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If anything, 2026 has made clear that cybersecurity is no longer a background concern. Today, security is at the front and center of many conversations, woven into almost every major story of the year. 

They can reveal less information than a physical card, but privacy protections don’t necessarily follow your data after you share it.

Europe has a new unicorn: Italian startup Exein has just raised a $270 million funding round led by Headline at a $1.7 billion valuation on the promise of providing a cybersecurity layer for physical AI — an evolution of its initial focus on IoT.

If you clicked on an HBO Max ad on Reddit over the past week, you might want to check your computer for malware.

Hardware crypto wallet maker Trezor is warning customers for the second time in as many months that one of the companies it relies on was hacked, exposing the data of Trezor’s customers to hackers.

ID verification service IDScan has confirmed that a data breach involved the theft of driver’s licenses from its systems, a week after a report said the identity document checker had been breached during a year-long hack.

A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers has asked the U.S. government to ban several hack-for-hire firms — companies that carry out cyberattacks on behalf of paying clients. The lawmakers accuse the firms of targeting Americans and abusing foreign courts to silence U.S. reporting on their activities.

Jamming signals won’t just silence your noisy neighbor. It can also interfere with critical infrastructure and emergency services, too.

Even if you only use an AI chatbot occasionally or not at all, there’s a good chance you’ve run into the term vibe coding. For the uninitiated, it’s a form of software development that involves using a large language model (LLM) to generate some or all of the code for a project. The term was…

You might be better off sorting through your 12,000 emails yourself, but you do you.