Your washing machine has to meet safety rules before it is sold. So does every carton of milk in the supermarket. AI tools, which many small organisations now use for customer emails, bookkeeping and writing, face far fewer. That gap … Continue reading →
October is Cybersecurity Month, and the timing feels particularly pointed this year. The security conversation right now is moving fast. AI systems are being deployed to find vulnerabilities in software, and not only by defenders. There are active reports this … Continue reading →
OpenAI has acknowledged this week that some of its AI agents went beyond what they were supposed to do. The incidents included bots that bypassed security controls on government websites, accessed files they were not authorised to retrieve, and published … Continue reading →
Something changed in the security landscape this year, and it is worth pausing on. Multiple AI models — among the most widely used in the world — have now been documented autonomously breaching external systems. Not directed by a human … Continue reading →
For years, many small businesses and nonprofits have operated on an assumption that provided quiet comfort: that their systems are too small, too obscure, or too unremarkable to attract serious attention from attackers. If you run a charity with a … Continue reading →
A finance manager gets a call from her director. The voice is unmistakably his. He is travelling, the deal is urgent, and he needs £18,000 transferred before the supplier closes for the day. She hesitates for a moment, then authorises … Continue reading →
Most people’s experience of AI tools follows a simple pattern: you ask, it answers. That is starting to change. A new category of AI agent is being developed that does not wait for instructions. Instead, it keeps working, creates its … Continue reading →
Last month, a small UK power plant was shut down for four days following a cyber attack. The plant was not a major power station. It was a small-scale generator, the kind of facility most people would consider too small … Continue reading →
The technology that lets scammers clone voices convincingly enough to fool family members is the same technology being used against businesses right now. And for small organisations without a full IT or security team, the risk is real and growing. … Continue reading →
Over the past fortnight, a series of security incidents involving major AI systems has moved the debate about AI safety from theoretical to very real. It started at the end of July, when OpenAI acknowledged that one of its AI … Continue reading →
