The shift to remote and hybrid work since the pandemic expanded global hiring and accelerated digital onboarding, increasing reliance on online identity verification and remote access. The post Detec…
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2026/04/21/detection-strategies-cloud-identities-against-infiltrating-it-workers/Microsoft has released an out-of-band update to address a restart loop issue triggered by the April 2026 Patch Tuesday update for Windows Server. The emergency patch (KB5091157) is now available acro…
https://petri.com/windows-server-update-fix-restart-loop/Google Deepmind is rolling out Deep Research Max, a new AI agent built on Gemini 3.1 Pro that runs autonomous research across the web and proprietary data sources. For the first time, developers can …
https://the-decoder.com/google-launches-deep-research-and-deep-research-max-agents-to-automate-complex-research/[This is a Guest Diary by L. Carty, an ISC intern as part of the SANS.edu Bachelor&#;39;s Degree in Applied Cybersecurity (BACS) program [1].]
https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32888When people say AI will speed up drug development or fear that it will bring about mass layoffs, what they have in mind—whether they know it or not—are AI agents. ChatGPT made large language models a…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/21/1135654/agent-orchestration-ai-artificial-intelligence/Many organizations believe they’re ready for a ransomware attack, but real-world incidents tell a different story, with most failing to fully restore their data. The gap between perceived readiness a…
https://petri.com/organizations-fail-full-ransomware-recovery/In this guide, you’ll learn how to migrate a DNS server in a Windows Server environment, covering both Active Directory–integrated and standard zones. We’ll look at prep, validation, and troubleshoot…
https://petri.com/how-to-migrate-a-dns-server-windows-active-directory/When ChatGPT was released to the public in late 2022, it opened people’s eyes to how easily generative AI could churn out vast amounts of human-seeming text from simple prompts. This quickly caught t…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/21/1135647/supercharged-scams-ai-artificial-intelligence/The hackers targeted LayerZero’s DVN, compromising certain RPCs and DDoSing others to trigger failover to the poisoned infrastructure. The post $290 Million Kelp DAO Crypto Heist Blamed on North Kore…
https://www.securityweek.com/290-million-kelp-dao-crypto-heist-blamed-on-north-korea/There have been reports of threat actors using a .wav file as a vector for malware.
https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32910Silicon Valley AI companies follow a familiar playbook: Keep the secret sauce behind an API, and charge for every drop. China’s leading AI labs are playing a different game: They ship models as downl…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/21/1135658/china-open-source-models-ai-artificial-intelligence/OpenAI is adding reasoning and web search to its ChatGPT Images 2.0 image generator. The model can now create up to eight consistent images from a single prompt and handles text in general, and espec…
https://the-decoder.com/openais-chatgpt-images-2-0-thinks-before-it-generates-adding-reasoning-and-web-search-to-image-creation/AI can remove administrative drag and bureaucratic busywork so people can spend more time on judgement, care, creativity, and responsibility. The parts of work that can’t be reduced to metrics. The d…
https://petri.com/best-use-of-ai-isnt-faster-work-but-more-meaningful-work/For years, experts have warned that deepfakes—AI-generated videos, images, or audio recordings of people doing or saying things they haven’t actually done in real life—could be deployed in malicious …
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/21/1135652/weaponized-deepfakes-ai-artificial-intelligence/Music streaming service Deezer reports that 44 percent of all songs uploaded to its platform daily are now fully AI-generated. The company uses its own detection technology and plans to license it to…
https://the-decoder.com/the-flood-of-ai-music-is-reshaping-how-streaming-platforms-handle-new-uploads/