Last week saw more arrests, the takedown of more cybercriminal sites, and an increase in security breaches. An increasing number of breaches are targeting retail organisations and banks. Japanese retailer Askul admitted it had been breached in October with 1.1TB of customer and supplier data stolen. Habib Bank AG Zurich, lost over 2.5TB of data, including customer data and source code. The latter will be of extreme concern for future security.
Samsung found itself dealing with a Zero-Day attack that allowed the Landfall spyware for Android devices to be deployed in its phones.
AI news saw more eyewatering sums being committed by vendors, while the financial markets continued to worry about a bubble. OpenAI signed a deal with AWS for $38 billion. It is a relatively small amount compared to the $1.4 trillion the company has announced for its AI infrastructure roadmap.
In the UK, the government announced a £42 billion AI Growth Zone in North East England. It believes this will create up to 5,000 R&D jobs, positioning the region as a European hub for ethical AI.
Photo agency Getty lost a court case against Stability AI over the scraping of images from its website for AI training. Stable Diffusion said that it does not contain or store copies of the relevant works used for training. As such, the court ruled against Getty.
In other news
Aptori released its latest AI agent, called Code-Q. It claims it will automatically generate, validate and apply code-level remediations for confirmed vulnerabilities. It’s an interesting twist in how security teams and developers respond to security issues. It shifts testing into being proactive based on known vulnerabilities rather than just repeatedly running scripts.
A new survey from Precisely and the American SAP Users Group (ASUG) shows SAP users are accelerating their S/4HANA migrations. Unfortunately, the pressure to migrate platforms and a surge of new tools are stalling the use of automation. The latter is being caused by a rush of new entrants into the space. IT teams are having to rethink what works best for them and what they want to achieve.
Ahead of its Annual conference for corporate professionals, SYNERGY, Thomson Reuters announced ONESOURCE+. ONESOURCE+ is an AI-Powered Intelligent Compliance Network that brings together tax, trade, legal, and risk solutions. To help enterprises drive efficiency, reduce risk, and unlock growth.
Aera Technology has unveiled research from IDC showing that decision intelligence is boosted by AI agents. The research entitled, “Accelerating enterprise decision intelligence with AI agents” shows how AI has bridged the gap between insights and action. It follows on from an earlier paper by the two vendors in 2023.
Michelle Dawkins, Vice President of Solution Consulting at Workday, appeared in an Enterprise Times podcast. She delves into the evolving landscape of artificial intelligence (AI) adoption in Human Resources (HR). The discussion captured how perceptions about AI have shifted within organisations, moving from trepidation to an era defined by active implementation, experimentation, and transformation.
Intigriti
Intigriti published a blog by Eleanor Barlow giving the company’s position on ethical hacking. It’s an area of cybersecurity research that is used by companies and individuals to uncover issues. However, it is also something of a grey area where some researchers and organisations hide behind the tag. Barlow explains what it does, why it is important and why it is key to a better cybersecurity posture.
Quantexa
Quantexa unveiled Quantexa AI, the next evolution of its flagship Decision Intelligence Platform, now fully agentic-ready. It says that this version will democratise and operationalise contextualised enterprise data that can interact bidirectionally with both LLMs and task-specific models using open industry standards.
ThreatQuotient
ThreatQ partner, ANY.RUN launched its connector for ThreatQ Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP). It claims the new connector enables ThreatQ users and paid subscribers to seamlessly integrate ANY.RUN’s high-fidelity Threat Intelligence Feeds directly into their existing security operations. This will deliver real-time indicators of compromise (IOCs) from live sandbox investigations across more than 15,000 organisations worldwide.
