Traditional annual penetration tests are becoming less effective as organizations rapidly expand cloud, hybrid, and AI-driven environments that change far faster than yearly assessment cycles can keep up with. According to Lydia Zhang, President and Co-Founder of Ridge Security, modern infrastructure, applications, APIs, and dependency chains evolve continuously, creating constantly shifting attack surfaces that static…
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AI cyberattackers are getting better faster
The ability of AI models to perform end-to-end, multi-stage penetration tests that match the capabilities of humans undertaking the same tasks has improved dramatically in recent months, according to new benchmarks published by the UK government’s AI Security Institute (AISI). In November 2025, the difficulty of cyber tasks the best models could complete was doubling…
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Anthropic’s Mythos Helped Find Bugs in Apple’s Desktop Operating System
During tests in April, researchers found software issues in MacOS, one of the world’s toughest targets for hackers.
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Anthropic’s Mythos Helped Find Bugs in Apple’s Desktop Operating System
During tests in April, researchers found software issues in MacOS, one of the world’s toughest targets for hackers.
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AI is ready to take over Python programming, but not much else
Tests of how well 19 large language models (LLMs) complete and perform complicated multi-step tasks has shown that they are both error-prone and, in many cases, unreliable. The findings are contained a preprint paper, LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate, written by Microsoft researchers Philippe Laban, Tobias Schnabel and Jennifer Neville based on a…
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Pen tests show AI security flaws far more severe than legacy software bugs
Penetration tests of AI-based systems are revealing a greater percentage of high-risk flaws than those discovered in legacy systems. Security consultancy Cobalt’s annual State of Pentesting Report reveals that 32% of all AI and large language model (LLM) findings are rated as high risk — nearly 2.5 times the rate (13%) of severe flaws found…
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Meta Announces New AI Model
New model was competitive with leadings labs’ offerings on benchmark tests, the company has said.
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A Chatbot Relationship Ends in Suicide
Plus, schools’ growing pot problem, cancer-screening blood tests and the workplace skills Gen Z is lacking