Legislators around the world want everyone to validate their identity but there is a dark underside to this. Researchers discovered an unprotected MongoDB database that seems to be tied to the identity verification service IDMerit. It contained a billion records including 203 million records of people in the United States. That is more than half […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This was an unfair test, I guess. Jack & Jill is an online hiring platform. CodeWall is an autonomous AI agent that tries to hack stuff. By plan, it is for the good guys, but probably not for long. In a test, the agent chained together four bugs in the Jack & Jill software that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]These AI agents are everywhere and some of them are fully autonomous. In order to do anything useful, they have to have access to your digital life – files, calendars, emails, online services, online accounts and everything else. But none of these agents are perfect and here are some stories – good and not so […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Open Source is good, right? Maybe, not always. CyberStrikeAI lowers the barrier to complex cyberattacks by combining AI orchestration, MCP integration, and more than 100 offensive tools into a single, public, open source GitHub repository. AI is making things easy – for attackers – to launch really sophisticated and AI DRIVEN attacks. The developer is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Veracode’s 2026 State of Software Security report gives us the magnitude of the problem. Veracode makes security testing software and has a million of customers. That means that the data is real – from actual code of actual customers. They, tested code from 1.6 million unique applications – both static and dynamic testing and here […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It seems like this is becoming too frequent. A lone hacker used Claude and ChatGPT to breach Mexico’s government. 1 person. Two AI subscriptions. Nine agencies compromised. 150 gigabytes of data stolen. The breached agencies include Mexico’s federal tax authority and the national electoral institute, also state level systems in the Mexican states of Jalisco, […]
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