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Small and medium-sized businesses like to think of cybersecurity as an enterprise problem—something for companies with dedicated SOCs, seven-figure security budgets, and rooms full of analysts. The 2026 Small Business Cybersecurity Awareness & Practices Survey, released by the National Cybersecurity Alliance (NCA) in partnership with U.S. CISA, tells a different story.

runAsNonRoot sounds like one of the simpler promises in Kubernetes: set it to true, and nothing in that container gets to start as root. It's the kind of setting you can explain to a compliance reviewer in one sentence, which is part of why CVE-2026-46680 stings the way it does. On affected containerd versions, a specially prepared image could sail through that check and stil...

President Donald Trump signed a National Security Presidential Memorandum (NSPM) on August 12, 2026, authorizing vetted U.S. private companies to conduct offensive cyber operations against foreign criminal organizations for the first time, provided the operations remain under direct federal government control and oversight.

The memorandum, titled

For years, "AI-powered cyberattack" has mostly meant AI-assisted phishing verbiage or a chatbot helping a mediocre hacker write slightly better malware. What Israeli security firm Dream disclosed this week looks like something categorically different: a multi-agent AI system that appears to have planned, executed, self-corrected, and adapted an intrusion campaign against Taiw...

Ask a CISO how many AI tools are running inside their organization right now, and you might get a confident number. New research suggests that number is wrong—and not by a little.

According to research Malwareby...