OpenAI Hires Former White House AI Official to Lead Cyber-Risk Team
For much of this year, Thomas Lind’s job was to help the U.S. government think about artificial intelligence. He worked inside the White House’s Office of the National Cyber Director,…
Pentagon Personnel Agency Says a File-Sharing Flaw Exposed Troop Data for Months
The letter arrived without a number. It told recipients that “a small number of unauthorized users” had reached a file-sharing system run by the Defense Manpower Data Center, the Pentagon’s…
Google’s New Gemini Model Opens to Cyber Defenders First
Google introduced a new flagship artificial-intelligence model on Tuesday, but most people cannot use it yet. Gemini 4 Argon, the company’s first new frontier model since Gemini 3 last November,…
Apple Patches a Zero-Day Flaw It Says Was Used in Targeted Attacks
The update landed quietly, the way Apple’s emergency security fixes usually do: a short advisory, a list of affected systems, and a terse warning that a flaw “may have been…
ShinyHunters Claims It Broke Into the FBI
The group behind some of the largest data thefts of the decade says it has a new target. On September 22, the hacking collective ShinyHunters claimed it broke into the…
Smugglers Cut the Border Wall With a $5 Disc
The steel bollards of the U.S. southern border barrier rise in a tight line, each one a tall column of steel filled with concrete and meant to stop a person…
A Zero-Click Worm Spread Through WeChat Voice Calls
The demonstration required three phones and no cooperation from the victim. On a desk at a Palo Alto security firm, researchers placed a Pixel and an iPhone side by side…
A Day After Tesla’s Cybercab Hits the Streets, a Federal Probe Begins
The timing could not have been tighter if it had been scripted. On Wednesday, Tesla put its first production Cybercabs on the streets of Austin, offering rides to members of…
