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How prediction markets have found their way into American politics
A Google engineer and member of special forces have been arrested for placing illegal bets on prediction markets. And these are just examples of the insider trading that may shape more than the country's finances. Kate Knibbs, senior writer at…
Endpoint Security Startup Ent Emerges From Stealth With $100 Million Seed Round
Intent-aware endpoint security company Ent on Tuesday emerged from stealth mode with $100 million in seed funding to build a new layer of workspace security that interprets user and agent behavior before risky actions are finalized. The funding…
iRhythm Confirms Data Stolen in Hack
iRhythm, a health company specializing in wearable cardiac monitoring technology, has been targeted in a cyberattack that resulted in the theft of information. The data breach was disclosed by iRhythm, known for its Zio wearable ECG monitor, in a…
Cybercrime Group Claims Novo Nordisk Hack
The hack-and-leak group FulcrumSec has claimed responsibility for hacking the Danish pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk. The incident was disclosed late last week, when the company warned patients that hackers had accessed its internal IT systems…
Magnitude Emerges From Stealth Mode With $10 Million in Funding
Cybersecurity startup Magnitude today emerged from stealth mode with $10 million raised in a seed funding round led by Ballistic Ventures. The San Francisco-based company seeks to enhance third-party risk management (TPRM) through an autonomous AI…
Cybersecurity Executives Urge the Trump Administration to Ease Restrictions on Anthropic AI Models
A group of cybersecurity executives and experts is asking the Trump administration to lift its directive preventing the use of Anthropic's latest artificial intelligence models by foreign nationals, saying the move could help U.S. adversaries more…
Cal Water Investigating Iranian Hackers' Claims
California Water Service (Cal Water) is investigating recent hacking claims by the Iran-linked threat actor Handala, which published several gigabytes of data it allegedly stole from the utility's systems. Cal Water, one of the largest…
White House Issues Memo to Bolster NSS Cybersecurity
President Trump on Friday signed National Security Presidential Memorandum-12 (NSPM-12) to bolster the cybersecurity of National Security Systems (NSS). NSS includes the most sensitive computer systems in the US, used for the processing of…
Carney invites India's Modi to Canada, eyes security exchange talks at G7 - National
Prime Minister Mark Carney has invited Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Canada for an official visit later this year, Carney's office said Tuesday after the two leaders met on the sidelines of the G7 Summit in France. The Prime Minister's…
Atomic Arch Supply Chain Attack Hits 1,500 AUR Packages
Arch Linux on Monday announced that it has suspended new account registrations on the Arch User Repository (AUR) in response to a wave of malicious packages being published as part of an ongoing supply chain attack. A community-driven repository…
Microsoft is resorting to its biggest cloud rival to deal with GitHub AI capacity issues
Microsoft is turning to its biggest cloud rival, Amazon, to help address capacity issues on its GitHub coding platform following a series of AI-driven outages, according to two people familiar with the plans. GitHub, which Microsoft acquired in…
The same ride on Uber and Lyft, 29 different prices: What researchers found when they tested the apps
Not everyone sees the same prices on Uber and Lyft, according to a new study. The rideshare apps appear to price trips differently — even when riders request the same route at the same exact minute, a new investigation from Consumer Reports…
Cisco Patches Another SD-WAN Zero-Day Exploited in Attacks
Cisco on Monday warned customers about yet another SD-WAN product zero-day exploited in attacks. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-20262, has been described as a medium-severity arbitrary file write issue affecting Catalyst SD-WAN Manager. An attacker…
Tech Coalition 'Athena' Targets OSS Vulnerabilities Ahead of Disclosure
Over two dozen fintech and technology organizations have formed a coalition to secure open source software (OSS) from accelerated, AI-driven exploitation. Named Athena, it has gathered industry leaders such as BNY, Chainguard, Cisco, Cloudflare…
Can CISOs Trust Their Applications? TrustCloud Wants to Replace the Questionnaire
Where assessing whether production applications can be trusted is still a manual questionnaire, it may be time to automate. For many CISOs, analyzing trust in enterprise production applications is still a manual process: questionnaires surveying…
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