Mazda recommends E15 gasoline blend  

Posted in Commentary with tags on June 5, 2026 by itnerd

Several jurisdictions in Canada have enacted regulations that require fuel suppliers to meet increasingly stringent environmental standards, which has resulted in the deployment of gasoline with ethanol blended up to 15% by volume (“E15”) as of January 1, 2026.

E15 is safe to use in all Mazda SKYACTIV models going back to the 2013 CX-5. While Mazda recommends the use of gasoline blended with no more than 10% ethanol (“E10”) when possible, if E10 is not available, gasoline with ethanol blends up to 15% (“E15”) is supported and will not damage the vehicle when applicable fuel-quality standards are met.

So to recap, use E10 where possible. But if it is not possible, use E15 if there’s no other choice

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Hisense Brings Fans Closer to the Game with the FIFA World Cup 2026 Fan Festival

Posted in Commentary with tags on June 5, 2026 by itnerd

Fans of the Beautiful Game can get immersed in the action of the FIFA World Cup 26™ at the interactive FIFA Fan Festival, presented by Hisense.

The technology-driven experience offers soccer fans a hands-on way to engage with the World Cup through various games, interactive content and premium product showcases. Running over 22 days between June 10th and July 19th at Fort York, the FIFA Fan Festival is a high-energy exhibit that invites guests to move through multiple stations and participate in gameplay that blends sport, entertainment and innovation.

The FIFA Fan Festival will include several Hisense zones where fans can get hands-on with the game:

  • The Champion Frame — Built around Hisense’s massive 116UX RGB MiniLED television, fans stand in front of the 116-inch screen and AI-powered motions capture lets them recreate iconic FIFA World Cup moments in real time, generating their own player card and digital content based on their performance.
  • Football Darts — FIFA’s iconic ball becomes a dart in this fun game. Participants kick a ball toward an oversized dart board to score points and earn prizes. Highest points with a single kick have a chance to win a “match ticket.”
  • Whack-a-Mole Football Edition — When the soccer ball randomly flashes, guests try to react quickly and tap the button; successfully capturing the lit moment to score points. Within the limited time, the one who hits the most footballs wins.
  • Table Football — A barroom classic table football game allowing two to four players to square off against each other.

The FIFA Fan Festival is designed as a continuous loop, allowing fans to move smoothly from station to station. The FIFA Fan Festival forms part of Hisense Canada’s broader commitment to enhancing how fans experience the world’s game, both in-person and through its portfolio of premium display technologies.

Admission is free, but fans must register in advance through Ticketmaster – please click HERE.

Hisense Canada is giving Canadians even more reason to cheer this summer with its “Win With Canada” promotion, running now through June 23. Consumers who purchase an eligible product can receive a guaranteed $150 rebate, with cashback increasing based on Team Canada’s performance at the FIFA World Cup 2026™ — $200 back if Canada scores a goal, $400 if Canada wins a game, $600 if Canada advances past the group stage and $1,000 if Canada pulls off a win in the knockout round. Learn more at winwithcanada.ca.

For more information, please visit hisense-canada.com. 

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Anubis Gang Claims MS Singing River Health System With Graphic Proof Pack 

Posted in Commentary with tags on June 4, 2026 by itnerd

Comparitech is reporting that the cybercriminal group Anubis today claimed responsibility for a data breach at Singing River Health System in Jackson County, MS. Singing River last month notified 53,888 people of a December 2025 data breach that compromised names, SSNs, bank account info, medical info, health insurance info, treatment and diagnostic info, and more. 

Commenting on this news is Rebecca Moody, Head of Data Research at Comparitech: 

“Anubis’s proof pack for this claim is a disturbing one, with intimate and graphic images of patients and their surgeries/injuries. This just serves as a stark reminder of the level these cybercriminals will stoop to in order to try to secure a ransom payment. While we don’t know whether or not Singing River negotiated with Anubis or not, the fact that Anubis has come forward just as SRHS has started issuing notifications suggests negotiations could have failed and Anubis is carrying out its threat.”

Mark my words. This is the first of many attacks that we will see from Anubis. The proof pack is the big hint that there is more to come.

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May Ransomware Attacks: Education on the Rise and Healthcare on the Decline

Posted in Commentary with tags on June 4, 2026 by itnerd

Comparitech researchers published a new study looking at all tracked ransomware attacks in the month of May 2026. According to the findings, attacks increased by just over three percent since April, but remained relatively low compared to the previous months of the year. 

