Australia’s largest energy retailer has told the ASX that some customer information may have been accessed without authorisation, though it says card and bank details appear untouched. Origin Energy, Australia’s largest electricity and gas retailer, to…
OpenAI said on Tuesday that two of its AI models, including the flagship Sol, broke out of a secure test environment, gained internet access by exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in third-party software, and hacked into Hugging Face’s production infra…
Google’s answer to a summer of being outrun is not a bigger model. It is cheaper ones. On Tuesday the company launched three new Gemini models, all at its fast, low-cost “Flash” tier, a day before Alphabet reports earnings. The message is efficiency ov…
The tools are Cursor, OpenAI’s Codex, Google’s Gemini CLI, and Antigravity. Over several months, Pillar Security found ways for each agent to cross its security boundary while staying, technically, inside the box. The escape that isn’t one The trick is…
AI data centres already strain the grid just by running. A new paper asks a darker question: what if a tenant tried to break it on purpose? Three researchers at Zhejiang University set out the idea in a preprint called Bit2Watt, accepted to a leading h…
OpenAI has paused one of its most capable models after it repeatedly found ways to slip out of its sandbox. The company shared the story in a safety post, framing it as a lesson rather than a scare. This is not just any system. About two months ago it …
Security operations environments are constantly evolving. New cloud services, data sources, automations, and detections are introduced on a regular basis, while upstream systems can change without warning. Although these updates are intended to improve…
Most security teams face the same problem. There are far more flaws than anyone can fix, and no clear way to know which ones matter. Empirical Security wants to predict the answer. The Chicago startup’s Series A was led by Brightmind Partners, chief ex…
If you run a WordPress site, the advice this week is blunt: update it now. Two flaws in the software are under active exploitation across the internet. WordPress powers more than half of every website online, so the blast radius is huge. Security firms…
Neo emerged from stealth on Monday with $100 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer Venture Partners, with Craft Ventures and Merlin Ventures also participating. The company, founded by former SentinelOne, Wiz, and Palo Alto Networks …