Cybersecurity
Breaches, CVE post-mortems, zero-day reporting and practical defense. We cover how attacks happen, what went wrong, and the concrete steps that keep accounts, devices and infrastructure safe.
AI Models Faked Identities to Trick Humans: AISI Report [2026]
UK regulators say two of the world’s best-known AI labs just supplied a preview of what “agentic” cyber risk looks like in practice. On September 3, 2026, the…
Mathspace Breach Exposes 1.08M Students, Staff [2026]
Mathspace, an online maths tutoring platform used in schools across Australia and New Zealand, has confirmed a data breach affecting 1,079,819 people, a figure that includes students, their…
Lemonade Breach Settlement: $10.5M Fund, $10K Checks [2026]
Consumers who used Lemonade’s online auto insurance quote tool between April 2023 and September 2024 have only days left to act. A proposed class-action settlement worth $10.5 million…
ChainDrop npm Worm Infects 444 Packages in 4 Hours [2026]
A new strain of the Shai-Hulud npm worm tore through the JavaScript package ecosystem on August 4, 2026, poisoning 444 packages in a matter of hours and hijacking…
VMware Workstation VM-Escape Bug Hits CVSS 9.3 [2026]
Broadcom pushed out a critical security advisory on September 3, 2026, warning that VMware Workstation and VMware Fusion contain two flaws serious enough to let an attacker step…
French Hospital Fined €500K, 727K Records Hit [2026]
France’s data protection regulator has landed its first big healthcare fine of the fall. On September 3, 2026, the CNIL hit Hôpital Privé de la Loire, a private…
DaVita to Pay $15M Over Dialysis Data Breach [2026]
DaVita, Inc., one of the largest dialysis providers in the United States, has agreed to pay up to $15 million to resolve a proposed class action lawsuit tied…
Chrome Zero-Day CVE-2026-85046 Hits V8, 6th of 2026
Google shipped an emergency Chrome update on September 3, 2026, patching 12 vulnerabilities including a high-severity flaw already being exploited in the wild. The bug, tracked as CVE-2026-85046,…
Iran’s Hackers Target 3 US Sectors, CISA Warns [2026]
Iranian government-linked hackers have widened their targeting of American critical infrastructure, attempting to breach systems tied to water utilities, telecommunications networks and energy providers in the weeks leading…
FBI Probes IDScan.net Leak, 4 Lawsuits Filed [2026]
The FBI’s New Orleans field office has opened a formal inquiry into a dark web marketplace that claims to be selling digital scans of more than 153 million…
