There are no new alerts at this time California Attorney General Rob Bonta speaks with NBC News’ Gadi Schwartz about issuing an investigative subpoena to OpenAI regarding cybersecurity risks and legal concerns.Oct.
While governors across the U.S. are issuing Cybersecurity Awareness Month proclamations, some states are also offering programming for their residents, businesses and public-facing organizations. In New York, the Office of Information Technology Services Cybersecurity Awareness Month page lists resources for a range of audiences, including businesses, educators and the public. The checklist reflects this year's Cybersecurity Awareness Month message of taking small steps toward being cyber secure, steps such as updating software, enabling multifactor authentication, using a password manager and making passwords stronger. Texas Cyber Command also has seven publicly available webinars and two in-person events on its calendar for the month. Cybersecurity Awareness Month began in 2004 as a joint initiative between the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the nonprofit National Cybersecurity Alliance.
Keesler Federal Credit Union says it starts with identifying potential threats. Moran says scammers are making it harder to identify, and AI has helped thieves appear a little less artificial. The credit union is urging people to pay more attention to behavioral activity. “Those are more of the red flags that we’re helping people look for now.” ‘I’m going to send you this amount of money if you send this much back,’ things like that,” Moran said.
Lac du Flambeau now stands ahead of hundreds of other small towns in Wisconsin that still use non-government domains, which experts say runs afoul of cybersecurity best practices. A Bipartisan Policy Center analysis found that about 43% of Wisconsin municipalities and counties with listed websites use government domains, roughly the 44% national average. The state has spent years — and millions of dollars — trying to help local election offices improve election security and move onto government domains. About 49% of Wisconsin election jurisdictions use government email domains, while another 18% use custom domains tied to their municipality. The Wisconsin Elections Commission has spent years helping local governments improve election security, including through grants specifically aimed at moving municipalities to government domains.
A pair of major technology challenges for wealthy individuals and structures such as family offices are cybersecurity threat actors, and AI tools that can be used to accentuate these. It is hard to avoid talking about AI and how it affects financial services and it is equally difficult to overlook cybersecurity threats. Many family offices use tools because it is relatively available and they can get answers very quickly. Private AI? FWR asked Goldstein what he thinks of moves to develop closed/private AI that avoids the risks of public systems.
Editor’s note: Small firms frequently turn to Stephanie Otero, CPA, the AICPA’s small firm advocate, with questions. But there are practical steps sole practitioners and small firms can take to strengthen their defenses. Although cybersecurity requires a layered approach, if I had to prioritize one action for sole practitioners, it would be implementing multifactor authentication (MFA) on every business-critical system. Once cybercriminals obtain login credentials, they may be able to access email accounts, cloud applications, client portals, and firm data. (To learn more, see, “Enhance the Client Experience with Two Simple Shifts,” AICPA & CIMA Professional Insights, June 8, 2026.)
McGuiggan said AI can create cybersecurity vulnerabilities not just from an outsider successfully hacking a company, whether driven by AI or not, but through internal use of an AI tool that goes awry. “You know that your users are going to be leveraging AI capability,” McGuiggan said. Maybe they’re with a carrier; maybe they’re providing cybersecurity services to companies trying to figure out how not to be a mark. Melanie Padron addresses the NMFTA cybersecurity conference. She said her company is reviewing several AI tools that are targeted toward the “shadow AI” issues referred to by McGuiggan.
Bitdefender, a European-based company, announced a partnership with Aruba S.p.A., one of Italy’s IT, cloud and data center providers, to host its cybersecurity platform on Aruba’s cloud infrastructure. The partnership delivers sovereign cybersecurity, ensuring customer and configuration data, security events, and telemetry are never accessible, transferred, or processed outside the European Union (EU). As part of the partnership, Aruba will resell Bitdefender’s entire portfolio of business security products and services covering threat prevention, protection, detection, and response. Central to the partnership is Bitdefender GravityZone, the company’s unified security, risk analytics, and compliance platform, hosted on Aruba’s cloud environment. This announcement builds on Bitdefender’s broader commitment to European data sovereignty, following strategic partnerships with OVHcloud in France and secunet in Germany.
Cybersecurity Awareness Month that comes around every October has entered a tumultuous 2026. Read the takes from industry experts on Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2026 in this Cyber Magazine Reacts feature. Dan Lohrmann, Field CISO, Public Sector at Presidio Reacts: This Cybersecurity Awareness Month, everyone is understandably very concerned about AI risks. Rob Gregory, CISO at Optiv Reacts: I believe Cyber Awareness Month (CAM) is a valuable amplifier and another reminder about the importance we all place in an organisation’s cybersecurity risk management programme. Jack Cherkas, Global CISO at Syntax Reacts: Cybersecurity Awareness Month is usually a reminder to get the fundamentals right, and that is still absolutely critical.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Prerit Pathak, a 28-year-old security engineer at Google in New York City. I think some people mistakenly believe that being a 'tech employee' is synonymous with being a software engineer. Despite that interest, I started my career as a software engineer at Dell Technologies in India. Now, as a security engineer, I create and run threat simulations to replicate adversary behavior in enterprise environments. Looking back, making the shift from software engineering to cybersecurity was a leap of faith.
Fact sheet: food and agriculture cybersecurity checklist and resources https://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/resources/food-and-agriculture-cybersecurity-checklist-and-resources (2025). Farooq, M. S., Riaz, S., Abid, A., Abid, K. & Naeem, M. A. Jones, R. & Feoktistov, D. Cybersecurity vulnerabilities in the food supply chain and their impact on food security: a systematic literature review. Smart Food Syst. Grispos, G., Mears, L., Loucks, L. & Mahoney, W. Cultivating cybersecurity: designing a cybersecurity curriculum for the food and agriculture sector.
