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• May 06, 2026 06 May'26

  ServiceNow Knowledge 2026: McDermott proclaims fully automated cyber defence

  Chief executive’s conference keynote launches agentic artificial intelligence cyber security features for enterprise software player’s centralised platform

• May 05, 2026 05 May'26

  CSA: Take AI cyber threats to the boardroom

  Current cyber risk assumptions may no longer be valid given the speed of advanced AI, warns the chief executive of Singapore’s Cyber Security Agency

• May 04, 2026 04 May'26

  UK’s NCSC warns of ‘wave of patches’

  Vulnerability discovery and mitigation continues to exercise the top minds at Britain’s NCSC as cyber experts continue to debate the impact of frontier AI models such as Mythos

• April 24, 2026 24 Apr'26

  Wiz founder: Hack yourself with AI, before the bad guys do

  At Google Cloud Next, Wiz co-founder Yinon Costica called on security defenders to use AI to steal a march on threat actors, and launched agentic capabilities for cyber teams

• April 22, 2026 22 Apr'26

  Google launches Gemini Agent Platform, eighth-generation TPUs

  With more AI agents moving to production, Google Cloud is targeting governance, multi-cloud data architecture and purpose-built silicon to help enterprises orchestrate agentic workflows

• April 22, 2026 22 Apr'26

  A tsunami of flaws: When frontier AI and Patch Tuesday collide

  Microsoft’s April Patch Tuesday drop was the second-largest in history, falling just shy of an October 2025 record. What is behind the spike in vulnerability disclosures, and is there a connection to Anthropic’s bug-hunting Claude Mythos AI model?

• April 17, 2026 17 Apr'26

  Surging CVE disclosures force NIST to shake up workflows

  NIST announces big changes to the way it categorises and manages CVEs, which are set to have a big impact on how organisations manage patching and remediation

• April 17, 2026 17 Apr'26

  Bank cyber teams on red alert as Anthropic promises them Mythos next week

  Artificial intelligence supplier promises UK banks opportunity to review AI model, which has already revealed thousands of security flaws

• April 15, 2026 15 Apr'26

  UK businesses must face up to AI threat, says government

  Technology secretary Liz Kendall urges Britain’s business community to sit up and pay attention to emerging AI threats, following the debut of Anthropic’s new frontier model, Mythos

• April 14, 2026 14 Apr'26

  April Patch Tuesday brings zero-days in Defender, SharePoint Server

  Microsoft’s latest Patch Tuesday update may be one of the largest in history, with more than 160 issues in scope

• March 27, 2026 27 Mar'26

  Lloyds admits coding fault exposed customer transactions

  The bank has responded to the Treasury Committee’s request for information on a major data breach in its banking app

• March 25, 2026 25 Mar'26

  Emergency Microsoft, Oracle patches point to wider cyber issues

  Emergency out-of-band patches from Microsoft and Oracle signal underlying security issues around update cycles and patching, and identity security and zero-trust, says the community

• March 25, 2026 25 Mar'26

  Why AI agents are one prompt away from ransomware

  As AI adoption advances beyond chatbots, security leaders are up against rogue AI agents mirroring threat actors and a generational skills gap as security operations teams become overly dependent on AI

• March 24, 2026 24 Mar'26

  Cyber pros must grasp the vibe coding nettle, says NCSC chief

  At RSA in San Francisco, NCSC chief exec Richard Horne says security professionals have an opportunity and a responsibility to get in front of the security issues raised by the popularity of ‘vibe coding’

• March 19, 2026 19 Mar'26

  AI makes debut in Bridewell cyber security in CNI report

  Regulation has superseded cyber threats as the main driver of cyber security spending, and AI has made its debut for attack and defence, according to a CNI-focused report from Bridewell

• March 19, 2026 19 Mar'26

  Gartner: Ditch ‘big transformation’ cyber strategies for continuous improvement

  As artificial intelligence reshapes the enterprise, CISOs must abandon risky big bang security transformation initiatives in favour of incremental changes to build cyber resilience

• March 16, 2026 16 Mar'26

  Companies House restarts online services following cyber breach

  Companies House was forced to pull its WebFiling service offline at the weekend after it emerged that a flawed update was putting data at risk of exposure

