Tag: risk
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KI-Forscher Kokotajlo: Müssen die KI-Entwicklung im Wesentlichen abschalten
Kokotajlo warnt vor unkontrollierbaren Risiken durch sich selbst verbessernde KI-Systeme: vor neuartigen Biowaffen und automatisierten Cyberangriffen. First seen on golem.de Jump to article: www.golem.de/news/ki-forscher-kokotajlo-muessen-die-ki-entwicklung-im-wesentlichen-abschalten-2609-213191.html
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CISA Ditches Weekly Vulnerability Roundups for Risk-Based Focus
The move is consistent with the agency’s advice on the need for organizations to prioritize the vulnerabilities that actually matter. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/cisa-ditches-weekly-vuln-roundups-risk-based-focus
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The AI hacking apocalypse is not inevitable
While large language models present real risks to society, experts say they can be tested and largely controlled using well-worn cybersecurity and policy choices. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/ai-agent-hacking-apocalypse-cybersecurity/
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Cyberattacks on Oil Tankers Put Maritime Critical Infrastructure at Risk
Cyberattacks on oil tankers show how connected ships can expose navigation and critical systems, threatening safety, ports and global trade. U.S. Coast Guard personnel and FBI agents boarded two Texas”‘bound energy tankers last month after cyberattacks hit the vessels while they were underway, according to U.S. officials. One of the ships was the VL Prosperity,…
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Replik zum Artikel ‘Vom Keller in die Cloud: Warum das lokale Firmen-Rechenzentrum zum Sicherheitsrisiko wird “
Replik zum Cloud-Hype: Wie FUD täuscht, welche Risiken der US Cloud Act birgt und warum die lokale IT erforderlich bleibt. First seen on tarnkappe.info Jump to article: tarnkappe.info/artikel/it-sicherheit/replik-zum-artikel-vom-keller-in-die-cloud-warum-das-lokale-firmen-rechenzentrum-zum-sicherheitsrisiko-wird-333537.html
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When Everyday Habits Become an Invisible Security Risk
By James Mackay, CEO, MetaCompliance When security teams think about their organisation’s attack surface, they’re usually focused on technology. Where could an attacker get in? What’s exposed? What hasn’t been updated or configured correctly? An attack surface refers to all the possible ways a cyber attacker can gain access to an organisation, including unpatched security…
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Can You Prove a New CVE Is Exploitable Before Attackers Do? Learn How in This Webinar
A new CVE drops. Your scanner finds it. The severity score looks ugly.But that still does not answer the question that matters: Can it actually be exploited in your environment?Mythos-class AI is compressing the time between disclosure and working exploitation, while many security programs still validate risk on weekly or quarterly cycles. The dangerous gap…
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GPT4Free Privacy Risks Expose AI Prompts to Third-Party Servers and Hidden Logs
Users of the GPT4Free hosted platform might believe they are directly interacting with the selected artificial intelligence model in its web interface. However, recent research suggests that prompts submitted through g4f.dev may travel through a complex network of provider code, intermediary services, external model endpoints, and potentially unrelated AI servers. These findings raise significant privacy…
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6 Ways Security Teams Can Reduce Non-Human Insider Risk
AI agents are rapidly becoming part of everyday business operations and this increases non-human insider risk. They can improve productivity, reduce repetitive work and help organisations accomplish tasks far more efficiently. The answer, therefore, is not to ban them. Instead, organisations need to manage AI agents with the same discipline applied to human identities, privileged…
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Critical Check Point Vulnerability Allows Remote Root Code Execution Without Authentication
Check Point has issued a high-severity security alert for CVE-2026-91843, which is a critical stack overflow vulnerability in the login process of its Security Management and Log Server products. This flaw could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with root privileges, posing a significant risk to organizations utilizing affected Check Point management…
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Critical Check Point Vulnerability Allows Remote Root Code Execution Without Authentication
Check Point has issued a high-severity security alert for CVE-2026-91843, which is a critical stack overflow vulnerability in the login process of its Security Management and Log Server products. This flaw could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with root privileges, posing a significant risk to organizations utilizing affected Check Point management…
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Four gaps IRM was never built to close
Tags: riskA buyer’s checklist for the IRM gaps a ServiceNow program leaves open.Many teams deploy IRM, watch the assessments come back clean quarter after quarter, and reasonably conclude they are covered. Months later, the greatest risk turns out to have been… First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/09/four-gaps-irm-was-never-built-to-close/
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Critical Check Point Vulnerability Allows Remote Root Code Execution Without Authentication
Check Point has issued a high-severity security alert for CVE-2026-91843, which is a critical stack overflow vulnerability in the login process of its Security Management and Log Server products. This flaw could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with root privileges, posing a significant risk to organizations utilizing affected Check Point management…
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KI-Agenten rücken beim Insider-Risiko in den Fokus
Eine internationale Befragung unter 600 Security- und Finance-Entscheidern zeigt: KI-Agenten mit zu weitreichenden oder unbeabsichtigten Zugriffsrechten werden zunehmend als Risiko wahrgenommen. Gleichzeitig fehlen vielen Unternehmen noch belastbare Daten, um technisches Verhalten in geschäftliche Risiken zu übersetzen. KI-Agenten verschieben die Debatte über Insider-Risiken Management Summary KI-Agenten werden zum Insider-Thema: 48 % der befragten Security-Verantwortlichen… First seen…
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Smashing Security podcast #485: These researchers got drunk to hack an LG TV
Tags: riskResearchers wanted to test if LG’s smart TVs come with any security risks – but their lawyers noticed a snag: the terms and conditions would forbid it. So they came up with a solution. They got plastered before setting up the TV, on the reasoning that you can’t be legally bound to a contract you…
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Daily OT Security News: September 16, 2026
