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A security operations center with multiple displays showing AI agent activities, decision logs, and autonomous actions taking place without human authorization
AI Security

Your Security Team Is Flying Blind on AI. Here Is Why.

The tools built to catch hackers and bad code were designed for a world where humans made every decision. AI agents don't ask permission, and your defences weren't built to watch them.

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A cloud architecture diagram with forgotten digital keys scattered throughout the infrastructure, an AI agent waking up and making unexpected requests at odd ho
Identity & Access

The 'Ghost Credentials' Problem: How Forgotten Digital Keys Are Leaving Cloud Systems Wide Open

A sleeping AI agent that woke up and started making requests at odd hours led a security researcher to a sprawling mess of forgotten digital keys, and a free tool to help organisations find them before attackers do.

4 min read
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Cloud Security

Infoblox Wants to Find Your Exposed Assets Before Hackers Do

The network security company is entering a crowded market with a twist: using its deep knowledge of the internet's address book to spot weaknesses rivals might miss.

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AI Security

Act Security Aims to Tackle Cloud Vulnerability Challenges with $60 Million in Funding

Act Security steps out of stealth to shrink the window between vulnerability discovery and exploitation, backed by $60 million and a team that's done this before.

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Cloud infrastructure dashboard showing Azure and Google Cloud administrator control panels, with subtle indicators of unauthorized privilege escalation attempts
Cloud Security

Two Cloud Giants, Two Flaws, Zero Bug Bounties: The 'Confused Deputy' Problem That Won't Go Away

A security researcher found ways to silently hijack administrator control over both Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud infrastructure. Neither company paid a reward. One quietly fixed its flaw without saying so.

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Cloud Security

The Hackers Got Hacked: Inside the Klue Breach and What It Means for Every Business Using Cloud Software

A forgotten service account let criminals walk into a competitive-intelligence platform. Then a second criminal group stole the stolen data. The whole chain shows exactly how cloud software trust goes wrong.

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Vulnerabilities

A Single Default Setting in Azure Automation Could Have Let Hackers Steal Any Tenant's Cloud Identity

A researcher found that Microsoft's cloud automation service was, by default, leaving account identities visible to the public internet, giving any attacker a path to impersonate other organisations' privileged accounts.

3 min read
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AI Security

AI Agents Are Breaking the Security Promises of Confidential Computing

A technology built to keep sensitive data locked away is running into a problem it was never designed for: AI assistants that cannot forget what they have read.

4 min read
A federal building's security operations center transitioning from stacked paper audit reports in filing cabinets to a live digital dashboard with real-time con
Policy & Regulation

FedRAMP is scrapping the annual audit. Here's what 20X actually changes.

The old federal cloud approval process runs on PDFs and once-a-year checks. The replacement wants live proof that your controls are working, all the time.

4 min read
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Cloud Security

What is zero trust? A plain-English guide

Zero trust means your network stops assuming anyone inside it is safe, and checks every user and device every single time.

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AI Security

When your AI helper has admin rights: the new ransomware fast lane

Enterprise AI assistants with over-broad permissions can turn a routine break-in into a company-wide ransomware event in minutes, Acronis warns.

4 min read
A network operations center with multiple monitoring screens displaying real-time application performance metrics, user interaction dashboards, and system healt
Cloud Security

Palo Alto Networks Is Buying Embrace to Watch How Real Users Experience Its Customers' Apps

The cybersecurity giant adds user-experience monitoring to its growing observability business, months after spending $3.35 billion on Chronosphere.

3 min read
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Cloud Security

Bit2Watt: How a Regular Cloud Customer Could Wobble the Power Grid

Researchers at Zhejiang University say a paying cloud tenant with ordinary GPU access can swing a data centre's electricity draw hard enough to shake the grid, no hacking required.

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Threat Intelligence

HollowGraph Malware Hides Spy Commands Inside Microsoft 365 Calendar Entries

A newly identified piece of malware turns ordinary calendar appointments into a covert messaging system, letting criminals send instructions and steal files without ever touching a suspicious server.

3 min read
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AI Security

A New Company Just Raised $100 Million to Put Guard Rails on AI Inside Big Businesses

Neo stepped out of secrecy this week with a nine-figure war chest and a pitch that enterprise AI, meaning the AI tools large companies use internally, is already running ahead of anyone's ability to control it.

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