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OpenAI Turned Off Its Own Safeties, Then Called It a Rogue AI
Let me walk you through what actually happened, because the version making the rounds gets the lesson backwards. OpenAI wanted to test how good its newest AI was at hacking. Fair enough — you want to know what your own tools can do before someone else finds out for you. So they took their strongest
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Ransomware Attack Halts Coca-Cola’s Fairlife Dairy Production
Coca-Cola halted production across its U.S. Fairlife dairy facilities this week after a ransomware attack — a type of intrusion where criminals lock up a company’s computer systems and demand payment to unlock them. The products were fine. The milk was safe. But the machines that schedule, track, and coordinate the making of it were
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Was Trump right about election security?
The most exposed part of an election isn’t the voting machine everyone argues about. It’s the voter registration database, the system that decides whether you’re registered, where you vote, and which ballot you get handed. And the exposure is real. For years Americans were told this infrastructure was airtight, and that was never fully true.
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How a 1998 Test Dataset Took Down 70,000 Records
Today the Singapore Land Authority (SLA) disclosed a cybersecurity incident that compromised personal data belonging to about 70,000 people. SLA didn’t get hacked directly. Their vendor, IBM, did. The incident happened because of unauthorized access to a dataset that IBM managed for vendor development and testing. IBM notified SLA of the incident, and SLA kicked
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Describing your product as a weapon invites the world to treat it like one
Late on a Friday, Anthropic switched off its two most powerful models, Mythos and Fable. Not because they broke. A government agency that controls what technology can be sent abroad barred the company from giving any foreign national access, including its own non-citizen employees, so Anthropic concluded it had no clean way to comply except
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Ransomware Gangs Are Breaking In Through VPNs and Firewalls
The second most active ransomware group in the world right now is breaking into companies through their VPNs and firewalls — the equipment those companies bought specifically to keep attackers out. The door isn’t being left unlocked. The lock itself is the way in.The group, called The Gentlemen, has claimed over 330 victims since mid-2025,
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Should You Ever Pay the Ransom?
Should you ever pay a ransom? Everyone says no. You don’t want to fund criminals. The FBI says don’t. Never give in to what they want. So don’t pay, right? Okay. But what if you’re a hospital and human lives are on the line? What if you’re a data center, and now major companies the
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Claude Mythos: Hype, Risk, and the Race to Prioritize
There is a lot of noise around AI in security right now. Some of it is real. Some of it is marketing. Some of it is just old automation wearing a new jacket. But the part that feels different is the speed. Security teams have always been chasing something: new vulnerabilities, new attack paths, business