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Black Hat: AI isn’t the problem. We are

Paul WagenseilAugust 9, 2026

The obstacles in trying to secure AI use boil down to one issue: We're thinking about it the wrong way.

RESOURCES

Identity
How to Build an AI Governance Framework for Identity
Identity
How to Evaluate and Select Identity and Access Management Tools
Identity
Identity-based attacks: how they work and how to defend against them
Black Hat
Bugcrowd’s Braden Russell on launching Pathseeker
Black Hat
Forcepoint’s Ronan Murphy on securing the data layer AI just set on fire

PODCASTS

Vulnerability Management
Sci-Fi, PKD, Greatness, Passkeys, AgentBreaker, Rockwell, Flock, Josh Marpet – SWN #605
Supply chain
When AI Commits Felonies – PSW #938
Leadership
Say Easy, Do Hard – Performance Through People – Greg Hoffman – BSW #459
Vulnerability Management
Randomness, Grey, Deepseek, Sonicwall, Spice, CaptiveCrunch, eBay, and Aaran Leyland – SWN #604
Application security
Prompting for Patches That Fix Vulns Without Adding New Ones – Keith Hoodlet – ASW #394

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Vishing group UNC6671 now focuses on extorting M&A firms

Steve ZurierAugust 7, 2026

Experts urge managed-device logins and audit log monitoring to stop phishing-led cloud data theft.

Bar Lanyado (right) and Eliya Cohen discuss a cost-effective AI agent red teaming method at Black Hat 2026 in Las Vegas. (Credit: Laura French)

Black Hat 2026: Open-source tool makes red teaming AI agents up to 125x cheaper

Laura FrenchAugust 7, 2026

NVIDIA researchers shared the “AgentBreaker” tool and how they tuned an open-source model to perform at frontier level.

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Application security

Paperclip authorization bug exploited, leads to control plane takeover

Steve ZurierAugust 6, 2026

Critical Paperclip flaws let attackers seize AI agent platforms, escalate privileges, and execute code.

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Agentic anarchy: Why using AI browsers just isn’t worth the risk

Paul WagenseilAugust 6, 2026

Using an AI browser sounds like a good idea until you realize you've just given it the keys to your online identity.

Eric Wallace (left) and Michael Dalton of OpenAI discuss the role of inter-agent communication in its agents’ attack on Hugging Face, at Black Hat 2026 in Las Vegas. (Credit: Laura French)

Black Hat 2026: OpenAI reveals agents planned ‘collective attacks’ via secret ‘message board’

Laura FrenchAugust 5, 2026

OpenAI also said its agents exploited a different JFrog Artifactory zero-day weeks before the Hugging Face attack.

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AI agents caught using social engineering in UK security tests

Steve ZurierAugust 5, 2026

UK researchers found AI agents using deceptive tactics to manipulate humans in security tests.

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Data breaches don’t doom most small businesses, researcher finds

Paul WagenseilAugust 5, 2026

Despite scary made-up statistics, most small- and medium businesses beat data breaches.

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Endpoint/Device Security

Russia-linked Midnight Blizzard targets hotel Wi-Fi networks in US, Europe

Steve ZurierAugust 4, 2026

Hotel Wi-Fi phishing campaign targets business travelers, Microsoft warns.

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