Popular messaging platform WhatsApp has added a new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered feature that leverages its in-house solution Meta AI to summarize unread messages in chats. The feature, called Message Summaries,…
AI is getting so good that it’s outperforming human red teamers. The hacker “Xbow” now tops an eminent US security industry leaderboard that ranks red teamers based on reputation —…
A fast-growing commercial law firm whose lawyers work remotely has become the latest to take private equity backing, with LDC buying a large minority stake. The post Private equity takes…
Organizations are moving away from the public cloud and embracing a more hybrid approach due to big changes over the past five years. – Read More
The executive director of supervision at the Financial Reporting Council has today been named as the new chief executive of the Solicitors Regulation Authority. The post Financial Reporting Council director…
A law firm that specialises in financial mis-selling is facing a novel claim of causing loss by unlawful means through deluging a bank with allegedly poor-quality cases. The post Bank…
The structure of regulation established by the Legal Services Act 2007 “does not work well”, the outgoing chair of the Bar Standards Board declared last night. The post Legal Services…
A solicitor has been handed a suspended prison sentence for making false claims of damage to his car from potholes. The post Suspended jail sentence for solicitor over fake pothole…
Though rudimentary and largely non-functional, the wryly named “Skynet” binary could be a harbinger of things to come on the malware front. – Read More
Agentic AI is on the rise, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers are fast proving to be essential tools for providing AI models greater context for reasoning. But security researchers…
A slew of vulnerabilities, including a critical CVSS 9.8 that enables an attacker to generate the default admin password, affect hundreds of printer, scanner, and label-maker models made by manufacturer…
Dark Reading Confidential Episode 7: Cyber experts Tom Parker and Jake Williams offer their views on the practical impact of cuts to the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. –…
New research has uncovered continued risk from a known security weakness in Microsoft’s Entra ID, potentially enabling malicious actors to achieve account takeovers in susceptible software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications. Identity security…
The emerging group has already gotten its teeth into 16 victims since May with its double extortion tactics, claiming victims in 11 countries, including the US, Thailand, and Taiwan. –…
The servers that connect AI with real-world data are occasionally wide-open channels for cyberattacks. – Read More