The pink panther taking over social media reveals the real danger of deepfakes
The AI-generated pink panther seen in protest footage illustrates a major security challenge: on social networks, a fiction can shape how people perceive a real event.
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Australians should prepare for online services to go down unexpectedly as threats rise, cyber agency warns
The Australian Signals Directorate warns that essential online services may go offline without notice and that security must take priority over availability. Its chief says advanced AI tools are needed to defend against attackers who use AI.
Technical debt and cybersecurity: the rising cost of doing nothing
An expert column in Silicon.fr argues that technical debt links today's operational weaknesses, cyber threats amplified by AI and future cryptographic exposure.
Agentic SOC: seeing more is no longer enough, you have to understand and react faster
AI changes security on two fronts: agents act autonomously, and AI speeds up the discovery of vulnerabilities. Security operations centres are left with the duty of triage.