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forbes.com - RJ Friedman - Artificial Intelligence Could Reinvent Cybersecurity
Artificial Intelligence Could Reinvent Cybersecurity
Forbes

RJ Friedman is a 10x CISO, 3x MSSP founder, board member, and CEO of NecessityWorks. ​As someone who uses 15 billion tokens per month ​(the equivalent of roughly 125,000 novels) and helped review the Cloud Security Alliance's Mythos…

federalnewsnetwork.com - Terry Gerton - Contractors face uncertainty with cybersecurity regs, AI rules and acquisition policies
Contractors face uncertainty with cybersecurity regs, AI rules and acquisition policies
Federal News Network

Guest: Stephanie Kostro Title: President of the Professional Services Council Summary: Federal contractors are navigating uncertainty on several fronts, from evolving cybersecurity requirements to ongoing questions surrounding overseas programs.

federalnewsnetwork.com - Terry Gerton - As agencies rethink cybersecurity requirements, how will they manage AI risks
As agencies rethink cybersecurity requirements, how will they manage AI risks
Federal News Network

Guest: Dan Ramish Title: Partner at Haynes Boone Summary: GSA is taking another run at what could become the federal government's first acquisition clause focused specifically on large language models. After significant industry pushback, the…

gcn.com - Hugo Rojas - Google launches Gemini 3.6 Flash and a cybersecurity model with 17% fewer output tokens
Google launches Gemini 3.6 Flash and a cybersecurity model with 17% fewer output tokens
GCN

Google DeepMind on July 21, 2026, released three new artificial intelligence models under its Gemini brand: Gemini 3.6 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, the last of which is aimed specifically at finding and fixing software…

the-decoder.com - Matthias Bastian - Cisco bets its small open cybersecurity models can outperform GPT-5.5 at vulnerability detection for a fraction of the cost
Cisco bets its small open cybersecurity models can outperform GPT-5.5 at vulnerability detection for a fraction of the cost
The Decoder

Cisco has released two small, open AI models for cybersecurity. Antares-350M and Antares-1B spot vulnerabilities in software code. Cisco's pitch is bang for the buck. Developer Aman Priyanshu claims on X that the smallest model catches about 150…

americanbanker.com - Carter Pape - Credit union sues TruStage over cybersecurity incident
Credit union sues TruStage over cybersecurity incident
American Banker

Key insight: A credit union is suing TruStage, the dominant financial-services vendor to credit unions, for allegedly failing to deliver the security it advertised, seeking to make the vendor pay before anyone has confirmed that member data was…

marketbeat.com - Cybersecurity Stocks To Watch Today - July 22nd
Cybersecurity Stocks To Watch Today - July 22nd
MarketBeat

Cybersecurity Stocks Are Holding Up as the AI Trade Starts to Crack Palo Alto Networks, CrowdStrike, Fortinet, BlackBerry, SentinelOne, Globant, and Rapid7 are the seven Cybersecurity stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener…

futurism.com - Victor Tangermann - OpenAI Says a Group of Its Models Broke Out of Secure Containment and Hacked a Prominent AI Site
OpenAI Says a Group of Its Models Broke Out of Secure Containment and Hacked a Prominent AI Site
Futurism | Science and Technology News

Can't-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech OpenAI claims that a group of its AI models broke containment and hacked into the systems of open source AI platform Hugging Face. While testing their cybersecurity capabilities, the…

forbes.com - Rachel Wells - AI Agents Can Now Use Your Password. Is Agentic AI Going Too Far?
AI Agents Can Now Use Your Password. Is Agentic AI Going Too Far?
Forbes

Safety is being sacrificed in many organizations in the race for speed, efficiency, and convenience, determining how AI agents access accounts “Enter my company's Stripe account, review every Q2 transaction, flag unusual activity, and…

itweb.co.za - Chris Tredger - What keeps CISOs awake at night
What keeps CISOs awake at night
www.itweb.co.za

Cyber security leaders shared insights on emerging threats, resilience strategies and real-world challenges shaping the future of organisational security. The cyber security threat landscape is evolving rapidly, and security leaders must stay ahead…

bbc.co.uk - Laura Cress - OpenAI says its AI went rogue and launched 'unprecedented' cyber-attack
OpenAI says its AI went rogue and launched 'unprecedented' cyber-attack
BBC

Laura Cress Technology reporter OpenAI has revealed some of its most advanced AI models went rogue and hacked a start-up after it lost control of them during a security test. The ChatGPT-maker said its agents - AI bots which can operate alone after…

bbc.co.uk - Laura Cress - OpenAI says its AI went rogue and launched 'unprecedented' cyber-attack
OpenAI says its AI went rogue and launched 'unprecedented' cyber-attack
BBC

OpenAI has revealed some of its most advanced AI models went rogue and hacked a start-up after it lost control of them during a security test. The ChatGPT-maker said its agents - AI bots which can operate alone after some human instruction –…

washingtonpost.com - Gerrit De Vynck - OpenAI's latest AI agent escaped security controls and hacked a tech company
OpenAI's latest AI agent escaped security controls and hacked a tech company
Washington Post

SAN FRANCISCO — Artificial intelligence software in testing by ChatGPT-maker OpenAI breached security controls, accessed the internet and hacked another tech firm to obtain answers to questions probing its cybersecurity skills, OpenAI said…

forbes.com - Kumar Ritesh - The Sentinel Shift: Why CISOs Must Lead From The Front
The Sentinel Shift: Why CISOs Must Lead From The Front
Forbes

Founder and CEO at CYFIRMA, overseeing the business strategy, product roadmap, growth & expansion plan, and investor relationship. ​The cybersecurity industry has handed CISOs the same playbook for decades: detect, respond, recover.

smh.com.au - Kate Conger - OpenAI says its AI models went rogue and attacked a digital library
OpenAI says its AI models went rogue and attacked a digital library
The Sydney Morning Herald

San Francisco: OpenAI said on Tuesday (California time) that two of its artificial intelligence models went rogue and successfully hacked into Hugging Face, a digital library of AI technology that is popular among developers. The incident, which…

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