• March 10, 2026 10 Mar'26

  Microsoft patches zero-days in .NET and SQL Server

  Zero-days in .NET and SQL Server, and a handful of critical RCE bugs, form the nucleus of Microsoft’s March Patch Tuesday update

• March 10, 2026 10 Mar'26

  WA auditor general flags weak Microsoft 365 security controls across state entities

  Western Australia’s Office of the Auditor General has uncovered weaknesses in M365 configurations across seven government agencies, leading to compromised accounts and data breaches

• March 09, 2026 09 Mar'26

  APT36 unleashes AI-generated ‘vibeware’ to flood targets

  The Pakistani threat group has been using AI to rewrite malicious code across multiple programming languages, prioritising scale over sophistication to evade detection, security researchers have found

• March 05, 2026 05 Mar'26

  Spyware suppliers exploit more zero-days than nation states

  Exploitation of zero-days by commercial surveillance and spyware developers outpaced exploitation by nation-state actors last year, according to a report

• March 04, 2026 04 Mar'26

  Zero-day in Android phone chips under active attack

  Google and Qualcomm have tag-teamed a serious vulnerability in the chipsets used in Android mobile devices, which has been exploited in the wild as a zero-day

• February 26, 2026 26 Feb'26

  CrowdStrike touts agentic SOC to tackle security woes

  By embedding AI agents across its platform, CrowdStrike is looking to help security teams automate repetitive security tasks, enabling them to focus on complex and stealthier threats that could slip under the radar

• February 25, 2026 25 Feb'26

  Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN users targeted in series of cyber attacks

  The NCSC, Cisa, and other Five Eyes agencies have warned of mass exploitation of vulnerabilities in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN, which Cisco is attributing to an unknown threat actor called UAT-8616

• February 25, 2026 25 Feb'26

  Application exploitation back in vogue, says IBM cyber unit

  IBM’s X-Force unit observes an uptick in the exploitation of vulnerable public-facing software applications

• February 25, 2026 25 Feb'26

  How AI code generation is pushing DevSecOps to machine speed

  Organisations should adopt shared platforms and automated governance to keep pace with the growing use of generative AI tools that are helping developers produce code at unprecedented volumes

• February 23, 2026 23 Feb'26

  Why crypto agility is key to quantum readiness

  With quantum computing threatening current encryption standards, experts call for organisations to achieve crypto agility by managing the lifecycle of certificates and cryptographic keys through automation

• February 19, 2026 19 Feb'26

  PromptSpy Android malware may exploit Gemini AI

  A newly uncovered malware targeting the Android operating system seems to exploit Google’s Gemini GenAI tool to help it maintain persistence

• February 18, 2026 18 Feb'26

  Flaws in Google and Microsoft products added to Cisa catalogue

  Cisa has added six CVEs to its Kev catalogue this week, including newly disclosed issues in Google Chromium and Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines, and some older flaws as well

• February 17, 2026 17 Feb'26

  Government wages cyber campaign as half the UK’s SMEs are breached

  UK government says half of all small businesses have been cyber breached in the recent past as it urges them to ‘lock the door’

• February 11, 2026 11 Feb'26

  CVE volumes may plausibly reach 100,000 this year

  The number of vulnerabilities to be disclosed in 2026 is almost certain to exceed last year's total, and may be heading towards 100,000, according to analysis

• February 10, 2026 10 Feb'26

  Arctic Wolf targets mid-market security gap in APAC

  Following the launch of its full portfolio in Malaysia, the SOC provider discusses the security challenges facing lean IT teams, the value of supplier neutrality, and its roadmap for AI and ransomware protection

• February 10, 2026 10 Feb'26

  February Patch Tuesday: Microsoft drops six zero-days

  Microsoft releases patches for six zero-day flaws in its latest monthly update, many of them related to security feature bypass issues

• February 10, 2026 10 Feb'26

  Researchers delve inside new SolarWinds RCE attack chain

  Researchers at Huntress and Microsoft have shared findings from their analysis of a new SolarWinds Web Help Desk vulnerability

