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.
TikTok was charged on Friday with breaching EU online content rules over what the bloc’s regulator said were its addictive features and was told to change the design of its app or risk a fine of as much as 6% of owner ByteDance’s global turnover.
As organisations accelerate their use of SaaS platforms and AI-driven services, the security of the software supply chain is becoming harder to define and control.
As cyber-threat intelligence teams struggle to keep pace with an ever-growing volume of information, large language models are emerging as a powerful support tool.
In today’s digital economy, managing cyber-risk is no longer purely a technology issue. Organisations must balance innovation and operational efficiency with regulatory compliance and legal accountability.
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.
Inside a modern government building facing the third‑century Aurelian walls in Rome, dozens of specialists have spent the past year monitoring criminal chatter on the dark web as part of Italy’s push to shield the Winter Olympics from cyberattacks.
The cyber-security skills shortage remains one of the most persistent challenges facing organisations, driven as much by structural hiring practices as by rising demand.
Most organisations still manage cyber-risk through scheduled activities. Vulnerability scans run at fixed intervals, penetration tests arrive once a year and severity scores are used as proxies for danger, even when they do not reflect how attackers actually operate.
Britain welcomed a U-turn by xAI to stop its Grok AI chatbot making non-consensual sexually explicit deepfakes, but said its investigation into how Elon Musk’s company ever allowed it to happen would continue.
While 2024 hinted at growing digital fragility, 2025 removed any remaining doubt. Cyber-security moved decisively from a technical concern to a core business risk, capable of disrupting revenue, operations and trust at speed.
Micron plans to stop supplying server chips to data centres in China after the business failed to recover from a 2023 government ban on its products in critical Chinese infrastructure, two people briefed on the decision said.
-Capita has been fined 14 million pounds ($18.7 million) for failing to protect personal data during a 2023 cyber attack, the British outsourcing firm said on Wednesday, as part of a settlement with the UK’s privacy watchdog.
Singapore will introduce a new online safety commission with powers to order social media platforms to block harmful posts, according to a new bill that was tabled in parliament on Wednesday.
In its latest annual review, the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) reported a 50 % rise in cyber incidents classed as “highly significant” over the past year, handling 429 incidents in total, of which 18 had serious national impact.