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Imagine setting up an AI agent to scan the internet for job opportunities only to find out later it’s instead deployed a cryptocurrency miner on your computer and used up all the tokens to look for other agents that could do the same thing somewhere else.

The UK government has earmarked £100 million for a “world first” national AI Biosecurity Lab (AIBL) tasked with protecting the nation from emerging biological threats.

Swedish officials are no longer allowed to use OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude for government work due to concerns over security.

Microsoft Teams is looking to help keep users safe from phishing attacks and scams with new AI-powered security protections.

Earlier this month, a security researcher discovered that private cryptographic keys associated with eight of Indian company eMudhra’s intermediate certificate authority (CA) certificates were weak. The compromised keys could have allowed attackers to impersonate legitimate websites, potentially putting users’ sensitive information at risk. However, there is currently no evidence that the keys were exploited maliciously.

US Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) wants the federal government to turn on a privacy feature that major web browsers have supported for three years, warning that hundreds of agency web addresses still broadcast the name of the site each visitor uses to anyone watching the network along the way.

While banks are out there worrying about unauthorized AI agent access to customers’ accounts, password manager 1Password has now announced plans to share login credentials with your chosen AI agent without ever actually sharing the password.

If you think about it too hard, you’ll start sweating at the reality of how much personal data you have on your MacBook. Whether it’s sensitive documents or credentials and logins, you’d probably like to keep all of it secure. And while Apple has built its brand around being particularly privacy- and security-focused, that doesn’t…

A startling announcement went out earlier this week: Due to recently discovered vulnerabilities in the openpatch their sites — or if they couldn’t update right away, they should take the sites down to be safe

On Wednesday, a decades-old open-to two vulnerabilities that had sat dormant for years until researchers recently figured out a way to exploit them