The U.S. financial services industry is on heightened alert for potential cyberattacks amid the unfolding U.S. war in Iran, with firms stepping up monitoring for threats that often rise during periods of geopolitical conflict, said executives and analysts.
As regulations such as NIS2 and DORA tighten and cyber-attacks grow more sophisticated, mid-sized UK organisations face enterprise-level expectations without enterprise-level resources
Operational cyber-security has moved from a technical back-office function to a core component of organisational resilience. As regulators and governments increasingly frame cyber-risk as a systemic issue, real-time defensive capability is now as important as governance frameworks.
The EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act, better known as DORA, is more than a regulatory milestone for financial services. For chief information security officers, it represents a shift in accountability, visibility and operational expectations.
Telecommunications providers sit at the foundation of modern business. Financial systems, emergency services, cloud platforms and digital commerce all depend on resilient connectivity.
Open-source AI agents are moving rapidly from research prototypes to enterprise deployment. Unlike static chatbots, these systems can plan tasks, call tools, execute code and iterate towards objectives with limited human input.
Artificial intelligence is now embedded across UK organisations, from generative assistants to automated analytics and code generation tools. Efficiency gains are real.But AI is also reshaping the insider threat landscape by amplifying both accidental exposure and deliberate misuse.
Texas has sued TP-Link Systems for allegedly marketing its networking devices deceptively and allowing Beijing to access American consumers’ devices, the state attorney general said on Tuesday.
The Pentagon is pushing the top AI companies including OpenAI and Anthropic to make their artificial-intelligence tools available on classified networks without many of the standard restrictions that the companies apply to users.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has acquired his artificial intelligence startup xAI in a deal that unifies the billionaire’s AI and space ambitions by combining the rocket-and-satellite company with the maker of the Grok chatbot.
Spain plans to ban social media for those aged under 16 and will create a law to hold social media executives personally responsible for hate speech on their platforms, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Tuesday.
Governments and regulators are cracking down on sexually explicit content generated by Elon Musk’s xAI chatbot Grok on X, with investigations, bans and demands for safeguards, in a growing global push to curb illegal material.
Hackers and other criminals can easily commandeer computers operating open-source large language models outside the guardrails and constraints of the major artificial-intelligence platforms, creating security risks and vulnerabilities, researchers said on Thursday.