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You Can Now Make AI Content Using Public Instagram Accounts-And It's Rattling Hollywood And Cybersecurity Experts
Major Hollywood unions and talent agencies are urging the celebrities they represent to opt out of a controversial new feature on Instagram that allows users to create AI images based on posts by public accounts, while some cybersecurity companies…
Windows Is Tracking You? What You Missed in Cybersecurity This Week
Most of us understand that companies track our activities around the web. They'd love to track our activities in the real world too, if we let them. But what we don't expect is our operating systems to track us, and for the companies that make…
US cyber agency CISA had to build its incident playbook during the incident, agency reveals
U.S. federal cybersecurity agency CISA said it did not have a prepared response plan for how it should handle a cybersecurity incident in May, after an investigative reporter notified the agency that a contractor had publicly exposed sensitive keys…
Broadening Market Lifts Moat Stocks In June
The S&P 500 declined 0.95% as market leadership rotated away from mega-cap tech. The Moat Index gained 0.29% as its equal-weighted construction benefitted from the broadening rally. Applied Materials and Entegris led Moat Index gains on AI-driven…
AI Ransomware Is Here, Now Powered By Cheaper, Agentic Models
The era of automated, AI-enabled ransomware is here Sysdig's Threat Research Team last week documented what is to be the first known agentic ransomware operation, known as JadePuffer, involving an AI-driven extortion chain against an exposed…
Meta's Muse Image Tool Boost Helps Stock Hit Best Week In Years
Mark Zuckerberg's net worth increased by $12 billion on Friday as Meta's stock concluded its best weekly performance in more than two years, following the debut of a new AI model and reported plans for the Facebook parent to develop in-house AI…
New IT degrees target SA's digital talent gap
Leon Smalberger, CEO of the Academic Institute of Excellence. The Academic Institute of Excellence (AIE) has introduced three new Bachelor of Information Technology degrees, as South Africa continues to grapple with a chronic shortage of ICT…
The agents you use to beef up cybersecurity could be turned against you - ‘Friendly Fire' attacks can manipulate OpenAI and Anthropic models into running malicious code
A proof-of-concept by the AI Now Institute demonstrates remote code execution in Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex when they're running in an autonomous mode that approves their own commands. The Friendly Fire attack works against an…
Kaspersky Container Security introduces new features to optimise DevSecOps and detect GitHub Actions misconfigurations
KCS protects every stage of a containerised application's life cycle. (Image: Kaspersky) Following its participation in the ITWeb Security Summit events covering container security, global cyber security and digital privacy company Kaspersky…
KPTCL adopts zero trust framework to strengthen digital infrastructure and prevent data theft
As sophisticated cyber threats are increasing, Karnataka Power Transmission Corporation Limited (KPTCL) has implemented a Zero Trust Security Framework, becoming one of the first State transmission utilities in the country to adopt the globally…
Global Engineering Degree Without Leaving India? Explore These Foreign Universities
Several globally recognised universities have established or announced branch campuses in India. Students aspiring to earn an international engineering degree no longer have to move abroad. Several globally recognised universities have established…
The 3am alert nobody answers: Why SA SOCs are buckling under modern threats
Ransomware operators do not keep office hours. (Image source: 123RF) The numbers tell a story most South African security leaders already feel. In its 2025 Africa Cyberthreat Assessment Report, INTERPOL recorded 17 849 ransomware detections in…
CrowdStrike Stock: AI-Driven Growth At Hefty Premiums And SBC Risks (NASDAQ:CRWD)
Juxtaposed Ideas 15.93K Followers Agentic AI adoption and strategic partnerships with Anthropic/OpenAI are driving CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc.'s strong ARR and module expansion rates, with it supporting their multi-year profitable growth narrative.
Tech, growth and financial leadership moves across the market
Christopher Porter has joined the company as global chief information security officer after 10 years at Fannie Mae as its CISO. He first joined Fannie Mae in 2015 as deputy CISO and was promoted a year later. Prior to Fannie Mae, he spent 10 years…
Southern Africa's leading ICT bodies unite at NEXTCON 2026, strengthening regional digital collaboration
Cross-border collaboration on digital transformation will take centre stage next week as the Computer Society of Zimbabwe (CSZ) hosts NEXTCON 2026 with support from the Institute of Information Technology Professionals South Africa (IITPSA) and…
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