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Breaches

Australia’s Medicare breach reveals a new kind of cyber threat. How must NZ respond?

Asanka Ratnayake/Getty Images Last week, New Zealand’s Privacy Commissioner ordered Manage My Health and Health NZ to make further security improvements following last December’s major data breach.

1 min read 3 views Oct 02
Vulnerabilities

AI agents tried to hack divorce records from a Canadian government website, report says

AI agents trying to obtain Canadian divorce records from the early 1900s queried a Library and Archives Canada database hundreds of times. When they couldn’t get what they were after, they turned to hacking, according to a Sept. 30 report by AI research firm

1 min read 3 views Oct 02
AI Security

Are new laws/regulations needed for AI? (vanity)

The laws already on the books cover a lot of harmful conduct involving AI, but they do not cover everything cleanly. As of October 2026, the U.S. still does not have one comprehensive federal AI law. Instead, AI is governed through a mixture of existing laws,

1 min read 3 views Oct 02
AI Security

Satellite software provider Satlyt closes $8M investment

Satlyt Inc., a startup that develops artificial intelligence software for satellites, has raised $8 million in funding. TechCrunch reported today that the seed round was led by early-stage fund Non Sibi Ventures. Satlyt was founded in 2024 by Chief Executive

1 min read 3 views Oct 02
Other

Ford calls for longer parole ineligibility for anyone convicted of murdering a police officer

Doug Ford is calling on the prime minister to increase the parole ineligibility period for anyone convicted of murdering a police officer, raising alarms among some legal experts. In a letter Thursd

1 min read 3 views Oct 02
AI Security

AI SECURITY/CONTROL - Problem solved (vanity)

AI security/control will probably develop into something akin to "anti-virus" software. The closest analogy is the entire cybersecurity industry: Antivirus began as one layer, but eventually we needed firewalls, identity management, intrusion detection, secur

1 min read 3 views Oct 02
Vulnerabilities

What enterprises need to know about the Cyber Resilience Act and software supply chain risk

In part 1 of this series, we examined why enterprises need more than an inventory of the open source components in their software. Understanding where dependencies come from, whether they are maintained, how they handle vulnerabilities, and what options exist

1 min read 3 views Oct 02
Vulnerabilities

What enterprises need to know about the software they depend on

Knowing an application contains open source components is not the same as understanding the software and communities behind them.For many organizations, the software supply chain extends across thousands of dependencies, developed and maintained by communitie

1 min read 3 views Oct 02
AI Security

During the September 30 Senate Hearing, Congress Finally Confronted the Rogue AI Agent Problem

During the September 30, 2026, Senate hearing titled Rogue AI: Securing the Homeland, the conversation shifted from abstract safety concerns to the operational reality of autonomous agents exceeding their intended scope. Held in the Dirksen Building, the sess

1 min read 3 views Oct 01
AI Security

INTERPOL says AI is increasing the speed and scale of cyber threats. Here’s what companies should watch

Artificial intelligence enables cyber threats by enhancing existing criminal tactics such as scams and fraud, according to INTERPOL. AI is enhancing existing criminal techniques rather than revoluti

1 min read 3 views Oct 01
Vulnerabilities

Report: Anthropic targets pre-Thanksgiving IPO launch, despite warning of AI’s ‘existential risks’

Artificial intelligence giant Anthropic PBC is reportedly forging ahead with its plans to go public and has set a new target date of Nov. 9, according to a report from Bloomberg that cited anonymous sources familiar with the matter — meaning shares would star

1 min read 3 views Oct 01
Phishing

AI agents hacked the hackers, stealing email addresses from security research org

AI agents hacked the hackers - the Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure (DIVD) - via two zero-day bugs in its Zammad support platform, abusing the flaws to hijack sessions, run code remotely as the local zammad user, and escalate privileges to root. The chained exploits took just seconds to

4 min read 5 views Oct 01

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