Data centers have traditionally depended on uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems and backup generators to keep them online during a power cut, grid event, or natural disaster. But the critical ...

A Virginia software contractor deleted nearly 100 US government databases within minutes of being fired, with his twin brother watching and coaching him through it.

ReliaQuest observed attackers pairing ClickFix with the PySoxy proxy tool to establish redundant encrypted access paths and persistence on compromised systems. ClickFix, a one-shot social engineering ...

Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter, now both 34, had been in trouble before. Back in 2015, the brothers pled guilty in Virginia to a scheme involving wire fraud and computers. Muneeb was sentenced to three ...

Agencies face growing pressure to modernize their data protection strategies while defending against sophisticated cyberthreats. Legacy backup tools often fall short, especially when ransomware ...

Immutable backups have become an essential component of modern data protection strategies, offering a safeguard against threats like ransomware, accidental deletions and insider attacks. These backups ...

A rogue AI agent has caused mayhem after wiping a software company’s entire database and all recent backups in a matter of mere seconds. A number of crucial safeguards are baked into the most commonly ...

'I violated every principle I was given': AI agent deletes company's entire database in 9 seconds, then confesses An AI agent designed to speed up a company's coding instead wiped out its customer ...

Facepalm: It took only nine seconds for an AI coding agent to wipe a startup's production database and its backups with a single API call to its cloud provider. The failure began when Cursor, running ...

Another cautionary tale about AI has hit social media. This time, a software company’s founder is claiming that a Claude-powered version of AI coding tool Cursor deleted his entire production database ...

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People are trusting their AI agents with much more important work, but doing so still carries significant risks. Just ask Jeremy Crane, founder of PocketOS, a startup that builds software for car ...