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Post-Mythos cyber security must move at machine speed
Ali Yilmaz, Senior Manager of Solution Architects for Turkey and MEA at Picus Security. Modern cyber security has to move at machine speed to outperform automated attacks, which can exploit vulnerabilities at scale in a matter of minutes. This is…
Israeli firm Pentera expands AI cybersecurity with Recorded Future deal
Israeli cybersecurity firm Pentera announced on Wednesday a deal with Recorded Future to integrate their technologies, with a demonstration expected at the Black Hat 2026 conference. Recorded Future, one of the world's largest threat intelligence…
Israeli startups dominate Google's AI cybersecurity accelerator
From the 33 startups chosen to participate in Google's Gemini Startup Forum: Cybersecurity, one-third of them are Israeli, the cyber giant announced on Wednesday. In total, eight startups were fully developed in Israel, while another three are…
OpenAI's HuggingFace breach heralds an unprecedented age of AI cyber warfare - contemporary LLMs have caused massive upheaval in cybersecurity, and it's only going to get worse
This week, OpenAI revealed that during a purported capability test with no safeguards, a set of bots, including its upcoming GPT-5.6 Sol, hacked their way out of their locked-down network and into Hugging Face's production infrastructure. Only…
Warning shot or publicity stunt - how worried should we be about the OpenAI hack?
Joe Tidy Cyber correspondent, BBC World Service This week the tech world was gripped by a story that has it all - and which started like a sci-fi thriller. Hugging Face - a kind of app store for artificial intelligence tools - announced on 16 July…
Warning shot or publicity stunt - how worried should we be about the OpenAI hack?
This week the tech world was gripped by a story that has it all - and which started like a sci-fi thriller. Hugging Face - a kind of app store for artificial intelligence tools - announced on 16 July it had been hacked by a cyber criminal wielding…
Manufacturing's IT Talent Crunch Creates New Opportunities
For many IT professionals, the manufacturing industry still evokes assembly lines, repetitive work and legacy technology, but the reality inside many factories is far different. Today's facilities increasingly rely on cloud platforms, artificial…
New lawsuit alleges unpatchable Apple chip exploit was developed using stolen trade secrets
Magnet Forensics is suing Paradigm Shift Technology over its publication of usbliter8, alleging that the unpatchable exploit affecting several Apple SoCs was developed using trade secrets misappropriated by a former engineer. Here are the details.
Be skeptical of OpenAI's rogue hacker agent story | John Thickstun
On 14 February 2019, OpenAI announced a language model called GPT-2, the precursor to the models that power modern AI chatbots and agents such as ChatGPT and Claude. But OpenAI declared GPT-2 was too risky to release, citing concerns about safety…
Wave Hackathon 2026 advances practical AI innovation through global collaboration
Opinions expressed by Digital Journal contributors are their own. Bringing together engineers, researchers, founders, and AI practitioners from around the world, Wave Hackathon 2026 provided a platform to transform innovative ideas into practical…
As US weighs response to Chinese AI, industry urges against broad open-weight restrictions
Several AI companies, including Hugging Face, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral, and Nvidia, have signed an open letter urging policymakers not to impose broad “premature restrictions” on open-weight AI models. The letter comes as Washington…
OpenAI's breach of Hugging Face stokes fears about what's next for AI
Washington and the technology industry are on high alert this week after OpenAI revealed that some of its AI agents went rogue and hacked into the systems of technology start-up Hugging Face. The incident bore out years of warnings from the tech…
OpenAI, Hugging Face breach stokes fear on what's next for AI
Key Senate Democrats are balking at the latest version of a cryptocurrency regulation bill over a White House-approved ethics provision that they argue falls short, complicating the bill's chances of passing in the narrow window before lawmakers…
Bad news - paying a ransomware demand might cause hackers to come back and ask for more
Proofpoint 2026 AI‑Era Ransomware Report found 54% of victims paid attackers despite warnings 37% faced repeat extortion after paying; 2% paid but never regained access to files Experts urge prevention: phishing awareness, offline backups…
VERSABANK TO PARTICIPATE IN THE KBW SUMMER BANK CONFERENCE IN NEW YORK CITY ON JULY 28-29, 2026
LONDON, ON, July 24, 2026 /CNW/ -- VersaBank ('VersaBank' or the 'Bank') (TSX: VBNK) (NASDAQ: VBNK), a North American leader in business-to-business digital banking, as well as technology solutions for cybersecurity, today announced management will…
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