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OREM, Utah, Sept. 14, 2026-- SecurityMetrics has participated for the last eight years in PCI SSC’s GEAR (The Global Executive Assessor Roundtable) since its creation in July of 2018. As participants in GEAR, SecurityMetrics aims to improve the cybersecurity of businesses to help protect organizations and customers alike from
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The major threat of AI security within a company may not even be the most sophisticated cyberattack, but an employee putting confidential data into an AI tool that the IT department does not know exists. The purpose is not about getting rid of AI from the workplace, but rather about
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* Revolut fell for a spoofed government email scam, leaking sensitive customer data to attackers * Compromised info includes IDs, selfies, account statements, IBANs, and full transaction histories * Criminals now allegedly leaking data on Telegram, demanding 10,000 BTC (~$780M) ransom from Revolut Digital banking platform Revolut was tricked into giving away
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CISA confirms active exploitation as watchTowr spots miscreants probing internet-facing servers CISA says attackers are exploiting a maximum-severity GitLab flaw that lets unauthenticated miscreants read arbitrary files from vulnerable servers after the code shack released fixes on September 10. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added CVE-2026-85706 to
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China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday hit back at a call from the head of Anthropic for the U.S. to curb China’s artificial intelligence capabilities, which he issued as he argued for a global slowdown on AI development. U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader
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ZDNET’s key takeaways * OpenAI released its previously paused Astra model. * Researchers are worried the powerful new model could endanger security at scale. * OpenAI said Astra triggered new internal safety guardrails. OpenAI’s latest model, named Astra, is finally loose — sort of. The company halted development on Astra, also known
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AI Malaysia is taking a central role in Malaysia’s push toward formal AI governance and safety oversight. Image: AI Malaysia Berhad Malaysia has completed its draft AI Governance Bill, bringing proposed risk, oversight, and incident-reporting rules closer to enterprises. Sep 14, 2026 We may earn from vendors via affiliate
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New warnings from within the artificial intelligence industry have revived a long-running debate over whether advanced AI could escape human control and ultimately threaten humanity’s survival, and whether the companies developing the technology are doing enough to prevent such a scenario. The CEO of Anthropic, the San Francisco company
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China’s minister of state security has named two American AI models as a threat to Chinese infrastructure. Chen Yixin made the claim in a signed article published on Sunday. It ran in China Cyberspace, the journal of the Cyberspace Administration of China. The two models are named in the
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Security teams are turning to AI as they struggle to investigate the volume of alerts coming into the SOC, according to new research from Prophet Security. The State of AI in Security Operations 2026 report surveyed 250 IT and cybersecurity professionals. Forty percent said AI is already part of their
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* Coveron and NordLayer found synthetic “digital Frankenstein” identities sold on dark web for ~$200 * Packages mix stolen data with AI‑generated names, deepfake selfies, and cloned voices to bypass KYC * Researchers urge credit freezes, layered verification, and monitoring to counter rising synthetic identity fraud You can now get your own
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For years, physical security sat outside most technology discussions. CCTV, access controls and alarms were typically managed by facilities or security teams, purchased independently from the wider IT estate and reviewed only when equipment reached the end of its life. That separation no longer reflects how organizations operate. GM and
