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Facial Recognition Fails for Facial Differences
Maria covers Wired reporting on facial-recognition shortcomings for people with craniofacial differences and calls for inclusive design.
F5 discloses long-term breach tied to nation-state actors. PowerSchool hacker receives a four-year prison sentence. Senator scrutinizes Cisco critical firewall vulnerabilities. Phishing campaign impersonates LastPass and Bitwarden. Credential phishing with Google Careers. Reduce effort, reuse past breaches, recycle into new breach. Qilin announces new victims. Manoj Nair, from Snyk, joins us to explore the future of AI security and the emerging risks shaping this rapidly evolving landscape. And AI faces the facts.
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Manoj Nair, Chief Innovation Officer at Snyk, joins us to explore the future of AI security and the emerging risks shaping this rapidly evolving landscape. In light of the recent high-severity vulnerability in Cursor, Manoj discusses how threats like tool poisoning, toxic flows, and MCP vulnerabilities are redefining what secure AI-driven development means—and why organizations must move faster to keep up.
Selected Reading
F5 disclosures breach tied to nation-state threat actor (CyberScoop)
CISA Directs Federal Agencies to Mitigate Vulnerabilities in F5 Devices (CISA)
ED 26-01: Mitigate Vulnerabilities in F5 Devices (CISA)
PowerSchool hacker sentenced to 4 years in prison (The Record)
Cisco faces Senate scrutiny over firewall flaws (The Register)
Fake LastPass, Bitwarden breach alerts lead to PC hijacks (Bleeping Computer)
Google Careers impersonation credential phishing scam with endless variation (Sublime Security)
Elasticsearch Leak Exposes 6 Billion Records from Scraping, Old and New Breaches (HackRead)
Qilin Ransomware announced new victims (Security Affairs)
When Face Recognition Doesn’t Know Your Face Is a Face (WIRED)
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