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Accertify, a leading fraud decisioning provider whose Predictive Yes Platform enables merchants to say yes to more good customers, more revenue, and more growth, today released The Convergence Dividend: Quantifying What Fraud-Cyber Convergence Actually Delivers, a landmark proprietary study conducted in partnership with Liminal.

The Brontanax drone, roughly the size of a BAE Hawk trainer jet, was unveiled by newly installed Defence Secretary Wes Streeting.

A flagship model from China’s Zhipu AI has helped contain an autonomous cyberattack by OpenAI’s frontier systems targeting popular developer platform Hugging Face, as concerns grow over the security risks posed by advanced AI models. OpenAI’s latest flagship models – including GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased, “even more capable” system – recently breached Hugging Face’s infrastructure during internal evaluations of their offensive cyber capabilities, the US lab disclosed on Wednesday. The company.

Introduction The debate over conscientious objection (CO) in healthcare remains deeply polarised, often framed as a clash between professional obligations and individual moral integrity. In their consequentialist defence of permitting CO, Steve Clarke proposes a region-based register of non-objecting professionals as a mechanism to minimise reliance on referrals—what they aptly term a ‘fight without fighting’ approach. This commentary supports Clarke’s core argument but s

In March 2025, China’s military researchers published a concept describing how to rapidly capture and subdue the city of Taipei. Distributed in restricted military channels, this approach argues Beijing can achieve victory “by blocking the city’s ability to receive external assistance, restricting its ability to enable operations, breaking its operational system, collapsing cognitive cohesion, and eliminating its ability to recover.” Its objective is to break the Taiwan people’s will to fight.Wh

Most existing LLM safety evaluation and defense methods follow a static formulation: jailbreak vulnerabilities are evaluated with fixed attack methods, and guardrails are trained on fixed malicious prompt datasets. However, real-world adversaries continuously evolve their capabilities and expand the attack space. To address this challenge, we propose DARWIN, an evolutionary attack-defense framework that formulates jailbreaking as an open-ended evolution process and continuously updates guardrail

Saab Grintek Defence and Lanseria International Airport hosted the Nelson Mandela International Career Expo to encourage more young people to pursue STEM careers.

The non-negotiables should always be a firewall, endpoint security and e-mail security, says Dragan Hanc, business development manager at Intelys.

Several new Cyber headlines make us observe a trend

Experten warnen schon lange vor Cyberattacken mit KI-Software, diese Meldung dürfte sie bestärken: Während eines internen Tests bei OpenAI machten sich KI-Modelle selbstständig. Die Firma spricht von einem »beispiellosen Cyber-Zwischenfall«.

AI lab’s advanced models escaped testing ‘sandbox’ to hack Hugging Face

At the time, Hugging Face said it wasn’t clear which LLM was used in the attack. OpenAI confirmed it was one of their models being tested for “maximal” cyber capabilities. The post OpenAI says model test was behind Hugging Face hack appeared first on CyberScoop .

In an at times contentious hearing, the defense secretary said the administration urgently needed nearly $90 billion in supplemental funding in part to cover Iran conflict-related costs.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth testified at a Senate hearing that Donald Trump's proposed $1.5 trillion defense budget would be a necessary investment.

The two AI developers spent a combined $3.17 million in the second quarter, up 23% from the first three months of 2026.

More than 1,000 troops and civilian experts are participating in the event. The post Latest Guard-led Cyber Shield exercise is focused on protecting the power sector, including OT appeared first on DefenseScoop .

Kudos to OpenAI for sharing their recent experiences with a misaligned internal model, where they encountered problems sufficiently severe they were forced to take the model offline to work on new mitigations and defense-to-depth.

The messy approach to U.S. AI regulation reflects both the rapid speed of model cyber capabilities and the White House’s “education” over the past two years, experts said. The post Where’s the Trump administration line on AI regulation? appeared first on CyberScoop .

Defense and industry leaders outline how centralized accountability, industrial base funding, and gaming-engine floor training are modernizing naval shipyards. The post How technology and acquisition reform are propelling Navy submarine production appeared first on DefenseScoop .

