Foreign control of AI vendors a board-level risk, ASD says
AI sovereignty issue raised in new guidance.
Anthropic’s Mythos 5 targeted real developers in UK cyber test
Model without safety filters tried to social engineer coder during test.
iTnews Executive Retreat – Security Leaders Edition
Hunter Valley, 17–18 September
Russia-linked “Midnight Blizzard” group hijacks hotel wi-fi with CaptiveCrunch
Hacked hotel wireless harvests credentials and delivers malware.
Visa snaps up BioCatch
Bolsters cyber security offerings.
Arch Linux halts package adoptions after malware hijacking wave
As supply chain attack on code repository continues.
Microsoft can’t kill dogged researcher’s Copilot for Word worm
Self-propagating prompt injection attack survives months of mitigation efforts.
In Pictures: Security in the age of shadow AI Security Centric roundtable
A selection of photos from a recent iTnews roundtable lunch at Bambini Trust restaurant in Sydney.
OpenAI’s Hugging Face hack mixed technical brilliance with incoherent noise
Post-mortem by nearly 700 CISOs shows AI took “paths no humans would take”.
Okta details ‘Work Panel’, a turnkey SaaS platform for vishing crews
Automates domains, hosting and lookups via legitimate tools.