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Eleven bytes will make an unpatched OpenSSL server set aside up to 131 KB of memory for a message that never arrives. On the glibc systems Okta tested, that memory is gone until the process restarts. OpenSSL shipped the HollowByte fix in June with no CVE, no advisory, and no changelog entry pointing at it….

Australia will tighten oversight of artificial intelligence in automated government decision-making and strengthen privacy safeguards as part of a broader push to allay concerns about the technology’s risks to community safety. A new list of AI consumer priorities published by the government on Sunday includes a promise to “better regulate” the use of AI in…

A Russian-speaking cyber-criminal has been observed moving in three months from posting a jailbreak tutorial on a Russian-language forum to selling a commercial offensive AI pentest platform built on the techniques he documented. According to new research from Cato CTRL, the research unit of Cato Networks, an actor using the handle Trim first appeared on…

Why this matters beyond the protagonists In making its move, Apple shows this is not a dispute about just one or two hires, but an attempt to constrain the movement of intellectual property between the two firms. With AI hardware emerging as the next major battleground in tech, the case could become a defining one;…

Prompt injection is among the defining security challenges of the AI era. As organizations move from chatbots to AI agents, adversaries are finding more ways to manipulate the language, context, and data these systems trust.  With the rise of powerful AI agents that can crawl webpages, access file stores, and even write shell commands,…