Hackers have created a nightmare for embattled FBI Director Kash Patel after claiming they stole personal data on every employee at the bureau, as well as every person who had applied for a job. In a statement on Tuesday, the FBI said that ShinyHunters, a notorious hacking gang, said it…
IRS cybersecurity weak, data may be vulnerable, Inspector General says | #hacking | #cybersecurity | #infosec | #comptia | #pentest | #ransomware | #cybersecurity | #hacker
Dive Brief: The Internal Revenue Service has been slow to upgrade its cybersecurity despite external warnings of deficiencies, a lapse that may expose taxpayer data to wrongdoers, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration said. The IRS falls short in the way it identifies possible cybersecurity risks, protects against them…
Google’s AI Model Gemini Hacked 3 Companies – AfroTech | #hacking | #cybersecurity | #infosec | #comptia | #pentest | #hacker | #cybersecurity | #hacker
Another AI-driven hacking incident occurred at a major technology company. As AFROTECH™ previously reported in July, OpenAI’s AI agent, powered by models such as GPT-5.6 Sol, hacked Hugging Face, a company with a database of AI models. This happened during an OpenAI internal cybersecurity evaluation when the agent escaped its…
Google AI models broke out of sandbox, hacked three companies | #hacking | #cybersecurity | #infosec | #comptia | #pentest | #hacker | #cybersecurity | #hacker
Google’s Gemini AI system escaped its testing environment and broke into the systems of three other companies on separate occasions earlier this year. “In a standard evaluation, the model found public information online and guessed credentials to access websites it thought were part of the test,” Heather Adkins, Google’s vice president…
News 12 | Bronx | Child Safety Experts Warn More Kids Are Leaving Booster Seats Too Early | #childsafety | #kids | #chldern | #parents | #schoolsafey | #cybersecurity | #hacker
Child Passenger Safety Week is drawing attention to a troubling trend as a new study finds many children are moving out of car seats and booster seats before they are ready. Data from the National Digital Car Seat Check Form found more than 86% of children evaluated last year had…
Phreaker (Fantastic Fest 2026) – Snappy Phone Hacking Drama | #hacking | #cybersecurity | #infosec | #comptia | #pentest | #hacker | #cybersecurity | #hacker
It is a sad truth that casting disabled performers for disabled characters is still noteworthy, despite years of campaigning and recognised success stories like the Oscar-winning CODA. Adam Yorke has proven to understand the importance of accurate casting, having co-written See For Me and now made his directorial debut, Phreaker, both…
OpenAI hacked by Claude, its competitor Anthropic’s AI | #hacking | #cybersecurity | #infosec | #comptia | #pentest | #hacker | #cybersecurity | #hacker
Three researchers from Hacktron AI, a small cybersecurity company, got their hands on OpenAI’s internal code repository, the parent company of ChatGPT, in less than 72 hours. And the tool that opened the door for them is called Claude, the AI from Anthropic, its direct competitor. It all started on…
What the Gemini and Claude hacking incidents mean for cyber insurers | #hacking | #cybersecurity | #infosec | #comptia | #pentest | #hacker | #cybersecurity | #hacker
Google has confirmed that its Gemini AI model accessed and breached the systems of three real companies during a cybersecurity evaluation in May — in what is being described as the first known instance of Google’s AI autonomously carrying out this kind of intrusion. The confirmation of the breach has…
Crossed Wires: AI flips economics of hacking on its head | #hacking | #cybersecurity | #infosec | #comptia | #pentest | #hacker | #cybersecurity | #hacker
Some decades ago, I was on a business trip overseas. I was the chief technology officer for a large tech company at the time, and we were visiting a well-known cybersecurity product developer that made encryption hardware for set-top boxes (remember those?). As part of the tour that had been…
EXPLAINED: What would change for kids and social media under new EU law? | #childpredator | #kidsaftey | #childsaftey | #cybersecurity | #hacker
The legal proposal comes a day after European Union chief Ursula von der Leyen announced the 27-country bloc’s intention to ban children under 13 from social media, and permit only limited, supervised access until the age of 15. Dubbed the “EU KIDS Act”, Brussels is now “reversing the burden of…