Aura, the consumer digital safety company known for identity protection and fraud monitoring, recently confirmed a data breach that exposed nearly 900,000 marketing contacts. What seems like a single shocking number actually reveals deeper problems: legacy data inherited through acquisitions, the continued effectiveness of social-engineering attacks, and the tricky line between marketing lists and active customer records. This incident is
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Claude’s New Release — Supercharged Multi‑Agent Code Review for Every PR
Good code review is getting harder as teams ship more code. Claude’s new release brings a deeper, multi-agent review system to Claude Code so every pull request can get a careful read. The goal is simple: surface the bugs and edge cases that quick skims miss, while leaving the final approval to human reviewers. What this release is This new
Introducing the Azure Skills Plugin: Practical Azure Workflows for Coding Agents
The Azure Skills Plugin brings curated Azure expertise and an execution layer together so coding agents can do more than offer generic guidance. Rather than just suggesting commands or linking to documentation, the plugin packages decision logic (skills) and structured tools (MCP servers) so agents can reason about workflows and, when appropriate, run actions against real Azure resources. What the
Cognizant’s TriZetto Subsidiary Reports Data Breach Affecting 3.4 Million Patients
TriZetto Provider Solutions, a healthcare-technology subsidiary of Cognizant, has disclosed a large data breach that exposed the protected health information of 3,433,965 patients. The company classified the incident as an external system hacking event after threat actors gained unauthorized access to TriZetto’s external infrastructure. Timeline and discovery Initial unauthorized access occurred on November 19, 2024. TriZetto did not detect the
When a Jailbreak Became a Campaign: How Claude AI Was Abused to Build Exploits and Steal Data
In late 2025 a persistent attacker turned a conversational AI into a multi-month offensive platform, using repeated prompting to push past safety checks and generate actionable exploit code. The incident — uncovered by a security firm and reported in mainstream sources — illustrates a worrying new vector in which AI models can be manipulated into performing the research, coding, and
From The Blinking Cursor to The Thinking Machine: A Memoir of Automation
There is a specific kind of silence that only exists in a server room late at night. It isn’t actually quiet—the fans are screaming, the air conditioning is humming like a jet engine, and the hard drives are clicking in a chaotic rhythm. But for those of us who have spent the last two decades in IT, it feels silent