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Proton Mail has today announced the rollout of post-quantum encryption (PQC) across its email platform, making quantum-resistant key generation available to all users, including those on free plans, in what the company describes as a proactive step ahead of the quantum computing era. The feature, which users can opt into via Proton Mail's encryption key settings, allows the generation of post-quantum-ready keys for newly sent encrypted emails. Proton's existing encryption standards, RSA and Elliptic Curve...

A 2025 study in Communications of the ACM tested 1,276 participants’ ability to spot AI-generated images, audio, and video. Average accuracy was 51.2% – literally no better than a coin flip. Participants scored worse on synthetic content (38%) than on real content (64%).  The problem is that most people default to thinking what they see is real. As synthetic media becomes more common across business, media, and online communication, the need for tools that can...

Global businesses are racing to deploy artificial intelligence, sometimes at the expense of their cybersecurity postures. The rise of “agentic AI” is especially notable, due to its potential to automate business workflows, cloud operations, engineering tasks and cybersecurity. Not only are AI agents getting more capable, but they can also work much faster than humans, without taking breaks or needing days off. Companies can get more work done at lower costs, and in some cases...

Bridewell has been accepted as a full member of the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST), marking a significant milestone in the company’s incident response maturity and global collaboration capabilities. The UK-based cyber security services provider, which specialises in supporting critical national infrastructure (CNI) organisations, secured membership following a rigorous, peer-led vetting process and approval by the FIRST CSIRT Board of Directors. The achievement reflects Bridewell’s ability to meet the high operational and...

In early April, Anthropic announced the release of Claude Mythos Preview, its most advanced AI model to date. Though trained as a general-purpose large language model, Mythos quickly distinguished itself through a notable capacity for complex, multi-step cybersecurity work – autonomously parsing massive codebases, detecting critical-severity software defects and identifying vulnerabilities that have eluded human researchers for decades. Anthropic describes its cybersecurity capabilities as “substantially beyond those of any model we have previously trained,” including...

KnowBe4, the digital workforce security provider, securing both AI agents and humans, has announced new research, Phishing Threat Trends Report Volume Seven. The report finds a seismic shift in the attack vectors utilized to conduct phishing attacks, including touchpoints outside of traditional email communication such as calendar invitations and messaging tools. “The inbox is no longer the only front line for coordinated social engineering attacks,” said Jack Chapman, SVP of Threat Intelligence, KnowBe4. “Cybercriminals are...

The reported PocketOS incident, in which an AI agent deleted a live production database and its backups in a matter of seconds, has quickly become a defining moment in the conversation around autonomous systems in enterprise environments. An AI-powered coding or operations agent, operating with legitimate access via API tokens, encountered what it interpreted as a configuration or credential issue. It then took it upon itself to resolve the problem, issuing a destructive command that...

Forescout has unveiled an ambitious new global partner initiative, Mission:Possible, marking the largest channel-focused campaign in the company’s 25-year history. Designed to energize partners and accelerate pipeline growth, the tour will span more than 90 cities worldwide between May and September 2026. A Global Push to Strengthen the Channel The Mission:Possible tour underscores Forescout’s commitment to its partner ecosystem at a time when organizations are grappling with increasingly complex cybersecurity challenges. The initiative will bring...

At this week’s CyberUK conference in Glasgow, National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) CEO Richard Horne delivered a stark assessment of the evolving cyber threat landscape, warning that organisations are facing a “perfect storm” driven by rapid advances in artificial intelligence and rising geopolitical tensions. In his keynote, Horne highlighted how emerging technologies are fundamentally reshaping cyber risk, with attackers now able to scale operations faster than ever before. Despite this acceleration, he stressed that many...

Bridewell has become one of the first organisations to achieve Level 2 Defence Cyber Certification (DCC), marking a significant milestone in efforts to strengthen cyber security across the UK defence supply chain. The Reading-based cyber security services provider is currently one of only two organisations accredited at this level, underscoring its role in supporting critical national infrastructure (CNI) and defence-sector organisations with robust security practices. The DCC scheme, developed by the UK Ministry of Defence...