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Claude
Security tools can now scan Claude Enterprise chats and uploads for sensitive data

More than 100 security and compliance vendors have integrations with the Claude Compliance API, which lets a company send Claude activity into the monitoring tools it already …

Meta Muse
Meta gives small businesses an AI agent that knows their work

Meta has introduced Muse for Small Business, adding skills and connectors to its personal AI agent to help business owners get work done using the tools they already use. Muse …

deepfakes
Deepfakes become a board priority once an executive falls for one

Nearly three-quarters of security leaders have encountered or suspect a deepfake attack in the past year, while just 10% say their organizations have purpose-built defenses, …

digital code
OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra ran supply chain attacks despite being told not to

OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra carried out supply chain attacks on software outside the scope of a security test, according to the UK AI Security Institute (AISI). Anatomy of an …

Ladder
Cybersecurity hiring practices leave little room for junior talent

Twenty-minute training sessions that fit into the workweek could help new hires become productive sooner, keep employees’ skills current and build problem-solving skills they …

AI agents
Palo Alto Networks and NVIDIA want tighter control over AI agents

Palo Alto Networks is expanding its work with NVIDIA to help companies control what AI agents can access and do. The collaboration covers agent activity, network traffic and …

Claude
Claude Sonnet 5.5 gets faster without a price hike

Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 5.5, an AI model for coding and office work. The company says it responds more than 30% faster than its predecessor and uses fewer tokens …

GitHub
GitHub’s AI agent found 24 Android app vulnerabilities

GitHub Security Lab researcher Kevin Stubbings built custom AI-driven audit workflows, called taskflows, on top of the lab’s open source Taskflow Agent, and used them to …

open-source cybersecurity tools
Hottest cybersecurity open-source tools of the month: September 2026

Presented here is a curated selection of noteworthy open-source cybersecurity solutions that have drawn recognition for their ability to enhance security postures across …

CISO
16-year-old researcher breaks into Microsoft analytics service with access to 17 trillion rows of data

A flaw in Titan, an internal Microsoft analytics service, could have let an attacker read employee records and Bing search analytics, a 16-year-old security researcher has …

NVIDIA
NVIDIA wants AI agent safety enforced in silicon, not left to the agent

NVIDIA has introduced an open software platform and a hardware-based reference design intended to keep AI agents within the limits set by the organizations that use them. The …

drunk AI
“Drunk” AI is terrible at keeping secrets

AI models taught to write like drunk people became easier to jailbreak and more likely to leak secrets shared in confidence. That is the finding of UNSW Sydney researchers …

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