New CISA head, AI safety regulator, N-able's zero-day deluge

Australia to create AI safety regulator https://apnews.com/article/australia-artificial-intelligence-regulator-openai-agent-breach-a5dfe5379c0f7458e44b72a9073833c6

Zero-day drop forces N-able offline https://www.securityweek.com/n-able-takes-n-central-offline-as-researcher-drops-over-30-zero-days/

White House nominates new CISA head https://www.reuters.com/world/white-house-nominates-palantirs-losapio-lead-homeland-securitys-cyber-agency-2026-11-09/ https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/cisa-incident-reporting-form-circia/

DeepMind formally proves Signal's cryptography https://www.wired.com/story/a-new-ai-tool-from-google-deepmind-formally-verified-the-signal-protocol/

Vanderbilt recovering from ransomware attack https://cyberscoop.com/vanderbilt-university-ransomware-attack-byod/

AWS environments impacted by third-party breach https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-exploit-trusted-aws-access-to-breach-multiple-cloud-environments/

Cereal steals NATO messages https://therecord.media/russia-hackers-espionage-romania-kazakhstan

Patch news https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/sap-patches-four-maximum-severity-security-vulnerabilities/ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-exploit-barracuda-email-security-gateway-flaws-to-get-root-access/ https://www.securityweek.com/exploited-outlook-zero-day-among-1094-flaws-patched-by-microsoft/ '

Fireworks AI discloses second breach https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fireworks-ai-discloses-new-breach-after-cloud-provider-hack/

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