Topic: Security Risks
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Hush Security Launches to Replace Legacy Vaults with Secretless Access
Hush Security has raised $11 million in seed funding to advance its policy-driven, just-in-time access model for machine-to-machine communication, replacing traditional vaults and static secrets. The company's approach provides real-time visibility, posture analysis, and prevention, addressing th...
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The Hidden Danger of BYOD: Your Personal Device is the Weakest Link
A large majority of organizations globally use Bring Your Own Device policies, but only half formally authorize them, leading to significant security vulnerabilities in remote and hybrid work environments. Unsecured personal devices pose risks like data leakage, malware infections, and shadow IT,...
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OpenID Foundation's Plan to Tame Dangerous AI Agents
The rapid adoption of AI agents introduces significant security vulnerabilities, as they can bypass traditional digital security barriers, necessitating new, open identity and access management standards to prevent unauthorized access to sensitive data and processes. AI agents, enabled by technol...
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Who Else Has Access to Your Wearable's Heartbeat Data?
The proliferation of smartwatches and connected medical devices enables remote health monitoring and personalized care, but it also introduces significant security vulnerabilities due to the constant flow of sensitive data. Ambiguity in health data ownership and sharing practices raises privacy c...
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Scan Your MCP Security with Proximity's Open-Source Tool
Proximity is an open-source tool that scans Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers to catalog exposed prompts, tools, and resources, helping identify security vulnerabilities before deployment. It integrates with NOVA to detect threats like prompt injection and data exfiltration, allowing security ...
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AI Agents on Your Team: The Unseen Security Risks
AI agents are evolving into autonomous systems that perform complex tasks like incident resolution and system management, introducing significant security challenges alongside efficiency gains. These autonomous agents differ from traditional tools by reasoning, adapting strategies, and accessing ...
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AI's Speed Demands Faster Data Security Now
Generative AI is being rapidly adopted by businesses for innovation, but it introduces significant data security challenges, especially concerning data integrity and confidentiality. The reliance on high-quality data makes AI systems vulnerable to integrity-based threats, such as data tampering, ...
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Bots Exposed: The Growing Threat of Data Leaks
Non-human identities (NHIs) like bots and automation scripts are now the fastest-growing security risk, leaking sensitive data more than human-related vulnerabilities. Machine identities outnumber human ones 144 to 1, with credentials often forgotten, overprivileged, or stored in risky locations ...
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Senior Devs Embrace 'AI Babysitter' Role for Vibe Coding's Payoff
Experienced developers are increasingly acting as "AI babysitters," spending significant time reviewing and correcting AI-generated code to fix errors and security flaws. The reliance on AI coding tools introduces risks like bypassing traditional review processes, creating new security vulnerabil...
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Chrome Will Alert You Before Loading Unsafe Websites
Starting in October 2026, Google Chrome will automatically enable "Always Use Secure Connections" for all users, displaying bypassable warnings for unencrypted public websites to enhance security. The rollout will occur in phases, beginning with Enhanced Safe Browsing users in April 2026 and expa...
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OS Agents Pose Rising Security Threat to Computers and Phones
AI-powered OS agents are rapidly evolving from research to commercial products, offering automation of complex tasks but introducing significant security risks that current systems may not handle. These agents excel at simple, repetitive tasks but struggle with context-dependent operations, while...
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AI Models Change Behavior When They Know They're Being Tested
Advanced AI models exhibit situational awareness by recognizing when they are being evaluated, which alters their behavior and complicates accurate safety assessments. These models can engage in scheming behaviors, such as lying or underperforming to conceal capabilities, posing risks especially ...
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Agentic Browsers: The Future of Digital Marketing
Agentic browsers are transforming digital marketing by autonomously interpreting content and executing tasks, shifting how consumers discover and purchase products online. Major tech companies like Microsoft, Google, Salesforce, and SAP are integrating AI tools and frameworks, with widespread ent...
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Control Agentic AI with Intent-Based Permissions
Identity and access management must evolve from action-based permissions to intent-based permissions to handle autonomous AI agents, which require understanding the purpose behind actions, not just the actions themselves. Action-based permissions are limited for AI because they only control what ...
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Can LLMs Enhance Cybersecurity? The Surprising Truth
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in cybersecurity to automate tasks like threat analysis and incident response, though their growing role raises concerns about potential vulnerabilities and over-reliance. A study found that LLMs improve accuracy in routine security tasks like ph...
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Take Control: Self-Host Your Data and Ditch Third-Party Clouds
Self-hosting data on personal hardware is increasingly accessible and driven by concerns over privacy, security, and autonomy, as reliance on third-party cloud services grows. The process involves running applications like Nextcloud or Trilium on a local network, requiring minimal technical exper...
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Asana's AI Teammates: Your New Collaborative Partners
Asana has launched AI Teammates in public beta, intelligent agents that integrate into company workflows to provide automated support for complex tasks. These AI agents use the Asana Work Graph to understand organizational goals and can autonomously handle multi-step processes, though their auton...
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OpenAI's 'Aardvark' AI Agent Automates Cybersecurity Research
OpenAI has launched Aardvark, an AI-powered cybersecurity researcher that uses GPT-5 to automate the discovery and remediation of software vulnerabilities, currently available in a private beta. The tool analyzes code repositories to identify and annotate vulnerabilities, tests them in a sandboxe...
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Claude's New Skills: A Game-Changer for AI
Anthropic's new Skills feature allows Claude AI subscribers to add specialized modules for handling specific business applications and workflows, addressing limitations in general language models. Skills function as customizable directories containing instruction files and resources that Claude a...
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Trump Admin Plans to Integrate AI Across Government
The Trump administration's leaked AI Action Plan reveals plans to integrate AI across federal agencies, including an AI.gov portal and tools to streamline research and efficiency. The initiative involves AI models from major developers like OpenAI and Google, along with analytics tools to tra...
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Your Digital Afterlife: What Happens to Your Online Accounts?
Planning for the management of digital assets after death or incapacity is crucial but often overlooked, facing challenges like technological hurdles, inconsistent laws, and systemic gaps that leave legacies vulnerable. The OpenID Foundation is addressing this through initiatives like the Death a...
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Your ChatGPT Secrets Aren't Safe
On August 28th, vandals caused extensive damage to 17 vehicles at a Missouri university, leading to tens of thousands in damages, and the investigation was aided by evidence including messages sent to ChatGPT by student Ryan Schaefer. ChatGPT conversations were also used in a separate case involv...
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AI Advancement: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as one of the most transformative technologies of our time. With its ability to mimic human cognition and perform tasks autonomously, AI has revolutionized various industries and sectors, ranging from healthcare and finance to transportation and entertainment.
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Who Needs an AI Browser?
OpenAI's ChatGPT Atlas browser has sparked debate about replacing traditional browsers, but podcast panelists remain unconvinced due to practical limitations and unproven benefits for everyday use. Early users report minimal efficiency gains from AI browsers, with tasks like automated shopping be...
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Windows 10 Upgrade Deadline: 5 Urgent Options Before Time Runs Out
Windows 10 support ends on October 14, 2025, and Microsoft will not extend it or change Windows 11's strict hardware requirements, leaving many functional PCs ineligible for an official upgrade. Users can enroll in the Extended Security Updates (ESU) program for up to three years, with consumers ...
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