Interestingly, it was found that attacks on the education sector increased significantly from April (up by 54%), while helathcare providers and utilities companies saw the largest decline in attacks (down 21% and 29% respectively).

Key findings for May 2026 include: 

  • 661 attacks in total — 48 confirmed attacks (confirmed by the entity involved)
  • The most prolific ransomware gangs were Qilin (97), The Gentlemen (71), and DragonForce (51)
  • Qilin had the most confirmed attacks (9), followed by The Gentlemen (4) and INC (3)
  • Nearly 115 TB of data was stolen across all of these attacks
  • The US saw the most attacks (272), followed by Canada (31), the United Kingdom (28), and Germany (26)

Additionally, Rebecca Moody, Head of Data Research at Comparitech, commented: 

“While we should take some comfort in the fact that attack figures remained low(er) again in May, it’s important to remember that these figures are still incredibly high, particularly when compared to previous years. Furthermore, this slight reprieve isn’t being witnessed across all sectors and illustrates how hackers are often targeting specific sectors at certain times. For example, May saw a spike in the number of attacks being carried out in the education sector. This may not be a coincidence. As schools and teachers look forward to the holidays, hackers likely see this as a great opportunity to worm their way in while everyone’s starting to unwind and maybe isn’t as focused as usual.”

For full details, including a breakdown of most prolific ransomware gangs, the countries most targeted, and some of the most stand-out ransomware attacks of the month, the research can be read here: https://www.comparitech.com/news/ransomware-roundup-may-2026/

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Rogers Ranked Canada’s Best 5G+ Network

Posted in Commentary with tags on June 4, 2026 by itnerd

Rogers Communications today announced that it has once again been ranked the best and most reliable 5G+ network by umlaut.

Umlaut is a global leader in independent network performance benchmarking. The ranking is based on umlaut’s Mobile Certificate and Audit Report, which show Rogers wireless customers enjoy the best network performance in the country.

In addition to being awarded the “Best in Test” wireless benchmark award for the eighth straight year, Rogers scored the top performance in voice, data and reliability for wireless networks.  Rogers has led on umlaut’s most reliable wireless network ranking since it was first introduced in 2021.

5G+ is the latest 5G technology, delivered through mid-band spectrum. Rogers 5G+ is powered by 3800 MHz and 3500 MHz spectrum, providing customers with faster speeds and more capacity. This mid-band spectrum complements Rogers 600 MHz low-band 5G spectrum, creating consistent and reliable 5G coverage.

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Radiant Logic Extends its Identity Visibility and Intelligence Platform (IVIP) to the Agentic Enterprise with Continuous, Real-Time Risk Scoring

Posted in Commentary with tags on June 4, 2026 by itnerd

Radiant Logic today announced new agentic AI capabilities that establish the company as the only platform-agnostic authority that inventories, continuously scores risk, and controls AI agents across every ecosystem, regardless of where they were built, who built them, or what platform they run on. The platform observes agent behavior in real time, recalculates per-agent risk as posture, privilege, and context change, and triggers remediation before the blast radius compounds.

As organizations adopt AI agents at scale, security leaders face a Three-Identity Problem: the simultaneous challenge of governing employees, the digital workloads they rely on and the AI agents now acting on their behalf. Unlike prior waves of identity, AI agents chain all three together, and that chain often outlives the employee who created it. When an owner changes roles or leaves, the agent keeps running, its accumulated access persists, and accountability disappears. This Uncontrolled Inheritance Chain is one of the fastest-emerging blind spots in enterprise security.

Compounding the problem is platform fragmentation. Every major hyperscaler is building a native agent registry, and none federates across the others. Enterprises running agents on three or more platforms have no unified view of what exists, who owns it or what it can reach.

The release extends Radiant Logic’s proven Unify → Observe → Act framework to AI agents through three capabilities:

  • Complete Agent Visibility —Inventories every AI agent across the enterprise as an authoritative record; captures configuration, approved LLM engine and accessible resources; renders the relationship graph of agent-to-agent, agent-to-tool and agent-to-data dependencies; and links every agent to its human owner and the workloads it has accumulated.
  • Security Posture Assessment — Validates configuration hygiene, detects stale and orphaned agents; analyzes privilege against the agent’s purpose; and produces a continuous, per-agent risk score that updates in real time as configuration, privilege, ownership, and behavior change, with a prioritized remediation path consistent with Radiant Logic’s operating principle for agentic security: AI recommends, humans approve, systems enforce
  • Vendor-Neutral, Cross-Platform Coverage — Federates across the leading agentic AI frameworks in use today, providing one source of truth without rip-and-replace; interoperates with existing identity, governance and access programs through the Shared Signals Framework, preserving prior investment.

