Evan Schuman has covered IT issues for a lot longer than he'll ever admit. The founding editor of retail technology site StorefrontBacktalk, he's been a columnist for CBSNews.com, RetailWeek, Computerworld, and eWeek, and his byline has appeared in titles ranging from BusinessWeek, VentureBeat, and Fortune to The New York Times, USA Today, Reuters, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Baltimore Sun, The Detroit News, and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Evan is a frequent contributor to CIO, CSO, Network World and InfoWorld.
Evan won a gold 2025 AZBEE award in the Enterprise News category for this story: Design flaw has Microsoft Authenticator overwriting MFA accounts, locking users out
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Analysts applaud the controls, but point out that the vast majority of agent-generated problems are outside the scope of Nvidia’s offering, and it also creates vendor lock-in concerns.
The company argues that users deserve ‘meaningful limits and independent oversight’ over US government subpoenas, to protect their privacy.
Analyst argues that OpenAI’s depiction of the agents as 'benign' may pose a greater threat than the attack itself, generating SOC AI alert fatigue.
Security execs who feel prepared to face what’s coming hold several organizational factors in common, according to a recent report. But confidence and preparedness aren’t necessarily the true measures of security.
Zero trust assumes everyone is an attacker until proven otherwise. But when your enterprise is swarming with unknown autonomous agents, that is tricky if not impossible.
The company said there are no defensive workarounds for the flaws that include one enabling unauthenticated remote attacks; it has issued patches.
The glitch, which Microsoft says it working to fix, creates an attacker opportunity by convincing users to ignore critical cybersecurity alerts.
A memory overflow vulnerability and an authentication bypass both require urgent attention.
