News Archive | August 2026

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August 31st
- Top security teams use AI agents, says Hack The Box
- Nasuni expands unstructured data platform with DryvIQ acquisition
August 30th
- ‘We’re delivering a dynamic interface that thinks, reasons, and acts’: Three things you need to know about Claudeforce
August 28th
- Fake North Korean IT workers are rampant: Here’s how to spot the telltale signs a new hire is a hacker
- 'The threat landscape is moving so quickly': CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz warns AI is raising the stakes in cybersecurity – and the firm is poised to capitalize on ‘the largest market opportunity in our history’
- Manchester Airports Group attack: Everything we know so far as 8.7 million customers impacted in breach
- Basware to acquire Trustpair to strengthen payment fraud prevention
- Nvidia’s Hugging Face acquisition could pose a big threat to hyperscalers
August 27th
- Reports: Anthropic signs $45bn cloud computing deal with Nscale
- Six things OpenAI learned about AI from the Hugging Face incident
- Everything we know about the Boston Scientific cyber attack so far
- Glean expands enterprise AI ecosystem with new partner program
- ‘Now, compute is revenue’: Jensen Huang hails ‘golden age’ of AI in wake of seismic revenue gains
August 26th
- US claims Chinese hackers breached Justice Department, Federal Reserve, NASA in lengthy threat campaign
- Google targets AI cost efficiency with new FinOps features for Gemini Enterprise
- Hackers have breached hundreds of Zimbra servers, despite a patch having been available for weeks
- ‘A striking finding this year is the gap between individual gains and enterprise impact’: McKinsey says AI is finally paying off for enterprises – but rising costs and ‘constrained’ efficiency boosts are still a major hurdle
- Most business leaders aren't completely sure what 'sovereign AI' means – but they’re starting to understand its importance
August 25th
- Apple targets developer AI performance gains with new M6 Mac Mini and M5 Ultra Mac Studio devices
- How much electricity are your workers chewing through with AI, and should you be worried?
- IT leaders need to stop ‘pushing AI for the sake of AI’
- UK gov floats new essential services measures in Cyber Security and Resilience Bill – including a potential ban on buying from risky vendors
- US lawmakers say CISA cuts raise ‘serious concerns about the agency's ability to fulfil its mission’
- Semiconductor revenue doubles as AI data center build-outs surge
- Freeths names new CTO in digital transformation push
August 24th
- Why you need to start ‘storagemaxxing’
- Researchers warn thousands of active AWS access keys are publicly exposed
- Iranian cyber attack on UK power plant ‘should concern every organization responsible for keeping this country running’
- ‘We are about to see the greatest boom in people starting smaller businesses that we’ve ever seen’: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman thinks AI will spark a new wave of entrepreneurship
August 21st
- AI-assisted software development means security teams need an ‘engineering-first’ mindset
- AMD talks up sustainability efforts with rack-scale energy efficiency gains
- Vantage and Nebius move first in South Wales AI Growth Zone deployment
- Be careful who you talk to at conferences: Security researchers claim they were targeted by cyber criminals after DEF CON event
- Exclaimer eyes simplicity gains with new partner program
August 20th
- ‘Modern players are essentially the architects of the future technical labor pool’: IT leaders want gamers on their teams, and they’re more likely to hire job candidates who list experience on resumes
- GitHub outage blamed on misconfigured policy as firm pledges resilience improvements
- 'An evolution in threat actor capabilities': CISA warns hackers are targeting Siemens industrial controllers – and they're using AI generated code
- Colt DCS names Quy Nguyen as chief executive officer
- This company wants you to break out of its security sandbox – and there’s $1 million up for grabs
- Data belonging to 3.75 million patients was exposed in the CareCloud breach – not the 350,000 originally reported
- ‘The economics of vulnerability discovery have changed’: NIST wants to modernize the National Vulnerability Database amid AI advances – cyber experts say it needs to be redesigned with machine-speed in mind
August 19th
- ‘The scale of PurpleDelta’s operation is easy to miss’: Fake North Korean IT workers are submitting so many job applications that companies can’t keep up
- Fortinet eyes AI security gains with Virtue AI acquisition
- AI was meant to simplify IT service management – new research shows it's creating bigger workloads for teams
- Vibe coding startup Cursor just launched a GitHub alternative – here's what users can expect
- Wiz CTO speaks out amid confusion over Snowflake-GitHub Copilot flaw
August 18th
- “Enterprises are becoming much more rigorous about the economics of AI”: Snowflake wants to help you cut AI costs by choosing the right model for the right task
- Google just spent $10 million in an auction for Spirit Airlines data – 100 million emails, 500 million Microsoft Teams chats, and 30 million lines of code will be used to improve AI models and products
- Hacker claims to have stolen millions of Azure customer records from McDonald’s, Vodafone, Kyndryl, and others – here's what we know so far
- National Grid plans major works to accommodate London data centers
- The GitHub outage explained: What happened, who was affected, and how long did it last?
