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forbes.com - Aliasgar Dohadwala - Agentic AI Creates A New Cybersecurity Challenge And A Defense Model
Agentic AI Creates A New Cybersecurity Challenge And A Defense Model
Forbes

Aliasgar Dohadwala, CEO of Visiontech Systems, is a visionary and serial entrepreneur with a knack for turning challenges into opportunities ​The cybersecurity industry faces a paradox. Organizations invest heavily in artificial intelligence…

independent.co.uk - Alex Woodward - America's water systems are 'super vulnerable' to attacks, cybersecurity experts say
America's water systems are 'super vulnerable' to attacks, cybersecurity experts say
The Independent

Hackers have broken into water systems in at least a dozen states in recent weeks, what cybersecurity experts say should be an urgent wake up call to immense vulnerabilities in American infrastructure. “Malicious cyber actors” have…

upi.com - Joe Fisher - Meta says its AI hacked another company during cybersecurity test
Meta says its AI hacked another company during cybersecurity test
UPI

Aug. 6 (UPI) -- Meta is the latest tech company to share that its AI model hacked into another company's systems, marking at least the third such incident in recent weeks. Meta said Wednesday that this occurred during cybersecurity testing when one…

techradar.com - Vishal Salvi - Why cybersecurity must evolve for the age of AI agents
Why cybersecurity must evolve for the age of AI agents
TechRadar

For years, cybersecurity was built on a simple assumption: systems follow defined rules. Applications do what they are programmed to do, while people log in, are given permissions and access the resources they need. Artificial intelligence (AI) is…

fortune.com - Shlomo Kramer - The godfather of Israeli cybersecurity: The Hugging Face incident exposes the wrong AI security debate
The godfather of Israeli cybersecurity: The Hugging Face incident exposes the wrong AI security debate
Fortune

The proliferation of AI agents at companies across the world introduces a new level of risk and vastly magnifies insider threats. Companies must now control how agents interact with users, other agents, data, and applications. Controlling these…

mpost.io - Alisa Davidson - Containment Failure: Why Frontier AI Cybersecurity Evaluations Are Exposing The Industry's Weakest Link | Metaverse Post
Containment Failure: Why Frontier AI Cybersecurity Evaluations Are Exposing The Industry's Weakest Link | Metaverse Post
Today's Top AI and Crypto News | Metaverse Post

AI safety tests at Meta, Anthropic and OpenAI turned into real breaches, exposing critical gaps in evaluation containment and accelerating regulatory scrutiny. In the span of two weeks, three of the world's most advanced artificial intelligence…

theconversation.com - James Davenport - Museums face growing cyber threats but security remains an afterthought
Museums face growing cyber threats but security remains an afterthought
The Conversation

In the last few years, some of the UK's biggest cultural institutions have experienced major threats to their security. A report by the public accounts committee (PAC) has warned that such incidents have exposed serious weaknesses across the sector…

indianexpress.com - Anagha Jayakumar - After incidents involving AI agents, are companies facing a new kind of cybersecurity threat?
After incidents involving AI agents, are companies facing a new kind of cybersecurity threat?
The Indian Express

The incidents raise a question: Do these indicate a new class of cybersecurity risk, or are they primarily revealing the limitations of how increasingly autonomous AI systems pursue goals during testing? Unlike chatbots, or by extension Large…

informationweek.com - Sam Curry - CISO principles for navigating cybersecurity incident disclosure
CISO principles for navigating cybersecurity incident disclosure
Information Week

If you've been a CISO long enough, you've probably learned the same lesson I have: The hardest part of incident response often isn't detection, containment or eradication. It's deciding when and how to tell customers what's going on, especially…

thecentersquare.com - Robert Matteson - California expands cybersecurity protection plan
California expands cybersecurity protection plan
The Center Square

(The Center Square) - Gov. Gavin Newsom has announced an expansion of the state's cybersecurity plan to protect state agencies from increasing cyber threats and artificial intelligence-enabled cyberattacks. Cal-Secure 2.0 builds upon the original…

volts.wtf - David Roberts - Grid cybersecurity: how big is the threat & what should we do about it?
Grid cybersecurity: how big is the threat & what should we do about it?
Volts

Could the US grid be brought down by Chinese hackers? To find out, I talked with Patrick Miller, who helped write the cybersecurity rules for the bulk power system and became the first person with federal authority to enforce them. We get into…

siliconangle.com - Maria Deutscher - Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 hacked an external organization during cybersecurity test
Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 hacked an external organization during cybersecurity test
SiliconANGLE

A large language model developed by Meta Platforms Inc. hacked a third party organization during a cybersecurity evaluation. The Facebook parent disclosed the incident on Wednesday without specifying the LLM. According to The Information, the…

marketbeat.com - Best Cybersecurity Stocks To Add to Your Watchlist - August 6th
Best Cybersecurity Stocks To Add to Your Watchlist - August 6th
MarketBeat

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

nbcnews.com - Water industry turns to AI and hackers for help after suspected Iran cyberattacks
Water industry turns to AI and hackers for help after suspected Iran cyberattacks
NBC News

In the wake of cyberattacks on American water systems and cutbacks to federal assistance programs, some water companies are turning to volunteers, smaller cybersecurity companies and an AI program from Vanderbilt University for help. A new…

nextgov.com - David DiMolfetta - CISA cautions against rigid rules for future of cyber vulnerability program
CISA cautions against rigid rules for future of cyber vulnerability program
Nextgov/FCW

LAS VEGAS — The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency sees value in formally placing the world's dominant software vulnerability tracking program into federal law but is cautioning Congress against imposing rules that could make…

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