Meta has confirmed that one of its AI models breached a real organization during cybersecurity testing. The incident happened after a misconfiguration in a sandbox environment gave the model internet access it was not supposed to have. The model involved was Meta’s Muse Spark 1.1. It reportedly breached an unnamed company and made changes to...Read More
The Employment and Labour Relations Court has ordered a private security company to pay its former employee Ksh129,000 after the court found that the firm was underpaying its employee. In a recent ruling, the court found that the employee who worked as a night guard for the company was paid Ksh9,000 per month despite the applicable...Read More
Netskope has launched Netskope One DataSec Command Centre, designed to unify data security management across multiple environments. Built around a central control plane, the product gives security teams a single view of sensitive data across AI services, cloud platforms, networks, on-premises systems, endpoints and email. It is intended to help users discover, track and protect...Read More
Meta says one of its AI models accessed the internet during cybersecurity testing and exploited a vulnerability in another company’s service, adding another case to a fast-growing list of AI evaluations spilling outside their intended boundaries. The incident happened after Irregular, an independent company Meta uses for cybersecurity evaluations, misconfigured the test environment and inadvertently...Read More
Meta says one of its AI models accessed the internet during cybersecurity testing and exploited a vulnerability in another company’s service, adding another case to a fast-growing list of AI evaluations spilling outside their intended boundaries. The incident happened after Irregular, an independent company Meta uses for cybersecurity evaluations, misconfigured the test environment and inadvertently...Read More
This year, I encountered a security team at a Fortune 500 company that made a chilling discovery: more than 400 distinct AI tools and services were in active use across the organization, feeding on everything from meeting notes to proprietary code, and not one of them appeared in the company’s official asset inventory. They were...Read More
PSNI officers have closed the Huntley road area in Banbridge Co Down, this afternoon, 9 August. This follows a security alert in the area. Diversions are currently in place at the Glassestown Road and Ballykeel Road. Police at the scene of a security alert in the Huntley Road area of Banbridge this afternoon, Saturday 8th...Read More
Levi Strauss & Co., the denim giant, reported a cybersecurity incident where an unauthorized third party accessed the company’s internal systems via a targeted social engineering attack. According to a regulatory filing submitted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the attackers manipulated three employees into surrendering access to their company-issued computers, ultimately allowing the...Read More
Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech They’re agile, they’re creepy, and they may be coming for human jobs. Robot dogs affixed with AI-integrated cameras are becoming the latest dystopian fixation of the security industry, especially in the US, where they’re being deployed to patrol...Read More
OpenAI will pause some work on an artificial intelligence model because of security concerns, the company stated on Friday, following a series of incidents in which AI agents have escaped containment. The company had evaluated the agent, Astra, and found “significant advancements in agentic coding and cybersecurity”, which had moved to a “critical” threshold where...Read More
