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Microsoft's record Patch Tuesday shows why severity can't decide what gets patched first

louiswcolumbus@gmail.com (Louis Columbus) — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 18:17:31 GMT

The two flaws attackers were already exploiting when Microsoft's September 8 Patch Tuesday landed were both rated Important by Microsoft. Both are local elevation-of-privilege vulnerabilities. An attacker who can run low-privilege code on the machine can elevate to SYSTEM privileges.

Your vibe-coded apps are a ticking time bomb for your business. Here’s how to secure them.

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 14:30:00 GMT

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AI agents need more than access control — they need identity at runtime

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 14:30:00 GMT

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22 of 37 surveyed companies that enforce AI agent permissions still have agents sharing credentials

louiswcolumbus@gmail.com (Louis Columbus) — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:27:33 GMT

Sharing credentials does not stop an enterprise from enforcing permissions, but it makes it much harder to tell which agent actually took an action.

OpenAI’s new ‘Private Intelligence' targets a growing enterprise concern: who can see your AI data?

carl.franzen@venturebeat.com (Carl Franzen) — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 18:47:23 GMT

OpenAI is expanding its zero-data-retention infrastructure with a new umbrella initiative called Private Intelligence, pairing an enhanced privacy-preserving safety review system available now with a forthcoming confidential-computing architecture designed to make AI inference itself more private and verifiable.

Anthropic documented a new problem for security teams: Attacks that can adapt while they're underway

louiswcolumbus@gmail.com (Louis Columbus) — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 18:38:23 GMT

An attacker built AI agents designed to rebuild malware whenever security tools flagged it. In a separate operation, a suspected ShinyHunters affiliate went from a stolen developer token to full administrative control of a victim's cloud environment in about three hours. Anthropic documented both operations in its September threat report.

The defender's head start is gone. Cisco's Liz Centoni on the fight to get it back

Tue, 29 Sep 2026 14:30:00 GMT

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