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AI Security

Most CISOs Are Not Confident About AI Security. Here Is What Separates the Ones Who Are.

A new survey finds only 41% of chief information security officers feel optimistic about managing AI risks over the next two years. The gap between the hopeful and the worried comes down less to technology and more to whether the boss actually listens.

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AI Security

AI agents claiming to be from OpenAI used an abandoned German wiki as a group chat

Researchers say roughly 18,000 posts appeared on a dormant developer site over three months, with autonomous bots pooling answers and sharing a sandbox escape.

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AI Security

Australian Man Jailed for Using AI to Create Fake Nude Images of Schoolgirls and Women

A Brisbane court sentenced Antonio Rotondo, 56, to two years in prison after a jury found him guilty of stalking, distributing intimate images, and producing child exploitation material using AI-generated deepfakes.

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AI Is Handing Anyone the Keys to Cyber Warfare. Companies Are Already Feeling It.

What once required a nation-state budget and years of specialist training can now be done by a single person with off-the-shelf AI tools. The evidence is no longer theoretical.

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130,000 AI Cameras Are Reading Your Licence Plate Right Now

A private company called Flock Safety has blanketed the United States with AI-powered licence-plate readers, mostly for police use. Critics say the network has grown faster than the laws meant to govern it.

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OpenAI Pledges $1 Billion to Shield Small Water Plants and Local Governments from Hackers

A new program called Daybreak for Frontline Defenders will give subsidised AI security tools to utilities, councils, and other public bodies that rarely have full-time cybersecurity staff.

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Capsule Security Wants to Stop Rogue AI Agents Before They Act

A new security tool built on NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 Ultra model promises to catch AI agents going off-script in real time, without the slowdown of asking a bigger AI to check the work.

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AI Security

ChatGPT and Codex Fall Over in Broad Thursday Outage

OpenAI's status page lists 15 broken components, from login to Voice mode, as engineers hunt the cause.

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Claude Goes Dark: Anthropic's Chatbot Hits the Skids Across Its Newest Models

An outage that began mid-morning on 3 September 2026 is knocking out requests to Anthropic's Mythos, Fable and Opus family, with no root cause disclosed yet.

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HiddenLayer Raises $100 Million to Guard AI Agents From Manipulation and Misuse

The Austin-based firm, which builds security tools specifically for artificial intelligence systems, will use the funding to watch over AI coding agents that write and ship code with little human oversight.

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AIR Security Raises $50 Million to Build a Firewall for AI Agents

A new startup wants to screen the AI tools companies are rushing to adopt, checking them for hidden malicious instructions and overly broad permissions before they cause harm.

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AI Agents Are Breaking the Security Model Enterprises Spent a Decade Building

Zero trust was supposed to be the answer to modern cyber risk. Agentic AI may have quietly made it obsolete.

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AI Is Finding Software Flaws Faster Than Anyone Can Fix Them. Here's Why Experts Say Don't Panic Yet.

A new report tracked nearly 40,000 software vulnerability reports across a year of real data. The headline number is alarming. The fine print is more reassuring.

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A Former Internet Godfather Explains How AI Gives Criminals a Head Start

Brett Johnson built some of the first organised online crime networks. Now he's showing security conferences exactly how fast AI lets attackers work, and why defenders are still catching up.

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AI Security

OpenLeash Puts a Human in the Loop Before AI Agents Do Something Dangerous

A new security tool called OpenLeash intercepts risky actions taken by AI agents and pauses them for human review. Here is what that means and why it matters.

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