GM confirmed to TechCrunch that it will close the Brownstown Battery Assembly Plant south of Detroit, as first reported by Automotive News. The site assembled battery packs for the Cadillac Celestiq and electric drive units and battery packs for the Chevrolet Corvette E-Ray. A GM spokesperson said the closure is unrelated to its EV strate…
Palo Alto Networks disclosed CVE-2026-0311, a server-side request forgery (SSRF, CWE-918) vulnerability in Checkov by Prisma Cloud. A local unauthenticated user can make unauthorized network requests from the host to internal services. The vendor rates it LOW severity with MODERATE suggested urgency (CVSS-B 4.8, CVSS-BT 1.1) and says it i…
The FBI, via an IC3 Public Service Announcement, is warning US voters about federal election crimes ahead of the November 2026 midterm election. It describes three broad categories: campaign finance violations, threats to election workers, and civil rights violations such as voter suppression or intimidation. Examples include false voter …
A Brazilian consumer-tech article argues that most Windows 11 users no longer need a paid antivirus, because Microsoft Defender reached the maximum score in the July-August 2026 AV-Test evaluation. It reportedly detected 100% of real-world attacks and widespread malware, against industry averages of 99.9% and 100%. The article notes that …
From 12 November, Brazilian telecom carriers must block outbound calls for 15 days on lines showing abusive network use, under a determination by Anatel (Agência Nacional de Telecomunicações). The block applies to all numbers tied to the holder's CPF or CNPJ. The rule aims to curb high-volume automated calls that annoy consumers and can d…
ByteDance, owner of TikTok, has created a dedicated AI safety team inside its Seed research unit and opened a global search for ten researchers. The team, named Alignment & Preparedness, will work to ensure AI systems follow human objectives and safety requirements, including on complex multi-step tasks. Positions are located in Beijing a…
G7 finance ministers agreed to hold simulation exercises to test responses to cyberattacks enabled by artificial intelligence. Japan's Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama announced the decision after a G7 finance ministers and central bank governors meeting held alongside the IMF annual meeting in Bangkok. The move follows an IMF warning th…
Dispel announced the Dispel Zero Trust Engine for OEMs, a remote access platform for OEMs and machine builders that service customers' industrial equipment. It is already used at multiple OEMs, including ABB under ABB Care. The vendor cites Verizon's 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report, which says 61 percent of manufacturing breaches i…
In a World Economic Forum article, Etay Maor of Cato Networks argues that traditional cybersecurity frameworks must evolve to address three forms of AI misuse: humans using AI to lower the expertise needed for exploits, fraud and cybercrime; AI models escaping their intended environments; and AI agents pursuing objectives that differ from…
Tenable Holdings announced that Japanese retail group H₂O Retailing has deployed the Tenable One Exposure Management Platform across its multi-cloud and hybrid infrastructure. The group operates Hankyu Hanshin Department Stores, Izumiya, Hankyu Oasis and Kansai Super. It previously relied on annual, outsourced vulnerability assessments fo…
Advantech signed a Memorandum of Understanding with DEKRA to help industrial equipment and Edge AI customers meet the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) and international standards such as IEC 62443 from the product design stage. The partnership covers technical and feasibility assessments, documentation review, certification preparation, vuln…
A post on ISASecure by Rafael Barreto Jijón, managing director of OT-Knight, argues that asset owners should merge functional safety and OT cybersecurity into a single lifecycle. He notes that safety instrumented systems (SIS) protect against process hazards but are also targets for cyber-physical attacks, citing the 2017 TRITON/TRISIS in…
Tactien Group, an independent aviation advisory firm for critical infrastructure, announced CAST (Counter-UXS Assessment & System Testing), a software platform for planning, running and scoring counter-drone evaluations in customers' own environments. Utilities, refineries, data centers and military installations often buy counter-UAS det…
A $6,438,578.20 settlement has been agreed to resolve the "Other Labs Track" of consolidated litigation over the American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA) breach. The defendants are AMCA clients Sonic Healthcare U.S.A., Aurora Diagnostics LLC, Clinical Pathology Laboratories, Inc. and Austin Pathology Associates. AMCA, a subsidiary of Ret…
The 2026 Ponemon Healthcare Cybersecurity Report, commissioned by Proofpoint, finds that cyberattacks on healthcare organizations are rising, costing more and increasingly harming patient care. The survey covered 705 IT and security practitioners. 97% of organizations suffered at least one attack in the past 12 months, averaging 51 attack…
California has settled with 23andMe for $6 million over the 2023 credential-stuffing breach. The breach exposed personal and genetic data of about 6.9 million people, including 855,000 California residents. The settlement follows a July 2026 $18 million settlement with a coalition of 42 state attorneys general, which California did not jo…
Canada's proposed C-22 bill, first put forward in 2025 and since partly revised, would require tech companies, including foreign ones, to introduce "technical capabilities" for law enforcement data access. It would also require retention of user metadata. Signal has said it would exit the Canadian market, and Psiphon VPN says it will leav…
Privacy firm Redact found that around 80 WhatsApp help and FAQ pages exposed hidden text instructions written for a Meta large language model support chatbot. The text, about 100 blocks in total, sat in the page source under a code block headed "HelpContentGalaxyLLMInclude". Some instructions told the chatbot not to recommend contacting a…
A Chainguard survey released at its Assemble London event on October 14 found that 66% of security leaders at companies with $1bn or more in revenue admit leaving high or critical vulnerabilities unpatched "at least sometimes". Among companies with under $250m in revenue, the figure was 27%. Larger firms cite business trade-offs: disrupti…
Dashlane's third annual Passkey Power 20 report found that passkey use is growing but still trails passwords. The report covers millions of aggregated, anonymized authentications between July 2025 and June 2026. Authentications by Dashlane users nearly doubled year on year to 2.5 million per month, and 57% of users now store at least one …