The FBI seal is seen on its headquarters at the J. Edgar Hoover FBI building in Washington.

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FBI probes ShinyHunters claims of massive agent data theft

Steve ZurierSeptember 23, 2026

ShinyHunters claims it stole 2 TB of sensitive data on thousands of current and former FBI agents.

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How to Build an AI Governance Framework for Identity
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How to Evaluate and Select Identity and Access Management Tools
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Identity-based attacks: how they work and how to defend against them
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Closing the AI control gap: From shadow AI to continuous protection
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AI reshapes exposure management around real-world risk, says Brinqa exec

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Application security
Understanding Prompt Injection In Order to Contain It – Julie Brunias – ASW #401
AI/ML
Cyber Resilience with Cohesity, When to use AI for Writing, and the News – Rob Sadowski – ESW #477
Vulnerability Management
Bacteria, Spartans, AI gone wild, Cisco, WordPress, Settra, Plugin4Shell, Josh Marpet – SWN #617

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First ‘autonomous AI C2 implant’ uses panel of models to vote on next task

Laura FrenchSeptember 23, 2026

CLOSEDQUORUM is designed to use DeepSeek, Qwen, Mistral and Gemini to make post-exploitation decisions.

Micro-Segmentation Architecture for Zero Trust Enterprise Security

Critical Infrastructure Security

Just 13% of network segments are OT-only, says Forescout Research

Steve ZurierSeptember 22, 2026

Poor network segmentation leaves OT and IoT devices exposed to lateral movement.

Application security

Simulation highlights OWASP LLM Top 10 risk of unbounded consumption

Laura FrenchSeptember 22, 2026

Forcepoint research showed how poisoned input can run up AI agent costs.

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Trump calls for AI Force, says AI Czar will be named soon

Steve ZurierSeptember 21, 2026

Trump's planned AI Force renews debate over guardrails and accountability for AI.

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Vulnerability Management

New CISA-hosted VINCE-NT system revealed for coordinated vulnerability disclosure

Laura FrenchSeptember 18, 2026

CISA says the new system is more streamlined and secure, enabling faster coordination.

A member of the 110th Information Operations Battalion, Maryland National Guard, displays his U.S. Cyber Command patch July 22, 2020, at Fort Meade, Maryland. The members of the 110th IO Bn. worked closely with the U.S. Cyber Command’s Cyber National Mission Force to protect the election process by countering adversarial bad actors throughout 2020. (U.S. Army National Guard Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Thaddeus Harrington)

Security Staff Acquisition & Development

Congress pledges mental health support after Cyber Command suicides

Steve ZurierSeptember 18, 2026

Lawmakers seek more mental health resources after five Cyber Command personnel died by suicide.

Settra ransomware group uses MeshAgent RMM in recent attacks

Laura FrenchSeptember 18, 2026

The nascent threat actor has claimed 93 victims since June 2026.

Vulnerability Management

Cisco patches 10.0 ISE bug exploited in the wild

Steve ZurierSeptember 17, 2026

Actively exploited Cisco ISE flaw could give attackers a path to expand network access.

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