Radiant Logic will demonstrate the new agentic AI identity security capabilities at Identiverse 2026, June 15–18, Booth #401. The agenda includes:

  • Keynote: “The Three Identity Problem: Surviving the Chaotic Era,” John Pritchard, CEO, June 16, 8:30 a.m., Oceanside Room.
  • Masterclass: “Identity Always Tattles: Detecting Attacks in Real Time Through the Lens of Identity Observability,” Anders Askåsen and Paul Dant, Radiant Logic, June 16, 11:40 a.m., Breakers J.
  • Sponsored session: “AI Agents Are Digital Workers: Start Governing Them Like It,” Akshay Srinivas Rajanbabu, Radiant Logic, June 16, 4:30 p.m.
  • Sponsored session featuring Customer Insights: “Reimagining IAM: Identity Data as the Engine of Zero Trust,” with AdventHealth, June 17, 2:35 p.m.

Attendees can register at events.identiverse.com/2026/register using code IDV26-RADIANT20 for a discount. An on-demand pre-event webinar, “Identities Under Attack: How Adversaries Exploit the Human–Machine–Agent Divide,” is available now.

To learn more, visit: What is Agentic AI Identity Security

 [JP3]At this point I’d lean into IVIP.

 [JP4]Radiant Logic, a pioneer of the Identity Data Fabric and a leader in Identity Security Posture Management (ISPM), today announced new agentic AI capabilities that establish the company as the only platform-agnostic authority that inventories, continuously scores risk, and controls AI agents across every ecosystem, regardless of where they were built, who built them, or what platform they run on. The platform observes agent behavior in real time, recalculates per-agent risk as posture, privilege, and context change, and triggers remediation before the blast radius compounds.

 [BV5]Should we bolster this quote and the 10:1 ratio with some of the other stats in the Message House –  90% of Fortune 500 have active agent initiatives, 75% cite governance as deployment blocker, 5+ fragmented registries?

If so, here’s an idea:

“Twenty years ago, enterprises had dozens of user directories and no unified view, and we built the platform that solved it. Today, they face a similar challenge with five fragmented agentic registries covering roughly 70% of the market and none of which federates across the others. We’re solving it again, on the same vendor-neutral foundation, for the agentic identity class that will outnumber humans 10 to 1 by 2027.”

 [BV6]80%+ Of the Fortune 500 are deploying active AI agents in production*

*Microsoft Cyber Pulse, Feb 2026 — first-party telemetry, Copilot Studio + Agent Builder, Nov 2025

 [BV7]Will Identiverse registration will still be open when this press release goes out?

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Governor Abbott Appoints Five To Quantum Initiative Advisory Committee

Posted in Commentary with tags on June 3, 2026 by itnerd

Governor Greg Abbott appointed Victor Fishman, Ph.D. and Lin Zhou, Ph.D. to the Quantum Initiative Advisory Committee for terms set to expire on January 31, 2027. Governor Abbott also appointed Richard “Ross” Coffman for a term set to expire on January 31, 2029, and appointed John Josephakis and Jeff Prevost, Ph.D. for terms set to expire on January 31, 2031. The Initiative will develop a strategic plan for the promotion of the quantum economy in this state.

Victor Fishman, Ph.D. of Allen is the executive director of the Texas Research Alliance. He is a board member on the Dallas Innovation Alliance and the North Texas Innovation Alliance and a member of the National Defense Industrial Association. He is a veteran of the Vietnam war, having served in the U.S. Army Ordnance Corps. Fishman received a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from the University of Miami, a Master of Science in Chemistry from Clemson University, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Chemistry from The University of Texas (UT) at Austin.

Lin Zhou, Ph.D. of Lubbock is the vice president, chief information officer, and executive director for AI and Quantum Computing at Texas Tech University. He is a founding member of the Texas Quantum Summit and serves on the board of directors for the Lonestar Education and Research Network. Additionally, he is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) by the Project Management Institute and served on the Texas Department of Information Resources State Strategic Plan Advisory Committee. Zhou received a Bachelor of Science in Physics from Nanjing University and a Doctor of Philosophy in Physics from the University of Glasgow.

Richard “Ross” Coffman of Austin is the president of Forward Edge AI. He received an Honorable Discharge from the United States Army. Coffman received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Government from Centre College, a Master of Business Administration from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, and he completed a National Security Fellowship at the Harvard Kennedy School.

