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, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The cloud is unlimited, or so the saying goes. Turns out that is not true and the problems is not due to software or systems or any technological thing. It turns out the primary limit is power to data centers. NEW data centers. Last year new data centers opened that consumed 6 gigawatts of power […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]AI can be amazing. Sometimes. And it can be bad sometimes. This time it is good. And bad. An AI-assisted hacker, Russian speaking, used multiple generative AI services to breach more than 600 FortiGate firewalls across 55 countries in 5 weeks. Should I blame AI for this? Maybe not, but the Russian used AI to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It would be nice if the US did the same. We passed the “Take it Down” law, but it has not gone into effect yet (it goes into effect in May), so we don’t know how effective it will be. One problem with the law is the only organizations that can enforce it are the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Sometimes it is not all about money. Often it is. The Pentagon is thinking about ending its love affair with Anthropic over a restriction it is placing on how the Pentagon is using their AI. That could cost the AI company $200 million. The Pentagon is pushing all four big AI companies to allow them […]
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