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AI Security

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.

4 min read
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AI Security

A 15-Minute Framework for Spotting What AI Systems Can Do Wrong

Security expert Adam Shostack built PHANTOM-B to help organisations find the risks hiding inside AI-powered software before those risks find them.

4 min read
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AI Security

Black Hat 2026: Five Security Findings Every Organisation Should Know About

From fake AI tools downloaded 1.7 million times to a flaw that lets attackers hijack internet connections through network devices, this year's hacker conference in Las Vegas carried some practical warnings for businesses of every size.

4 min read
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Vulnerabilities

Researchers Cracked Samsung Phones Wide Open by Turning Bixby Against Its Own Device

A five-step exploit chain using Bixby, Samsung Members, and Samsung Account could hand a stranger complete control of your Galaxy phone. Patches are out, but older devices may still be exposed.

4 min read
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AI Security

Black Hat 2025: Five things worth your time, and the traps to avoid

The Las Vegas conference still produces genuinely useful research. Getting to it means ignoring a lot of expensive noise.

3 min read
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AI Security

The Hidden Weak Spots Inside AI Agents That Major Tech Giants Are Missing

Security researchers broke into AI systems built by Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI, not by attacking the AI itself, but by exploiting the overlooked software wrapper around it.

4 min read
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Vulnerabilities

The Security Scanners Protecting Your Code Could Be the Way Hackers Get In

A researcher found that five unnamed security vendors' own scanning tools could be tricked into handing over cloud passwords, production databases, and developer credentials, just by feeding them a rigged code repository.

4 min read
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AI Security

AI Agents Can Go Rogue. Your Security Model Was Never Built to Stop Them.

Ben Hanson, global field CTO at Zenity, argues that AI agents break every assumption four decades of security thinking was built on. The fix is not a new tool. It is a new way of thinking.

3 min read
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