Friday Squid Blogging: Truckload of Squid Spills in Rhode Island
Ugh: A tractor-trailer rollover sent a truckload of squid spilling into a Rhode Island roadway, leaving a stench as they sat in the road for hours in the summer heat.…
Local authorities have dubbed it the “Squidpocalypse of ’26.
” That would be twenty tons of squid.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security …
Hundreds of OpenAI Agents Invaded Hugging Face Servers
The Hugging Face incident was bigger and worse than previously thought, with approximately 700 agents collaborating on a sophisticated, multistage attack.
GPUThor hardware attack can root Nvidia GPU systems
Hardware security researchers from University of Toronto have developed a new memory bit flipping technique that significantly improves on previously known attacks against GPU memory.…
The new method can defeat the error-correcting codes (ECC) defense use…
Dubbed GPUThor, the technique falls in a category of attacks known as …
The original Rowhammer attack was demonstrated against DDR3 and DDR4 c…
Offensive Security Investments Surge as AI Threats Increase
Omdia's Theresa Lanowitz talks with the Dark Reading News Desk about the potential — and risks — of using agentic AI for penetrating testing, red teaming, and other practices.
91% of professionals say their firm still falls short on AI - how to fix that
Research suggests a gap between AI ambition and on-the-ground reality, but the good news is that professionals can fill it by focusing on well-grounded explorations and solid production use cases.
Proposed legislation could mandate that companies be able to "throttle, suspend, or shut ... down" AI agents, but how and when to do that remain open questions.
The first 24 hours of an AI agent security incident
Most of what I read on AI agent security follows the same shape: a taxonomy of risks, a list of governance principles and a call to “adopt responsible AI practices.…
” That’s useful for a board deck.
It’s nearly useless at 2 a.
when an autonomous agent with live credentials has just done something…