How I stopped a massive WordPress spam attack with 4,700 lines of code in two days - thanks to Codex and Claude

Spam accounts overwhelmed my database. Claude found the weaknesses, Codex wrote the fixes, and I deployed a new defense.

Malicious PyPI packages give hackers control of Telegram bot servers

A campaign active since last November has been targeting Python developers building Telegram bots with trojanized Pyrogram ...
JD Supra

UK telecommunications security regulation: Proposed updates to Ofcom incident reporting and enforcement approach and new Security Code of Practice

On 12 May, Ofcom launched a consultation on proposed updates to its General statement of policy under section 105Y of the Communications Act 2003 (the “Statement of Policy”) in respect of how it will ...
acm.org

Hard Problems in Cybersecurity: Past, Present, and Future

To err is human, to blame it on a computer is even more so, says the comedy writer Robert Orben. This statement recognizes that we may continue to forge ahead, regardless of the consequences, because ...
The White House

PROMOTING ADVANCED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE INNOVATION AND SECURITY

Section 1. Purpose. The United States continues to lead the world in Artificial Intelligence (AI) because of the enormous talent and innovation of our AI industry, and because we refuse to stifle this ...
cybersecurityintelligence.com

Five Steps To Resist AI-Powered Cyber Threats

The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has warned that cyber criminals are increasingly using artificial intelligence to execute attacks that are faster, more complex and harder to detect.
techtimes

Anthropic Claude Code Leak Raises Concerns Over AI-Driven Cybersecurity Risks

A recent incident involving Anthropic has triggered renewed discussions across the cybersecurity and artificial intelligence industries after reports surfaced of an internal Claude Code source code ...
The New York Times

One Job That Is Growing in the A.I. Era? Cybersecurity Experts.

Demand for security engineers has surged as artificial intelligence generates a glut of new code and models like Anthropic’s Mythos create new concerns. Credit...Daniel Stolle Supported by By Kate ...
VentureBeat

GitHub confirms 3,800 internal repos stolen through poisoned VS Code extension as supply chain worm hits Microsoft’s Python SDK

GitHub confirmed on May 20 that a poisoned VS Code extension installed on an employee’s device gave attackers access to roughly 3,800 internal repositories at the Microsoft-owned code storage and ...
Computer Weekly

UK government to spend £210m on public sector cyber resilience

The UK government has unveiled a £210m Cyber Action Plan to reinforce IT security resilience across the nation’s public services, with a new central Cyber Unit to be established to coordinate risk ...
Inc

Anthropic’s Powerful New Cybersecurity Tool Is Designed to Find Vulnerabilities in Your Code—and Patch Them

The AI giant announced on Thursday that Claude Security is in public beta for Claude Enterprise customers across the world to use to defensively scan their own code for vulnerabilities; it can also ...