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Friday, February 13, 2026 The State of Security by Design and Threat Modeling (Sponsored) TODAY'S CYBERSECURITY NEWS BeyondTrust Vulnerability Targeted by Hackers Within 24 Hours of PoC Release China Revives Hacking Contest Under Increased Secrecy CISA Warns of Exploited SolarWinds, Notepad++, Microsoft Vulnerabilities Chrome 145 Patches 11 Vulnerabilities In Other News: Google Looks at AI Abuse, Trump Pauses China Bans, Disney’s $2.7M Fine Check Point Announces Trio of Acquisitions Amid Solid Earnings Dutch Carrier Odido Discloses Data Breach Impacting 6 Million People on the Move - Salesforce has named Iain Mulholland as CISO Trending: Apple Patches iOS Zero-Day Exploited in ‘Extremely Sophisticated Attack’ Microsoft to Enable ‘Windows Baseline Security’ With New Runtime Integrity Safeguards Free Report: Threat Modeling Insights Get the latest research on security by design and threat modeling: adoption trends, priorities, and hurdles teams face today. Download Report SecurityWeek Expert Insights How to Eliminate the Technical Debt of Insecure AI-Assisted Software Development - Developers must view AI as a collaborator to be closely monitored, rather than an autonomous entity to be unleashed. Without such a mindset, crippling tech debt is inevitable. (Matias Madou) Security in the Dark: Recognizing the Signs of Hidden Information - Security failures don’t always start with attackers, sometimes they start with missing truth. (Joshua Goldfarb) ADVERTISEMENT Outpace the threat. Reverse the unknown. If you missed it... Google Threat Report Warns of Attacks Targeting Defense Industry ApolloMD Data Breach Impacts 626,000 Individuals Nucleus Raises $20 Million for Exposure Management Nevada Unveils New Statewide Data Classification Policy Months After Cyberattack Google-Intel Security Audit Reveals Severe TDX Vulnerability Allowing Full Compromise Hacker Conversations: Professional Hacker Douglas Day Chipmaker Patches: Over 80 Vulnerabilities Addressed by Intel and AMD ICS Patch Tuesday: Vulnerabilities Addressed by Siemens, Schneider, Aveva, Phoenix Contact Microsoft to Refresh Windows Secure Boot Certificates Security in the Dark: Recognizing the Signs of Hidden Information Ivanti Patches Endpoint Manager Vulnerabilities Disclosed in October 2025 Fortinet Patches High-Severity Vulnerabilities GitGuardian Raises $50 Million for Secrets and Non-Human Identity Security Conduent Breach Hits Volvo: Nearly 17,000 Employees’ Data Exposed New ‘ZeroDayRAT’ Enables Total Compromise of iOS, Android Devices 6 Actively Exploited Zero-Days Patched by Microsoft View SecurityWeek's 2026 Virtual Event Lineup RSS Feed | LinkedIn | Webcasts | Virtual Events © 2026 Wired Business Media

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