Happy Tuesday! Here’s your Tuesday Tech Drop, some of the past week’s top stories from the intersection of politics and technology. DOJ apparently hires election hacker The Justice Department appears to have hired someone convicted of hacking election websites — just as Donald Trump and his allies plot ways to meddle in the upcoming midterms....Read More
NTT DATA and Palo Alto Networks are targeting $1 billion in joint business by 2029 through an expanded cybersecurity alliance. NTT DATA is expanding its cybersecurity work with Palo Alto Networks through a multi-year alliance focused on AI security, managed services, and security infrastructure. The companies are targeting $1 billion in joint business over three...Read More
Presented here is a curated selection of noteworthy open-source cybersecurity solutions that have drawn recognition for their ability to enhance security postures across diverse settings. SkillSpector: NVIDIA’s open-source security scanner for AI agent skills SkillSpector is an open-source scanner from NVIDIA that reads an agent skill and tells you whether to install it. Point it...Read More
CLAY COUNTY, Fla. – Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced the recovery of 163 missing children — ranging in age from 2 months to 17 years old — during Operation Statewide Shield. The five-day operation focused on identifying, locating and recovering missing children across Florida and beyond, using real-time intelligence and field operations. Sub-operations spanned...Read More
CLAY COUNTY, Fla. – Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced the recovery of 163 missing children — ranging in age from 2 months to 17 years old — during Operation Statewide Shield. The five-day operation focused on identifying, locating and recovering missing children across Florida and beyond, using real-time intelligence and field operations. Sub-operations spanned...Read More
According to Gartner this sector is different from the AI security market, which includes cyber security products that use AI and machine learning to improve threat detection, prevention, investigation and response. “Traditional security tools often treat AI applications like any other software and need significant updates to address AI-specific threats,” said Gartner senior principal analyst...Read More
[Photo: Comtrue Technology] Comtrue Technology, an AI and information security company, said on Tuesday it updated its generative AI security solution Sphinx AI and added an image confidential information similarity analysis function. The company said Sphinx AI is an AI DLP security solution that detects personal, sensitive and confidential information in prompts and attached files...Read More
A significant development has emerged in the case of the “Ashkelon hacker,” Michael Ron David Kedar, who was extradited from Norway to the United States in June: An official affidavit filed in a U.S. court by a senior official in the Justice Department’s Office of International Affairs, or OIA, provides the first detailed account of...Read More
Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META) is reportedly in discussions with states to settle its high-profile trial over alleged harm to young social media users. Meta, States Discuss Potential Settlement The Mark Zuckerberg-led tech giant and state attorneys general are discussing a mid-trial settlement while a federal trial is ongoing, Bloomberg reported Tuesday, citing people familiar with...Read More
