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  1. Organizations should resist granting AI more authority simply because its output is fast and confident.
  2. Fridge cyberattacks are hitting more than just retailers. Now, they’re targeting blood banks and even U.S military bases.
  3. Security magazine looks at 5 data security stories from October 2026.
  4. Redefining ROI by understanding how AI can create value from existing video infrastructure.
  5. The Mythos reality requires a shift in how organizations think about cyber resilience.
  6. Eighty-six percent of distributed enterprises experienced a cyberattack in the past 12 months, according to research released by VikingCloud.
  7. Recently, DataDome recently released a report on bot and AI agent security.
  8. An actress who never existed can now sell a product, star in a film and build an online following. Tilly Norwood is one of many AI-generated performers whose presence is becoming normalized in entertainment and marketing.
  9. When disruption hits, the business continuity function must be able to answer what is impacted, what happens next, what is the financial exposure, and what should be prioritized.
  10. Understanding and summiting the five capability levels of insider risk maturity.
  11. Election season runs on trust, and attackers know it.
  12. How digital mapping supports operations, safety and ROI across large facilities — beyond security.
  13. Security expert insight on the $6.3 billion cryptocurrency heist.
  14. Policies tell employees what the rules are. Scenarios and near misses teach them what the rules are for.
  15. “The instincts I built 25 years ago no longer apply,” says Randolph Barr, Chief Information Security Officer at Cequence Security. Six cybersecurity experts share what scares them most about the current landscape.
  16. Is “autonomous” an overused word in security AI? Bobby Filar, Head of AI at Sublime Security, shares with Security magazine how the word “autonomous” is being used in the industry and how he views the term.
  17. 42 million documents, many containing personally identifiable information (PII) in plaintext, were leaked.
  18. Hackers targeted the US Federal Election Commission, emphasizing that election security shouldn’t start and end with voting machines.
  19. Listen to Assistant Secretary Todd Wilcox, who serves as Public Sector Chair at OSAC, talk about his career, the value of OSAC, and trends in the industry.
  20. Microsoft released emergency .NET patches for .NET 8, .NET 9, .NET 10, and .NET 11 Release Candidate 3.
  21. New research from METR reveals that OpenAI’s internal agent monitoring systems had safeguard gaps.
  22. Did Claude AI hack voter data? Security leaders discuss.
  23. South Korean law enforcement apprehended seven suspects in connection with a cybercrime ring.
  24. PHP2Shell vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619) have been exploited in the wild.
  25. Taxpayers may be paying the price for a data breach.