Z.ai disables coding assistant feature after flaw exposed enterprise code upload risk
Chinese artificial intelligence company Z.ai had to disable several features of its ZCode coding assistant this week after a default setting was caught sendi...
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Beware these fake websites selling subscriptions to AI assistants
Websites offering fake subscriptions to AI transcription tools, image generators, and other digital assistants could be putting enterprise data at risk, acco...
The cyber AI parity window now has a deadline
In April, I wrote about what I called the Cyber AI Parity Window. This is the rare period in which defenders and adversaries gained access to the same transf...
CISOs can no longer ignore the nation-state threat
Flare-ups between US intelligence agencies and private-sector defenders have long been a characteristic of the cybersecurity landscape, with the balance swin...
Gemini broke into 3 companies, but Google kept it quiet because ‘no damage was done’
A Google Gemini AI agent broke into three companies in July, guessing the credentials for one and discovering the credentials for the second two in a public ...
After spending billions, OpenAI still has gaps in its cybersecurity
Two separate reports of security flaws in OpenAI systems highlight how even a company spending billions on developing its own AI-powered cybersecurity testin...
New npm malware finds a way around install script defenses
Blocking suspicious install scripts may no longer be enough to mitigate threats from malicious JavaScript dependencies used in software supply-chain attacks....
Revoking the token didn’t kill the backdoor
Every identity-compromise runbook I have written, read or inherited has the same step near the top: revoke the tokens. Reset the password, kill the sessions,...
5 ways AI is reshaping the cybersecurity job market
Mario Platt spent part of last year eliminating a team. As CISO for online password management service LastPass, he shut down the company’s dedicated vulnera...
CISA is ending its monthly vulnerability bulletin
The rise in AI-generated security threats may just have generated one casualty: the death of the weekly bulletin of security threats from the US Cybersecurit...
A zero-click RCE flaw in AI coding agents could have exposed enterprise systems
Popular AI coding agents such as OpenAI’s Codex, Anthropic’s Claude Code, Google’s Gemini CLI, and Microsoft-owned GitHub Copilot were vulnerable to a zero-c...
GhostCode attackers abuse device codes to take over Microsoft 365 accounts
Microsoft 365 users are being tricked into handing over access to their accounts by a new phishing kit, GhostCode, that exploits a weakness in a legitimate d...
Strong fundamentals make next-gen security possible
Risk management has always been a difficult job, but the current threat landscape has taken the challenge to a new level. I’ve spent years leading cybersecur...
Cisco patches max-severity ISE flaw, the second critical zero-day this week
Cisco released patches for an actively exploited authentication bypass vulnerability in its Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) platform, which is used for ...
OpenAI admits six new misalignment incidents under new reporting framework
OpenAI has published six new reports detailing AI model misalignment, including instances of hidden instructions, unauthorized communication, and attempts to...
Security spending is growing — except for the typical CISO
Security budgets may be growing on paper, but for a majority of CISOs, the money isn’t moving in quite the same direction. The budgets grew by 5% on average ...
Self-modifying AI agents expose a blind spot in enterprise security
As debate over AI safety intensifies, new research is drawing attention to a more immediate risk for enterprises: AI agents that can alter the models they re...
16 governance tools for securing your AI fleet
Every DevOps team member knows that dealing with an AI is like being a circus lion tamer. The boss and the audience are happy when the lions sit on the pedes...
LinkedIn fights for the right to tell customers when the feds want their data
Microsoft’s top lawyer argued Tuesday that legislators “must make secrecy [orders] the exception” in government subpoenas demanding information about LinkedI...
Big Tech’s AI safety rift signals disruption and disparity for enterprises
A growing divide among leading AI companies over how to secure increasingly powerful models is beginning to translate into challenges for enterprise IT, with...