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Zero-day in Cisco firewall management

Cisco warns of actively exploited flaw with hardcoded credentials

31. July, 2026 - 07:05

Cisco is warning of a vulnerability in Secure Firewall Management Center that is already being exploited as a zero-day. The cause is a built-in account with static credentials.

Forecast at earnings call

Zuckerberg expects personal AI agents for billions of people

31. July, 2026 - 06:11

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg expects that in five years, billions of people will use their own personal AI agent.

AI agents compromise additional accounts

OpenAI AI Agents Extended Attack Beyond Hugging Face

31. July, 2026 - 05:24

Hugging Face has published a detailed analysis of the incident, while OpenAI has provided additional findings from its own investigation.

Campaign against cookie banners

Privacy advocates launch campaign against cookie banners

30. July, 2026 - 13:54

European privacy organizations want to abolish annoying cookie banners for good. They are calling on citizens to contact members of the European Parliament.

Guidance for critical infrastructure operators

CISA and Australia advise isolation plans for vital systems

30. July, 2026 - 10:52

The US agency CISA has released the guidance “CI Fortify” together with Australia’s ACSC, the FBI, and international partners.

AI model cracks encryption schemes

Claude Mythos finds new attacks on post-quantum scheme and AES

30. July, 2026 - 07:17

Anthropic has developed two new cryptanalytic attacks using its AI model Claude Mythos Preview. Affected is the post-quantum scheme HAWK-256.

45-minute ground stop

American Airlines briefly grounded after IT outage

30. July, 2026 - 06:45

The US aviation authority FAA had imposed a nationwide ground stop on American Airlines on Tuesday evening due to an IT outage.

Cybersecurity Simplification Strategy

EU Publishes Practical Guidance for Cyber Resilience Act Compliance

30. July, 2026 - 06:09

The European Commission aims to support manufacturers and developers ahead of the September deadline. A new guidance document featuring 67 practical examples is designed to answer open questions surrounding the Cyber Resilience Act.