AI is also emerging as a growing threat to crypto companies, giving attackers tools to find vulnerabilities faster, automate attacks and make phishing and social-engineering campaigns more convincing. That raises the stakes for an industry already a frequent target for hackers, while fueling a race to deploy the same technology on the defensive side. Claude...Read More
Security National Financial Corporation Veteran General Counsel joins the executive team effective August 17, 2026 SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 17, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Security National Financial Corporation (SNFC) (NASDAQ symbol “SNFCA”) today announced that Alissa Neufeld has joined the Company as Chief Legal Officer, effective Monday, August 17, 2026. Neufeld joins Security National from...Read More
A Durban security guard who lost his life on Sunday was described as a dedicated and passionate person. Siyabonga Mkhize, who was employed by Patron Shield Security, was shot dead along Rick Turner Road near Vusi Mzimela Road. ALS Paramedics spokesperson Garrith Jamieson said the guard was shot multiple times. Neither Patron Shield nor Jamieson...Read More
ASIA IN BRIEF Chinese company Zhipu last week launched a new AI model called GLM-5.3 that it claims has bug-finding powers that match those possessed by American models. The company’s announcement includes benchmark data that finds GLM-5.3 beats Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol on the CyberGym benchmark, a test of a model’s ability to solve...Read More
People regularly ignore automated calls from their security company’s control room because they would rather speak to a person instead. According to security experts, this is one of many ways South Africans unintentionally increase their risk of becoming crime victims. Security is big business in crime-riddled South Africa, but many homeowners do not give enough...Read More
A defence investor which counts Sir Jeremy Fleming, the former director of GCHQ, among its advisers will this week unveil a £35m fundraising, underlining the surging appetite to fund the next wave of security and resilience start-ups. Sky News has learnt that GALLOS Technologies, which was co-founded by a pair of senior former national security...Read More
The rise of public surveillance has also led to the rise of an adversarial counterpart: fashion designed to confuse AI security cameras. It’s designed to baffle the senses of Axon body cams, Flock cameras, and other tools of mass surveillance through tricks like patterns that AI sensors confuse for animals, objects, or reflective fabric. A new limited-edition, crowdfunded...Read More
Oracle is also concerned about the threat posted by the launch of bug-hunting AI model Mythos. In May it responded by accelerating its patching schedule, switching to monthly releases rather than quarterly. The first monthly batch fixed 35 flaws. Oracle said Security Central will enable security teams to assess security posture, detect configuration drift, as...Read More
“I am heartbroken, and I’m angry.” Those are the words John O’Nabigon shared over the weekend after losing another young community member to a drug overdose. The chief of Long Lake #58 First Nation, located about 300 kilometres northeast of Thunder Bay in northwestern Ontario, is taking action following the third drug-related death of a...Read More
[Photo: Shutterstock] Chinese AI companies are accelerating efforts to expand their influence in the cybersecurity market by promoting open-weight models. Chinese AI startup Z.ai said on Aug. 15 it unveiled GLM-5.3, an AI model specialised for cybersecurity. The company said GLM-5.3 significantly improved performance over the previous model in vulnerability detection, exploit analysis and multi-step...Read More
