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ISC Stormcast For Monday, February 9th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9800

ISC Stormcast For Tuesday, February 10th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9802

Voice AI agents are reshaping how we interact with technology. From customer service and healthcare assistance to home automation and personal productivity, these intelligent virtual assistants are …

Today, we are publishing a new open source sample chatbot that shows how to use feedback from Automated Reasoning checks to iterate on the generated content, ask clarifying questions, and prove the …

ISC Stormcast For Thursday, February 5th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9796

Brian Hedden PhD ’12 has been appointed co-associate dean of the Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing (SERC) at MIT, a cross-cutting initiative in the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, …

Antonio Torralba, Delta Electronics Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and faculty head of artificial intelligence and decision-making at MIT, has been named to the 2025 cohort …

** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Feb 04, 2026 Artificial Intelligence / Software Security Microsoft on Wednesday said it built a lightweight scanner that it said can detect backdoors in open-weight large …

** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Feb 04, 2026 Malware / Endpoint Security Threat hunters have disclosed details of a new, stealthy malware campaign dubbed DEAD#VAX that employs a mix of “disciplined …

The Washington Post building. Picture: Shutterstock/Phil Pasquini The Washington Post is cutting one-third of all staff across the company including “substantial newsroom reductions”. “Nearly all” …

In the pursuit of solutions to complex global challenges including disease, energy demands, and climate change, scientific researchers, including at MIT, have turned to artificial intelligence, and to …

Sun Fabulous magazine cover on 1 February and top of Fabulous website section on 4 February 2026 The Sun has proposed merging its features team with the Fabulous celebrity and lifestyle desk. Sun …

Marketing teams face major challenges creating campaigns in today’s digital environment. They must navigate through complex data analytics and rapidly changing consumer preferences to produce …

Threat actors affiliated with China have been attributed to a fresh set of cyber espionage campaigns targeting government and law enforcement agencies across Southeast Asia throughout 2025. Check …

US Declassifies Information on JUMPSEAT Spy Satellites The US National Reconnaissance Office has declassified information about a fleet of spy satellites operating between 1971 and 2006. I’m actually …

Many incident response failures do not come from a lack of tools, intelligence, or technical skills. They come from what happens immediately after detection, when pressure is high, and information is …

An innovative approach to discovering, analyzing, and governing identity usage beyond traditional IAM controls. The Challenge: Identity Lives Outside the Identity Stack Identity and access management …

Peter Geoghegan (centre left) and Lucas Amin (centre right) pick up the Specialist Journalism prize for Democracy for Sale at the British Journalism Awards 2025. Picture: Press Gazette/Adam Duke …

** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Feb 04, 2026 Malvertising / Infostealer Microsoft has warned that information-stealing attacks are “rapidly expanding” beyond Windows to target Apple macOS …

Today, I received an interesting email with a malicious attachment. When I had a look at the automatic scan results, it seemed to be a malicious script to create a Chrome Injector to steal data. …

** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Feb 04, 2026 Supply Chain Security / Secure Coding The Eclipse Foundation, which maintains the Open VSX Registry, has announced plans to enforce security checks before Microsoft …

** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Feb 04, 2026 Software Security / Vulnerability The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added a critical security flaw impacting SolarWinds …

ISC Stormcast For Wednesday, February 4th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9794

MIT senior Katie Spivakovsky has been selected as a 2026-27 Churchill Scholar and will undertake an MPhil in biological sciences at the Wellcome Sanger Institute at Cambridge University in the U.K. …

This post is cowritten with James Luo from BGL. Data analysis is emerging as a high-impact use case for AI agents. According to Anthropic’s 2026 State of AI Agents Report , 60% of organizations rank …