Is XBOW’s success the beginning of the end of human-led bug hunting? Not yet.

XBOW’s AI bug-hunter landed a big funding round while dominating HackerOne’s leaderboards. But even its founder says it hasn’t fully replaced the need for humans to be involved in the bug-hunting process.

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Trump bill will have major impact on health care cybersecurity, experts warn Congress

Witnesses at a Senate hearing Wednesday connected One Big Beautiful Bill provisions to potential cyber issues in the health care sector, much to GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy’s chagrin.

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Call of Duty takes PC game offline after multiple reports of RCE attacks on players

Gamemakers have only said they are investigating an unspecified “issue.” Players are posting videos of their computers being compromised.

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Cloudflare rolls out ‘pay-per-crawl’ feature to constrain AI’s limitless hunger for data 

The move is the result customer feedback, since they neither wanted to grant AI web crawlers unrestricted access to their data nor block the practice entirely.  

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Microsoft security updates address CrowdStrike crash, kill ‘Blue Screen of Death’

Third-party antivirus software will no longer have access to the Windows kernel as Microsoft rolls out changes to reduce IT downtime from unexpected crashes or disruptions. 

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Many data brokers aren’t registering across state lines, privacy groups say

An analysis of four states with data broker registry laws found that hundreds of brokers are registered as such in one state but not in others.

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Researchers say AI hacking tools sold online were powered by Grok, Mixtral

A pair of AI tools advertised on hacking forums were developed using commercial AI models from xAI and Mistral, according to Cato Networks.

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Cyber experts call for supercharging volunteer network to protect community organizations

To defend “target rich, resource poor” critical infrastructure from cyberattacks, the U.S. must expand its patchwork volunteer system, a new report concludes. 

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