… It’s not clear exactly what AI model helped find the issue, though. “Notably, this is one of the first critical vulnerabilities discovered in closed-source binaries using AI, highlighting a shift in how these flaws are identified,” says Sagi Tzadik, a security researcher at Wiz. …
Claude Security uses the Opus 4.7 model to scan a business’s codebase for vulnerabilities and issue a fix. …
Nearly every Linux distribution released since 2017 is currently vulnerable to a security bug called “Copy Fail” that allows any user to give themselves administrator privileges. …
… Gergely Orosz, the creator of The Pragmatic Engineer newsletter, writes on X that Instagram’s trust and safety team was “absolutely gutted” over the last several weeks due to layoffs and reassignments to tasks like AI labeling. “Apparently this was not a sophisticated hack,” Orosz writes. “But engi…
… Richard Lawler May 13 AI cybersecurity updates for MDASH, Mythos, and GPT-5.5. On Wednesday, the AISI, which evaluates AI models for the British government, said both Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview and OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 showed progress well above previous trends on cybersecurity testing. …
… Cloudflare is calling EmDash the “spiritual successor” of WordPress — something WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg has already refuted in a blog post about the new platform. “Please don’t claim to be our spiritual successor without understanding our spirit,” Mullenweg writes. “I think EmDash was crea… …
When Microsoft tried to launch Recall, an AI-powered Windows feature that screenshots most of what you do on your PC, it was labeled a “disaster” for cybersecurity and a “privacy nightmare.” After the backlash and a year-long delay to redesign and secure Recall, it’s once again facing security and … …
… When Bessent and Wiles met with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei in April, it signaled that not only were they taking the threat seriously, they were now overriding Anthropic’s enemies in the Pentagon, who had, months prior, convinced Trump that Anthropic was “woke” and should be banned for government us… …
… Anthropic confirmed the meeting on Friday. “Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei today met with senior administration officials for a productive discussion on how Anthropic and the US government can work together on key shared priorities such as cybersecurity, America’s lead in the AI race, and AI safety,” s… …
… Moussouris says that many people in cybersecurity roles have been laid off because of AI’s efficiencies, even though those efficiencies are exactly why more humans need to remain in the mix. …