A risk-based AI security policy should set those boundaries before deployment.
The EU AI Act’s transparency requirements began applying on 2nd August 2026.
The Act also sets obligations for high-risk AI systems, including documented risk management and human oversight.
EU AI Act breaches can attract substantial, tiered penalties where its provisions apply.
Start by testing what AI agents can actually do The practical starting point is an AI security assessment.
Nov 7, 2026 · via cybersecurity-insiders.com
It recommended that websites running on the coding language PHP go offline until a newer, patched-up version of PHP could be installed.
A few days prior, two cybersecurity companies using AI had uncovered serious security vulnerabilities that had lurked in PHP unnoticed for decades.
Many school websites, open-source resources, and even some games went offline.
The catch is that I’ve removed the most common letter that appears in each answer.
To make matters worse, I’ve removed all spaces and punctuation — between the words in a given answer and between the answers themselves.
Nov 7, 2026 · via bostonglobe.com
By Tom Leithauser State utility regulators next week plan to consider a resolution calling on Congress to take steps to shore up the cyber defenses of water utilities.
In September 2026, CISA announced that it will scale back the free assessments it offers to critical infrastructure organizations, like water and wastewater utilities,” it says.
Congress should also “authorize the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create an independent, non-governmental Water Risk and Resilience Organization (WRRO) comprised of sector experts to develop minimum cybersecurity requirements for water and wastewater utilities,” according to the resolution.
It notes that “the absence of uniform cybersecurity standards for water utilities leaves too many systems vulnerable, as evidenced by recent cybersecurity attacks on multiple water utilities in at least 12 states” (CPR, Oct. 20).
Water and wastewater utilities “are squarely in the sights of domestic and international threat actors seeking to disrupt essential services or engage in criminal activities through cybersecurity attacks,” but many of those utilities “lack even basic cybersecurity protections,” the resolution warns.
Nov 7, 2026 · via vitallaw.com
The University of Hawaiʻi Maui College will host a free Zoom webinar on Nov. 18 in which an FBI agent explains how the bureau’s Honolulu office handles digital forensics.
The session, “FBI Honolulu Computer Analysis Response Team Overview,” runs from noon to 1 p.m.
It is open to sole proprietors and registered businesses in Hawaiʻi, including small businesses on Maui.
FBI Special Agent J. Lewis will present an overview of the FBI Honolulu Division’s Computer Analysis Response Team, known as CART.
The series was funded through $1 million in grant funding and wraparound support from Google’s Cybersecurity Clinics Fund to establish the University of Hawaiʻi Cybersecurity Clinics.
Nov 7, 2026 · via mauinow.com
Japan on Friday announced an emergency cybersecurity package that includes the use of artificial intelligence and cyber rescue teams after a wave of massive data breaches hit major companies and government agencies.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi told a ministerial meeting Friday that a rapid response to potential attacks is essential in the era of AI-generated attacks.
The emergency package comes after dozens of companies and government agencies were hit by unauthorized access to their systems and leaks of client data, prompting uneasiness across Japan.
Under the measures in the package, a “top gun” team of cybersecurity experts will be set up by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry by the end of November.
Related: Hackers Steal 2.6 Million Records From Sony’s Japanese ISP So-net Related: Hackers Steal 1.8 Million Records From Nikkei Related: 240,000 Hit by Data Breach at Japan’s Digital Agency Related: Cyberattack Disrupts Operations of Japanese Frozen Food Giant Nichirei
Nov 6, 2026 · via securityweek.com
Cybersecurity Management Report 2026 As our world becomes increasingly interconnected and the use of AI continues to expand, governments and businesses alike face new and complex cybersecurity challenges.
Against this backdrop, NEC has adopted the slogan “MAKE JAPAN CYBER SECURE” and published the Cybersecurity Management Report 2026.
Through this report, we aim to help stakeholders better understand the NEC Group’s cybersecurity initiatives, which enhance readiness for regulatory compliance (Regulation), support the maintenance and improvement of corporate value (Reputation), and strengthen the resilience needed to ensure business continuity (Resilience).
Our cybersecurity initiatives are guided by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry's Cybersecurity Management Guidelines Ver.
Looking ahead, we will continue putting cybersecurity management into practice.
Nov 6, 2026 · via group.nec
Hackers are using Artex and other agentic AI-based frameworks to scan public GitHub repositories for exposed credentials and API keys, according to a report Thursday from Microsoft Threat Intelligence.
Microsoft researchers said the threat activity overlaps with a campaign using the same IP address, as outlined in research released Wednesday by Todyl.
That report showed how hackers with stolen secrets for Entra ID signed into Microsoft 365 and Azure environments at various managed service providers.
The threat activity follows a series of attacks where hackers exploited Artex and other agentic AI tooling to automate their attacks.
Hackers have applied various agentic frameworks to scan for GitHub secrets since August, according to Microsoft researchers.
