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The recent discussion around Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview and Project Glasswing has caught the attention of the cybersecurity industry for good reason. Mythos is not just another AI announcement. It is being positioned as a frontier model with advanced cybersecurity capability, particularly around finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities. Anthropic has stated that Project Glasswing is intended to give selected defenders early access to this capability to help secure critical software, rather than releasing the model broadly. Cisco has also published guidance following its work with Mythos, explaining that it is changing its near-term threat modelling of AI-enabled attackers and issuing defensive recommendations for customers. That is the important point. Whether Mythos itself remains tightly controlled or not, the direction of travel is clear. AI-enabled vulnerability discovery and exploitation capability is improving quickly. Security teams need to prepare for a...

Last week I joined fellow security leaders at  CISO Inspire Summit North  for a panel discussion on  The Expanding Threat Surface: Adaptive Security Leadership for 2026 and Beyond . It was a timely discussion, because the challenge facing security leaders today is not simply more threats. It is more connections, more dependencies, and more complexity. Suppliers, SaaS, identities, automation and distributed ways of working have all expanded the attack surface in ways that traditional control models often struggle to keep pace with. One theme I returned to during the discussion was that many cyber risks are not new. They are often familiar control failures appearing at greater scale and speed. That matters, because it shifts the focus from chasing every emerging technology risk to strengthening fundamentals. Security fundamentals still matter most Identity, ownership, visibility and resilience remain foundational. As organisations scale, risk often hides where ownership is ...

  A roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, February 2021. Serious Linux Vulnerability Last month  a newly discovered critical vulnerability in 'sudo', a fundamental program present in all Linux and Unix operating systems caught my eye. The sudo vulnerability aka  CVE-2001-3156 , seemed to go under the radar after it was announced and patches were released on 26th January 2021. I  wrote a blog post  about my concerns given Linux is embedded everywhere, yet many of these systems are rarely, and even never updated with security updates. From IoT devices to internet-based services, the security of countless devices and web-based services' are dependant upon a secure Linux account privilege model. While these Linux operating systems remain unpatched to prevent exploitation of the CVE-2021-3156 vulnerability, there are waiting to be hacked. Npower App Hack Npowe...

Article by Dennis Okpara, Chief Security Architect & DPO at IDEE GmbH Yes, there is hope for 2021, but the challenges of the “New Normal” are here to stay. CISOs have to prepare and start acting now, because cybersecurity and the IT-infrastructure will have to face threats that have only just started. The year 2020 was the year working from home lost its oddity status and became normality. Big names like Google and Twitter are planning long-term and hold out the prospect of working from home on a permanent basis. More than 60 percent of companies are trying the same and have implemented home office policies in 2020. But with great flexibility comes great responsibility: Everyone responsible for Cybersecurity and a secure IT infrastructure is now dealing with new challenges closing the last gaps and weak points when it comes to allowing access to company resources. Dennis Okpara, Chief Security Architect & DPO at IDEE GmbH, the specialist for secure identity access managemen...