Oak raised $60M to give every user, machine, and AI agent one identity system
Oak raised $60M to give every user, machine, and AI agent one identity system

Most companies still cannot say who, or what, has access to their systems at any given moment. Oak, an Israeli startup, has raised $60M to fix that, and it is betting AI agents make the problem urgent. The company came out of stealth with the seed roun…

Zoom patches critical security flaw which could have let hackers hijack accounts

Zoom finds improper input validation bug, but fortunately sees no evidence of abuse.

Microsoft’s record Patch Tuesday, and it says AI found the bugs
Microsoft’s record Patch Tuesday, and it says AI found the bugs

Microsoft has never shipped a bigger security update. Its July Patch Tuesday fixed a record haul of flaws, and the company says AI is why the count keeps climbing. The scale is hard to ignore. By Microsoft’s own count, the update patched 622 vulnerabil…

Oracle leads the race to build Japan a secret, air-gapped cloud
Oracle leads the race to build Japan a secret, air-gapped cloud

Oracle is leading the race to build Japan an air-gapped cloud, sealed off from the internet. Washington wants it to counter Chinese hacking. Before the US shares more of its secrets with Japan, it wants Japan to lock them down. Oracle is now the front-…

KFC may be forced to shut some stores following cyberattack at key supplier

Nichirei Co confirmed shutting parts of its infrastructure offline to contain a cyberincident which could affect KFC Japan stores.

The Australian government just told thousands of people to throw out their routers — despite experts warning it could be a major security risk

An experiment to measure internet speeds across Australia has descended into controversy as the government orders the destruction of around 4,000 routers.

OpenAI built an AI super-hacker to break its own models, then locked it away
OpenAI built an AI super-hacker to break its own models, then locked it away

OpenAI has trained an elite hacker, then locked it in a cage. Its whole job is to break OpenAI’s own AI. The company says it is too dangerous to let anyone else near it. The model is called GPT-Red, and OpenAI detailed it this week. It is an automated …

Here’s the Truth About Whether Meta’s NameTag Face Recognition Tech ‘Exists’

Since WIRED reported on Meta’s NameTag face recognition system, company executives have made confusing and conflicting remarks about its very existence.

Top AI tools such as OpenClaw and Github Copilot can be hijacked to create new massive botnets

Researchers find nine of the most popular AI platforms are susceptible to a new attack that exploits hallucinations to set up a botnet.

Microsoft patches bug in video game Age of Empires II

The vulnerability in the decades-old game could have allowed hackers to take over victims’ computers with a malicious game invite.