John Josephakis of Dallas is a global vice president at NVIDIA. Josephakis received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from UT Austin with a minor in Mechanical Engineering and a Master of Business Administration in Finance from St. Edwards University.

Jeff Prevost, Ph.D. of San Antonio is an associate professor at UT San Antonio where he currently serves as a vice president for the Cyber Manufacturing Innovation Institute as well as the executive director for the Open Cloud Institute. He is a founding member of the Texas Quantum Summit and represents UT San Antonio on the UT System Quantum Planning Committee. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Prevost received a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Texas A&M University and a Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering from UT San Antonio.

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Free SOCRadar ‘Hacker Score’ Helps MSSPs and MSPs Support Prospects With Automated Threat Assessments to Build Trust and Generate Leads on Day One

Posted in Commentary with tags on June 3, 2026 by itnerd

SOCRadar today launched Hacker Score, a new tool designed to help Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) and Managed Service Providers (MSPs) garner immediate trust with prospects by showing them where they are vulnerable using automated external exposure checks in order to generate leads. Available free of charge for a limited time, Hacker Score delivers an instant score of a prospect’s digital footprint, identifying vulnerabilities, leaked credentials, and surface/dark web exposures without a complex set up.

MSSPs and MSPs continue to struggle with the manual, time-consuming process of conducting initial security assessments for prospects. Standard “scans” often lack the depth of Extended Threat Intelligence (XTI), making it difficult for them to differentiate their services from their competitors and prove the necessity of their security stack in a crowded market.

Hacker Score helps organizations see themselves through the eyes of an attacker. By continuously monitoring more than 150 indicators and attack vectors that hackers typically evaluate before launching an attack, Hacker Score reveals what adversaries already know about an organization. Combining attack surface intelligence with SOCRadar’s deep and dark web datasets, including stealer logs, compromised credentials, ransomware intelligence, and phishing infrastructure, Hacker Score delivers a real-world assessment of organizational exposure and highlights the weaknesses most likely to be targeted.

Hacker Score’s features include:

  • External Attack Surface Mapping: Provides visibility into all internet-facing assets.
  • Credential Leak Detection: Identifies employee data exposed in recent breaches or stealer logs.
  • Vulnerability Assessment: Instantly identifies critical, exploitable vulnerabilities across a prospect’s infrastructure.
  • Supply Chain Risk: Evaluates the risk levels of a prospect’s third-party ecosystem.

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Astrolight Wins Startup World Cup Regional, Heading to Silicon Valley to Compete for $1M Investment

Posted in Commentary with tags on June 3, 2026 by itnerd

Astrolight has won the Lithuanian regional competition of the Startup World Cup, the world’s leading startup pitch contest. The company will head to the Startup World Cup Grand Finale in San Francisco on November 6, 2026, and compete with finalists from around the world for the title of global champion and a US$1 million investment prize.

Earlier, Astrolight secured contracts and partnerships with the European Space Agency (ESA), industry primes, and leading satellite manufacturers. The company has launched three of its ATLAS-1 laser terminals into orbit for testing, joined a Kepler Communications-led team developing ESA’s HydRON optical multi-orbit transport network, and is working with ESA to build the first Arctic optical ground station in Greenland.

Novaspace, the leading space market research firm, projects global revenues for space laser communication terminals will reach $12.9 billion through 2035, driven by the industry’s structural shift away from radio-frequency (RF) communications as operators face mounting RF spectrum constraints: regulatory scrutiny, licensing delays, and interference bottlenecks.

Similar pressure is now reaching AI infrastructure. As land-based datacenters run into limits around space, power, and cooling, industry leaders are starting to look at putting datacenters and compute systems in orbit, with high-speed laser communications as a core infrastructure layer.

Unlike radio-frequency communication, laser links use narrow and focused beams of infrared light, which can transmit data at up to 100 times faster rates than RF and are extremely resilient to electronic interference, jamming, and interception.

Incidents of electronic warfare in space and on land are growing. Russian GPS spoofing from Kaliningrad can now reach 450 km into Europe, GPS/AIS interference has surged in the Middle East Gulf, and Russia has been accused of intercepting European satellite communications and regularly jamming UK military satellites.

Startup World Cup is a global startup competition and conference organized by Pegasus Tech Ventures, a Silicon Valley-based multinational venture capital firm. The competition includes more than 100 regional events across North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia, followed by the Grand Finale in Silicon Valley.

