Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. OpenAI is opening up about how its own agents escaped a locked-down testing environment and breached another company. The hack into open-source developer platform Hugging Face happened during evaluations in July. A combination of models escaped an isolated testing environment with limited internet access, CNBC reports. The...Read More
WASHINGTON (TNND) — A coalition of major tech and cybersecurity organizations, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and Amazon Web Services, is warning that AI-enabled cyberattacks could become more widespread and sophisticated within months. In an open letter signed by those companies and more than 100 other organizations, the group said hospitals, water treatment plants, power...Read More
Visa has expanded its cybersecurity portfolio with updates to its Visa Vulnerability Agentic Harness and new advisory services aimed at helping organisations identify and fix vulnerabilities more quickly. The latest version of the Visa Vulnerability Agentic Harness, or VVAH, extends the framework from vulnerability discovery into remediation and validation. Visa has also expanded its Visa...Read More
August 27, 2026 The Briefing ☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: Featured story: Meta, TikTok settle child safety lawsuits In other news: Tensions rise between Mexican government and journalists Looking ahead: AI literacy lessons are working their way into schools...Read More
LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — A teacher from Waverly Community Schools was sentenced by an Eaton County District Court judge Tuesday after pleading no contest to two child sex crimes stemming from a months-long “child predator operation.” Robert Herzing’s booking photograph. (Courtesy Eaton County) Robert Herzing, 34, was sentenced to five months in jail and five...Read More
Jersey Shore, Pa. — One of two men arrested in a local child predator sting is a convicted child predator. “Thousands” of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) files were found on his devices, police say. From Thursday, Aug. 20, through Monday, Aug. 24, state police of the Northeast Computer Crime Task Force (NECCTF) conducted a child predator...Read More
Ransomware levels peaked in July, reaching the highest volume since the start of the year and up 22% since June 2026.
The rise in volume is reported in NCC Group’s monthly Threat Intelligence Report for July, which recorded a year-to-date high of 894 cases of ransomware activity for the month. This is only...Read More
“This breadth of, ‘I use anything I grab from the internet, and I trust it’—I do think those days are over,” Red Hat CEO Matt Hicks said. Red Hat CEO Matt Hicks said the company’s Lightwell project helps counter AI-powered mass vulnerability exploitation by accelerating open-source patching and reinforcing enterprise trust. The speed and depth...Read More
Srinagar, Aug 27: The smartphone that brings the world to the palm is also opening a new battlefield for crime, with cyber fraudsters increasingly turning Kashmir’s expanding digital footprint into a hunting ground for deception, manipulation and financial theft. From fake calls and fraudulent links to bogus investment schemes, impersonation, fake customer-care numbers and social-media...Read More
The AI race has long been framed as a zero-sum game: Either the US or China will win in the end. But as concerns pile up around the increasing capabilities of AI models—especially AI agents—researchers in both countries are trying to team up to work on AI safety. This week, contributing editor Zoë Schiffer speaks...Read More
