
I’ve seen two total solar eclipses and have been duly impressed by what happens as the moon casts its shadow on Earth. But recently I’ve become even more intrigued by a similar phenomenon that doesn’t...
A decade ago, UiPath built its business on watching people work, recording keystrokes and clicks to automate tasks employees already did by hand. This week, amid an industry consumed by autonomous age...
Private GitLab email addresses that allow developers to push issues or tasks to a project are being deliberately exposed in READMEs, contributing guides, and support pages used to collect bug reports....
Inside M365 Twin Cities 2026: A Day of Microsoft 365, AI, and Community M365 Twin Cities 2026 connected Microsoft experts, MVPs, partners, and community members for a practical day of learning at Henn...
Organizations relying on on-premises SharePoint still face the risk that seemingly minor platform weaknesses can combine into far more dangerous attack chains. New research into CVE-2026-65660 details...
I’ve been helping organizations harden Microsoft Entra ID for the last 5 years and given multiple talks on finding holes in Conditional Access. This month, I did some research into Device Platforms, t...
Europe's largest local authority still cannot get auditors to vouch for its books as historic data problems linger
This installment of the Reporters' Notebook video series discusses the impact of AI agents breaching Hugging Face, Fairlife's ransomware attack, and Iranian-linked threat actors compromising a dozen U...
Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber and Wiz's Red Agent team up to protect hospitals, public transit, and tech
Jamf was a pioneer in Apple device management when it began in 2002. The company was ahead of its time: its founders could see that Apple had a future in the enterprise, but not many others saw it. Ja...
Microsoft 365 E5 and E7 customers can now run security information and event management (SIEM) inside Microsoft Defender at no extra license cost. Microsoft is delivering the capability through the ...
An OpenAI agent bypassed security blocks on an Australian government health portal during a routine test. The goal-seeking AI agents pose a whole new challenge. Imagine giving a research task to a new...
Welcome to AI Decoded, Fast Company‘s weekly newsletter that breaks down the most important news in the world of AI. I’m Mark Sullivan, a senior writer at Fast Company, covering emerging tech, AI, and...
Storm-2570 is a ransomware affiliate that uses consistent post-compromise tools and techniques across deployments involving Qilin, DragonForce, Anubis, and BERT ransomware, and provides guidance to he...
This month's updates help you discover and control local AI agents, extend Zero Trust to agent traffic, and strengthen SOC foundations. The post What’s new in Microsoft Security: September 202...
I was profoundly struck by the Wall Street Journal’s reporting from Amrith Ramkumar, Angel Au-Yeung and Lindsay Ellis on the week AI anxiety went mainstream. Without downplaying legitimate concerns ab...
A desktop pitch and an attempt to curb LLM slop descended into very human mayhem
New reports this week from The New York Times and NBC's TODAY show detail how residents in Richardson, Texas, — a Dallas suburb near a major Amazon fulfillment facility — are bearing the brunt of Prim...
Contact details and order records accessed, but PC maker is keeping schtum on how many customers are affected
The Issue Anthropics's Claude Code 2.1.277 introduced support for AGENTS.md, a feature designed to allow developers to specify project-level instructions without needing a separate CLAUDE.md file. How...
Organizations adopting cloud PCs often face delays when employees need temporary or replacement devices. Traditional provisioning workflows typically require IT administrators to manually assign and c...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman looks on during a UN Security Council meeting on artificial intelligence during the 81st United Nations General Assembly on September 23, 2026. | Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Image...
AI-assisted bug hunting is helping pile up vulnerabilities faster than defenders can patch them, so Canonical is picking up the pace
3x the vapor-chamber surface area can only do so much; luckily the fridge helped with sustained performance
The nation’s cybersecurity agency on Thursday released an election infrastructure security plan 40 days before November’s midterms, laying out potential threats to election systems and listing service...
Security researchers report that Microsoft considers the side-channel leak of file events to be by design
Instinct saved me $550, booked my restaurant reservations, and warned me about a phishing scam. It also wasted $64 and might be a security nightmare.
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Apple has released one Update on Sept 23, 2026, watchOS 27.01, for Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4. This update has no published CVE entries. This update fixes a bug that caused Apple Wa...
'SalesBleed' security flaws 'lead to very unexpected consequences'
Agentic AI can smuggle arbitrary instructions from the Web, across multiple apps, into trusted internal communications channels.
