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Newcastle firm creating 50 jobs in new cyber security operation
More than 50 jobs are being created at a Newcastle business which is launching a specialist cyber security division. RMT Technology in Gosforth is launching the new cyber security department to help businesses understand and manage cyber risk…
2 Cybersecurity Stocks With Serious Long-Term Wealth-Building Potential
Cybersecurity spending continues to climb, and artificial intelligence (AI) is creating even more systems that businesses need to protect. In fact, technology research firm Gartner estimates that global information security spending will reach…
Top Cybersecurity Stocks To Watch Now - October 3rd
Bernstein Downgrades 3 Cybersecurity Stocks: How Concerned Should Investors Be? Palo Alto Networks, CrowdStrike, Fortinet, SentinelOne, BlackBerry, Globant, and NetScout Systems are the seven Cybersecurity stocks to watch today, according to…
Crazy' FlyDubai landing explained by Israeli pilot, who offers steps to prevent future crises
Eliran Almog, a former Israeli helicopter pilot turned aviation cybersecurity firm CEO, explained just how 'crazy' it was that the near-hijacked FlyDubai flight 1073 managed to land safely after a violent midair attack. 'You can't imagine being in…
5 Reasons Yields Could Stay High: The Bull Market Isn't Over (SPX)
Treasury yields may stay elevated because several forces are hitting the bond market at once: heavy capital demand, persistent inflation, changing Treasury buyers, and possible forced selling. I do not think higher yields automatically end the…
Quote of the day by ARC Prize co-founder François Chollet: 'OpenAI basically set back progress to AGI by five to 10 years' - critiquing the industry's overindulgence in large language models
Many AI developers and frontier labs are openly pursuing artificial general intelligence (AGI), which scientists describe as human-like intelligence in which a model can reason like humans and learn new capabilities outside its training data. But…
Teesside IT firm went from two-man startup to multi-million pound company
A Teesside IT company has grown from a two-person start-up into a multi-million-pound technology business. Thirteen years ago, IT professionals Tomas Roberton and Michael Povey left secure jobs without a formal business plan, without sales…
How foreign hackers could 'crumble' America by targeting one essential utility
A massive surge in cyberattacks on Americans' water supply in recent years has exposed a shift in hackers' focus from financially motivated ransomeware to attacks designed to disrupt one of the most essential pieces of civilian infrastructure…
Chinese Hackers Impersonate Former White House Official In Attempt To Steal US AI Policy Secrets
Chinese-linked hackers have allegedly been impersonating American artificial intelligence experts, including a former White House official, in a targeted cyberespionage campaign aimed at obtaining sensitive information about U.S. AI policymaking.
FCA warns AI may reveal more cyber vulnerabilities firms can cope with
The UK's financial regulator has warned that the rapid pace of AI development is revealing vulnerabilities in firms' cybersecurity arrangements because their existing controls cannot keep up with the risks new technology can either create or…
Rogue AI agents expose internet's frail foundation
AI agents don't need to invent new ways to hack the internet to overwhelm its defenses. They just need to speed-run the ones humans already use. Why it matters: Agents are proving they can automate basic hacking techniques at a speed and scale that…
Capability Leaves With the Vendor': What's Actually Running in SADC, and What Isn't
Every AI conference in Johannesburg, Gaborone or Lusaka opens with the same slide: Africa will add trillions to GDP through artificial intelligence. Every operations manager in the audience is thinking about the ore-sorting pilot that stalled, the…
OpenAI says its review into hacks, including on Australian government sites, is costing $500,000 a day
OpenAI says its review in response to the Medicare and Hugging Face agent attacks is costing the company more than US$500,000 per day, as it deploys AI to examine data that would take a human 66m years to read. The company has warned the review is…
Fortra Patches Critical Vulnerabilities in BoKS
Fortra has released patches for eight vulnerabilities in Core Privileged Access Manager (BoKS), including three critical-severity bugs. BoKS provides organizations with central management of Unix and Linux fleets, enabling policy enforcement and…
California subpoenas OpenAI over rogue AI agents conducting hacking attacks - DOJ seeks to establish developer liability, targets containment failures and rogue kill-switch bypasses
The California Department of Justice (DOJ) has subpoenaed OpenAI as it investigates the recent cybersecurity incidents involving the company's AI models and agents. According to The Register, state Attorney General Rob Bonta said that the state…
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