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The OpenAI agent didn’t “go rogue”. The containment failed. 

I’ve purposely held back from commenting on the OpenAI and Hugging Face incident.  The early coverage was predictably dramatic.  AI…
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The attack your training prepared them for doesn’t exist 

I've delivered more security awareness sessions than I can count. I'm also a social engineer, which means I've been the…
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The call nobody talks about

The attack call is the one that gets written up in the report. But in James Sheppard's experience, it's rarely…
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Your attacker knows when your last pen test was 

Annual penetration testing doesn't just fail to keep pace with your attack surface. It operates on a calendar your adversaries…
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Claude Fable 5: what we know so far

Fable is the first publicly accessible version of Anthropic's Mythos-class model, the tier they initially decided was too capable to…
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Frontier AI models are exciting.

CovertSwarm COO Luke Potter on why frontier AI is genuinely exciting, why most of the conversation is asking the wrong…
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AI Sharpens the Question. It Doesn’t Change the Answer.

The cyber security industry has spent decades selling findings instead of answers. AI tools like Mythos make the problem faster…
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Constant Cyber Attack: What People Keep Getting Wrong

There are a lot of terms floating around offensive security right now. COST. CTEM. Exposure validation. Some of it is…
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Mythos found a $20,000 bug. It won’t tell you who’s already inside. 

Anthropic's Mythos has dominated the security conversation this week, but the debate about whether it's overhyped is the wrong argument.…