Bug in FIFA World Cup internal system gave anyone ability to modify TV stream

A security researcher said a flaw in FIFA’s online platforms allowed her to access several internal systems, including one that could have allowed her to take control of the TV stream of every World Cup match.

‘Dangerous’ AI Models Are Coming No Matter What

The US government crackdown on Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 hides a glaring truth: AI models with advanced hacking capabilities will soon be the norm.

CyCognito pushes AI pentesting beyond vulnerability scans as enterprise attack surfaces evolve
CyCognito pushes AI pentesting beyond vulnerability scans as enterprise attack surfaces evolve

The cybersecurity industry is confronting a new reality: traditional vulnerability management is no longer enough. As enterprises rapidly deploy AI-powered applications, autonomous agents, and large language model (LLM) infrastructure, security teams a…

Attackers hijacked over 1,500 Arch Linux packages to steal developers’ secrets, no hacking required
Attackers hijacked over 1,500 Arch Linux packages to steal developers’ secrets, no hacking required

One of the largest open-source package repositories just spent a weekend cleaning up after a malware campaign that did not break into anything. It did not need to. Attackers seized control of more than 1,500 packages in the Arch User Repository, or AUR…

The team that built Microsoft’s Security Copilot just raised $100M to stop attacks before they happen
The team that built Microsoft’s Security Copilot just raised $100M to stop attacks before they happen

For most of the past decade, the security industry quietly gave up on prevention. Breaches were treated as inevitable, and the money went into detecting and cleaning up the mess afterwards. A new startup from two veterans of that industry says AI has m…

More Big Tech executives just became Army officers. The conflict-of-interest question is getting louder.
More Big Tech executives just became Army officers. The conflict-of-interest question is getting louder.

The US Army has commissioned three more technology executives into Detachment 201, the reserve unit that gives Silicon Valley leaders the rank of lieutenant colonel and a direct advisory line to senior military officials. Dane Knecht, chief technology …

Anthropic spent six months warning the world about AI. Then the government pulled its models.
Anthropic spent six months warning the world about AI. Then the government pulled its models.

No company in the AI industry has done more to warn the public about the technology it is building than Anthropic. No company has had those warnings turned against it quite so brutally. In the past six months, Anthropic has published a 19,000-word essa…