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CONTERN, Luxembourg, Oct. 22, 2026, CyberNewswire — Gcore is offering its WAAP Enterprise plan free of charge to any government body or public agency until December 31, 2026. The offer follows the php2shell vulnerabilities that forced public websites offline across … (more…) The post News alert: Gcore extends free web protection to government agencies after widespread PHP exploits first appeared on The Last Watchdog.

ORLANDO, Fla., Oct. 20, 2026, CyberNewswire – Industrial Defender, an OT cybersecurity leader serving the global critical infrastructure industry, today released its latest version, adding internal network security monitoring (INSM) and Risk Signal. The release builds on Industrial … (more…) The post Industrial Defender Unifies Endpoint Intelligence and Network Monitoring for CIP-015, Adds Risk Signal first appeared on The Last Watchdog.

SAN RAFAEL, Calif., Oct. 19, 2026, CyberNewswire – Built on an evolutionary engine first released in 2018, STAR Fuzzer by Bright Security finds crashes, memory exhaustion and memory-safety bugs in security-critical code without a running application. In its first open … (more…) The post News alert: Bright Security launches AI-powered tool to uncover hidden software vulnerabilities first appeared on The Last Watchdog.

AMSTERDAM, Oct. 13, 2026, CyberNewswire – G2A.COM, a digital marketplace that serves more than 35 million users across 180 countries, reports a 35% year-on-year surge in antivirus and security software orders, outpacing VPN orders. Released during Cybersecurity Awareness Month, … (more…) The post NEWS ALERT: G2A reports 35% jump in security software orders as consumers broaden protection first appeared on The Last Watchdog.

The hottest new app this fall is Muse, an AI agent from Meta. Give it a chore, and it does the chore for you. Ask whether it’s a person or a machine, and it may well lie and claim to … (more…) The post FIRESIDE CHAT: Firms once wanted AI callers stopped – now they want to sort good from bad first appeared on The Last Watchdog.

TORONTO, Oct. 8, 2026, CyberNewswire –  Insignary Inc. today announced the general availability of Insignary Clarity AIR, a source-code scanning product built to answer a question most security teams can’t currently answer with confidence: what is actually running in their … (more…) The post NEWS ALERT: Insignary launches Clarity AIR to expose hidden open-source and AI-generated code first appeared on The Last Watchdog.

SILVER SPRING, Md., Oct. 6, 2026, CyberNewswire — Aembit, the identity control plane for AI agents, today announced support for securing personal agents’ access to enterprise environments, available immediately to existing customers at no additional cost. As personal agents, … (more…) The post News alert: Aembit gives enterprises new controls over personal AI agents accessing sensitive systems first appeared on The Last Watchdog.

Security teams are being told they have hours to patch. Related: AI agents have a Lord of the Flies problem The warning has a real basis. In June, Anthropic’s frontier red team demonstrated an AI model building working exploits from … (more…) The post SHARED INTEL Q&A: AI finds flaws faster — defenders still need to fix what attackers exploit first appeared on The Last Watchdog.

SAN FRANSICO, Sept. 25, 2026, CyberNewswire — Archipelo today announced Salmon, Execution Verification Infrastructure (EVI) for AI agents and autonomous systems, powered by a cryptographic protocol designed to make execution history verifiable. Salmon establishes verifiable execution history and state … (more…) The post News alert: Archipelo launches Salmon to create verifiable audit trails for AI agent activity first appeared on The Last Watchdog.

Early in my military career, I learned a simple lesson: when you give people a task, you also have to give them room to think. Related: AI agents take initiative, unchecked As a young “door kicker,” I made a point … (more…) The post Guest Essay: Before AI agents takes hold, define who can challenge them and who owns the outcome first appeared on The Last Watchdog.