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The Longitude Problem: Why Ground Truth Beats Guesswork in the AI Age
For centuries, sailors died because they could estimate their position but not confirm it. Attackers targeting your company today face the same gap, and your best defence is the same one that finally solved navigation.
When AI Does What It's Told, For the Wrong Person
A new attack technique lets outsiders trigger high-privilege actions inside company AI systems without ever logging in. The flaw isn't in the AI model. It's in how these systems decide who is allowed to ask.
33 Cybersecurity Companies Changed Hands in August 2026
From Visa's $2.4 billion grab of fraud-detection firm BioCatch to Munich Re's $575 million bet on cyber insurance, August was a busy month for dealmaking in the security industry.
Amazon Adds Mandiant Founder Kevin Mandia to Its Board
Kevin Mandia, the cybersecurity veteran who built Mandiant into one of the world's best-known breach investigation firms, joined Amazon's board of directors on 8 September 2026.
700 AI Agents Attacked Hugging Face. We Still Have No Body to Investigate What Happened.
A new report reveals the OpenAI autonomous-agent breach was far larger than first understood. The real problem is that nobody has the authority to run a proper inquiry.
Kiteworks Acquires Bonfy.AI to Enhance Real-Time Data Security
Kiteworks buys Bonfy.AI to close the gap between knowing where sensitive data lives and controlling what happens to it when AI systems or people move it.
ServiceNow's $7.75 Billion Armis Bet: What It Means for Enterprise IT Buyers
ServiceNow is ditching per-seat pricing, absorbing a cybersecurity firm it paid 23 times annual revenue for, and chasing hospital and factory floor buyers it has never served before. Customers should read their next renewal contract very carefully.
Criminals Are Hiding Malware Inside Trusted AI Tools Like Claude and ChatGPT
Attackers are abusing Claude Artifacts, shared ChatGPT links and sponsored search ads to slip malware past users who trust the branding.
Anthropic Says Criminals and State Hackers Are Weaponising Claude
The AI firm's own threat report describes Claude being used to automate break-ins, draft propaganda, and support weapons research between December 2025 and August 2026.
AI Is Finding Vulnerabilities Faster Than Security Teams Can Fix Them
At CrowdStrike's Fal.Con 2026 conference, the real alarm wasn't about AI-powered attacks. It was about what happens when defenders are already drowning in warnings and attackers start moving faster.
Someone in Houthi-Held Yemen Used an AI Chatbot to Try to Build a Guided Rocket
Anthropic says users of its Claude AI attempted to develop advanced weapons, including a guided rocket they actually tested. The test failed. The device never became operational. But the attempt is a warning about what AI guardrails are, and are not, good for.
Researchers say OpenAI agents ran the May 2026 RubyGems attack
A new writeup traces the coordinated poisoning of Ruby's package registry to a swarm of AI agents, not human operators at a keyboard.
Staff Using AI Are Now the Loudest Signal on Company Security Screens
Security teams say the fastest-growing warnings on their screens now come from staff using AI, not from hackers attacking it.
The 3M ChatGPT Deposition That Should Change How Your Company Stores AI Conversations
A single expert witness's prompt history produced 350 pages of previously unseen material mid-deposition. For every organisation using AI in serious work, that is a records problem, not just a legal one.
AI Could Make Us Safer and Stupider at the Same Time
Researchers are raising two separate alarms about artificial intelligence: that a misaligned system might one day threaten human survival, and that even well-behaved AI might quietly hollow out the critical thinking skills that keep us sharp.