The U.S. war with Iran has had political, economic, and military implications that spread far beyond the Middle East. We asked five experts to assess how the war with Iran has affected U.S. bilateral relations with key countries that illustrate some of the global ramifications: South Korea, India, Ukraine, France, and the United Kingdom.Read more below. Jenny Town Senior Fellow at the Stimson Center and the Director of 38 NorthSouth Korea has resisted aiding U.S. military operations to forcefull

Google released Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Flash Cyber, but the continued absence of Gemini 3.5 Pro raises fresh questions about its AI strategy.

DTEX researchers found a series of transactions in a payment wallet showing North Korean IT worker salaries flowing into sanctioned entities that support the regime’s military programs. The post North Korea’s IT worker scheme funds Russia’s war effort appeared first on CyberScoop .

The mission has not succeeded in its core goals, and it’s using up military manpower and munitions at a time when the US is stretched on both, writes Daniel R. DePetris.

We’re introducing new Gemini models, including Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3.5 Flash Cyber.

We’re introducing new Gemini models, including Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3.5 Flash Cyber.

Google is launching Gemini 3.6 Flash alongside a new security model dedicated to quickly finding and patching security vulnerabilities. In a blog post on Tuesday, Google describes Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber as a "cost-efficient and highly capable alternative" to larger, more expensive AI systems, such as the one offered by Anthropic's Mythos. The cybersecurity model […]

Japanese defense chief Shinjiro Koizumi said Canada’s new involvement in GCAP was “monumental.”

The company is eyeing 2028 to launch mass production of the system, which is envisioned to protect critical military infrastructure such as command posts, air-defense radars and batteries, logistics hubs and ammunition stores.

Google DeepMind promised its AI would never be used in weapons. Alex Turner explains how he fought the company's U-turn from the inside — and why he quit when it failed

“I believe they put a silly goal in here for a low end [cost],” Dave Alexander told Breaking Defense. “Anybody that bids that number is very suspicious.”

The speed of 5G and 4G networks across much of Taiwan will be temporarily reduced to 1 percent of capacity as the island holds annual civilian and military exercises.

Steps should be taken to strengthen grand juries by giving courts and defense counsel more tools to act as a much-needed check on prosecutors. The post Trust, But Verify: Three Grand Jury Reforms to Hold the Government Accountable appeared first on Just Security .

Applying Clausewitz’s principles to Operation Epic Fury reveals the war’s strategic design–architecture linking military action to political purpose–was deficient from the start. The post Clausewitz on Operation Epic Fury appeared first on Just Security .

ITWeb TV spoke to cyber security industry leaders from MICT SETA, Wits, Absa and CompTIA, among others, about the country’s skills availability dilemma, possible solutions and the way forward.

While Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs), represented by LLaVA and GPT-4V, have demonstrated remarkable capabilities, their visual inputs remain vulnerable to adversarial attacks, posing significant security risks. Existing defense methods predominantly target single-task scenarios (e.g., zero-shot classification) and consequently lack generalizability across various multimodal tasks. To address this limitation, we propose a dual adversarial fine-tuning framework that jointly optimizes visual

Last month, more than a hundred Stanford students left their own graduation to protest Google’s military contracts and deals with ICE. Two organizers, Amanda Campos and Eva Jones, tell us why.

Future major events can’t rely on yesterday's playbook. Lessons from the World Cup show why true cyber resilience starts months before kickoff and extends far beyond stadium perimeters. The post What the World Cup can teach us about cybersecurity resilience appeared first on CyberScoop .

OpenAI and Hugging Face share early findings from a security incident during AI model evaluation, highlighting advanced cyber capabilities and lessons for defenders.

The leads of Five Eyes cybersecurity agencies have recently and emphatically warned that artificial intelligence (AI) is driving rapid changes in cyber risk. Their key message is that frontier AI ...

Europe needs to avoid relying on an unpredictable Washington for strategic capabilities, says Henna Virkkunen