1+ week, 4+ day ago   (816+ words) An amendment to the UK’s Cyber Security and Resilience Bill, currently passing through the House of Lords, proposes giving the government “last resort” powers to shut down large AI systems in an emergency. The amendment proposed by Lib Dem peer,…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (739+ words) Sergey Nivens - stock.adobe.com FulcrumSec, the threat actor that earlier laid claim to the late-August breach of IT systems owned by Manchester Airports Group (MAG), has made public half a terabyte of data on 8.7 million people who transited through…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (349+ words) Dmitry Nikolaev - stock.adobe.co Bug bounty programme operator HackerOne has revealed it has patched a dangerous remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in its production environment that it would likely never have found had it not set Anthropic’s Claude Mythos…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1010+ words) For over 15 years, as her career took her from erstwhile digital transformation platform provider Pivotal to the Cloud Foundry Foundation, to configuration management specialist Puppet and now ActiveState, the “through line” has been open source, says Abby Kearns. Kearns joined…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (763+ words) For years, there were rules about who could see what numbers in the dashboard. A data team built the report and decided who could open it by role. That arrangement, according to Snowflake chief data and AI officer Anahita Tafvizi,…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (686+ words) July saw ransomware attacks reach a peak of 894 recorded attacks, hitting the highest level seen so far this year, up almost a quarter on June, according to NCC Group’s latest monthly Threat Intelligence Report. Though much attention remains on the…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (278+ words) The United States Department of the Treasury has officially launched a Quantum Readiness Task Force, supporting wider efforts to secure innovation, strengthen supply chains, and ensure the US remains a leading voice at the post-quantum table. “America must lead in…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (456+ words) Top flight football clubs may be fined up to £100,000 for breaching cyber security rules imposed by the English Premier League under a new sanctions regime approved by its 20 member clubs at a meeting earlier in the summer. According to the…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (996+ words) Proofpoint has opened an artificial intelligence (AI) security engineering centre of excellence in Hyderabad, India, and plans to hire more than 200 engineers in the country over the next 12 to 24 months. The centre, the latest in a string of investments in…...