Accenture confirms a data breach. An Australian telecom investigates a nationwide outage. It’s shields up for the UK. CISA eyes September for its critical infrastructure reporting rule. NewsJunkie fakes CTV ad traffic. Agentic AI triggers EDR. CISA taps Mythos for vulnerability scans. Meta faces trillion dollar fines in state lawsuits. Our guest is Russ Anderson, COO and co-founder of RapidFort, sharing a coordinated industry effort to harden the world’s most critical open source software against AI-enabled cyber threats. When it comes to breaches, mum’s the word. 

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Russ Anderson, COO and co-founder of RapidFort, is sharing the Linux Foundation's Akrites initiative, a coordinated industry effort to harden the world’s most critical open source software against AI-enabled cyber threats.

Selected Reading

Accenture confirms breach after hacker offers stolen data for sale (Bleeping Computer)

Nationwide Telstra outage disrupts thousands, raises questions of foreign launched cyberattack (The Nightly)

Britain plans to build autonomous AI 'Cyber Shield' to defend nation (The Record)

CISA Eyes September Date for Final Cyber Incident Reporting Rule (MeriTalk)

HUMAN Security Disrupts CTV Device Spoofing Operation "NewsJunkie" (Globe Newswire)

When AI agents look like attackers: what behavioral telemetry tells us (SOPHOS)

Space Force adds Relativity, Impulse Space to national security launch program. (Space News) 

CISA Deploys Anthropic’s Mythos AI to Hunt Vulnerabilities in U.S. Government Code (Security Affairs)

Mark Zuckerberg’s biggest legal nightmare yet could cost Meta $1.4 trillion (The Independent)

Most cybersecurity workers have been told to conceal a breach, report finds (Cybersecurity Dive)

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