• February 04, 2026 04 Feb'26

  SolarWinds RCE bug makes Cisa list as exploitation spreads

  Exploitation of CVE-2025-40551, an RCE flaw affecting SolarWinds Web Help Desk, appears to be spreading, with defenders on high alert

• February 03, 2026 03 Feb'26

  Infosecurity Europe launches cyber security startups stream

  Infosecurity Europe 2026 will feature a cyber security startup exhibition zone and a competition for business support, in conjunction with the UK Cyber Flywheel organisation

• February 02, 2026 02 Feb'26

  Canva uses 1Password to secure ID during growth phase

  As it underwent a growth spurt in the early 2020s, graphic design platform Canva turned to 1Password to manage identity across its expanding organisation

• February 02, 2026 02 Feb'26

  Interview: Why identity is the nucleus for cyber security

  Amid a wave of market consolidation, Computer Weekly speaks to Keeper Security’s leadership on how identity and access management systems are becoming unified identity platforms capable of securing both human and machine identities

• January 15, 2026 15 Jan'26

  Cyber body ISC2 signs on as UK software security ambassador

  Professional cyber association ISC2 pledges support to UK government’s Software Security Ambassador scheme, part of the recently unveiled Cyber Action Plan

• January 14, 2026 14 Jan'26

  Texas judge throws out second lawsuit over CrowdStrike outage

  A US judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by CrowdStrike shareholders over the July 2024 outage that caused widespread disruption around the world

• January 14, 2026 14 Jan'26

  Nozomi Networks opens APAC headquarters in Singapore

  Industrial cyber security firm Nozomi Networks has opened its Singapore headquarters, doubling its regional headcount, and pledging to remain vendor agnostic while targeting the manufacturing and utility sectors

• January 13, 2026 13 Jan'26

  Microsoft patches 112 CVEs on first Patch Tuesday of 2026

  January brings a larger-than-of-late Patch Tuesday update out of Redmond, but an uptick in disclosures is often expected at this time of year

• January 12, 2026 12 Jan'26

  Business leaders see AI risks and fraud outpacing ransomware, says WEF

  C-suite executives are more concerned with risks arising from AI vulnerabilities and cyber fraud than ransomware, according to the World Economic Forum

• January 12, 2026 12 Jan'26

  Intersec Dubai highlights why AI has become critical in the race against cyber attackers

  Cigna Healthcare’s Jean Wiles warns that healthcare security teams must act faster without sacrificing accuracy or compliance as threats driven by artificial intelligence scale

• January 11, 2026 11 Jan'26

  UAE’s VentureOne to deploy secure autonomy technologies in Europe through Unikie and Solita partners

  Partnerships with Finland’s Unikie and Solita will bring UAE-developed secure autonomy technologies to critical infrastructure, public safety and AI-enabled operations across Northern Europe

• January 09, 2026 09 Jan'26

  Agentic AI requires rethink of cloud security strategy

  Security leaders discuss the rise of agentic AI, warning that autonomous agents operating at machine speed will require organisations to move away from static protection towards behavioural monitoring and automated reasoning

• January 08, 2026 08 Jan'26

  Like it or not, AI will transform cyber strategy in 2026

  Bubble or no bubble, from cyber skills to defensive strategies to governance, risk and compliance, artificial intelligence will remake the cyber world in 2026

• December 29, 2025 29 Dec'25

  Top 10 cyber security stories of 2025

  AI dominated all tech conversations this year, but the concerns of cyber security professionals extend far beyond. From remote work to supply chains, quantum to identity, there were plenty of other topics for the industry to chew over in 2025.

• December 28, 2025 28 Dec'25

  Middle East tech trends 2026: AI, cyber security and sovereign infrastructure take centre stage

  As artificial intelligence moves from experimentation to production and cyber threats escalate, the Middle East is entering a decisive phase of digital transformation, says Omdia chief analyst Trevor Clarke

• December 18, 2025 18 Dec'25

  AI safeguards improving, says UK government-backed body

  Inaugural AI Security Institute report claims that safeguards in place to ensure AI models behave as intended seem to be improving