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DeepTempo Launches Intelligent Defense Platform to Defeat AI-Powered Cyberattacks

Posted in Commentary with tags on June 3, 2026 by itnerd

DeepTempo today announced its Intelligent Defense Platform, the first comprehensive cyber defense system built to deliver machine speed intelligence to enterprises, MSSPs, service providers, and critical infrastructure providers. With this move, DeepTempo has expanded from a LogLM foundation model provider to embrace a system-level approach that both provides visibility into detection quality across an enterprise’s corpus of security telemetry and includes optional integrations with Vigil, the leading OpenSource AI SOC, which DeepTempo launched in April of 2026. 

DeepTempo anticipated today’s reality – the emerging use of AI by attackers is overwhelming human speed cyber security systems. While much has been made of the efficacy of Mythos and similar models in finding vulnerabilities, substantial evidence suggests that attackers are also using AI to orchestrate and execute campaigns that traditional systems struggle to identify and isolate.  

The DeepTempo Intelligent Detection Platform extends existing cybersecurity investments by adding an intelligence layer across threat intelligence, detection, threat hunting, response, and related workflows, making every SIEM, SOAR, and AI SOC more focused and effective, reducing MTTD and MTTR while controlling spending on both human and AI intelligence.  

Use cases in cyber traditionally have been fragmented across countless point products.  Investments in telemetry platforms such as Cribl and data lakes such as Snowflake have made the Intelligent Defense Platform possible. Running in customer environments, DeepTempo’s IDL delivers insights and, optionally, takes actions without the cost, delays, and risk of siloed products that backhaul telemetry into their SaaS solutions for analytics.

DeepTempo’s Intelligent Defense Platform unifies, evaluates, and continuously improves detection across telemetry classes, embracing and supporting existing investments rather than replacing them. Additionally, this learning loop can extend to the use of Vigil and other AI SOCs for common workflows.  By closing this loop with visibility into performance, efficacy, and both historical and projected costs, the Intelligent Defense Layer helps operators transition to the safe and cost-effective use of machine-speed intelligence.  

DeepTempo’s approach provides an AI-native detection and operations foundation to thwart AI-enabled attackers. Recent research shows that 67.2% of exploited CVEs in 2026 have been zero-days, while 82% of detections in 2025 were malware-free. The window between vulnerability and exploitation has narrowed in the era of AI. DeepTempo’s Intelligent Defense Platform builds upon the LogLM, which was pretrained on billions of logs and performs approximately 279 billion calculations per sequence. The LogLM uncovers complex, compound behavioral patterns that no human-authored rule can anticipate while eliminating the costly and error-prone retraining that undermines traditional anomaly detection.

The Intelligent Defense Platform’s key features include:

  • Pluggable Architecture Extends Capabilities while Reducing Lock-in: DeepTempo has partnered with Cribl, Snowflake, and others at the data layer, and works well with Splunk and other SIEMs, as well as agentic solutions within the SOC.  Agentic intelligence is pluggable through skills and similar patterns, whether Vigil is used or not, allowing users to leverage their own AI solutions, such as enterprise licenses for OpenAI, Gemini, and Claude, as well as on-premises reasoning models.
  • End-to-End Validation and Monitoring: Continuously evaluates the efficacy of existing rule-based and ML-based detections alongside LogLM-generated detections and can also be used to measure the efficacy and projected costs of many workflows.  
  • Broader Telemetry used by the LogLM: DeepTempo’s LogLM has broadened its capabilities and can now ingest network flow, firewall, DNS, WAF, cloud performance, commonOT, and agentic AI logs. In some recent deployments, the LogLM has achieved <1% false positives and <1% false negatives without any adaptation required, far better protecting defenders while saving time and money by being pinpoint focused on malicious behavior.
  • Edge-Appropriate Deployment: DeepTempo has simplified the deployment and management of LogLM and related software at the edge.  Distilled versions of the LogLM run on small systems, for example, adding the state-of-the-art ability to see novel and rapidly evolving attacks to systems running in critical infrastructure, including on fly-away kits. 

This announcement follows DeepTempo’s recent launch of Vigil, the first open-source AI SOC built on an LLM-native architecture, underscoring the company’s commitment to providing security teams with a more transparent, extensible foundation for modern security operations. To learn how DeepTempo is advancing AI-native detection and response through both Vigil and its Intelligent Defense Platform, visit www.deeptempo.ai. Free assessments, or threat hunts, are available for a limited time.  

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