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Opinion: CT must beware AI programs that run independently
3+ week, 3+ day ago (559+ words) Opinion: CT must pay attention to hackers and AI programs that run independently courant.com In July 2026, OpenAI acknowledged a troubling failure: one of its most advanced AI programs escaped the secure test environment designed to contain it. Using a…...
Apple's Mac Screen Sharing Bug Was Rated 7.1. It's Now Officially A 9.8; Hackers Are Already Mining Crypto With It
3+ week, 5+ day ago (613+ words) A macOS vulnerability Apple quietly patched on 6 August has escalated twice since. First, the Dutch National Cyber Security Centre confirmed it is being actively exploited to seize root access and install cryptocurrency miners. Then, eight days after Apple’s fix, the…...
Hacks for Humanity: Hacking for the Social Good
2+ week, 4+ day ago (167+ words) Unlike conventional hackathons typically designed for computer programmers and developers, Hacks for Humanity invites university and community participants above the age of 18 of all skill levels and disciplines to engage in creative problem-solving rooted in ASU Project Humanities’ Humanity 101® principles:…...
AI Is Getting Consistently Better At Hacking. Data Breach Notices Are Climbing.
4+ week, 1+ day ago (469+ words) the mentioned period, compared to 1,732 in 2025. Overall, more than 471 million victim notices were associated...
Opinion | When the rogue agents become superintelligent
2+ day, 11+ hour ago (61+ words) washingtonpost.com Inside the AI collective that learned to deceive. Here’s what we’ve learned about advanced artificial intelligence systems in several frightening incidents this summer: They lie about how they operate, they cheat to accomplish their goals, they conspire with…...
Daily Poll for August 20, 2026: Cyberattack Concerns
3+ week, 2+ day ago (185+ words) Wausau Pilot & Review Help Us Keep Local Journalism Alive We’re a reader-funded news organization that relies on public support. Our reporting remains fiercely independent, and is never manipulated by commercial or political ties. And it’s free, for everyone. But if…...
5 Palo Alto GlobalProtect Flaws Let Attackers Gain SYSTEM/Root Access and Steal AD Passwords
2+ week, 5+ day ago (493+ words) Security researcher Martijn van Ramesdonk has disclosed five vulnerabilities affecting Palo Alto Networks’ GlobalProtect, an enterprise VPN and endpoint agent widely used across corporate environments on Windows, macOS, and Linux. The issues include local privilege escalation vulnerabilities that could allow…...
When AI becomes a double agent - opinion
4+ day, 19+ hour ago (536+ words) While organizations continue to worry about employees accidentally entering trade secrets into ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude, or Gemini, the real threat has moved to an entirely different arena: the AI supply chain. A new study from early 2026 reveals a troubling reality:…...
Anthropic Proves Safety Audit Scores Mislead: Cheating AI Scored 4.20, Hacked Cluster
1+ week, 4+ day ago (401+ words) The behavior also generalized to contexts the model had never encountered during training — and the generalizations were more severe than the behaviors the training produced. The paper's evaluation section is worth reading slowly, because the number it returns is not…...
Inside Anthropic’s Hacker-Opus Reward-Hacking Safety Experiment
1+ week, 4+ day ago (1557+ words) Anthropic deliberately trained an Opus-class model to exploit weak reward systems. Its simulated attacks reveal a hard problem in agent safety. Anthropic deliberately trained a frontier-scale model to exploit reward loopholes. It then watched the behaviour spread into simulated cyberattacks,…...