This week's top stories are full of interesting places, including Cisco's sales meeting, behind the scenes at Palo Alto, space, and the White House.

The five most targeted vulnerabilities on the list are all related to Microsoft’s products including Office, WordPad and Windows.

The deal, which is set to close early in the fourth quarter of 2023, marks Tenable's sixth acquisition since its initial public offering in 2018.

This week's top stories as chosen by our readers included news from Fortinet, the telecom industry's talent struggles, large language models and more.

"They have seen the Cylance [by] BlackBerry movie before, and they're concerned," CEO George Kurtz said. "We've already seen deals come our way."

QR codes can be a pathway to exploitation and malware, in an attack type that Trustwave refers to as qishing (or quishing).

The move aims to optimize threat detection and response, streamline security workflows and boost productivity among security professionals.

NIST released three post-quantum cryptography draft standards, which are expected to become the global benchmark.

CloudNordic and AzeroCloud have lost everything

According to TransUnion, synthetic identity fraud is growing to record levels, with U.S. lender exposure to synthetic identities now at $2.9 billion.

One of the new features automatically classifies and labels sensitive data and then applies appropriate risk-based controls in Google Drive.

Cloud computing company VMware is rolling out expanded security capabilities in its VMware Cloud.

“What we think lies ahead is the need for security to stop bad actors midflight, real time, as it's happening,” Palo Alto CEO Nikesh Arora said.

As networking and security converge, “that's where a single policy and a single set of controls becomes very powerful,” VP Larry Lunetta said.

Power management vulnerable, cyber firm says to get patching soon

Black Hat can be a target for attendees to try attack techniques; the network ops center ensures the conference network remains stable and protected.

Encryption can be compromised in a number of ways unless very carefully configured and managed, warns cyber firm BishopFox

The contest goals are to both produce new AI cybersecurity tools and "show how AI can be used to better society,” said DARPA's Perri Adams.

Bot management helps protect IBM Cloud users from the growing sophistication and volume of malicious bots, which make up about 25% of web traffic.

The report also found victims of multiple ransomware attacks were over six times more likely to experience a second attack within three months.

Fortinet is growing — with a second quarter 2023 reported revenue of $1.3 billion and two new products for its secure networking portfolio.

Cisco, Google, Microsoft and IBM are among the companies who made their commitment to the National Cyber Workforce and Education Strategy.

Cyber firm Halcyon claims Cloudzy has been helping hacking groups from China, Iran, and North Korea for years

Cisco taps Cohesity for its backup and recovery capabilities; plans to add more partners to expand its extended detection and response platform.