OpenAI said Friday it has suspended work on some aspects of its upcoming model Astra after an internal review found it had made significant advancements in agentic coding and cybersecurity — enough to warrant concern over its capabilities. OpenAI said in a blog post Friday that this model, which is still in development, reached its
Two Polish security researchers wanted to find out how vulnerable their country’s internet was to potential cyberattacks, and quickly found that thousands of public agencies and websites were at risk of being hacked. At the Def Con cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas on Friday, security researchers Robert Kruczek and Kamil Szczurowski said they wanted to
The watch’s insecurity and the spying it enabled might be expected given the gadget’s pedigree: It’s sold by an obscure company called CJC, costs less than $30, and was made by an equally obscure manufacturer, YiQingTeng Electronics, in Shenzhen, China. More troubling, perhaps, is that the online platform it’s built on—and the one that allowed
More than 300 people abducted in separate attacks in Nigeria have been rescued, the country’s presidency says, in what it describes as the largest single-day operation by joint security forces. The victims were rescued from the Kainji Lake National Park in Niger state in an operation involving the military, police, intelligence unit and the National
As a home security editor, I consider Abode Home Security one of my top picks for third-party smart home compatibility. On Wednesday, the company announced its first entirely new sensors in some time, and they reflect a trend I’m only beginning to see in the security world. Abode has released both an Outdoor Contact Sensor
In a talk that was a last-minute addition to the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday, employees from OpenAI presented new details about a recent, high-profile incident of rogue AI hacking that has created a maelstrom within the AI and cybersecurity industries. About two weeks ago, OpenAI disclosed an incident in which