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Thu, 10 Sept 2026
- Dental contractor set up secret account with access to 4,000 patient records then left the company
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The Register - A new open standard locks AI weights to approved hardware
OPAQUE, a confidential computing company that runs AI workloads inside hardware-isolated environments so operators cannot inspect them, released an open standard that lets AI model builders decide when and where their weights can be decrypted once those weights leave the builder’s own servers. The standard, called Weight Custody Manifest, ships as a developer-preview specification, a Python SDK, and a public test suite covering 91 cases. The release targets a specific squeeze. Enterprises are fine-tuning open … More →
Help Net Security - Kevin Mandia joins the Amazon board with 30-plus years in cybersecurity
Amazon elected Kevin Mandia to its Board of Directors on September 8. Mandia founded Mandiant and served as its CEO before Google acquired the firm in September 2022, and he has worked against cyber threats in the public and private sectors for more than 30 years. Amazon called cybersecurity “one of the most consequential risks and responsibilities organizations face today,” and pointed to advances in AI as the reason the threat landscape keeps moving. That … More →
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Wed, 9 Sept 2026
- CISA head says agency must change quickly to prevent the 'worst that could happen'
CISA's cybersecurity, infrastructure security and emergency communications divisions are among the priorities as the agency fills vacancies created at the beginning of the Trump administration, acting director Nick Andersen says.
The Record - Skullcandy Dime 3 earbuds expose users to Bluetooth hijacking
The Carnegie Mellon University CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC) is warning that Skullcandy Dime 3 wireless earbuds accept Bluetooth pairing requests from nearby unpaired devices without requiring user interaction.
BleepingComputer - How AI anxieties dominated the summer’s big cybersecurity conference
From the CVE Program to autonomous hacks, everyone is worried about the technology’s next evolution.
Cybersecurity Dive - Lawmakers call on Treasury to sanction hackers-for-hire
The groups have allegedly targeted American citizens and companies, including the wife of GOP Senate candidate Mike Rogers, a former representative running in a Michigan swing race.
CyberScoop - HelmGuard Raises $7.3 Million for Agentic GRC and Security
The company will increase its US market presence and will expand its engineering and go-to-market teams.
SecurityWeek - US says Chinese firms extracted billions of tokens from frontier AI models
U.S. cybersecurity and intelligence agencies say that six Chinese AI companies conducted industrial-scale distillation attacks on American frontier AI models since at least late 2024.
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