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Cisco refines its risk-based vulnerability disclosure for the AI era

Security teams already struggle with long lists of vulnerabilities and limited time to patch them. Cisco believes AI could increase that pressure by accelerating vulnerability discovery and increasing the number of findings security teams need to review. The company said it is moving further toward a risk-based disclosure approach, placing greater attention on issues under…

OpenAI tunes GPT-5.5-Cyber for more permissive security workflows

OpenAI is rolling out GPT-5.5-Cyber, a variant of its latest AI model, in limited preview for verified cybersecurity professionals and organizations through its Trusted Access for Cyber program. Trusted Access for Cyber is OpenAI’s identity and trust-based access framework for cybersecurity users, designed to give verified defenders broader access to GPT-5.5’s cybersecurity capabilities for defensive…

Weekly Update 502

It’s a fascinating display of leverage: the ShinyHunters folks, with very limited resources and experience (their demographic will be teenagers to their early 20s), consistently gaining access to the data of massive brands. Not through technical ingenuity alone (although I’m sure there’s a portion of that), but primarily through good ol’ social engineering. That’s coming…

McGraw-Hill Confirms Data Exposure Tied to Salesforce Issue 

McGraw-Hill has confirmed unauthorized access to a limited set of internal data following a reported Salesforce misconfiguration.  The disclosure comes after an extortion threat that raised questions about the scale and sensitivity of the incident.  “ShinyHunters has no shortage of options for potential follow-up campaigns. They can target instructors with convincingly branded messages, pivot into…

Macquarie Technology Group secures A$200m investment from National Reconstruction Fund Corporation

Macquarie Technology Group Limited (ASX: MAQ) (the “Company”)  announced that it has secured a A$200m hybrid investment from National Reconstruction Fund Corporation (NRFC). The NRFC is a sovereign investor established by the Australian Government to invest in Australian businesses to support nationally significant technological innovation, digital infrastructure, defence, and national security. It works to transform…

Anthropic’s Claude Code Security rollout is an industry wakeup call

When Anthropic launched a “limited research preview” of its Claude Code Security offering on Friday, Wall Street investors sent the stocks of the largest cybersecurity vendors plunging. But did the Anthropic rollout warrant such a reaction?  After all, those companies, including CrowdStrike, Zscaler, Palo Alto Networks and Okta, are preparing their own agentic capabilities, and…

Claude Code scans, verifies, and patches code vulnerabilities

Anthropic brings Claude Code Security to Claude Code on the web through a limited research preview. Claude Code Security (Source: Anthropic) Claude Code Security analyzes code context, traces data flows between files, and flags multi-component vulnerability patterns that existing scanners often miss. Each finding undergoes an adversarial verification pass that re-examines results before they are…