Security & Privacy


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AI Platform Behind 12,000 E-mail Breaches Shut Down

Microsoft has disrupted EvilTokens, a cybercrime service that used AI to help attackers break into e-mail accounts, study their victims, and build convincing financial scams.

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Industry Alliance Targets Common Security Model for AI Agents

A new vendor coalition built on an Okta-developed blueprint is proposing a shared architecture for discovering, governing, monitoring and containing enterprise AI agents.

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Researchers Warn: Passkey Phishing Attacks Are Leading to Cloud Account Takeovers

In an active social engineering campaign, attackers are impersonating IT help desks and using fake passkey setup requests to compromise employee identities and gain access to enterprise cloud data.

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Learning Continuity Built into the LMS Withstands Cloud or Cybersecurity Interruptions

When your institution's administrative or instructional capabilities face disruption from natural, technical, or malicious events, what measures does your LMS offer to provide a "business as usual" operating and learning environment? Instructure's Ryan Lufkin comments on the LMS and learning continuity.

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Fragmented Data Is Quietly Undermining Student Success and Cybersecurity Hygiene

Siloed tools, teams, budgets, and resources spread across departments and campuses generate massive amounts of data. However, fragmentation creates unnecessary exposure to security threats and inadvertently reduces student support because no one can see the whole picture.

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OpenAI's Astra Model Reaches Critical Cyber Threshold

OpenAI has unveiled GPT-6 Astra, its most capable broadly deployed model and the first system the company says has reached the "Critical" cybersecurity capability threshold under its Preparedness Framework.

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Rubrik, CrowdStrike Expand Integration to Speed Identity Recovery

Cybersecurity companies Rubrik and CrowdStrike have announced an expanded identity-security integration intended to move compromised identity environments from threat detection through clean recovery with less manual intervention.

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CSA's Top Cloud Threats: Identity, AI

Cloud Security Alliance's 2026 Top Threats report ranks identity first while adding two AI-related risks to its list of 11 leading cloud security concerns.

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Organizations Advised to Expand Threat Modeling in Preparation for Quantum-Era Attacks

Microsoft is encouraging organizations to expand threat-modeling exercises to uncover cryptographic dependencies that could leave applications and data vulnerable to future quantum computing attacks.

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Research Studies Suggest AI Is Accelerating Familiar Cyber Attacks

Research released around the recent Black Hat USA 2026 conference suggests that artificial intelligence is increasing the speed and scale of cybersecurity activity without replacing the attack methods defenders already face.