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Large companies are naming a head of AI security, a new IANS and Artico Search benchmark finds. Ownership of AI governance is less settled. Between 15% and 19% of security chiefs say no single executive is accountable for it. The share holds across small, midsize, and large companies. The figures come from the 2026 Security … Read more
A week ago, a supermarket cyberattack heated fridges in hundreds of French stores to 50°C. Brokers and insurers say cyber insurance policies rarely pay for spoiled stock. The refrigeration maker says many of the systems hit no longer received security updates. Overnight on 11 October, attackers took remote control of refrigeration systems in French supermarkets. … Read more
Microsoft fixed 1,411 flaws this week, its fourth record release in five months. Cyber insurer Coalition says it sent 49 zero-day alerts in the three months to 1 August, and most policyholders got none. Its picks show how vulnerability prioritization works, and what an insurer’s alerts can’t see. Microsoft fixed 1,411 security flaws on 13 … Read more
Exposed AI infrastructure grew 63% in nine months, Censys finds. The most exposed product, the n8n automation platform, stores the credentials for the systems it connects. Most exposed n8n servers run a release with at least one critical flaw. Cyber insurance underwriters can see them from outside. Exposed AI infrastructure is growing fast. Censys counted … Read more
Fifty-four percent of security leaders admit leaving high- or critical-severity flaws unpatched at least sometimes, a Chainguard survey finds. At companies with $1 billion or more in revenue, it is 66%. Cyber insurers already write unpatched vulnerabilities into their policies. Most security leaders expect attackers to get in through a software flaw this year. Many … Read more