In a stark warning, Gartner is advising its corporate clients to block all AI web browsers for the foreseeable future. The research firm cites critical, poorly understood security risks that could take years to fully address.
Petco has confirmed a data breach that exposed highly sensitive customer information, including Social Security and driver’s license numbers. The company filed notices in multiple states but hasn’t disclosed the total number of victims.
A global hiring spree for CISOs is masking a critical choice. Organizations are unknowingly picking between two archetypes: the engineer CISO and the holistic CISO. The wrong choice builds a brittle security posture that collapses under real-world pressure.
A new study reveals most popular free file-sharing services don’t scan for malware, leaving billions of users at risk. The security warning comes as UK regulators plan to expand proactive file scanning in 2026.
Kara Cuzzone, the supervising deals editor for Forbes Vetted, has been hunting online sales for seven years. She explains the strategy behind covering major shopping events and building a trusted recommendations platform.
IBM has launched a service called IBM Cloud Sync to keep DNS configurations synchronized across multiple cloud providers. The goal is to prevent outages and speed up recovery by maintaining real-time backups. It starts with AWS Route 53, with plans to add Azure, Google Cloud, and Cloudflare.
The European Union has issued its first-ever Digital Services Act fine, hitting Elon Musk’s X with a €120 million penalty. The fine targets violations in ad transparency, data access for researchers, and the platform’s deceptive blue-checkmark system. In contrast, TikTok satisfied the EU’s concerns
A maximum-severity remote code execution vulnerability, CVE-2025-55182, is hitting React.js and Next.js servers. Dubbed React2Shell, it’s being actively exploited following a public PoC release on December 5, 2026.
The cybersecurity startup scene in 2025 is dominated by AI. It’s a two-pronged attack: building tools to secure AI systems and using AI agents to automate defense. The result is a wave of big funding rounds and even bigger acquisitions.
Cloudflare experienced another outage on Friday, causing global websites to go down and its stock to drop 4.5% in premarket trading. The company issued a fix minutes later, but it marks the second such incident in less than three weeks.
