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Email threat landscape: Q3 2026 trends and insights

Microsoft Threat Intelligence observed a sharp rise in email-based phishing activity at the end of Q3 2026 (July – September), even as QR code phishing declined, CAPTCHA-gated phishing recovered, and malicious messages spoofing familiar business-service sender domains exposed risks associated with security overrides. The post Email threat landscape: Q3 2026 trends and insights appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog.

Statehouse wins give Democrats new power to push clean energy

Democrats erased the GOP’s trifecta edge and gained new power over energy policy.

Show HN: Stroq – a local audit of what your coding agent did and why

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Secret scanning upgrades detectors, adds SpaceX as partner

This update expands secret scanning’s detection coverage: New partner: SpaceX is now a secret scanning partner. New detector: GitHub now detects starlink_public_api_v2_secret. Upgraded detectors: Alibaba, AWS, Google, OpenVSX, Pydantic Services,… The post Secret scanning upgrades detectors, adds SpaceX as partner appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Reflex: an architecture for building mobile apps with agents

Vulnerability Scans for Older Cisco IOS Vulnerability / Opt-Out Headers, (Thu, Nov 5th)

This morning, I was browsing our honeypot data for any new and existing PHP exploit attempts. Instead, I first ran into some GeoServer exploits, but found them to be too boring to write up. This Cisco IOS exploit attempt was a bit more interesting. Still nothing new. I suspect this is for CVE-2023-20198.

Docker and ActiveState Extending Secure Defaults to the Packages Developers Install

Docker partners with ActiveState to continue to provide one standard for trusted content across everything you and your teams build on.

Dropbox acquires Tigris Data for $350M to bolster its AI infrastructure

The deal is expected to support the development of DBX Agent Cloud, a new storage platform aimed at developers building AI models and agents.