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For years, software teams have managed open source risk in two familiar forms: licensing obligations and known vulnerabilities. AI coding assistants introduce a third risk that is harder to see. Related: Where SBOMs fall short They can place open source … (more…) The post GUEST ESSAY: AI coding assistants are putting open source in your code without declaring it first appeared on The Last Watchdog.

MELBOURNE, Fla., Sept. 2, 2026, CyberNewswire — Less than three months after its commercial launch, OpenMatter Network today announced a significant expansion of the platform with new capabilities that make it easier for enterprises, developers and researchers to build, deploy … (more…) The post News alert: OpenMatter adds secure routing for OpenAI, Anthropic and Google models first appeared on The Last Watchdog.

Hugging Face is where the world’s open-source AI models live. Not ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini, but the free engines anyone can download and build into their own products. More than two million of them, in one place. Related: Hugging Face … (more…) The post LW ROUNDTABLE: OpenAI’s test agents self-organized into a rogue swarm no one anticipated first appeared on The Last Watchdog.

SAN RAFAEL, Calif., Sept. 1, 2026, CyberNewswire — As AI compresses the gap between vulnerability disclosure and exploitation to nearly zero, the new AI Pentesting Module gives security teams continuous, AI-driven penetration testing built on Bright’s proven dynamic testing engine, … (more…) The post News alert: Bright Security launches AI PT, AI-powered penetration testing that cuts weeks to hours first appeared on The Last Watchdog.

Millions of people rely on ChatGPT Work. For more than five hours Monday, it would not run. I was one of the people watching it fail. The trouble began at 8:04 a.m. Pacific and ran through the heart of the … (more…) The post MY TAKE: ChatGPT’s five-hour outage coincided with a model retirement its incident record omits first appeared on The Last Watchdog.

BNEI BRAK, Israel, Aug. 31, 2026, CyberNewswire — Lunar Cyber today announced Token Exposure Monitoring, a new capability designed to identify, attribute and validate Non-Human Identities (NHI) and machine credentials inside infostealer logs, connect them to the affected organization, and … (more…) The post NEWS ALERT: Lunar Cyber tracks stolen API keys, ties them to infected employer devices first appeared on The Last Watchdog.

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 24, 2026, CyberNewswire — Security Risk Advisors (SRA), the authors of the free VECTR platform, announce today another great free platform launch: SCALR AI. Security teams can get SCALR AI for free, delivered through the Azure Marketplace.… (more…) The post NEWS ALERT: SRA makes SOC AI license-free — customers pay only for the Azure compute they use first appeared on The Last Watchdog.

The modern SOC is getting better at closing alerts. It is still bad at remembering them. Alerts are multiplying. Innovation has been focused on machines that can triage, correlate, and recommend a response at a much elevated scale. The queue … (more…) The post BLACK HAT FIRESIDE CHAT: How linking SOC alerts cuts noise, reveals attacks taking shape first appeared on The Last Watchdog.

ADELAIDE, Australia, August 19th, 2026, CyberNewswire — Airlock Digital, a global provider of application control and allowlisting solutions, today announced that it has completed an independent Information Security Registered Assessors Program (IRAP) assessment at the PROTECTED classification level. The assessment … (more…) The post News alert: Airlock Digital IRAP assessment bolsters trust for sensitive Australian deployments first appeared on The Last Watchdog.

Melbourne, Fla., August 17, 2026, CyberNewswire — Continuing its effort to build global awareness of the need to move computing from assumption-based trust to cryptographic proof, OpenMatter Network today announced that Head of Operations and Partnerships Chris Biele will play … (more…) The post News alert: OpenMatter Network spotlights AI verification at Belgrade Blockchain Week first appeared on The Last Watchdog.