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New infosec products of the week: September 11, 2026
Here's a look at the most interesting products from the past week, featuring releases from Akeyless, Orchid Security, Scytale, and Securin. Securin has announced the general availability of the Securin Platform, an AI-native Preemptive Exposure…
The K-Shaped Economy And The Future Of AI
Dr. TJ Jiang, Chief Executive Officer and Cofounder of AvePoint. As governments and businesses race to capture AI's upside, the technology is already reshaping how value is created, who has access to opportunity and which skills command a…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says cybersecurity is AI's next blockbuster app
If coding was one of AI's first big blockbuster apps, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang predicts cybersecurity will be the next. Speaking at a Goldman Sachs conference on Thursday, Huang said that companies will increasingly use AI to find software…
A Meta Exec's 150-Porn-Downloads-a-Day Habit, a 23-Year Botnet Bust, and $1M Phone Unlocks
If I gave you a million dollars to unlock your phone and hand it to me, would you take the money? According to a new survey we covered earlier this week, 60% of Americans would say no. It's just one example of how, even though many say they have…
Wall Street already loves ChatGPT. Now OpenAI is doubling down.
ChatGPT's role on Wall Street is evolving. OpenAI announced ChatGPT for Financial Services on Thursday, its latest foray into crafting AI tools for specific sectors. The product will bring a new glut of financial data directly into ChatGPT and…
Top AI researcher Andrew Tulloch ditches Meta for Anthropic. Here's what he'll be working on.
After less than a year at Meta, the prominent AI researcher Andrew Tulloch is leaving for Anthropic. He'll start next week, an Anthropic spokesperson told Business Insider, and work on the startup's inference and performance team, where he'll aim…
SVOL: Tactical Buy To Collect High-Yield Income From Market Volatility (NYSEARCA:SVOL)
Simplify Volatility Premium ETF offers a 21% yield by capturing options premiums from shorting VIX futures, with a tactical Buy rating maintained. SVOL is best used as a tactical tool and portfolio diversifier, not a buy-and-hold income investment…
GitLab Vulnerability Exploited One Day After Disclosure
Threat actors have started exploiting a newly patched vulnerability in GitLab one day after public disclosure, attack surface management firm WatchTowr warns. Tracked as CVE-2026-85706 (CVSS score of 10/10), the security defect is described as a…
Trezor Says 347,000 Users Received Phishing Emails After Brevo Hack
Cold cryptocurrency storage provider Trezor says roughly 347,000 of its customers received phishing emails after a third-party marketing platform used by the company was hacked. The incident involved the marketing platform Brevo, which Trezor uses…
Surfshark Systems Targeted by Hackers
VPN and cybersecurity services provider Surfshark this week disclosed a cybersecurity incident impacting certain internal data. The incident, it says, was discovered on August 31, but initially treated as low risk. By September 2, however, the…
Ukrainian Conti Ransomware Developer Sentenced to 4 Years in US Prison
A United States court sentenced Ukrainian national Oleksii Oleksiyovych Lytvynenko to four years in prison this week for his role in the Conti ransomware operation. Lytvynenko, 44, was arrested in Ireland in 2023 and extradited to the United States…
Check Point Patches Critical VPN Vulnerabilities
Cybersecurity firm Check Point this week announced patches for two critical-severity vulnerabilities in its gateway and firewall products using VPN functionality. Tracked as CVE-2026-85102 and CVE-2026-85103 (CVSS score of 9.8), both security…
Sam Altman met with power utilities about securing the electrical grid. He offered one possible solution: OpenAI's cyber services.
OpenAI has met with representatives of multiple top power companies to discuss methods of securing the electrical grid, the artificial intelligence firm told POLITICO — conversations that occurred amid a continuing series of revelations…
AI May Not Replace Every Job. Anthropic Reveals Where It Could Hit Hardest
Artificial intelligence is poised to reshape a wide range of occupations. Summary is AI-generated, newsroom-reviewed AI is boosting productivity but raises concerns over job losses and workplace disruption By 2030, AI could increase GDP by 32% but…
PaperCut Flaws Exploited in AI-Powered Attacks
Two recent PaperCut NG/MF vulnerabilities have been exploited in AI-powered attacks that hit hundreds of organizations worldwide, GreyNoise reports. Tracked as CVE-2026-82078 and CVE-2026-81578, the security defects were disclosed on August 27 as…
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