GREENVILLE, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - Many people turn to artificial intelligence for advice on their health, money and relationships. Cybersecurity experts warn what users type could be exposing their most sensitive information. Users describe how they use AI Chris D’Amico, who spoke with FOX Carolina in downtown Greenville, uses AI chatbots for work and personal questions. “They’re really treating AI like a confidant, and they’re sharing vulnerable topics about health, finance, relationships, major life decisions,” Clayton said. Clayton said to keep passwords, bank information and Social Security numbers out of AI chats.
Today, we’re announcing our new frontier model, Gemini 4 Argon, which is rolling out to a set of trusted cyber defenders through our Fairwind Program. Built to sustain deep reasoning across complex, long-horizon workflows, Argon is fundamentally changing the way we work and build at Google. Leading in defensive cybersecurity To better equip cyber defenders for the new era of cyberattacks, we trained Gemini 4 Argon to be highly capable at cybersecurity defense. Gemini 4 Argon demonstrates impressive leaps in vulnerability discovery over 3.8 Flash Cyber. Through automated red teaming and adversarial training, Gemini 4 Argon is leading in prompt injection robustness on the Gray Swan’s Indirect Prompt Injection (IPI) benchmark.
In today’s cybersecurity news… Microsoft details new Star Blizzard and NeedyMantis activity Microsoft Threat Intelligence published two threat reports this week. The first covers Russian actor Star Blizzard, which CISA ties to the country’s FSB intelligence service. (Microsoft, Microsoft) Cloudflare to become a public certificate authority Cloudflare has announced plans to become a public certificate authority that will issue both traditional certificates and post-quantum Merkle Tree Certificates, or MTCs. What’s new is that Cloudflare is moving from a Chrome experiment to running its own CA. One optimization for this new model was reducing so-called “model laziness,” where a model would give up on tasks.
Microsoft, the UAE Cyber Security Council (CSC) and Core42, a G42 company, today announced plans to deploy MDASH, Microsoft’s AI-powered cybersecurity capability, across UAE government entities. MDASH uses advanced AI models and automated analysis to identify vulnerabilities, prioritize risks and improve security posture at speed and scale. Dr. Mohamed Al Kuwaiti, Head of Cyber Security for the UAE Government, said: “Code safety is a national priority and a cornerstone of cyber resilience. Together with the UAE Cyber Security Council and Core42, we will help government organizations strengthen resilience, improve cyber readiness and build capacity for emerging threats.” Talal M. Al Kaissi, Chief Executive Officer, Core42 said:“The UAE has made a deliberate choice to lead in AI adoption.
October marks Cybersecurity Awareness Month, an annual awareness campaign intended to encourage greater safety and protection among all computer users. It was launched in 2004 by the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) and the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Cybersecurity: A shared responsibility In today’s interconnected world, cybersecurity is not just for IT professionals. Advanced protection for evolving threats Cybersecurity Awareness Month is a great time to reflect on everyday habits. As cyberattacks grow in complexity, combining smart habits with proactive security solutions is essential.
Chinese state-linked firms hold stakes in more than 30 European port terminals, including facilities designated to receive U.S. military forces and equipment. The military mobility challenge in Europe can thus be understood across four interconnected dimensions: physical infrastructure constraints, regulatory and investment shortfalls, technology modernization and cybersecurity gaps, and Chinese influence over Europe’s critical infrastructure.” The FDD reported that Europe’s military mobility vulnerabilities are compounded by the growing strategic footprint of Chinese state-linked entities across critical transportation and logistics infrastructure, energy infrastructure, and communications networks. The central fix is aligning investment with NATO reinforcement plans, and the six recommendations move from foundational reforms to targeted measures. A corridor’s NATO or EU military mobility designation should trigger national security consultation, with particular scrutiny of state-linked actors like China.
Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman warned banks on Sept. 29 to buffer their systems against artificial intelligence threats while emphasizing the technology can benefit lenders. “AI offers great potential — both to threat actors and those buttressing their defenses to those threats,” Bowman said in prepared remarks for an event in Colorado. Bowman previously said the Fed should “not micromanage” banks on issues like AI as US officials weigh the impact of the rapidly evolving technology. The Fed’s top bank cop also said although cybersecurity requires proactive risk management by bank boards of directors and senior management, regulators recognize that preparing for such threats can be burdensome and challenging for community banks. Photo: Michelle Bowman, vice chair for supervision at the US Federal Reserve.
Schneider Electric, a global energy technology leader, and SECLAB, a French provider of OT cybersecurity solutions, announced an expanded collaboration to give industrial infrastructure a level of protection that goes beyond software-only defenses. To strengthen defense in depth for industrial systems, Schneider Electric has chosen to deepen its collaboration with SECLAB. This collaboration has produced a dedicated configuration for securing Schneider Electric OT protocols. Tests conducted on Schneider Electric platforms confirmed application-level filtering, proper operation in redundant configurations, and no perceptible latency for the process. Several industrial companies whose operations depend on continuous OT service availability are already engaged in deployments supported by Schneider Electric.
Even after instructions explicitly said anything not listed was out of scope, Astra still launched full attacks in 4 of 49 runs. (UK AI Security Institute) Dutch police arrest “reformed” hacker in ShinyHunters probe Dutch authorities arrested 23-year-old Pepijn van der Stap, according to sources who spoke with KrebsOnSecurity. ShinyHunters escalated with attacks against the FBI’s jobs site and the Clop ransomware gang. (KrebsOnSecurity) Nvidia builds a browser for AI agents Nvidia released a new Open Agent Safety Platform meant to keep AI agents inside their guardrails. UpGuard says the exposures span the globe and have grown alongside rapid app development, including projects built with AI coding tools.