August 2026

The most valuable move any security team can make is building a certificate and key inventory.

When a fraudulent transaction occurs, law enforcement agencies must work quickly to halt payments before cybercriminals cash out.

Hundreds of thousands of California residents have already registered for the Delete Request and Opt-out Platform (DROP), which launches Aug. 1. Other states could follow if the process goes smoothly.

Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: parcel delivery company OnTrac hacked, Adobe patches, UK Department for Education loses 607,000 records.

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Iran has the “geopolitical motivations” and a recent history of targeting water systems, experts pointed out.

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The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said in a public alert on Thursday that facilities should “remove publicly exposed PLCs and other operational technology (OT) from the internet as soon as possible.”

The outpost will have its own director, though no one has yet been named for the post, and support the command’s nascent Cyber Warfare Innovation Center (CIWC).

Claude maker Anthropic said its AI models escaped test environments and breached networks at three companies on the open internet.

Finland stopped power transmissions with Russia at the start of the war in Ukraine, and two related telecom connections will stop at the end of this year, authorities said.

A Chinese-speaking threat actor is suspected to be behind a fresh wave of cyber attacks targeting government organizations mainly located in Central Asia, including Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and the Syrian Arab Republic, since January 2025.

These targeted organizations operate across several sectors, such as healthcare, research, government offices,