ai-security

OpenAI and Google Found Ancient PHP Bugs. The Real Story Is What They Couldn’t Map
A research team at Wiz, the security firm owned by Alphabet ($GOOGL), worked alongside researchers from OpenAI last week. Together they traced a flaw buried in PHP, the scripting language that has run a large share of the web since the 1990s. Nothing about the underlying bug was new; what changed was who found it,…

Two Companies, One Gap: Gemini 4 Argon Accelerates While Microsoft Loses Its Office Chief
A report from the international police organization INTERPOL, covered by CNBC, says AI is raising both the speed and the scale of cyber threats. The report pointed at agentic systems doing work that used to require a person to click, and it asked companies to prepare for attacks that arrive faster than the people assigned…

The Security Story Is the AI Risk Story
An AI coding agent needs no click to be turned against you. That’s the detail buried in this week’s disclosure about a zero-click remote code execution flaw in AI coding agents, reported by The Register. No phishing link, no malicious download, no moment where a person had to be fooled. The agent itself, sitting with…