Weekly Update 514: This Week in Data Breaches
26 July 2026 The Origin Energy breach down here in Aus is all over the news this week, and as...
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Hacking Back Is Back: White House to Enable Cyber Privateers
It’s happened: After many years of debating the pros and cons of whether “hacking back” would become the law of...
Innovation or Negligence? What Recent AI Hacks Mean for the Future of Cybersecurity
I’d like to start this debate with a few questions:Question one: What is wrong with a person or a group...
How New Laws Will Help Guard Seniors Against Scams
Looking for something that Republicans and Democrats can agree on and get done in Washington, D.C., before the midterms? Look...
Virtual Integrity Revisited: 7 Habits for the AI Age
Why is ethical AI important? Why are the intentions and actions of humans who are prompting AI and building agents...
From Principles to Practice: Actionable Blueprints for Ethical AI
On July 14, 2026, CNBC reported on a lawsuit against Meta regarding its recent layoffs in which former employees claimed...
Detailed Timeline of OpenAI’s Cyberattack on Hugging Face
Detailed Timeline of OpenAI’s Cyberattack on Hugging Face OpenAI presented details of its AI’s model’s cyberattack on Hugging Face at...
Apple to OpenAI: Go to your room
“Defendants’ arguments about the individual defendants ignore the legal standard on a motion to dismiss. Again and again, Defendants rely...
AI-Generated Exploit Scripts Target Siemens S7 PLCs in U.S. Critical Infrastructure
The U.S. government on Wednesday warned of an "active threat" targeting critical infrastructure organizations in the country using artificial intelligence...
New Cryptographic Context Injection Attack Could Let Web Pages Steal Grok Chat Data
Adversa AI has disclosed an attack technique that it says can cause xAI's Grok chatbot to send a user's name,...
Isolated-vm Flaw Lets Sandboxed JavaScript Escape to Host for Potential RCE
Ravie LakshmananAug 20, 2026Vulnerability / Application Security Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical security flaw in isolated-vm, a popular open-source...
Critical NetScaler Flaw Can Bypass Authentication on Certain Gateway and AAA Servers
Ravie LakshmananAug 20, 2026Network Security / Enterprise Security Citrix has released updates to address two security flaws impacting NetScaler ADC...
Attackers Exploit Zimbra SNMP Flaw for Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution
Ravie LakshmananAug 20, 2026Vulnerability / Email Security A now-patched security flaw impacting Zimbra Collaboration (ZCS) has come under active exploitation...
Meet Instant Attack Verification: Agentic AI for Tier-1 and Tier-2 SOC investigation
The alert problem every SOC knows Security operations centers are drowning in alerts. Volume grows faster than teams can hire;...
Smashing Security podcast #481: Never say this to a robot dog
At Black Hat this month, a group of security researchers took a $9,000 robot dog, plugged Google’s AI into its...