Hawaii Cybersecurity Journal

"Rogue AI Agents, WeChat worm, AI espionage." Views expressed in this cybersecurity, cybercrime update are those of the reporters and correspondents.  Accessed on 14 September 2026, 2233 UTC. Content and Source:  "The Hacker News-Weekly Recap." https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=8f7f0bdc77&view=lg&permmsgid=msg-f:1876318947374858562 Please check email link or scroll down to read your selections.  Thanks for joining us today. Russ Roberts (https://www.hawaiicybersecurityjournal.net). Read full edition on the website AI keeps showing up in the wrong places. Attackers are using it to speed up exploits, test defenses, and automate more of the job. Some models are also crossing lines on their own. That is not a great combination. The rest of the week is more familiar: old bugs still working, fresh exploit chains, exposed systems, weak defaults, and simple paths that should have been harder to abuse. A few of these stories are clever. Most are just easy...

"AI changed the exposure problem.  Validation needs to change with it." Views expressed in this cybersecurity, cybercrime update are those of the reporters and correspondents.  Accessed on 14 September 2026, 1436 UTC. Content and Source:  "The Hacker News." https://thehackernews.com/ Please check URL or scroll down to read your selections.  Thanks for joining us today. Russ Roberts (https://www.hawaiicybersecurityjournal.net). AI Changed the Exposure Problem. Validation Needs to Change With It.  Sep 14, 2026 Vulnerability / Penetration Testing There's a lot of noise around AI and cybersecurity right now. What’s actually important is far simpler, if often lost in the hubbub. Vulnerability discovery is getting faster and happening at a much greater scale, while defenders still have to work out which findings actually deserve their action. In the first half of 2026, a whopping 35,853 CVEs were published, roughly 49% more than in the year before. Yet only 495 were ...