Nov 6, 2026 · via cybersecuritydive.com
The International Society of Automation (ISA), a professional society for automation, announced that Abbott Risk Consulting (ARC) Ltd. has officially joined ISASecure, the globally recognized certification program that validates conformance to the ISA/IEC 62443 series of standards for industrial automation and control systems (IACS) cybersecurity.
ARC offers consultancy services across the UK and Australia, including risk management; safety engineering, assurance and verification; independent safety assessment; training; functional safety; cybersecurity; and more.
“It is an honor to welcome ARC Ltd. into the ISASecure program, and we look forward to engaging with them as students in the next IC49 ACSSA for Evaluators training course,” said Mark DeAngelo, ISASecure program manager.
Tom Abbott, who leads ARC’s Cyber Security team, said: “Control system security standards are a fundamental part of the architecture of resilient systems.
By joining ISASecure, we’re fully committed to upholding these standards now and influencing their development in the future.”
Nov 6, 2026 · via industrialcyber.co
SAN FRANCISCO — The cybersecurity industry runs on a bubble of hot air, scaring enterprises into spending tens of millions of dollars on products and services that often yield no verifiable results, a longtime industry veteran and entrepreneur told the 2026 OWASP Global AppSec USA conference here today.
But, warned Jeremiah Grossman, co-founder and CEO of Root Evidence, a reckoning — Grossman calls it a "market correction" — is coming.
Only 711, or about 0.3%, were true zero-days, vulnerabilities exploited before public disclosure.
Those figures fit with what Grossman said his insurance industry contacts informally told him: In total, only about 600 CVEs really matter.
The impact of actuarial, empirical data to replace blind faith will be better for the cybersecurity industry in the long run, he added.
Nov 6, 2026 · via scworld.com
The University of Nebraska–Lincoln is a partner in the Fabric for AI-Driven Science, a five-year, $24.5 million project selected by the U.S. National Science Foundation to help build the nation's future data backbone for AI-driven research.
Nebraska's role: keeping the fabric running and keeping it secure A national data fabric only works if researchers can depend on it.
Nebraska’s Holland Computing Center will lead the fabric's cybersecurity and contribute to the operations that make that possible: Cybersecurity.
Holland Computing Center ready to help researchers Beyond its cybersecurity leadership and operations role, the Holland Computing Center is ready to help researchers put the Fabric for AI-Driven Science to work.
This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation under award no.
Nov 5, 2026 · via news.unl.edu
PERRY, Fla. -- Taylor County brought together local and state partners for a Cybersecurity Tabletop Exercise aimed at strengthening how agencies prepare for and respond to potential cyberattacks.
Taylor County Emergency Management participated alongside Cyber Florida and other state and local partners in the exercise, which focused on community preparedness and coordinated response.
The tabletop exercise was designed to help agencies identify potential cybersecurity vulnerabilities, strengthen communication and coordination, evaluate emergency response procedures, and improve the ability to respond quickly while minimizing disruptions.
Taylor County Emergency Management thanked the Taylor County Board of County Commissioners for taking the initiative to make the exercise possible, along with County Administrator Mrs. Lawanda Pemberton and Technology Director Teresa Copeland for their involvement.
Additional participating and supporting partners included Cyber Florida, which facilitated and funded the event; Taylor County constitutional offices including the Sheriff’s Office, Tax Collector, Supervisor of Elections and Property Appraiser; the Taylor County Health Department; Doctor’s Memorial Hospital; Lafayette County Emergency Management; and the Florida Division of Emergency Management, along with other local, regional and state partners.
Nov 5, 2026 · via fox49.tv
The OT-ISAC (Operational Technology Information Sharing and Analysis Center) published two reports Wednesday warning that cybersecurity risks facing Asia-Pacific aviation extend beyond corporate IT networks to shared technology providers, passenger reservation platforms and airport OT (operational technology).
They do not establish a general attack-frequency trend or a verified compromise of airport control networks.
Management, diagnostic, or test environments that are exposed to networks that do not require access should also be investigated, as should unexpected vendor sessions or cross-zone traffic into airport operational networks.
OT-ISAC recommends that airlines and airport operators review supplier access privileges, monitor unusual service-account logins and bulk data queries, preserve authentication and API logs, and rotate affected credentials and tokens.
It also calls for mapping third-party access paths into airport networks, enforcing multifactor authentication, segmenting operational networks, monitoring engineering connections, and validating manual fallback procedures for critical airport services.
Nov 5, 2026 · via industrialcyber.co
Many firms are realising the issues caused by tokenmaxxing as AI prices rise and governance becomes a growing problem.
Tokenmaxxing problems Tokenmaxxing has happened because organizations began measuring AI adoption success via metrics such as token consumption and prompt volume.
Unintended consequences Tokenmaxxing crackdowns can in some ways be beneficial for security, but firms should be careful of unintended consequences.
