A Flaw in ChatGPT’s Mac App Could Have Let Hackers Grab Sensitive Data
While the focus has been on AI agents’ hacking capabilities, a recently patched vulnerability in a ChatGPT app shows that...
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Andy Curtis is an award-winning security consultant, researcher and public speaker. He has been working in the computer security industry since the early 1990s, having been employed by state and federal government, leading healthcare and banking providers across three continents. He has given talks about computer security for some of the world’s largest companies, worked with law enforcement agencies on investigations into hacking groups, and is a regular voice on TV and radio explaining IT security threats.
Investigators trace an AI agent ‘s path from research task to reconnaissance
Investigators trace an AI agent ‘s path from research task to reconnaissance Pierluigi Paganini October 02, 2026 Asymmetric Security traces...
How American Political Campaigns Are Using AI—and What They’re Spending on the Tools
How American Political Campaigns Are Using AI—and What They’re Spending on the Tools This essay was written with Nathan E....
How Meta stumbled onto a winning AI strategy
if ( !emtpy($headline_subheadline ) ) : ?> Having tried every bad idea, Meta now has the best vision for the...
US FTC will investigate Anthropic and OpenAI
if ( !emtpy($headline_subheadline ) ) : ?> The Federal Trade Commission wants to know whether the AI companies deceived consumers,...
Why CISOs Struggle to Answer the Board’s Three Hardest Questions, and How to Fix the Report
The quarterly board meeting is two weeks out. The security team is pulling exports from the identity provider, the cloud...
Android 17 Advanced Protection Locks Accessibility Services to Verified Accessibility Tools
Ravie LakshmananOct 02, 2026Mobile Security / Android Google has announced a new security measure that limits access to Android's accessibility...
Critical FortiMail Zero-Day Flaw Exploited in Attacks Allows Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Writes
Ravie LakshmananOct 02, 2026Vulnerability / Enterprise Security The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), on Thursday, added a critical...
AI could boost software engineer productivity by 32.6%
if ( !emtpy($headline_subheadline ) ) : ?> At least that's what investors believe, according to a complex mathematical model economists...
F/A-XX: why the US is putting all its fighter eggs in the Boeing basket
A six-paragraph news release at 5:01 pm on Tuesday was all that marked the launch of one of the biggest...
The Northern Territory must become an operational ecosystem
The Australian Army doesn’t own many of the systems that its future combat power depends on. Ports, fuel supplies, freight...
U.S. CISA adds Fortinet FortiMail flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
U.S. CISA adds Fortinet FortiMail flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Pierluigi Paganini October 02, 2026 U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure...
AI could worsen radicalisation of young Australians. Help parliament understand
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese used his address to the United Nations General Assembly to make an important point about artificial...
Omnissa delivers a peek into the benefits of breaking through enterprise data silos
if ( !emtpy($headline_subheadline ) ) : ?> The company, which spun out of VMware, rolled out a product this week...
Operation KillSwitch: Police Dismantle KillSec Ransomware Group
Operation KillSwitch: Police Dismantle KillSec Ransomware Group Pierluigi Paganini October 01, 2026 Operation KillSwitch: Europol says the KillSec ransomware group,...