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Iranian strikes on AWS facilities left customer data beyond recovery in Bahrain, UAE

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Iranian strikes on AWS facilities left customer data beyond recovery in Bahrain, UAE 2026-09-17 at 16:12 By Sinisa Markovic Six months after Iranian drone strikes tore through its Middle East infrastructure, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has acknowledged the permanent loss of customer data in Bahrain and the UAE. In two updates posted September 15, AWS […]

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Most chief audit executives can’t tell you what AI is worth yet

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Most chief audit executives can’t tell you what AI is worth yet 2026-09-15 at 07:30 By Sinisa Markovic Auditors are using AI in their daily work, and their departments have mostly left them to figure it out alone. 93% of audit leaders and auditors report some level of AI use, while 15% say their department […]

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Anthropic’s Enterprise Frontier Safeguards lets your Claude logs stay in your cloud

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Anthropic’s Enterprise Frontier Safeguards lets your Claude logs stay in your cloud 2026-09-02 at 07:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Eight members of the Analysis and Resilience Center for Systemic Risk, a group whose roster includes the CISOs of Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Citi, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo, spent months working with Anthropic on a […]

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Fake smart home residents could stand in for real ones in security research

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Fake smart home residents could stand in for real ones in security research 2026-07-14 at 08:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Smart home security research runs on a scarce ingredient: recordings of how real people use the gadgets in their homes. Getting that data means wiring up someone’s house and watching for months, which is slow, costly, […]

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This supercomputer encrypts your data even while it’s running it

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This supercomputer encrypts your data even while it’s running it 2026-07-01 at 08:30 By Sinisa Markovic Most people who handle sensitive data already encrypt it in two places. They lock it down when it sits on a hard drive, and they lock it down when it moves across a network. There has always been a […]

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Only 7% of companies are ready for the AI agents they deployed

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Only 7% of companies are ready for the AI agents they deployed 2026-06-23 at 07:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Most organizations now run or pilot AI agents that operate on company data with limited human direction at each step, a share that reaches 88% in Veeam Software’s Data and AI Trust Gap report. The systems that […]

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Your browser tab could become encrypted storage for someone else’s files

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Your browser tab could become encrypted storage for someone else’s files 2026-06-19 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz Decentralized storage networks already hand pieces of people’s data to strangers’ machines. The lasting question across these networks is whether the machine holding the data can read it. A research paper by Gregory Magarshak, a professor at IENYC, […]

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Most agentic AI projects in production have stalled over data problems

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Most agentic AI projects in production have stalled over data problems 2026-06-18 at 07:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Enterprises are connecting AI agents to live data feeds and putting them to work on tasks that once required human review, from IT operations to software development. The number doing this in production reached 32 percent in 2026, […]

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GitHub releases an open dataset for multilingual developer content

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GitHub releases an open dataset for multilingual developer content 2026-06-16 at 09:55 By Anamarija Pogorelec Developers coordinate code across README files, issue threads, and pull request discussions. Much of that exchange happens in English, and a large share happens in other languages. GitHub has released a dataset built to help researchers and developers locate public […]

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Making the cloud prove it followed your privacy wishes

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Making the cloud prove it followed your privacy wishes 2026-06-11 at 08:43 By Sinisa Markovic Making companies that store personal data in cloud key-value databases handle deletion requests by running the operation and confirming the job is complete. The people making those requests and the regulators overseeing them have had limited means to confirm the […]

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X Square Robot open sources its robot-free data collection framework

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X Square Robot open sources its robot-free data collection framework 2026-06-11 at 08:43 By Sinisa Markovic Companies building robots for physical work spend large amounts of time and money operating machines by hand to gather training examples. Each session with a physical robot produces a small number of demonstrations per day, which slows the growth […]

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Microsoft Scout agent opens a new category of always-on Autopilots

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Microsoft Scout agent opens a new category of always-on Autopilots 2026-06-03 at 11:28 By Anamarija Pogorelec Workplace AI assistants have mostly waited for a prompt before doing anything. A user asks, the tool answers, and the exchange ends there. Microsoft is putting a different kind of agent inside its Office applications, one designed to keep […]

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Codex knowledge work expands into research, reports, and spreadsheets

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Codex knowledge work expands into research, reports, and spreadsheets 2026-06-02 at 15:29 By Anamarija Pogorelec Office workers in the United States lose hours each week to email triage and to searching for files spread across disconnected systems. Roughly 40 percent of US labor, about 72 million people, works primarily with information such as analysis, documents, […]

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This AI model backdoor attack stays hidden until you customize the model

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This AI model backdoor attack stays hidden until you customize the model 2026-06-02 at 09:09 By Anamarija Pogorelec Most teams that deploy AI start with a backbone model. They download a large pre-trained system, adapt it to a specific task, and put it into production. The download step carries a security question: the origin of […]

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Data discovery gaps that catch enterprises off guard

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Data discovery gaps that catch enterprises off guard 2026-06-01 at 11:46 By Mirko Zorz In this interview with Help Net Security, Avani Desai, CEO at Schellman, talks about the gap between what organizations think they know about their data and what discovery scans turn up. She shares stories of shadow data in abandoned cloud storage, […]

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One in four MCP servers opens AI agent security to code execution risk

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One in four MCP servers opens AI agent security to code execution risk 2026-05-05 at 13:21 By Anamarija Pogorelec Enterprise deployments of AI agents lean on two extension mechanisms that introduce risk at different layers of the stack. MCP servers expose deterministic code functions with structured, loggable invocations. Skills load textual instruction sets directly into […]

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Your work apps are quietly handing 19 data points to someone

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Your work apps are quietly handing 19 data points to someone 2026-05-04 at 09:46 By Mirko Zorz Office work in 2026 runs through a stack of mobile apps that sit on the same phones people use for banking, messaging family, and tracking their location. Ten of the most common workplace apps in use across U.S. […]

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GDPR works, but only where someone enforces it

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GDPR works, but only where someone enforces it 2026-04-23 at 07:32 By Sinisa Markovic A new measurement study of web tracking across ten countries offers a reality check for anyone working on privacy compliance. Researchers crawled the same set of globally popular websites from virtual machines located in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, India, Singapore, South […]

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Shadow AI, deepfakes, and supply chain compromise are rewriting the financial sector threat playbook

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Shadow AI, deepfakes, and supply chain compromise are rewriting the financial sector threat playbook 2026-04-22 at 10:09 By Anamarija Pogorelec Financially motivated attacks continued to drive the bulk of cyber incidents against banks, insurers, and payment processors in 2025. Approximately 90% of breaches affecting financial institutions carried a financial motive, with data breaches accounting for […]

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Social media bans might steer kids into riskier corners of the internet

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Social media bans might steer kids into riskier corners of the internet 2026-04-17 at 08:10 By Sinisa Markovic Governments are moving to block children under 16 from social media in the name of safety. But once these measures move from policy to practice, they raise a harder question: what happens when protecting kids requires collecting […]

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