Mouser Electronics has announced a new e-book in collaboration with Microchip Technology: Designing for the Cyber Resilience Act: Securing Connected Devices from First Schematic to Final Decommissioning. As connected products become more widely used across industrial, consumer, infrastructure, and IoT…
CIP Security achieves IEC 62443-4-2 certification for industrial products
ODVA’s CIP Security specification has been certified to meet IEC 62443-4-2 requirements at Security Level Capability 3, a development intended to help manufacturers strengthen industrial cybersecurity and simplify product certification. The certification, awarded by TÜV Rheinland on 22nd October, covers…
I predict a riot: the tech working behind the scenes to monitor popular protests
France’s wave of protests last weekend left a trail of looted shops, burning vehicles and damaged public buildings – and a substantial amount of digital evidence. Following the unrest on 17 and 18 October, Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu announced a…
AI models breached OT networks and moved industrial equipment in 16 minutes, tests find
AI models breached industrial control networks and moved a robotic arm within minutes during tests by Booz Allen Hamilton, highlighting the potential for increasingly capable AI to turn cyber intrusions into physical actions. In one controlled scenario, the models took…
AI ‘worms’ could soon replicate across insecure IoT devices, Anthropic researchers warn
Small AI ‘worms’ could soon be capable of replicating across internet-connected devices without relying on data centres, raising the prospect of persistent botnets that exploit poorly secured consumer hardware. Anthropic researchers William Zhou and Daniel Freeman warned that smaller models…
DDoS attacks top 9.1m as high-capacity incidents surge
More than 9.1 million distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks were recorded globally in the first half of 2026, as a sharp rise in high-capacity incidents and increasingly short attacks put pressure on telecommunications networks and enterprise defences. The number of attacks…
French supermarket hack exposes risks of unsupported IoT devices
Cybersecurity experts have warned that ageing connected devices and inadequate protection for operational technology pose a growing risk to businesses, following a cyber attack that caused refrigeration systems in hundreds of French supermarkets to heat up and spoil food worth…
Fake AI SDK packages on npm deliver Windows remote-access trojan
Seven malicious packages posing as AI developer tools have been used to distribute a Windows remote-access trojan (RAT), exposing the risks of software supply-chain attacks targeting developers, according to cybersecurity researchers at CloudSEK. The packages, published through four accounts on…
Exein and Deutsche Telekom IoT partner on connected device security
Cybersecurity company Exein is partnering with Deutsche Telekom IoT to combine device-level security with global connectivity, as connected devices increasingly take on more autonomous and business-critical roles. The partnership will bring Exein’s runtime security technology together with Deutsche Telekom IoT’s…
Airtel Business launches IQ Gateway to secure enterprise messaging with network intelligence
Airtel Business has launched a unified communications platform that uses network-level intelligence to help enterprises manage messaging, authentication and fraud risks across multiple channels. Airtel IQ Gateway brings SMS, WhatsApp, RCS and business voice onto a single control plane, alongside…
