Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

Varonis CEO Yaki Faitelson Warns Misconfigured AI Is an Accident Waiting to HappenVaronis has acquired AllTrue.ai to close visibility gaps in AI security. CEO Yaki Faitelson said enterprises are deploying AI agents that access vast datasets at high speed without understanding permissions identity context or abnormal behavior creating urgent demand for data-first AI security.

Varonis CEO Yaki Faitelson Warns Misconfigured AI Is an Accident Waiting to HappenVaronis has acquired AllTrue.ai to close visibility gaps in AI security. CEO Yaki Faitelson said enterprises are deploying AI agents that access vast datasets at high speed without understanding permissions identity context or abnormal behavior creating urgent demand for data-first AI security.

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Australian government staff mixed medical info for folk who share names and birthdays Australia’s privacy commissioner has found that government agencies down under didn’t make enough of an effort to protect data describing “digital doppelgangers” – people who share a name and date of birth and whose government records sometimes contain data describing other people.…

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has disclosed that threat actors are abusing the legacy Cisco Smart Install (SMI) feature with the aim of accessing sensitive data

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The U.S. government on Wednesday warned of nation-state actors deploying specialized malware to maintain access to industrial control systems (ICS) and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) devices

A joint cybersecurity advisory issued by CISA, NSA, FBI, and the Department of Energy (DOE) warns of government-backed hacking groups being able to hijack multiple industrial control system (ICS) and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) devices. [...]