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Spy Agencies Say AI Can Help Combat AI Cyber Risks. But Don’t Forget the Basics
Defenders should assume their adversaries already have access to AI on par with that used for cyber defense. Only by investing in strong foundations can they hope to escape the cat-and-mouse AI cyber arms race.
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Some Agentic AI Browsers Come with Major Cybersecurity Risks: Study
In the last year or so, artificial intelligence companies have rolled out a spate of web browsers equipped with AI agents. New research found that the most powerful of these browsers also open users up to significant cybersecurity risks.
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Old Dominion University Launches First Ph.D. in Cybersecurity in Virginia
For years, professionals seeking a doctorate in cybersecurity had few options beyond computer science or engineering. Old Dominion University is opening a new path. The Ph.D. program will highlight the interdisciplinary nature of the rapidly evolving field of cybersecurity, with artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies.
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AI Will Elevate Near-Term Cybersecurity Risks but — with Investment and Coordination — Can Strengthen Cybersecurity in the Long Run
To counteract emerging cyberthreats posed by artificial intelligence, the baseline level of cybersecurity across society must rise — including stronger security practices, improved software quality, faster response to threats, and more effective sharing of cyberthreat intelligence.
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Hacktivism Is an Underestimated Threat, Especially in Geopolitical Crises
Hacktivists, while individually unsophisticated, are collectively generating persistent disruption, particularly during geopolitical crises. Their impact is being amplified by a wider accessibility of tools, faster mobilization and alignment with real world events.
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ORNL-Developed Cybersecurity Framework Graduates from Lab to Electric Grid
A grid cybersecurity and verification framework developed at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been licensed by GridForge Energy Solutions. The startup plans to explore ways the technology could boost real-time visibility of grid behavior for energy projects, grid management companies and utilities.
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From Exporting Spyware to Surveilling Activists – How Democracies Became the New Digital Authoritarians
“Digital authoritarianism” refers to governments using technology for surveillance and censorship to repress dissent. China remains the master practitioner, but democracies, too — in particular, India and Israel — are beginning to repress their citizens with the same tools and export them abroad.
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The Open Signal: How Mobile Phone Location Data Can Expose and Endanger American Troops
The architecture of the commercial mobile ecosystem favors exposure over concealment. As long as warfighters carry devices designed for convenience inside an economy designed for surveillance, the United States will remain vulnerable to enemies who can turn a phone’s signal into intelligence and intelligence into a strike.
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After the Canvas Breach, Security Takes Center Stage for SaaS Providers
When a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform fails, it doesn’t just fail one customer; it fails whole sectors. That’s the security problem hiding inside organizations becoming more and more dependent on SaaS providers.
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The Making of a Mythos: AI-Enabled Cybersecurity and the Emerging Architecture of Access
Anthropic’s release of the frontier AI model Claude Mythos Preview has caused significant trepidation, as its autonomous code-reasoning capabilities surfaced previously undetected vulnerabilities across major operating systems and software infrastructure. The architecture of access, being constructed around such capabilities, creates an asymmetry in access. India needs to secure critical infrastructure by updating, modernizing or replacing legacy systems.
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Scaling Intelligence: The Security Foundations Beneath America’s AI Ambitions Are Cracking
Artificial intelligence diffusion is stress-testing the assumptions that underpin U.S. cybersecurity. Inspecting those foundations isn’t a precaution against scaling AI—it’s the precondition for doing it with confidence.
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Fast 16 Malware Aimed at Undermining Proliferant State Nuclear Weapons Programs, Iran was a Credible Target
The Fast 16 malware looks to be targeting a nuclear weapon program’s hydrodynamic calculation group working on implosion systems using weapon-grade uranium as the nuclear explosive material.
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Clear and Present Danger: The Dismantling of America's Election Protections
The only beneficiaries of making American elections less secure are malign foreign actors eager to interfere, and malicious domestic actors bent on exploiting the opening the administration has created for them.
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For the First Time in a Decade, the Next Election Could Be Less Secure Than the One Preceding It
The disbanding of federal offices that counter foreign influence operations make it harder for local officials to learn of threats to election infrastructure, like AI-enabled targeting of voting tabulation systems or deepfakes of candidates. Little is known about whether the proactive cyber deterrence that has defined U.S. elections for much of the past decade remains in place in any other form.
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National Security Agency Names CSUF a Center in Cyber Defense Education
The National Security Agency has designated Cal State Fullerton as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense education to prepare and train qualified cybersecurity professionals.
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