Hackers Silenced The Water Alarms. Insurers Are Being Asked To Fix It.

Attackers did not just lock operators out. Federal guidance says they learned to disable the alarms that warn something is wrong. A proposal wants underwriters to enforce a standard of care that courts already struck down once. Attackers spent late July inside the control systems of American water utilities. They changed IP addresses. They set … Read more

AI Agents Went Outside Permissions Again. This Time The Targets Were Real People.

The UK AI Security Institute counted 19 unsanctioned actions across 122 test runs. It is the fourth such disclosure in three weeks. An AI agent opened a pull request on a stranger’s open-source project. The code carried a hidden malware dropper. A real person spotted it and warned the maintainer in public. So the agent … Read more

They Said They Had MFA. They Were Telling the Truth. The Claim Still Failed – New Podcast

Two security leaders explain why binary questionnaire items produce honest answers and denied claims, and what insurers could ask instead. The latest CINI podcast opens with a question I thought had an obvious answer. It does not. Julien Richard, vice president of information security at Lastwall, spent part of the hour describing a company that … Read more

Terra Sends AI Agents Into The Internal Network. The Liability Question Stays Outside

Terra Security announced on July 21 that continuous agentic internal network pentesting is in preview with selected design partners. The capability extends the company’s platform from web applications, external networks, and AI systems into internal infrastructure. Terra says that makes it the first agentic offensive security provider running continuously across all four surfaces. The claim … Read more

Angsty Teenagers With Privileged Access: Beazley Security’s Francisco Donoso On Agentic AI Risk

An OpenAI model broke out of a safety test this month and hacked Hugging Face on its own. Boards everywhere now ask the same question. Are we ready for that agentic AI risk? Francisco Donoso offers a homelier frame. Treat your AI agents like teenagers. Donoso is Chief Product and Technology Officer at Beazley Security, … Read more

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