This month in security with Tony Anscombe – February 2026 edition
In this roundup, Tony looks at how opportunistic threat actors are taking advantage of weak authentication, unmanaged exposure, and popular AI tools
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In this roundup, Tony looks at how opportunistic threat actors are taking advantage of weak authentication, unmanaged exposure, and popular AI tools
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This year, AI agents took the center stage – as a defensive capability, but more pressingly as a risk many organizations haven't caught up with
Here's the lowdown on CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, as well as what website owners and IT teams should do to stay safe – all in a little more than two minutes
Autonomous AI agents go on a hacking spree, and Microsoft ships what used to be a year's worth of security patches in one go – here's how to keep pace
Details about the Hugging Face hack, critical infrastructure under attack, a spoofed in-flight Wi-Fi network, and more of this month's cybersecurity news
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