12 celebrity deepfake websites seized by Manhattan DA
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has seized the domains of 12 deepfake websites in what it called the largest known seizure of celebrity deepfake sites…
Month: September 2026
CISO’s Expert Guide to Agentic Pentesting for Websites
Attackers now weaponize new vulnerabilities in about five days (Mandiant, part of Google Cloud). The median organization takes 43 days to patch one (Verizon DBIR…
Interview: Stephen Wood, chief operating officer, Rathbones Asset Management
“I’m not your average COO [chief operating officer],” says Stephen Wood, COO at Rathbones Asset Management (RAM), part of the Rathbones investment group. With 28…
EU Emergency Security Protocol Targets Hybrid Threats
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has proposed an Emergency Security Protocol that would allow any European Union member state to trigger a coordinated…
Westpac spends US$12,000 in AI tokens on intranet migration
Key points Westpac migrated its internal intranet for $12,000 USD in AI tokens, versus a typical low seven-figure cost and about a year’s work. Chief…
OpenAI Says Its Models Searched GitHub for Leaked API Keys During Training
OpenAI on Wednesday published a framework for reporting instances of model misalignment, along with six reports on problematic behavior observed over the past six months.…
OpenAI admits its models lie to cover their own mistakes
OpenAI admits its models lie to cover their own mistakes Pierluigi Paganini September 17, 2026 OpenAI launches a formal framework to disclose model misalignment, publishing…
Cisco alerts customers to second actively exploited zero-day in as many days
Cisco disclosed its second actively exploited zero-day vulnerability in as many days, presenting its customers with back-to-back threats to address in unrelated products. The latest…
Cisco patches max-severity ISE flaw, the second critical zero-day this week
Cisco released patches for an actively exploited authentication bypass vulnerability in its Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) platform, which is used for enterprise network access…
LLMs respond differently to harmful prompts when AI watermarking is used
Standard versus watermarked text generation. Credit: Lasso Security Standard versus watermarked text generation. Credit: Lasso Security A key feature of SynthID is something known as…
Stratom completes CMMC Level 2 self-assessment as defense cybersecurity requirements evolve
Stratom, developer of autonomous and robotic systems for defense applications, announced it has achieved compliance with Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Level 2 requirements. The…
Exploring the new AWS Sign Up experience
AWS has created a new sign up experience which they’ve described a bit in their blog post “AWS reimagines the getting started experience”, along with…