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A major cyberattack is raising serious alarms for enterprise network security. Researchers have uncovered a large database containing plaintext passwords stolen from Fortinet firewall users, with roughly seventy-five thousand accounts potentially compromised. That's a significant exposure, and organizations running Fortinet infrastructure should be treating this as urgent.
Shifting to the web itself, a thoughtful piece from Cloud Four makes the case that improvements being built into the web to serve AI crawlers and agents shouldn't stop there. The argument is straightforward: better structured, more accessible web content helps everyone, including users with assistive technology and slower connections. It's a reminder that infrastructure built for machines often has very human beneficiaries.
And in a story that feels pulled from a different era entirely, a man in the United Kingdom has received a two-year suspended sentence for mixing and selling unauthorized remix CDs, a format that peaked four decades ago. The investigation began in two thousand eighteen and ran for four years. He pleaded guilty to copyright infringement. It is, as the headline dryly notes, two thousand twenty six.
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