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Wall Street Vishing Attacks Started at the Help Desk
Security leaders speaking on this exact vishing threat at an Ai4 cybersecurity panel on Aug. 4 said the best defense against voice-based impersonation is identity verification.
George V. Hulme
AI Vulnerability Patches Fail More Than Half the Time
New 1Password research found AI-generated vulnerability patches failed to fully fix complex software flaws 53.9% of the time, reinforcing the need for expert human review.
Bill Brenner
Adventures at Hacker Summer Camp - 2026 Edition
I’m out in vegas this week, attending BSides Las Vegas and Black Hat (no DEF CON for me this year). I’ll be documenting who I talk to on this post.
Michael Farnum
Breaches Don’t Kill Companies. Unpreparedness Does.
From BSidesLV 2026: Adrian Sanabria built “Destroyed By Breach” to cut through cybersecurity myth-making. What he found is more uncomfortable than the fear-driven narrative the industry often sells.
Bill Brenner
AI Arms Both Sides, but Defenders Win on Fundamentals
While the panel cited threat intelligence and management, autonomous pen testing and code reviews, SOC automation, and much more, when they asked how they were countering AI-generated phishing and deepfakes, they leaned heavily into the security essentials.
George V. Hulme
ISC2 Launches AI Security Certification Development
ISC2 has started developing a vendor-neutral AI Security certification and is seeking cybersecurity professionals to help define its knowledge domains and exam content. We caught up with ISC2 CISO Jon France at Black Hat for an update.
Bill Brenner
BSides Las Vegas Launches AI Security Track at Hacker Summer Camp
BSides Las Vegas debuts its [un]prompted AI Security track with sessions on prompt injection, agentic AI, GitHub exploits and AI defense.
Bill Brenner
