Industrial Defender, an OT cybersecurity vendor, released a new platform version adding internal network security monitoring (INSM) and Risk Signal, announced via a CyberNewswire press release on October 20, 2026. The INSM capability targets the FERC-approved NERC CIP-015-1 standard, which requires entities with high and medium impact BES…
Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) announced on October 20, 2026 that it is replacing the multiple report quality levels in its bug bounty programs with two assessments: "Complete" and "Not Complete". The rules apply to reports submitted on or after October 20, 2026, 8 AM Pacific Time. Earlier submissions remain under the previous …
OpenAI announced an expanded ChatGPT integration for Google Chrome with two workflows. "Chat" reads content from open tabs to inform answers. "Work" controls tabs to send messages, fill out forms, download files, and organize or group tabs. The article presents this as a change that combines browser visibility with delegated actions, rais…
A Mac user (Reddit u/UntilHEX) reported that Anthropic's Claude Code found an unauthorized XMRig cryptominer while helping build a temperature-monitoring app. Abnormally high sensor readings led the assistant to inspect running processes and identify XMRig as the cause of roughly 1,175% CPU use, or nearly 12 saturated cores. The finding i…
Bright Security announced the launch of STAR Fuzzer, an agentic fuzzer in its Bright STAR platform. It uses AI to select security-critical functions and generate harnesses, then runs an evolutionary search engine to find faults and delivers byte-exact reproducing payloads. In pre-release testing, 45% of the open-source projects tested had…