Today’s updates include multiple CISA ICS advisories for high-risk vulnerabilities in surveillance, maritime, and industrial management products, plus a reported exploitation campaign that targeted internet-facing Gitea instances and impacted industrial software repositories. CISA issues advisory for Digital Watchdog VMAX DVR… First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/09/daily-ot-security-news-september-16-2026/
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FBI Warns About OAuth Consent Phishing Risks for K12 Schools
What you need to know about OAuth phishing and tips for protecting your district A staff member sees a familiar Google or Microsoft sign-in page while connecting what appears to be a legitimate app. The user signs in, sees a… First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/09/fbi-warns-about-oauth-consent-phishing-risks-for-k12-schools/
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Shared AI Memory Lets Hundreds of Agents Inherit Exploits and Join Coordinated Attacks
A shared message board turned isolated AI agents into an effective offensive collective during OpenAI’s July 2026 ExploitGym evaluations, enabling roughly 1,200 agents to exchange more than 70,000 messages and files. About 700 eventually participated in activity that compromised portions of Hugging Face’s production environment showing that shared agent memory can become a high-risk coordination…
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12 Best CASB Solutions Compared (2026): Features Pricing
Quick Answer: Nobody buys standalone CASB anymore you buy an SSE seat and CASB rides along. That flips the cost question: Defender for Cloud Apps is already inside M365 E5, Netskope/Zscaler/Skyhigh price CASB into per-user SSE bundles, and specialist attach (Proofpoint-style people-risk, Lookout mobile) is where incremental spend needs justifying. Category flag: Saviynt on legacy…
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Sonar extends technical debt governance to R
Regulated enterprises run their most consequential statistics in R. Clinical trial analysis. Actuarial and risk models. Market research. R&D data science that eventually informs a regulatory submission or a rating decision. That code drives outcomes organizations have to defend to… First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/09/sonar-extends-technical-debt-governance-to-r/
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Shared Hosting at Risk: LiteSpeed Enterprise Bug Can Grant Root from a Single Tenant
Critical LiteSpeed Enterprise flaw lets one shared hosting account gain root, bypassing CageFS; patch now to 6.3.7 via forced update. cPanel warned that a critical flaw in LiteSpeed Enterprise can let a low”‘privilege website user break out of their account and gain root on the whole server. On a box where dozens or hundreds of…
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Why Post-Quantum Cryptography Should Matter to Every Organization
Ken Russman, Director, Strategy and Risk September 15, 2026 “PQC is a business resilience issue, not just a technology upgrade.” Key Takeaways NIST has finalized its first post-quantum cryptography standards, and organizations should begin a phased migration to quantum-resistant cryptography. … First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/09/why-post-quantum-cryptography-should-matter-to-every-organization/
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Zwischen Innovation und Kontrollverlust: Wie mittelständische Unternehmen KI-Risiken beherrschen
KI ist im Mittelstand oft längst Realität nur nicht immer sichtbar oder gesteuert. Eine strukturierte Bestandsaufnahme schafft Transparenz über Nutzung, Daten, Verantwortlichkeiten und regulatorische Pflichten. So wird aus unkontrolliertem Experimentieren eine belastbare Grundlage für sichere Investitionen und nachhaltige Wettbewerbsvorteile. Management Summary Transparenz vor Technologie: Unternehmen sollten zuerst erfassen, wo und wofür KI bereits… First seen…
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NonDay VPN Flaw Left Japan ‘s Government Shared Network Platform Exposed: 246,000 Records at Risk
Tags: access, breach, data-breach, exploit, flaw, government, network, risk, service, vpn, vulnerability, zero-dayJapan ‘s Digital Agency disclosed a VPN breach exposing 246,000 government employee records across 23 ministries. Detected June 25, publicly disclosed September 11. Japan ‘s Digital Agency disclosed that attackers exploited a vulnerability in a VPN device to access its Government Solution Service (GSS), potentially leaking personal information belonging to approximately 246,000 government employees, public…
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Japan Government Network Breach Puts 246,000 People at Risk
A vulnerability in Japan’s shared government network may have exposed personal information tied to 246,000 workers across 23 organizations. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/cybersecurity/news-government-network-breach-apac-japan/
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Brevo Breach Sends Trezor Phishing Email to 347,000 Subscribers
A Brevo breach allowed attackers to send Trezor phishing emails to 347,000 subscribers, exposing security risks created by trusted third-party vendors. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/cybersecurity/news-brevo-trezor-phishing-email-347000-subscribers/
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UK lawmakers call for new law to protect human rights from AI systems
MPs and peers call for the UK to create a statutory AI oversight body with powers to test and evaluate high-risk uses of AI and to prevent the deployment of AI that poses risks to human rights First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366649608/UK-lawmakers-call-for-new-law-to-protect-human-rights-from-AI-systems
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UK Panel Calls for Fresh Approach to Regulating Medical AI
Commission Says Premarket Reviews Alone Fall Short for Evolving AI Technologies. AI-enabled medical devices and healthcare software in the United Kingdom should be regulated with a life-cycle risk approach, especially as the technologies evolve, rather than the one-time premarket approval model that’s predominate today, according to a new government commission report. First seen on govinfosecurity.com…
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Maximum Severity GitLab Flaw Puts Supply Chains at Risk
CVE-2026-85706 is a path traversal vulnerability with a 10 out of 10 CVSS score, affecting both GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition instances. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/maximum-severity-gitlab-flaw-supply-chains-risk
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Anthropic CEO: Time to Shift From Improving to Controlling AI
Dario Amodei says it’s time to slow the pace of frontier AI improvements so that security and risk prevention efforts can catch up. What does this mean for enterprises? First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/anthropic-ceo-shift-from-improving-to-controlling-ai