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Study: Monitoring Vendor Risk Remains Much Harder Than Onboarding Third PartiesHealthcare organizations are getting better vetting third-party vendors, including suppliers of medical devices, software and other products. But once these vendors are on board, healthcare firms still struggle with monitoring their security posture and ensuring they keep their promises.

Study Finds Standard Safety Tests Miss Most Agentic AI ThreatsResearchers from Stanford, MIT, Carnegie Mellon and others found that most production AI agents are vulnerable to attacks that unfold across multi-step actions. The study warns that memory, tool access and agent coordination create failure modes traditional chatbot safety testing cannot see.

Tightening Budgets and AI-Enabled Attacks Stretch State Cyber DefensesState CISO confidence has collapsed, with just 22% saying their data is protected from cyberthreats. The 2026 NASCIO-Deloitte study points to AI-enabled attacks, third-party vendor risk and the worst budget picture in years as states rethink how they defend public data.

Chatbots Getting Better Making Final Diagnoses, But Clinical Reasoning Still WeakGeneral purpose large language model chatbots are getting better at coming up with patients' final diagnoses but are still weak in clinical reasoning, including generating differential diagnoses to identify and rule out other potential conditions and causes of symptoms.

USC Study Finds Persona-Based Prompts Lower Factual AccuracyA coder tells its chatbot: You're an expert. A full stack developer. It's machine massaging technique that's a cornerstone of persona-based artificial intelligence prompting - and it backfires, find academics in a studying showing the practice produces worst results, when the goal is accuracy.

Health Researchers Often Overlook Security of Historical DatasetsAn August 2025 ransomware attack on the University of Hawaii Cancer Center's epidemiology division has affected 1.2 million individuals, including personal information such as Social Security numbers of certain research study participants dating back more than 30 years.

New Study Shows AI Agents Can't Work Without Humans in the Loop, But Give Them TimeAI agents are quickly moving from experimental demos to enterprise pilots, and they're already being used for tasks such as financial analysis, document review and drafting. But as AI gains momentum, one question goes largely unanswered: How can we measure the effectiveness of AI agents?

New Study Shows AI Agents Can't Work Without Humans in the Loop, But Give Them TimeAI agents are quickly moving from experimental demos to enterprise pilots, and they're already being used for tasks such as financial analysis, document review and drafting. But as AI gains momentum, one question goes largely unanswered: How can we measure the effectiveness of AI agents?

Nearly 60% of Tech Students Said They'd Violate HIPAA If the Price Was RightBudding IT insiders can be corrupted into giving up protected health information of a very famous patient, say State University of New York at Buffalo researchers who also found a correlation between an interest in white hat hacking and illegal breaches.

Analysis of Seized LockBit Data Suggests Victims Who Pay Enjoy More Media CoverageBad news for any organization that's ever paid a ransom in a bid to avoid their breach coming to light, or for a promise from attackers to delete stolen data, with a study of seized LockBit data finding that victims who paid a ransom were more likely to see the attack get detailed in the media.

Microsegmentation no longer remains a buzzword. In today's threat landscape, organizations are adopting it as a frontline defense against cyberattacks and higher cyber insurance premiums. About 90% of organizations are using some form of segmentation, according to Akamai's 2025 Segmentation Impact Study.

Cloud Security Alliance's Troy Leach on How AI Helps SOC Analysts Move 61% FasterSecurity operations centers face mounting pressure to work faster without sacrificing investigative quality. A new Cloud Security Alliance study shows AI-assisted analysts completed investigations up to 61% faster and with higher accuracy than manual teams.

Study Finds Weak Authentication Practices Across AI Agent ServersTools developers use to connect artificial intelligence tools with external applications and data sources typically are secured by static credentials such as API keys and personal access tokens, exposing AI agent systems to theft or misuse, research shows.

Default credentials, weak passwords, misconfigurations and a variety of other security shortcomings are exposing millions of medical devices and their data on the internet, said Soufian El Yadmani, CEO and co-founder of Modat, who shared recent research findings.

Economists Say Data Doesn't Support Fear of Widespread Cognitive Job LossU.S. employment data shows no widespread disruption from generative artificial intelligence nearly three years after ChatGPT's debut, say academics from Yale University. But for certain cohorts, especially early-career workers in AI-vulnerable fields, some cracks are emerging.

MIND Act Asks FTC to Study Exploitation Risks for Neural Data Collected by DevicesAre brain waves and similar neural data the next frontier in consumer privacy worries? A trio of U.S. senators have introduced federal legislation aiming to get ahead of risks that such brain-related data could be collected and misused by tech firms, data brokers, government agencies and others.

Default credentials, weak passwords, misconfigurations and a variety of other security shortcomings are exposing millions of medical devices and their data on the internet, said Soufian El Yadmani, CEO and co-founder of Modat, who shared recent research findings.

Study Shows Persuasion Tactics Push GPT-4o-Mini Past GuardrailsWant an AI chatbot to call you a jerk or walk you through making a controlled substance? A University of Pennsylvania study shows that just old-fashioned persuasion tricks - the same ones that sway humans - can push large language models off their guardrails.

Robust Security Reviews of AI-Generated Code Required, Warns StudyGenies might grant magic wishes, but they inevitably come with consequences. Enter artificial intelligence coding assistants, which many developers say help them write code more quickly. New research shows that this productivity comes with a security cost, and must be mitigated.

Report Urges Indo-Pacific Cyber Shield Strategy Amid Increased Nation-State ThreatsA Center for a New American Security study found China and North Korea are accelerating cyberattacks, influence operations and infrastructure breaches across the Indo-Pacific, as researchers urge the U.S. to help develop a regional cyber shield, and deploy forward cyber teams.