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In this week's newsletter, Bill hammers home the old adage, "Know your environment" — even throughout alert fatigue.

Google-owned AdMob allegedly collected kids' data for ads without parental consent—including IP addresses, usage data, and exact locations.

The systems running an organization's infrastructure and applications are interconnected, creating an environment of controlled chaos where events in one area can ripple unpredictably through others. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform features Event-Driven Ansible as an automation mechanism for reacting to these ripples. Event-Driven Ansible listens to external event or alert sources so you can design automated responses for these events, enabling faster response to problems with consistency and accuracy. A foundational use case that can be used almost anywhere to provide a great deal of valu

In cybersecurity, the line between a normal update and a serious incident keeps getting thinner. Systems that once felt reliable are now under pressure from constant change. New AI tools, connected devices, and automated systems quietly create more ways in, often faster than security teams can react. This week’s stories show how easily a small mistake or hidden service can turn into a real

Plus: AI reportedly caused ICE to send agents into the field without training, Palantir’s app for targeting immigrants gets exposed, and more.

A fake ticket website that ended with a digital finger-wag showed just how many people still fall for concert and sports ticket scams.

The Black Lotus Labs team at Lumen Technologies said it null-routed traffic to more than 550 command-and-control (C2) nodes associated with the AISURU/Kimwolf botnet since early October 2025. AISURU and its Android counterpart, Kimwolf, have emerged as some of the biggest botnets in recent times, capable of directing enslaved devices to participate in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS)

A hacker claims a full breach of Russia’s Max Messenger, threatening to leak user data and backend systems if demands are not met.

Microsoft on Tuesday rolled out its first security update for 2026, addressing 114 security flaws, including one vulnerability that it said has been actively exploited in the wild. Of the 114 flaws, eight are rated Critical, and 106 are rated Important in severity. As many as 58 vulnerabilities have been classified as privilege escalation, followed by 22 information disclosure, 21 remote code

Node.js has released updates to fix what it described as a critical security issue impacting "virtually every production Node.js app" that, if successfully exploited, could trigger a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. "Node.js/V8 makes a best-effort attempt to recover from stack space exhaustion with a catchable error, which frameworks have come to rely on for service availability," Node.js's