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Hackpocalypse deferred Anthropic’s Mythos model is purportedly so good at finding vulnerabilities that the Claude-maker is afraid to make it available to the general public for fear that criminals will take advantage. But early analysis shows that Myth… Continue reading Anthropic’s super-scary bug hunting model Mythos is shaping up to be a nothingburger
Along with a bunch of new services to make sure those same agents don’t cause chaos Google Cloud Next Google Cloud chief operating officer Francis deSouza has summed up his company’s security strategy du jour as follows: “You need to use AI to fight A… Continue reading Google unleashes even more AI security agents to fight the baddies
Gov admits ‘incident’ as forum sellers boast of fresh haul covering up to a third of the population France’s National Agency for “Secure” Documents is explaining a potential data spill just as crooks online claim they’ve nicked a third of the country’s… Continue reading France’s ‘Secure’ ID agency probes breach as crooks claim 19M records
Judges say cops face-slurping not a problem under current human rights laws London’s Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has survived a legal challenge that attempted to curb its rollout of live facial recognition (LFR) technology across the capital.… Continue reading Scotland Yard can keep using live facial recognition on people in London, say judges
Gartner sees accelerating growth in IT spending, powered by cloud and AI infrastructure investment A day after the International Energy Agency (IEA) said the US/Israel/Iran war was creating the worst energy crisis ever faced by the world, Gartner incr… Continue reading Oil crisis? What oil crisis? IT spending de-coupled from wider war shock
Mozilla CTO says AI means developers finally have a chance to get on top of security The Mozilla has revealed it tested Anthropic’s bug-finding “Mythos” AI model and feels the results it experienced represent a watershed moment for software defenders.…… Continue reading Mythos found 271 Firefox flaws – but none a human couldn’t spot
NCSC boss says China’s whole-of-state cyber machine has become Britain’s peer competitor in cyberspace State-sponsored cyberattacks from Chinese intelligence and military agencies display “an eye-watering level of sophistication,” UK National Cyber Sec… Continue reading Nation-states want to cause harm, not just steal cash – stop handing your cyber defenses to the cheapest contractor
Lawmakers decry CISA cuts: ‘We are shooting ourselves in the foot’ If a cyberattack leads to a death, that’s murder. A former FBI cyber division chief urged the US Justice Department to consider felony homicide charges against ransomware actors when at… Continue reading Murder, she wrote: Ex-FBI chief wants some ransomware crims charged with homicide
CISA gives federal agencies 4 days to patch America’s lead cyber-defense agency has warned that three Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager bugs are under attack, and given federal agencies just four days to patch the security holes.… Continue reading More Cisco SD-WAN bugs battered in attacks
Data from browsers, cryptocurrency wallets, 200+ extensions hoovered up A ClickFix campaign targeting macOS users delivers an AppleScript-based infostealer that collects credentials and live session cookies from 14 browsers, 16 cryptocurrency wallets, … Continue reading macOS ClickFix attacks deliver AppleScript stealers to snarf credentials, wallets