Cybersecurity
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The AI that found 27-year-old vulnerabilities no human ever caught before just forced an emergency meeting with every major Wall Street CEO
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Fed chair Jerome Powell reportedly convened Wall Street leaders on Tuesday in an emergency meeting on concerns about Anthropic’s latest AI model, flagging concerns about a greater cybersecurity risk. Bessent and Powell assembled the group of high-powered execs at the Treasury’s headquarters to ensure banks were aware of the cyber…
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Anthropic is limiting access to its latest AI model, Mythos. The real risks may already be out there
Anthropic’s new AI model, Mythos,is causing a stir among cybersecurity experts and policymakers. The company says its new model is so skilled at finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities that it’s too dangerous to release. Instead, it is limiting access to a small group of major technology companies whose software is the foundation for many other…
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Trump’s ‘cease-fire’ won’t stop Iranian hackers for long, cyber experts say
Hackers backing Tehran say an uncertain ceasefire between Iran and the United States and Israel won’t end their retaliatory cyberattacks, a warning that American cybersecurity experts say potential targets in the U.S. and Israel should take seriously. One leading hacking group known as Handala said after the ceasefire announcement that it was temporarily postponing attacks…
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Anthropic is giving companies, including Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft, access to its unreleased Claude Mythos model to prepare cybersecurity defense
Anthropic is giving a group of Big Tech and cybersecurity firms access to a preview version of Claude Mythos—its unreleased and most advanced AI model—in an attempt to bolster cybersecurity defences across some of the world’s most critical systems. The company has been concerned that the new model may pose unprecedented cybersecurity risks and increase…
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Your neighbor just got a home security system, but should you be worried? ‘It’s inherently a little creepy’ says surveillance expert
Picture this: your neighbor installs a new doorbell camera, maybe two. One faces their driveway, and the other has a pretty clear view of your front yard. They didn’t ask, not that they have to. And depending on who made that camera and what that company does with the footage, you may be in someone’s…