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Microsoft today released updates to remedy at least 398 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and supported software, including one weakness that is already being actively exploited and two others that were publicly detailed prior to today.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a postmortem on a data leak in which a contractor published dozens of internal CISA credentials — including AWS Govcloud keys — in a public GitHub repository for almost six months before being notified by KrebsOnSecurity. Experts say the gaps identified in the agency’s initial response…
It’s a glorious day in Kirkland, Washington, an affluent Seattle suburb on the eastern shore of Lake Washington. The temperature is in the mid-80s, and the sky is incapable of being any more blue. The view from the Gates Ventures conference room overlooks the Carillon Point Marina, where a flotilla of expensive boats bob in…
Even as a teenager, Laurie Stach ’06 says, she had a “crazy ambition to take on the world and solve problems.” At MIT, she realized she wasn’t the only one. “Adults always see these youth who are good at math and science and say, ‘You’re going to do great things—someday,’” says Stach. “Meanwhile, traditional education…
A week ago, a mystery model called Ox Alpha showed up on OpenRouter — one more entrant among more than 400 models, with roughly 10 new ones launching every week. What made it stand out wasn't just the free price tag; it was quietly good. Hobbyists and indie developers noticed fast, pushing several trillion tokens…
A security agent read a Cloudflare log, found an attacker’s prompt-injection payload sitting inside it, and rewrote the company’s DNS. The firewall had already blocked that payload, and blocking it is what wrote it into the log.That chain is GhostJacking, which Tenet Security demonstrated on the DEF CON 34 main stage on August 9. A…
Presented by Tata Communications Enterprises are deploying AI agents, voice AI, and automation across messaging, voice, and digital channels faster than the architecture meant to support it. Most of that deployment has involved attaching conversational AI to legacy systems never built for it, says Gaurav Anand, global head of the Customer Interaction Suite at Tata…
A CISO who sees a low CVE count and deprioritizes prompt injection is reading the scoreboard wrong. Prompt injection has held the No. 1 spot on the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications for three consecutive years. When two leaders of that list checked it against 6,639 labeled real-world incidents, it came back at No.…
Anthropic is making a calculated bet that the biggest bottleneck in enterprise AI isn't model intelligence — it's the fact that most people still use AI alone.In an exclusive interview with VentureBeat, Scott White, Anthropic's head of product for enterprise, laid out the company's thesis for what it calls "multiplayer AI": a shift away from…
