Election Systems Are Now a Persistent Cyber Target

Maryam Shoraka • June 10, 2026

Election security has long been treated as a seasonal effort - defenses up before a vote, then scaled back after. But analysis of the 2024 global election cycle shows adversaries maintaining persistent access across jurisdictions, mapping ecosystems and positioning for future cycles.

Endpoint Security

EU Prepares Path for Shutting Out US Cloud Providers

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Boards, Security Teams and the Cyber Fluency Gap

Anna Delaney • June 10, 2026

Cybersecurity's biggest gaps aren't technical - they're strategic. Purvi Kay, cybersecurity leader, TEDx speaker and diversity advocate, discusses why closing them demands stronger leadership, smarter boardrooms and a workforce built on cognitive diversity.

3rd Party Risk Management

Resilience Must Be Built Before Crisis Strikes

Anna Delaney • June 10, 2026

Security leaders can't afford to treat resilience as a response to crisis. Security expert Ragna Sveinsdottir stresses that organizations must build resilience into services from the outset, while balancing AI adoption, supply chain risk and the growing need for collaboration across teams and industries.

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

Are Small Models Closing the Gap on Frontier AI Cyber Tools?

Rashmi Ramesh • June 10, 2026

Anthropic's release of Fable 5 is fueling the debate over whether frontier AI is an essential tool for security. Experts say smaller models increasingly match frontier systems on routine security tasks, but frontier models retain an edge in discovering complex, previously unknown vulnerabilities.

Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks

Data Center OT Flaws Could Help Hackers Kill Power and AC

Shaun Waterman • June 10, 2026

Vulnerabilities in backup power devices and heating and cooling control systems widely used in data centers could enable remote cyberattacks and result in costly downtime and "devastating" operational impact, according to new research from OT security firm Claroty.

How AI Governance Protects Patient Care and Sensitive Data

Marianne Kolbasuk McGee • June 10, 2026

Healthcare organizations face mounting pressure to govern AI without slowing innovation. Krista Arndt of St. Luke's University Health Network explains how agile governance, technical controls and collaboration can reduce data loss risks, protect patient care and strengthen AI security programs.

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

White House Calls for More AI Adoption in National Security

Greg Sirico • June 9, 2026

The Trump administration's directed the military and intelligence agencies Friday to accelerate advanced artificial intelligence adoption while reducing barriers to deployment. It blames "undue bureaucracy" for a slower-than-desired pace of uptake.

Identity Scams Evolve Into Multi-Stage Attacks

Tiffany Wang • June 9, 2026

Identity theft scams are increasingly unfolding as coordinated, AI-assisted attack chains that begin with phishing or impersonation escalate into account takeovers, device compromise and broader fraud, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center.

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

Anthropic Unveils Claude Fable 5, Keeps Mythos Restricted

Michael Novinson • June 9, 2026

Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5 as its most capable publicly available AI model while restricting Mythos 5 to vetted organizations, pairing major advances in software engineering and autonomous reasoning with new safeguards designed to limit cybersecurity misuse.

Agentic AI

AI Framework Aims to Improve Medical Device Safety

Marianne Kolbasuk McGee • June 9, 2026

A proposed digital similarity analysis framework could help clinicians assess whether AI-enabled medical devices will perform as reliably with individual real-life patients as they performed during testing, said the Paragon Health Institute's Kev Coleman, who developed the framework.

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

Why AI Ethics Is Becoming a Core CIO Responsibility

Jennifer Lawinski • June 9, 2026

As AI adoption accelerates, CIOs are being pushed into a new role: defining how ethics shape enterprise technology decisions. Robert Levitan explains why compliance alone isn't enough. Governance, trust and mission alignment now matter more than speed.

Agentic AI

Femtech Can't Afford to Get AI Trust Wrong

Anna Delaney • June 9, 2026

Trust in femtech isn't a feature. It's the foundation. Laure Lydon, vice president of security at Flo Health, makes the case for embedding privacy and security into AI development from day one, not as an afterthought. Firms must evaluate potential risks before systems are built, she said.

Cybercrime

Ransomware Thrives by Adapting Faster Than Defenders

Mathew J. Schwartz • June 9, 2026

Ransomware groups are simplifying operations, embracing service-based business models and increasingly exploiting vulnerabilities instead of relying on phishing. Thom Langford of Rapid7 explains why organizations must improve vulnerability prioritization before AI-driven flood of new flaws arrives.