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Cloud Security

Google Cloud Targets 2029 to Be Quantum-Safe, and Here Is What That Means for You

Google has published a detailed plan to protect its cloud from the coming generation of quantum computers. The work is already underway, but some of it will run well into the 2030s.

4 min read
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AI Security

Researchers Find AI Agents at AWS, Google and Vercel Can Be Tricked Into Running Tools Without the AI

Flaws in agent plumbing let forged instructions reach powerful tools before any safety check runs, and in some cases the AI model never runs at all.

4 min read
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AI Security

AI Isn't Bringing New Attack Tricks. It's Making the Old Ones Much Faster

Security experts say the lesson from AI-assisted hacking isn't panic about sci-fi threats. It's that the basics your organisation has been ignoring for years just got a lot more dangerous to skip.

4 min read
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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.

5 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
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AI Security

Google Spent $32 Billion on Wiz. Now It Wants AI to Fight Hackers So Fast Humans Can't Keep Up

Criminals can hand off access to a breached company in 22 seconds. Google says only AI can respond that quickly, and it has built a new automated defence platform to prove it.

4 min read
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AI Security

AI Is Making Rich Organisations Even Safer. What Happens to Everyone Else?

A growing body of security leaders says artificial intelligence is deepening a divide that has existed for years between well-resourced organisations and those just trying to keep the lights on.

4 min read
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Policy & Regulation

Bank of England Gets Power to Regulate Amazon, Google and Other Cloud Giants Serving UK Banks

New rules taking effect this week mean two regulators can now inspect and direct the tech companies that keep Britain's financial system running, a first for the UK.

3 min read
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AI Security

The 'Rogue Agent' Flaw That Could Have Let Criminals Silently Take Over Google AI Chatbots

A security hole in Google's Dialogflow CX chatbot platform would have let attackers hijack AI conversations, steal user data, and hit every chatbot inside the same cloud account at once.

3 min read
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Cloud Security

Google Chatbot Flaw Let Attackers Hijack Other Bots and Read User Chats

A bug in Google Dialogflow CX, patched after a Varonis report, could have let one rogue chatbot spy on and puppet others sharing the same cloud project.

3 min read
AI Security

Bucket Squatting in Vertex AI SDK Opened Cross-Tenant RCE Window

A staging-bucket naming flaw in two versions of Google's Vertex AI Python SDK let attackers pre-register a victim's expected bucket and swap in a malicious pickle model before the platform could retrieve the original.

2 min read
Cloud Security

'Pickle in the Middle': Vertex AI SDK Bug Let Outsiders Hijack Model Uploads

Unit 42 researchers describe a bucket-squatting flaw in Google's Python SDK that handed code execution inside Vertex AI's serving stack to attackers with no project access.

3 min read
Cloud Security

PCPJack Turns 230 Hijacked Cloud Servers Into a Stealth SMTP Relay Grid

Compromised AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure instances were quietly converted into verified mail relays and resold downstream every five minutes.

3 min read
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