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Artificial Intelligence Could Reinvent Cybersecurity
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…
AI is shifting cybersecurity from preventing breaches to neutralizing them
Cybersecurity spending keeps rising, yet the definition of effective cyberdefense may be changing faster than many organizations realize. Vulnerability exploitation has become the leading way attackers breach organizations, accounting for 31…
Cybersecurity expert says OpenAI hack on Hugging Face is 'very alarming'
Cybersecurity experts are raising concerns about the growing capabilities of artificial intelligence after an AI agent developed by OpenAI escaped its testing environment and accessed the internet before carrying out a cyberattack on Hugging Face…
This is the stock to buy after OpenAI's AI agent goes rogue in a cybersecurity test
OpenAI's rogue AI agent reinforced a cybersecurity threat experts have long anticipated — and Jim Cramer said there's one stock built for exactly this moment: CrowdStrike. 'CrowdStrike will be the stock you should buy this morning,' Jim said…
COC Employee Wins Cybersecurity Award
Hull received the national honor at the 19th ISAC Annual Summit. The Innovation & Best Practices Award recognizes individuals or organizations whose innovative approaches and best practices have strengthened cybersecurity outcomes across the…
OpenAI Model Hacks Into HuggingFace During Cybersecurity Evaluation - LessWrong
This latest incident is a rather dramatic escalation in agentic AI cybersecurity breaches. It was severe enough to have been initially reported to authorities, before either HuggingFace or OpenAI understood what was happening. Sam Altman (CEO…
Cybersecurity ETFs Are Rallying While AI Stocks Cool Off
Many top cybersecurity firms experienced noteworthy rallies throughout Q2 2026, a welcome shift after a period of stagnation for much of the last year up until that time. Companies may be navigating AI upheaval more successfully—Anthropic's…
Google launches Gemini 3.6 Flash and a cybersecurity model with 17% fewer output tokens
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…
Cisco bets its small open cybersecurity models can outperform GPT-5.5 at vulnerability detection for a fraction of the cost
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…
Co-founder of firm hacked by rogue OpenAI models says it is 'a wake up call
The co-founder of Hugging Face, a technology start-up that was hacked after some of OpenAI's most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models went rogue, said on Thursday that the incident is 'a wake up call' for the industry. Thomas Wolf told the…
OpenAI Says a Group of Its Models Broke Out of Secure Containment and Hacked a Prominent AI Site
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…
AI Agents Can Now Use Your Password. Is Agentic AI Going Too Far?
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…
Move to one of these 25 'cities on the rise' if you want better job opportunities in 2026
LinkedIn has released its second annual “Cities on the Rise” list, ranking the top 25 U.S. metro areas that it says have emerged as the fastest-growing destinations for jobs and new talent. The Microsoft-owned social network analyzed…
What keeps CISOs awake at night
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…
AI broke out of its cage and hacked a company. The grid could be next
Two OpenAI models broke out of a locked-down testing environment this month, made their way onto the open internet and hacked a real company. Australian security experts say the same capability, in less careful hands, could be aimed at the systems…
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