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OpenAI Pauses Frontier RL Training as It Tightens Defenses Against Unsafe AI Behavior 2026-08-19 at 21:06 By OpenAI on Tuesday revealed that it paused reinforcement learning (RL) training for its latest artificial intelligence (AI) models for two weeks while it shored up additional defenses and increased the scope of its monitoring to avert another Hugging […]

Hacker Summer Camp Is a Defender’s Education 2026-08-19 at 20:15 By What Las Vegas 2026 taught about identity and privilege. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

TikTok Ban on Government Devices Reversed, Mobile Security Expert Weighs In 2026-08-19 at 20:00 By The Department of Justice (DOJ) decided last month that TikTok was no longer to be banned from government devices.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

China robot makers show off latest humanoids as tech event draws surprise visit from Nvidia CEO’s daughter 2026-08-19 at 19:38 By Reuters Chinese robot makers showed off humanoids sorting parcels, packing mobile phones and helping with household chores at a Beijing conference on Wednesday, seeking to demonstrate a shift from crowd-pleasing displays to broader commercial […]

From Puzzle Solver to Program Builder 2026-08-19 at 19:00 By Listen to Dina Atwell, Director, Cyber Insider Threat Program Management at Capital One, discuss her career in the security industry.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Chinese humanoid robot maker Unitree jumps 460% in blockbuster Shanghai IPO 2026-08-19 at 18:45 By Thomas Barrabi Unitree – whose dexterous robots have raised national security concerns in Congress – raised 6.1 billion yuan ($904 million) in its public debut. The Hangzhou-based firm is the first robotics firm from mainland China to go public, with […]

Security Leaders Discuss Azure Exfiltration Campaign 2026-08-19 at 18:00 By A hacker claimed to have stolen 3.6 million Azure account records from major organizations. Security leaders discuss.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

SilkParasite Espionage Campaign Targets Central Asian Governments with Five New RATs 2026-08-19 at 16:12 By A previously unreported cyber espionage operation dubbed SilkParasite has been observed targeting government bodies in Central Asia. The intrusion set makes use of seven remote access tool (RAT) families, five of which have never been previously documented: DriveSilkRAT, CookiETagRAT, NomadRAT, […]

‘Someone is getting fired’: Apple leaks clip of camera-equipped AI AirPods — spawning privacy concerns 2026-08-19 at 16:08 By Ben Cost The wireless earbuds are similar to current AirPods Pro models but with tiny cameras embedded in the stems. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

Hackers Compromised 14,500+ Dahua Devices Using Credential Attacks, Auth Bypasses, and P2P 2026-08-19 at 14:34 By Cybersecurity researchers at Hunt.io have disclosed details of a campaign that they say compromised more than 14,530 Dahua devices between June 17 and July 22, 2026, using credential attacks, two authentication-bypass flaws, and a peer-to-peer (P2P) relay technique. The […]

Phishing 3.0: The Fight Moves to Agent Versus Agent 2026-08-19 at 14:30 By Most email defenses still do the job they did a decade ago. Scan the message, look for something malicious, block it. That worked when the danger sat in the payload, a bad link or an attachment. It stopped working when the danger […]

Microsoft Links 30+ Rotating Domains to MacSync Stealer Infrastructure 2026-08-19 at 14:09 By Microsoft Defender Experts have linked more than 30 web domains to MacSync Stealer, a macOS-focused information stealer, after correlating recurring endpoint and network behaviors across changing infrastructure, tracing the malware from payload retrieval through data collection, staging, and exfiltration. The tech giant […]

Clop-Linked Windchill Web Shell Decrypts Credentials and Maps Engineering Data 2026-08-19 at 14:09 By A JavaServer Pages (JSP) web shell deployed following the exploitation of a critical security flaw in PTC Windchill and FlexPLM servers is specifically designed for the enterprise Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software, according to new findings from ReliaQuest. The cybersecurity company […]

The Cluster That Came Back: Disaster Recovery for High Speed Discovery 2026-08-19 at 13:00 By Bishnu Chaturvedi A single Data Node failure used to take down your entire discovery program. Not anymore. This article is an excerpt from SECURITY.COM View Original Source

The Readiness Gap: Navigating the Shift from AI Experimentation to Expectation 2026-08-19 at 12:00 By Artificial Intelligence has officially crossed the threshold from a leading-edge experiment to a foundational business utility. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

The Deepfake Problem is Growing, and Authentication Needs a Rethink 2026-08-19 at 07:00 By In this threat landscape, the assumption that what we see and hear is always real is disintegrating.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Fighting Fire with Fire: How Businesses Are Using AI to Enhance Risk Management 2026-08-19 at 07:00 By The emergence of AI has changed how modern organizations view security and risk management.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Meta aimed to ‘hook’ teens on Facebook and Instagram, lied about health risks, prosecutor argues as historic case begins 2026-08-18 at 23:41 By Thomas Barrabi Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta built its apps to be addictive for kids and then lied to the public about health risks so it could rake in massive profits, a California prosecutor […]

Copilot Exposed Its Own Vulnerabilities When Prompted 2026-08-18 at 21:43 By A one-click vulnerability in Microsoft Copilot Personal, named CoSnitch, was recently discovered. Security magazine talks with the research author to learn more.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Microsoft Copilot Personal Flaws Could Let One Click Exfiltrate Data From Connected Apps 2026-08-18 at 20:47 By Varonis Threat Labs has disclosed three vulnerabilities in Microsoft Copilot Personal that it said could allow a single click on a crafted link to silently pull data from connected apps and other information available to the victim’s Copilot […]