Consider the history of any recent corporate scandal, and it is quite possible to guess what the story…
Tag: history
AI, Global Security News
OWASP Agent Memory Guard: Stop AI agents from being weaponized through their own memory
AI agents keep memory across sessions. Conversation history, vector stores, scratchpads, and RAG indexes persist between runs, and anything written into that store becomes a privileged input the agent reads back later. An attacker who plants text in the wrong field can override an agent’s instructions, pull out user data, or steer future tool calls,…
AI, Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Global Security News
Smashing Security podcast #467: How ShinyHunters hacked the world’s biggest universities
Welcome to the largest educational data breach in history – affecting nearly 9,000 institutions, every Ivy League university, and 30 million students mid-finals. When Canvas’s parent company refused to pay and announced they had deployed “security patches” instead, the hackers were less than impressed. So they came back through the cat flap. Meanwhile, a famous…
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Meta Reports Big Revenue Jump and Projected Spending Increase
Meta Platforms posted its biggest quarterly revenue jump in recent history in the first quarter but said it would spend even more money to build out AI data centers this year than forecast.
AI, Apps, Compliance, Cybersecurity, Global Security News, Risk Management
CISOs reshape their roles as business risk strategists
Nitin Raina’s career history resembles that of many CISOs: He worked in IT infrastructure, operations, and services before moving into security and advancing through the ranks. He’s now global chief information security officer at technology consultancy Thoughtworks. But in a less common professional move Raina also picked up the role of global head of enterprise…
Global Security News, Network Security
Wireless vulnerabilities are doubling every few years
Wireless vulnerabilities are being disclosed at a rate that has no precedent in the fifteen-year history of systematic tracking. In 2025, researchers published 937 new wireless-related CVEs, an average of 2.5 per day, according to a threat report from Bastille Networks based on data from the NIST National Vulnerability Database. Wireless threats increasing 20X faster…
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Speakeasies to Shadow AI: Banning AI Browsers Will Fail
Lessons from history highlight why AI-enabled browsers require controlled enablement.
Global Security News
The Vastness of Time
A recent visit to the National Museum Australia and a discussion on the history of the Pyramids recalled the emergence of iterative software development methods in the 1990’s
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Enigma Cipher Device Still Holds Secrets for Cyber Pros
The Nazi relic’s history is riddled with resilience errors, and those lessons still apply to defending against modern cyber threats.
AI, Apps, Data Breaches, Global Security News, Network Security, Venture
Is AI killing technology?
We’re living through the single biggest tech disruption in history (and, if not the biggest, definitely the fastest). The AI revolution promises huge productivity gains by automating complex tasks, accelerating scientific breakthroughs in medicine, biotech, materials science, and democratizing access to expertise in critical industries like healthcare and education. People on the leading edge are…
AI, Global Security News, Microsoft, News, OneDrive
Microsoft brings project-focused AI agents into OneDrive
Teams often rely on shared document collections to track project history, decisions, and operational knowledge. To support this workflow, Microsoft introduced Agents in OneDrive, allowing users to create AI assistants built from selected files and folders. The feature allows users to group project plans, meeting notes, technical specifications, presentations, and research materials into a single…
AI, Compliance, Cybersecurity, Global Security News, malware, privacy
The €600,000 gold heist, powered by ransomware
Ransomware doesn’t just freeze computers – it can silence alarms too. And when the Natural History Museum in Paris went dark, thieves helped themselves to €600,000 worth of gold in a daring late-night heist. Meanwhile, developers have a new headache: a worm dubbed “Shai Hulud” has wriggled its way through more than 180 npm packages,…