WordPress has patched what it described as a critical severity security vulnerability that would allow an unauthenticated attacker full remote code execution (RCE) capabilities. There have already bee...
With Cloud Sandboxes, devs can keep agents at arm's length
Kompeld analyzes how companies describe themselves and scores their messaging. It looks at websites, sales materials and other company communications to identify what's clear, what's not, and where th...
The Chocolate Factory is tightening the screws on Android sideloading, but the FOSS app market is rolling out a huge overhaul and planning for the future
Windows 11 broke Remote Desktop, USB audio, File History, and more in September alone. We checked nine months of Windows 10 and Windows 11 updates side by side, and Windows 10's quieter update history...
Part of Project Suncatcher, the proof of concept aims to see how well lightly modified compute fares in orbit
Even as they continue to release ever more capable competing models in a regular cadence, the top AI companies are joining forces to set AI safety standards. According to The Information, Google, Op...
Operator’s AI bill averaged just $25 per completed scan
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Despite uncertainty about how human mimicry affects people, DeepMind fakes are here
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The velocity with which RFK Jr. continues to break the promises he made during his confirmation hearings is simply incredible. As we get further and further away from those hearings, which amazingly o...
Heata is turning data processing into hot water, using home-installed business servers to heat domestic water supplies.
Desktop AMIs ‘designed to behave as much like Windows as possible’ now available as an on ramp for new users
Tracked as CVE-2026-48842, the exploited bug is an SQL injection that can be exploited without authentication. The post Roundcube Webmail Vulnerability in Attackers’ Crosshairs appeared first on Secur...
Information published. This CVE was addressed by updates that were released in July 2026, but the CVE was inadvertently omitted from the July 2026 Security Updates. This is an informational change onl...
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Over the past three years, almost all of the discussion on the use of AI in media has been about efficiency: how much time AI can save you when it helps with story ideas, research, production, headlin...
Laya healthcare, part of AXA, today reveals that six in ten people (61%) in Ireland are now turning to AI platforms for mental health support, with a third saying that the advice has led to harmful be...
Microsoft has fixed a known issue that stopped the File History backup feature from working on some Windows PCs after the September 2026 security updates were i Thank you for being a Ghacks reader. Th...
Malicious compliance crosses cultural barriers
A massive coalition of tech leaders, privacy advocates, and top VPN providers warns that the proposed Lawful Access Act will destroy user privacy and force companies to leave the country.
Adoption of generative AI has introduced a new consumption model and businesses have to adapt.
Three vulnerabilities in Salesforce Agentforce allowed hackers to hijack trusted agents, steal data, and launch phishing attacks. The post ‘SalesBleed’ Flaws in Salesforce Agentforce Enabled Zero-Clic...
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Like airport security, e-invoicing now gates every transaction, a cleared invoice means nothing without security.
Salesforce Agentforce could be manipulated through public Web-to-Lead forms to steal CRM records and send phishing messages without an attacker logging in or a user clicking anything. Salesforce has f...
Four AI models broke containment this summer. Are they going rogue, or is our safety testing failing?
Gemini wants its business users to add avatars to customer experiences to make interactions feel more... human?
Joe Fay chairs a Register dinner on the file infrastructure nobody has got round to replacing, under the Chatham House Rule.
Email scams that look like an Evite or Paperless Post invitation are meant to snatch your data. For some, they've become an excuse to reconnect with old friends or flames.
A new report from the cybersecurity research organization Transluce shows that swarms of OpenAI agents tried to hack their way into several public data sources earlier this year. They probed a pharmac...
Microsoft’s new Copilot isn’t just a UI refresh — it represents a major shift in how the company wants AI to function across Windows. The assistant is being unified, simplified, and repositioned as th...
DriveWealth coughs up historic customer info after attackers socially engineer their way inside
Hackers are actively exploiting CVE-2026-87902, a critical WordPress flaw that can lead to remote code execution. Here’s what admins should do. The post WordPress Flaw Under Active Attack: Hackers Tar...
Organizations are increasingly moving beyond AI-powered chat tools to automate more complex business processes. However, as AI adoption scales, managing growing numbers of AI agents, maintaining overs...
