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Are your skills expiring faster than you can update them? The concern is real, but addressable

In this episode of Fed Thread, leaders make it clear that federal employees aren’t just imagining the pressure, they’re living it.
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Arctera enhances Unified Platform for evidence-driven compliance workflows

Arctera has announced new capabilities to the Arctera Unified Platform enabling organizations to manage complex governance requirements by connecting signals, controls and response workflows across the compliance lifecycle. These capabilities help organizations create a more complete and defensible record of compliance activity. Compliance teams are expected to do more than identify potential issues. They need to demonstrate what they found, how it was investigated, whether controls worked as intended, and why decisions were made. But … More → The post Arctera enhances Unified Platform for evidence-driven compliance workflows appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Mines, Minds, and Machines: The Journey of AI

Minerals become chips. Chips become data centers. Data centers become models, and models are acquiring arms and legs. From Earth to Embodied AI traces the supply chain of the fourth industrial revolution, and shows how geopolitical rivalry and cyber operations now run along every link, from mine to machine.
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Broadcom discontinues vVols storage capability for VMware

The vVols capability, a VMware storage feature for the past decade, is being sunset in VCF 9 and discontinued in VCF 9.1 as Broadcom continues to winnow the VMware catalog.
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Citrix expands Platform Flex with observability and secure developer services

Citrix has announced new services for Citrix Platform Flex, extending its flexible credit model with additional options for delivering, monitoring and securing digital work environments. The new offerings include Citrix Experience Insights Flex, a Citrix-managed observability service powered by Splunk Cloud Platform that turns high-resolution workspace telemetry into operational insights, and Citrix SecurSpaces Flex, a hosted cloud platform for code development and agentic workloads that provides secure development environments without requiring enterprises to build and … More → The post Citrix expands Platform Flex with observability and secure developer services appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Malicious SIMs can hijack smartphones, steal files, and lock them onto 2G

Researchers have found that compromised or malicious SIM cards can issue commands to some smartphones and cellular-connected devices, allowing attackers to steal information, disrupt communications, downgrade connections to 2G, and in some cases execute code. Tomasz Piotr Lisowski and Dr Marius Muench of the University of Birmingham, working with Kristian Covic from Fuzzware, traced this to a legitimate function already built into the cellular spec. That function is Proactive SIM. It lets a card send … More → The post Malicious SIMs can hijack smartphones, steal files, and lock them onto 2G appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Ransomware gangs don’t need control system access to disrupt industrial production

Disrupting IT systems that support industrial environments can be enough to interrupt production, even when ransomware operators do not gain direct access to industrial control systems (ICS), according to Dragos. The company identified 1,140 ransomware incidents involving industrial organizations in the second quarter of 2026, up 12% from 1,020 in Q1. The figures come from publicly disclosed victim data and posts made by ransomware groups on their data leak sites. Manufacturing accounted for 747 incidents, … More → The post Ransomware gangs don’t need control system access to disrupt industrial production appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Locking your ssh-agent exposed local-only keys until OpenSSH 10.5

Lock your ssh-agent and it should sit there refusing to sign anything until you unlock it. In OpenSSH 10.4, locking it also switched off the check that tells the agent whether a request came from your own machine or arrived down a forwarded connection from a remote server. The fix shipped today in OpenSSH 10.5. The agent holds your decrypted private keys so you are not retyping a passphrase every few minutes, and agent forwarding … More → The post Locking your ssh-agent exposed local-only keys until OpenSSH 10.5 appeared first on Help Net Security.
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