Bremer County officials are preparing for the growing role of artificial intelligence in county operations while trying to balance new technology needs with cybersecurity concerns and rising hardware costs. Nate Koehler, the county’s MIS director, told the Bremer County Board of Supervisors Sept. 15 that his department is working on several technology projects, including an...Read More
Massive Silicon Valley mansions home to AI engineers, also known as “hacker houses,” have racked up dozens of complaints, from sexual harassment allegations to out-of-control parties and rat problems, according to a report. At some of these modern-day tech frat houses, entrepreneurs pay up to $10,000 a month in rent for a room, looking for...Read More
Without a cybersecurity plan, your business is more vulnerable to cyberattacks, data breaches, financial losses, operational downtime and reputational damage. When an incident happens, the lack of a clear plan can leave teams scrambling to identify the problem, protect affected systems and keep the business moving while costs and risks continue to grow. Over the...Read More
One Step Ahead: National Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2026 at Penn Another tip in a series provided by the Offices of Information Security, Information Systems & Computing and Audit, Compliance & Privacy October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM), and the University of Pennsylvania’s Office of Information Security (OIS) is excited to offer a variety of events...Read More
Without a cybersecurity plan, your business is more vulnerable to cyberattacks, data breaches, financial losses, operational downtime and reputational damage. When an incident happens, the lack of a clear plan can leave teams scrambling to identify the problem, protect affected systems and keep the business moving while costs and risks continue to grow. Over the...Read More
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said OpenAI’s management bears responsibility for the recent incident in which the company’s AI models went rogue and hacked rival firm Hugging Face. AI safety fears have surged since Sam Altman’s OpenAI revealed last month that a swarm of its AI agents had broken out of their testing “sandbox” and hacked...Read More
VideoLabs has acquired a global portfolio of 332 patent assets representing 89 patent families from Ericsson, adding intellectual property covering foundational technologies used across cloud infrastructure, software-defined networking, data centers, and cybersecurity. The portfolio was acquired through VideoLabs’ newly formed subsidiary Certitude Networks. Ericsson developed the technologies over more than two decades of research and...Read More
Google’s Gemini model accessed the internet and hacked three companies in May during a test of its cybersecurity capabilities conducted by Irregular, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday (Sept. 18). Google learned about the hacks when notified by Irregular in late July and confirmed the incident last week when it received inquiries from the WSJ, according to the...Read More
By Joyce Hanson ( September 21, 2026, 9:51 PM EDT) — A former Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. employee filed a proposed class action in Illinois federal court claiming the agricultural giant failed to protect workers’ personal information during a ransomware attack this month that has been attributed to a cybercrime group…. Law360 is on it, so you...Read More
By Lauren Berg ( September 21, 2026, 8:24 PM EDT) — The former head of cybersecurity at messaging platform WhatsApp can pursue some, but not all, of his whistleblower retaliation suit against Meta Platforms, a California federal judge has ruled, saying the complaint plausibly alleges protected activity regarding his reports that claim Meta violated U.S....Read More