Google Chrome 154 fixes 108 security vulnerabilities, including 11 Critical flaws. Here’s what users and IT teams should do now. The post Google Chrome 154 Fixes 108 Security Flaws: 11 Are Rated Criti...
Force says public data appears untouched, but investigators looking into whether crims grabbed employee information
Start talking, copper... MobLand season 2 episode 2 has managed to escalate the drama once again — and this time, it's left a Harrigan for dead.
HCS, the Irish IT managed services and digital transformation company, has announced a €1.45m investment as it launches its 24/7 managed support capability for Irish and international customers. The s...
Putting the 'om' in computing
High-value goods remain tied up as merchants debate attack or platform glitch
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warns that hackers are exploiting a critical authentication bypass vulnerability (CVE-2026-5430) affecting multiple products from enterprise...
The OS makers don't see the issue as a particularly big problem, and Microsoft even said it was by design.
Microsoft is consolidating consumer Copilot, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Cowork, coding tools, and long-running agents in one redesigned Copilot super app. Its three-tab interface also brings full Word, Ex...
Microsoft has confirmed that recent Windows 11 updates can prevent the desktop from loading, particularly on Azure Virtual Desktop hosts using FSLogix. The issue expands the problems previously report...
A developer lost 48,000 files in 103 seconds when Claude Code mass-deleted their ongoing work.
According to Neil Costa, Founder and CEO of HireClix, the most important challenge facing recruitment may no longer be efficiency. It may be trust. I sat down recently with Neil and we discussed the f...
The prolific ShinyHunters group has announced it used a zero-day vulnerability in Oracle PeopleSoft to exploit the FBI jobs website and gain access to the AWS GovCloud instances and dump …read more
A cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Elementor plugin for WordPress could allow an unauthenticated attacker to create administrator accounts. [...]
Niantic Spatial hired Microsoft AI product leader Dave Citron as chief product officer, the late Paul Allen's Fund for Science and Technology named Brown University's Jane Dietze its first chief inves...
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A loader talks to iCloud before deploying a sophisticated infostealer and stealing all your cryptos.
Fight for the Future is holding its second Defend VPNs Day of Action on September 25, urging lawmakers worldwide to protect VPNs from bans and restrictions.
Justice Department claims the EU overreached by pursuing X's owner and wider corporate empire
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Amnezia VPN has released a new version that further boosts all apps' stability for both Self-hosted and Premium users. Here's all you need to know.
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Microsoft details JADEPUFFER-linked Azure reconnaissance, resource deletion, and credential access using compromised service principals, identifying the activity as associated with Storm-3168 and prov...
Hello again, and welcome once again to Fast Company’s Plugged In. “What we are building is your second brain, your aide, your consigliere, your reliable chief of staff in your pocket.” That was Mi...
I once had a friend who gave $1,000 to an online fraudster who claimed to be a tax assessor. My own father (bless his soul) once managed to hand over several hundred pounds to a lawyer from Africa pro...
We all know that VBScript has been deprecated and will be removed in future Windows releases. The PowerShell OSLicense module helps you activate licenses, query them, and more. In this blog post, I wi...
A recent optional Microsoft 365 Apps update may be stripping activation from Office 2016 and Office 2019 installations, forcing users to re-enter product keys. The suspected KB5002907 issue can affect...
Microsoft Access Version 2609 (Build 16.0.20430.20092) is now available in the Current Channel with a broad set of fixes for Zoom, forms, queries, and VBA. The update targets visual glitches in zoomed...
Joe Fay chairs a Register dinner in New York on the file infrastructure nobody has got around to replacing, with nothing on the record.
But was the update at fault? Microsoft isn't saying
Microsoft’s Copilot “super app” has arrived, two months after CEO Satya Nadella confirmed it was in development. It combines conversational Chat, the autonomous Cowork agent, a redesigned coding envir...
Apple Watch offers lots of custom faces to personalize your Watch, and the popular Modular face gets even more versatile in watchOS 27. more…
It’s cheap to set yourself up as a hacker these days using AI. Someone attacked 105 online retailers over a period of five days, compromising 27 of them — all for an average of $25 per attack, accordi...
In this video conversation, Dark Reading editors discuss some of the news they didn't get a chance to cover, from Google Gemini models breaking containment to ShinyHunters ratting on TeamPCP hackers.