Managing tokenmaxxing security risks Tokenmaxxing and the crackdowns around it can influence security and governance in varying ways, so it’s important to ensure visibility into AI use within the business.
At the same time, he recommends “continuously monitoring for shadow AI and unauthorized AI services being accessed across the network”.
Nov 5, 2026 · via itpro.com
Findings from cybersecurity company CrowdStrike's 2026 Global Threat Report, identify an 89% increase in attacks involving AI-enabled adversaries in 2025.
Instead, the attacks mimicked normal user behavior passing through trusted systems to access corporate systems, the report explains.
For businesses, those developments create added financial and operational risks as criminals increasingly use AI-generated communications to impersonate executives, manipulate employees, and obtain confidential information, Brown says.
Protecting corporate information is particularly important for companies operating internationally and maintaining sensitive engineering, financial, and customer records, Thomas contends.
"I just remove all the sensitive information or business names when inputting prompts into AI," Thomas says.
Nov 5, 2026 · via spokanejournal.com
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the non-regulatory federal agency within the U.S. Department of Commerce, released a new plain-language cybersecurity guide specifically for solo business owners, or “solopreneurs.”
The “Small Business Cybersecurity: Non-Employer Firms,” the NIST Cybersecurity White Paper 50, was written for non-employer firms (businesses with only one paid employee), which represent over 28 million U.S. small businesses.
The new paper serves as an update to the previously titled “Small Business Information Security: The Fundamentals” (NISTIR 7621), which was aimed at small businesses of varying sizes, but also covered the broader topic of information security.
“We want to educate people about what cybersecurity is and how it fits in with a successful business plan.
A little thoughtful attention to the tips offered here can save a lot of headaches later, and the content is relevant to more than small business owners,” Purtilo suggested.
Nov 5, 2026 · via news.clearancejobs.com
They hold blood products awaiting delivery to healthcare facilities, as well as samples for the EFS biobanks.
Depending on the case, the affected equipment was brought under control without any impact on the products, or it was shut down.
No health impact has been identified, and no blood products were lost.
The products in the affected equipment were plasma bags intended for transfusion and plasma bags intended for fractionation, the process used to manufacture medicines.
In this case, monitoring and alarm systems that the EFS operates itself made the difference.
Nov 5, 2026 · via healthcare-in-europe.com
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published its new strategy, “CISA 2030: Defend, Harden, Prevail,” which orients the agency’s planning and activities through 2030 around three pillars representing CISA’s priorities.
The strategy builds on the "Cyber Strategy for America," the White House’s overarching policy architecture for cybersecurity and resilience (see KPMG Regulatory Alert here), and the National Resilience Strategy.
The three pillars of CISA’s strategy include: Pillar 1 - “Defend”: Detecting, disrupting, and mitigating cyber threats.
CISA outlines a phased process for implementing the strategy: Within 60 days (approximately December 25, 2026), begin a programmatic review of its core services and capabilities.
Analyzing infrastructure data to develop the National Risk Register and to prioritize and quantify risk.
Nov 5, 2026 · via kpmg.com
As disclosed in an emergency release from the PHP Foundation, an AI-based detector has revealed two critical memory-safety flaws in PHP that have led to cybersecurity attacks from “malicious” unknown sources across the globe.
Experts are classifying this mass cybersecurity threat as “Black October.”
Even before “Black October,” AI was creeping into cybersecurity.
The Rover asked Tracy Weber, Notre Dame’s Vice President of Information Technology and the Chief Information Officer, how “Black October” has impacted Notre Dame’s data and how the university has approached cybersecurity attacks in the past.
Weber concluded by alluding to the concerns of AI involvement in cybersecurity, saying, “As for the future, AI is changing cybersecurity in both directions.
Nov 4, 2026 · via irishrover.net
Dive Brief: Researchers are investigating the abuse campaign of a lone hacker who has been using stolen application secrets for Microsoft Entra ID to sign into Microsoft 365 and Azure environments at various managed service providers, according to a recent report by Todyl.
The hacker targeted 45 app registrations at about 18 organizations and successfully authenticated at least 33 of them.
The attacker was then able to access 27 organizations, including downstream clients of these MSPs across various sectors, such as energy, government, food and agriculture, transportation and construction.
Todyl researchers said hacking attempts are ongoing.
Huntress researchers have traced the activity to a hosting IP based in Poland.
Nov 4, 2026 · via cybersecuritydive.com
Together, the two attacks on internet-connected devices were a vivid sign that Europe’s not prepared for the rising levels of cyberattacks coming its way.
In simple terms, the main problem was that the refrigerators were connected directly to the internet.
One of the main attack vectors was that the credentials, so the username and the password, were known to the attackers.
I think we have enough regulation covering cybersecurity in Europe right now.
We’ve seen these kinds of operations targeting Internet of Things devices like smart TVs, refrigerators, ovens, you name it.
Nov 4, 2026 · via theparliamentmagazine.eu