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* August 7, 2026 * By Ramakrishna G * Data Security, Ransomware attacks A vault only protects what’s locked inside it. The moment a credential is checked out, the vault’s job is done and everything that happens with that access afterward is somebody else’s problem. This in essence, is the
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Beijing’s not saying why, which is just what happened when it investigated Micron China’s Cyberspace Administration (CAC) has conducted a review of Palo Alto Networks’ products. The regulator’s announcement of its review says it’s needed “to ensure the safe and stable operation of critical information infrastructure,
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The AI industry is having a rogue agent summer. The latest model to escape onto the open internet during security testing is Kimi K3, a powerful open-weight offering from the Chinese company Moonshot AI. Frontier Security, a US startup, says that Kimi K3 went outside of its sandbox while testing
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Meta has confirmed that one of its AI models breached another organization’s systems during a cybersecurity evaluation after a testing misconfiguration unintentionally granted it internet access. According to Meta, independent testing firm Irregular was responsible for the incident, which occurred through a misconfiguration that accidentally gave the AI model
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A chatbot is the least surprising place to find a transformer. Words already arrive in sequence. The stranger cases begin when the “sentence” is a medical scan, several camera feeds, a protein representation, or a stream of security events. That is a useful way to think about transformers beyond ChatGPT.
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The watch’s insecurity and the spying it enabled might be expected given the gadget’s pedigree: It’s sold by an obscure company called CJC, costs less than $30, and was made by an equally obscure manufacturer, YiQingTeng Electronics, in Shenzhen, China. More troubling, perhaps, is that the online
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Discover why AI literacy is essential for business leaders in 2026. Learn key AI skills, governance, strategy, and decision-making to drive business growth. Every business leader is likely to make AI-related decisions in the coming years. Understanding where AI adds business value and where its limitations lie is becoming an
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This week on Uncanny Valley, Brian Barrett, Zoë Schiffer, and Leah Feiger break down how ICE has collected DNA from nearly a million people this year, including young children, feeding an FBI database indefinitely. The team also discusses the backlash against Google Earth’s AI slop, the White House’s
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Even in the age of AI-poweredautonomouscyberattacks, the crude, tried and tested, hacking techniques of tricking victims into doing things they shouldn’t are still producing great results. Groups of unknown hackers are targeting and breaking into large financial and investment firms in the United States with the goal of stealing
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Brandon Bell/Getty Images ByDavid DiMolfetta, Cybersecurity Reporter, Nextgov/FCW August 6, 2026 02:53 PM ET The agency is working with the FBI to help victims but is not attributing the cyber intrusions to any group, acting director Nick Andersen told Nextgov/FCW. * Cyber Threats * Critical Infrastructure * CISA LAS
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Security researchers say they have evidence that a Chinese-linked spyware has expanded from mainland China to now target victims in over a dozen countries, including across Europe and the United States. The previously identified spyware also has new functionality capable of stealing troves of data and remotely bricking devices. The
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When the Switch 2 launched last year, it looked to be a prime opportunity for Microsoft to bring a wide selection of its back catalog to the handheld. Although it’s been more of a drip than a deluge of games many expected. However, the company has announced it will
