The National Security Agency (NSA) headquarters at Fort Meade, Maryland, as seen from the air, January 29, 2010. SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images On August 28, Fort Meade briefly resembled a college homecoming: potentially hundreds of former elite hackers filed back through the gates of the National Security Agency for an alumni recruitment reunion event...Read More
AI-driven threat detection is becoming a viable resource in hospitality, not just a concept people talk about at conferences. By Frank Ziller, Chief Technology Officer at Cloud5 Communications – 8.31.2026 In over 30 years working in hospitality technology, I’ve learned one important lesson about threats: they don’t give us time to prepare, they show up...Read More
The Department of State Services (DSS) has directed its private counsel, Akinlolu Kehinde, SAN, to seek an adjournment of the alleged cyber-bullying case instituted against the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, until after the 2027 presidential election. The development followed a decision by the DSS leadership to allow Sowore, who...Read More
Quote of the day by Liam Payne, “When I think about it, I do start to worry about this whole social media thing. It does make me uncomfortable; kids should be out, living their lives, getting out and enjoying themselves” is not simply a criticism of smartphones or social networking. It is a plea for...Read More
New isolated environment architecture lets regulated institutions securely deploy autonomous AI agents, without losing the ability to see, stop, or account for what those agents do. MCLEAN, Va., Aug. 31, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Replica Cyber, the secure operations platform for all high-risk digital work, today announced governed AI agents running inside isolated environments designed specifically...Read More
Michael Loewy, co-founder of the Tide Foundation, says the security industry was already losing ground to hackers before AI. Everything from a typo to a state actor could create a breach. “Before AI even came into the developer consciousness, a developer or a platform owner needed to be perfect all the time — perfectly patched,...Read More
Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash Hybrid work no longer feels particularly new. For many businesses, it is simply how the working week now happens. Someone may spend Monday at the office, work from home on Tuesday and meet a client somewhere else on Wednesday. Another employee might open company files from a train or...Read More
Japan’s greatest strategic vulnerability may not be missiles or warships. It may be who builds Asia’s power plants. As China expands its military reach across the Indo-Pacific, it is also quietly extending its influence through civil nuclear exports. Every reactor Beijing or Moscow builds creates a relationship that can last for generations, binding countries through...Read More
A Russian-speaking ransomware operator used Cursor’s built-in AI coding agent to help breach at least seven companies across three continents, according to an investigation by Israeli cybersecurity firm Gambit Security first reported by Reuters on Aug. 27. The breaches took place between April 8 and May 21, when an affiliate of the Aur0ra ransomware group...Read More
The crucial investigative question: Where did the data actually come from? The biggest weakness in any dark-web breach investigation is attribution. A database appearing for sale online can originate from several sources: 1. Direct server intrusion The attacker penetrated the government’s infrastructure and extracted the database. 2. Third-party vendor compromise A contractor or technology provider...Read More