August 17th
- Agentic AI is spurring a ‘fundamental shift’ in cloud infrastructure consumption
- HMRC eyes low-code transformation gains with £78m Atos deal
- Rackspace names Chetan Gupta as chief AI officer in sovereignty push
- Poor business context is scuppering enterprise AI adoption – here’s why that matters
August 14th
- Dynatrace acquires observability firm Arize in $915m deal
- Expired domains are a goldmine for hackers – and some cyber crime groups are investing millions in 'dropcatch' scams to deliver malware
- OpenAI forges closer ties with IBM in enterprise push
- Flexibility is a huge advantage for small businesses adopting AI, but clear strategy and bold leadership is critical
- Tricentis names Erika Dean as chief information security officer
- AMD pledges support for Oxford frontier AI research lab
August 13th
- Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky says companies need to start building useful AI products
- Software teams should take a leaf out of manufacturers books when it comes to testing code
- The LiteLLM supply chain attack this year could be the biggest ever
- Ryanair is taking AI to the skies with Google Cloud
- QBS Software bolsters European security portfolio with Futurex distribution deal
August 12th
- Delta Airlines flight Wi-Fi tampered with after DEF CON conference
- Analysts project bullish SASE industry growth as enterprises sharpen networking and identity focus
- Data center markets are booming in these EMEA countries
August 11th
- UK manufacturers urged to bolster resilience as cyber threats surge
- OpenAI has paused work on its Astra AI model after it passed a 'critical threshold' in cyber capability – but it’s not the one that breached Hugging Face
- Logistics firm supply chain breach hits Valve and other customers
- OVHcloud chief issues customer price warning amid surging hardware costs
- Warning issued over Gunra ransomware gang as attacks ramp up globally
- A boon for SMBs? Everything you need to know about the G-Cloud shake-up
August 10th
- Globant launches new AI consultancy marketplace for AI services
- Trust your AI agents? New research shows ‘memory poisoning’ can dupe them into ‘remembering’ fake information – and it’s a huge security risk
- Swiss authorities urge calm amid fears over SharePoint credential leak
- Microsoft has joined the growing list of companies cracking down on ‘tokenmaxxing’
August 7th
- Broadcom eyes security, performance boosts with vDefend and Avi Load Balancer updates
- Rubrik teams up with Wipro to launch 'enterprise resilience as a service' scheme
- US cloud 'kill switch' is as dangerous as ransomware, European businesses fear
- Everpure names Craig Robertson as head of partners for EMEA and LatAm
- 'The easiest way into a company isn't always through a vulnerability anymore': Hackers are building a global insider threat recruitment network – and they’re even offering referral bonuses
- DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis steps aside amid Google leadership shake-up
August 6th
- AI testing firm Irregular the source of ‘misconfigurations’ that led to Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic AI incidents
- Attacks on US water systems could be the tip of the iceberg, cyber experts warn
- Anthropic’s Mythos AI tried to dupe devs in social engineering attack, collaborated with other agents
- Cyber criminals are selling discount AI tokens on underground forums
- Qualcomm appoints Wassim Chourbaji to lead EMEA operations
August 5th
- ‘Shai-Hulud: Here We Go Again’: Thousands of npm packages compromised in ‘Chaindrop’ malware campaign where hackers taunt victims
- Microsoft forks out record-breaking sums with expanded bug bounty program
- ‘Real-time data remains the voice that every leader must hear’: This one engineering role could be the key to building a truly data-driven enterprise
- AMD CEO Lisa Su hails ‘excellent quarter’ as data center revenue surges 107%
August 4th
- MSPs urged to patch immediately after N-able issues hotfix for N-central ‘god mode’ flaw
- Red Hat launches new open source project to drive AI governance
- This new technique could improve AI output accuracy by 80% – and tackle hallucinations once and for all
- ‘I bought the tool to save time, but I did more manual work than before’: Pentesters are finding more bugs with AI than they can fix
- Rapid7 expands UK channel reach through Exclusive Networks partnership
- Reports: UK could consider regulation amidst growing 'rogue AI' concerns
- Police National Legal Database confirms data leaked on the dark web
August 3rd
- Cloud infrastructure spending just hit an eight-year high
- Analysts ponder whether big tech is 'overbuilding' as AI infrastructure projects accelerate
- Otter.ai appoints first channel leader to build global partner ecosystem
- One-in-five breaches are now AI-related, IBM warns
- Three things you need to know about the new EU AI Act rules