The new June 2, 2026 Executive Order from the White House, “Promoting Advanced Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Security,” directs the US government to establish a classified benchmarking process to evaluate the cybersecurity capabilities of advanced AI systems, following closely on the heels of Anthropic Mythos and Glasswing. Using this framework, AI developers can voluntarily submit...Read More
This week, representatives of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Cyber Unit and the Legal Attaché (Legat) office in Kyiv met with representatives of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine, the National Police of Ukraine, the Security Service of Ukraine, and the State Bureau of Investigation to discuss joint efforts to combat international cybercrime, the...Read More
A major bug found in the top privacy network Zcash, using artificial intelligence, may be a warning sign that similar undiscovered flaws exist across crypto and banking software. What’s worrying the crypto community is that the bug, which had existed in the network for 4 years, was only found recently by Shielded Labs, a nonprofit...Read More
Ravie LakshmananJun 06, 2026Cybersecurity / Artificial Intelligence OpenAI has begun rolling out a new Lockdown Mode to ChatGPT for eligible personal accounts to reduce the risk of data exfiltration arising from prompt injection attacks. The feature is primarily designed for people and organizations that handle sensitive data and require stricter protection guarantees. Lockdown Mode is...Read More
The debate over Zcash’s recently patched Orchard Pool vulnerability is far from settled. While some investors fear the worst, Dragonfly partner Haseeb Qureshi says the market may be overstating the immediate risks. He also confirmed that Dragonfly continues to hold ZEC despite the controversy. The vulnerability remained undiscovered for years before developers patched it. In...Read More
In January 2007, Steve Jobs held up a glass rectangle and most of the tech industry shrugged. Eighteen months later, every phone maker on earth was scrambling to catch up. The ones who moved first won. The ones who waited spent years playing catch-up. CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz thinks cybersecurity may have just experienced a...Read More
Guidance: NIST’s Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 provides the most widely adopted reference architecture for incident response capability maturity, covering identification, protection, detection, response and recovery functions. The only bet that pays off in both scenarios The uncomfortable truth your board needs to hear is this: The question is no longer whether your organisation will face a...Read More
After successfully replacing the firmware with a replacement image that did nothing more than display the word “patched” on the speaker’s LED display, the researcher got to wondering what else a hacker might do. So he turned his attention to FreeRTOS, the open source operating system that ran the Katana V2X. It contained a set...Read More
What do mechanical engineering, medical devices, supercomputers and artificial intelligence have in common? The answer lies in the career of Asmae Mhassni, a Moroccan engineer whose journey has taken her from Florida classrooms to the forefront of cybersecurity at Intel. Today, Mhassni is a Principal Engineer at Intel, one of the company’s highest technical ranks,...Read More
Lafourche Parish Sheriff Craig Webre announced the arrest of an Alabama man for cybercrimes following a joint investigation with the FBI. Landen Westfall, 24, of Athens, Alabama, has been booked on charges including criminal assistance to suicide, indecent behavior with a juvenile, and child pornography. The investigation began in late October 2025, when juvenile detectives...Read More
