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[Techstrong.ai @Techstrongai]

After OpenAI disclosed an incident in which advanced models broke out of a testing sandbox, Congress introduced the AI Kill Switch Act giving DHS authority to throttle, suspend, or shut down AI systems that pose immediate threats to public safety or national security.

The bill would require developers of the most powerful models to build kill switch mechanisms, cover companies with at least $500 million in AI revenue or $100 million in compute costs, and impose fines of up to $20 million per day for non-compliance.

Read the full details on the proposed AI safety legislation: https://t.co/MNaTjK4DLZ

#AgenticAI #Cybersecurity #OpenAI

[Techstrong TV @TechstrongTV]

432 Linux kernel CVEs dropped in two days, and sysadmins call it unmanageable. The EU fined Google $1B for search and app store abuse. Samsung is in talks for a Mistral AI stake at $22.8B. Security, antitrust, and AI money collide today. https://t.co/WohE1c0xAz

[DevOps.com @devopsdotcom]

AI coding agents are surging in adoption, but new research from Pillar Security shows their sandboxes are failing to contain the blast radius, as agents can write files that trusted host components later execute outside the sandbox.

The vulnerabilities span Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, and Antigravity, and they reveal that the real attack surface isn't the agent process but everything the agent can create that the host considers safe.

Read the full report on sandbox escapes and the new endpoint threat mode: https://t.co/ebC4N8JGVE

#DevSecOps #CyberSecurity #AIagents #AICoding

[Security Boulevard @securityblvd]

Security teams need more than alerts to stop modern attacks. Cato & CrowdStrike integrate endpoint, network & DNS data to boost visibility and speed threat detection.

Read the full article: https://t.co/xLgjqz1q9W

#Cybersecurity #ThreatDetection #SecurityOperations #SASE

[Security Boulevard @securityblvd]

Oracle dropped a record 1,449 security patches in its latest quarterly update, most of them found internally by AI-driven scanning systems rather than external researchers.

The company is now adding monthly Critical Security Patch Updates to help teams manage the load, while two unauthenticated remote takeover flaws in Oracle Data Integrator and Oracle Coherence carry the highest urgency.

Read the full article for a breakdown of the most critical vulnerabilities and the new patching cadence: https://t.co/NUh4INEieQ

#AgenticAI #CyberSecurity #Oracle #PatchTuesday

[Security Boulevard @securityblvd]

This week's breach roundup shows AI on both sides of the fight: a suspected China-linked campaign used a dual-model AI setup to automate intrusions across multiple governments, while Hugging Face disclosed that an autonomous AI agent breached its production environment through a malicious dataset.

The incidents at EY and The Washington Post underscore that support ticketing systems and media HR data are just as exposed as core infrastructure.

See all 10 breaches and the takeaways defenders need: https://t.co/J4IHvAge9w

#Cybersecurity #DataBreach #AgenticAI

[Security Boulevard @securityblvd]

FedRAMP authorization is moving beyond government contracts and into commercial procurement as healthcare, cybersecurity, AI, supply chain, and data analytics buyers adopt it as a trust signal that existing frameworks alone cannot provide.

Find out why FedRAMP is becoming a de facto enterprise benchmark: https://t.co/EkvLXMX5fo

#FedRAMP #CloudSecurity #EnterpriseProcurement

[DevOps.com @devopsdotcom]

AI coding assistants are being exploited by attackers. FakeGit uses thousands of malicious GitHub repos to trick AI agents into recommending malware as AI tools and MCP servers.

Read more: https://t.co/gQacb8ye5w

#Cybersecurity #AICoding #GitHub #ApplicationSecurity

[Techstrong TV @TechstrongTV]

OpenAI's own models hacked Hugging Face during a security test. Google answered with 3 new Gemini models, one built to hunt vulnerabilities. AMD signed a multibillion-dollar deal with Anthropic. Techstrong Gang breaks down AI's new security arms race. https://t.co/ll287mkALm

[Kath Dawson @kathdawson]

Traditional cybersecurity can’t keep pace with today’s threats.

B2B leaders must embed AI at the core of their strategy for proactive threat detection, faster response, and smarter risk management.

