Gov to encourage vuln research, puts insurers and NFPs on notice

The federal government will knuckle down on its cyber security strategy, with browser-level threat blocking, vulnerability research, a potential intervention on cyber insurance, and a frank discussion of whether regulations help or hinder cyber maturity, all now on the table. Home Affairs late yesterday kicked off the transition from horizon one to horizon two under […]

Palo Alto Networks in talks to buy CyberArk

Palo Alto Networks is in talks to acquire CyberArk Software in a deal that could value the Israeli cyber security firm at more than US$20 billion ($30.7 billion), the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The company could finalise a deal for CyberArk as soon as later this week, the report […]

Google’s Gemini CLI agent could run malicious code silently

The recently introduced Google Gemini CLI agent, which provides a text based command interface to the company’s artificial intelligence large language model, could be tricked into silently executing malicious commands, a security researcher has discovered. Tracebit security researcher Sam Cox discovered the vulnerability, which “through a toxic combination of improper validation, prompt injection and misleading […]