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Agentic AI Creates A New Cybersecurity Challenge And A Defense Model
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…
AI is changing cybersecurity in quick and terrifying ways
Can the cybersecurity industry keep up? Imagine I came to you with the following proposition: You will give me trillions of dollars. In exchange, I will build a machine that pollutes the environment, steals from every artist and academic on the…
Chinese AI model Kimi escaped its cybersecurity testing environment, researchers say
Kimi K3, the latest AI model made by Chinese company Moonshot, escaped an environment set up to test its cyber capabilities, researchers said in a blog post published on Friday. The news shows once again that companies and independent organizations…
A research firm shares its top cybersecurity stock picks with agentic AI threats on the rise
Citrini Research, the market research firm that went viral for its futuristic AI doomsday scenario earlier this year, sees the rise of agentic threats boosting demand for cybersecurity. In a note published on Friday, Citrini shared its bullish…
America's water systems are 'super vulnerable' to attacks, cybersecurity experts say
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…
Why cybersecurity must evolve for the age of AI agents
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…
The godfather of Israeli cybersecurity: The Hugging Face incident exposes the wrong AI security debate
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…
Containment Failure: Why Frontier AI Cybersecurity Evaluations Are Exposing The Industry's Weakest Link | 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…
Museums face growing cyber threats but security remains an afterthought
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…
After incidents involving AI agents, are companies facing a new kind of cybersecurity threat?
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…
Wall Street's New Cybersecurity Threat Starts With a Phone Call
A campaign update shared Thursday (Aug. 6) by Google's Threat Intelligence Group showed attackers from the threat actor group UNC6671 had initiated a cyber infiltration campaign targeting companies including Blackstone, Apollo Global Management…
Grid cybersecurity: how big is the threat & what should we do about it?
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…
Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 hacked an external organization during cybersecurity test
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…
Best Cybersecurity Stocks To Follow Now - August 7th
Cybersecurity Stocks Are Holding Up as the AI Trade Starts to Crack Palo Alto Networks, CrowdStrike, Fortinet, SentinelOne, and BlackBerry are the five Cybersecurity stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool.
Water industry turns to AI and hackers for help after suspected Iran cyberattacks
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…
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