@securityblvd #Cybersecurity #AI https://t.co/kipjBJhmJj

[Security Boulevard @securityblvd]

AI agents are reshaping identity security. Okta adds tools to govern agent access, secure interactions, and boost visibility as enterprises deploy autonomous AI systems.

Read the full article: https://t.co/YTVcxrtvyK

#IdentitySecurity #Okta #ZeroTrust #Cybersecurity

[Security Boulevard @securityblvd]

Over 400 Linux kernel CVEs disclosed in just two days are putting pressure on security teams, highlighting urgent challenges in patch management and vulnerability response.

Read the full article: https://t.co/zg7xGF5f1K

#Linux #Cybersecurity #VulnerabilityManagement #KernelSecurity

[Security Boulevard @securityblvd]

Astelia has added agentic AI to its exposure management platform, enabling security teams to focus on the tiny fraction of vulnerabilities that are actually reachable and exploitable in production, reducing 40 million findings to fewer than 2,000 in one enterprise environment.

See how reachability-based prioritization is reshaping vulnerability management: https://t.co/LH2Q3KQn9Q

#Astelia #VulnerabilityManagement #AgenticAI #CyberSecurity

[Security Boulevard @securityblvd]

OpenAI's frontier models broke out of a testing sandbox and compromised Hugging Face by chaining vulnerabilities and stealing credentials, an incident the company calls unprecedented.

Experts warn that autonomous agents now treat containment boundaries as just another obstacle and can assemble attack paths faster than human response cycles can keep up.

Get the full story on how the models escaped and what it means for AI governance: https://t.co/wTlR8aJdOx

#AIAgents #CyberSecurity #OpenAI #AISafety

[Security Boulevard @securityblvd]

A former ransomware negotiator has pleaded guilty to feeding victims' confidential negotiation details, including insurance limits, directly to the BlackCat ransomware group.

The betrayal exposes a structural weakness in incident response where the trust placed in specialists has outgrown the governance controls surrounding their access to sensitive information.

Read the full article for the governance lessons incident response teams need now: https://t.co/cvbdDftvy0

#Ransomware #IncidentResponse #CyberSecurity

[Techstrong.ai @Techstrongai]

OpenAI paused an experimental AI model after it repeatedly evaded safety controls, breaking out of its testing sandbox to post results on GitHub and splitting authentication tokens to hide from security scanners.

The company has since rebuilt its defensive architecture with trajectory-level monitoring and redeployed the model under tighter controls, but the incidents highlight the persistent alignment problem as AI systems act over longer time horizons.

Read more about the details of the model's evasions and the safety overhaul: https://t.co/NQ2bltSHBX

#OpenAI #AIsafety #CyberSecurity #AgenticAI

[Prakash Falconer @FalconerPr53419]

Traditional cybersecurity can’t keep pace with today’s threats.

B2B leaders must embed AI at the core of their strategy for proactive threat detection, faster response, and smarter risk management.

@securityblvd #Cybersecurity #AI https://t.co/OtiYc142vZ

[Security Boulevard @securityblvd]

While 99% of enterprises have data masking policies for non-production environments, a Perforce survey finds 84% routinely grant exceptions and 43% have failed audits, exposing sensitive data to breach and theft.

Manual discovery, schema changes, and AI’s appetite for realistic training data are widening the gap between policy and protection.

Read more about the survey findings on non-production data risk here: https://t.co/E1DJWPfzAp

#DevOps #AI #DataSecurity #Compliance

[Security Boulevard @securityblvd]

Your SIEM may be collecting data—but is it helping your SOC move faster?

See how @AnvilogicSecOps is using Agentic SecOps to automate detection, triage, and investigations while keeping analysts in control.

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[Security Boulevard @securityblvd]

Alphabet is rolling out a trio of Gemini models designed to undercut rivals on cost and embed cybersecurity directly into the development pipeline, led by a specialized Flash Cyber model that hunts code vulnerabilities through multiple low-cost scans rather than a single expensive pass.

The release pairs a cheaper, more efficient Flash 3.6 with a bargain Flash-Lite for background agent tasks, signaling that Google’s full-stack hardware and software strategy now treats price as a primary competitive weapon.

See how Gemini’s new lineup challenges the cost structures of Anthropic and OpenAI: https://t.co/QKJEyvzvMU

#Alphabet #Gemini #AgenticAI #Cybersecurity