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Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 5.5 small model and halves Sonnet 5.5 cache read prices

Anthropic PBC today released Claude Haiku 5.5, pricing its newest small model at roughly a quarter of what Haiku 4.5 costs to run. Claude Sonnet 5.5 is getting cheaper as well, since the company is halving what it charges for cache reads on that model. Two we

1 min read 1 views Oct 07
AI Security

Cramer says higher rates are splitting the market in two — and AI stocks have a big advantage

CNBC's Jim Cramer said Wednesday that rising borrowing costs are dividing the stock market into two camps: companies constrained by the bond market and artificial intelligence businesses that seem la

1 min read 1 views Oct 07
Vulnerabilities

Configuring your AI vulnerability harness, Part 2: The steering file

This post shows you how to configure an AI model to perform structured, evidence-based vulnerability triage with the consistency of a seasoned security analyst. You’ll learn the design decisions behind five configuration sections that enforce structural verif

1 min read 1 views Oct 07
Cloud

SonicWall Patches CVSS 10.0 Pre-Authentication SSRF Flaw in SMA1000 Appliances

SonicWall has released hotfixes for four flaws in its SMA1000 appliances, the gateways that give remote workers access to a company's network and applications. The most serious could allow an attacker without a login to send requests through the appliance and reach internal functions. SonicWall rat

1 min read 3 views Oct 07
Other

An Engineer Extorted His Company for $750,000. A Rookie Cybersecurity Mistake Sent Him to Federal Prison

A digital trail and other missteps helped authorities track the engineer down. This story appeared on inc.com, 2026-10-07 21:26:50.

1 min read 1 views Oct 07
AI Security

Australian Gov't Weighs Mandatory AI Incident Reporting

In the wake of an agentic attack against its own Medicare systems, Australia's government is feeling out what regulations might look like for frontier AI companies.

1 min read 7 views Oct 07
Other

Man Who Spent Millions on Rare Pokémon and Magic Cards Found Guilty of Stealing Over $50 Million in Crypto

A 36-year-old cybersecurity consultant and apparent trading card collector from Maryland was just convicted of computer fraud and money laundering in a case involving more than $50 million in stolen

1 min read 2 views Oct 07
Phishing

Attackers hijacked top-level domains, minted fake security certs for Google and other orgs

Imagine going to a Google website at its correct URL, only to be redirected to a crim's illegitimate copy. Attackers hijacked top-level domains, allowing them to alter DNS records and mint fraudulent HTTPS certificates for several Google domains, and those belonging to other organizations. Google sa

3 min read 3 views Oct 07
Other

Thursdays With Erik: Educating Myself On Proactive Security Platforms

As a research director, I manage a team of analysts who cover a range of technologies outside my primary area of expertise (identity and access management). I’ve had to educate myself on these areas so I can oversee the quality of the analysts’ respective res

1 min read 2 views Oct 07
Other

How a (Weirdly Chill) Celebrity Thinks About Personal Cybersecurity

At a promotional event in Times Square on Wednesday for the security company NordVPN, brand ambassador Shaquille ONeal said he is eager to raise awareness among regular people about the importance of

1 min read 2 views Oct 07
Privacy

Citizen Lab Slams Trump Administration, 'Techno-Fascist' Executives

The Citizen Lab's Ron Deibert warns the US government is pushing for pervasive surveillance and says certain technology executives are all too happy to help.

1 min read 3 views Oct 07
Other

Commissionaires and Brassets Group form strategic partnership to advance Canadian security capability

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, Oct. 07, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Canadian Corps of Commissionaires (“Commissionaires”), Canada’s only national not-for-profit security company and the country’s largest employer of veterans, announced that it has partnered with Brass

1 min read 2 views Oct 07

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