Hackers exfiltrated roughly 3,800 of GitHub Inc.’s internal code repositories after one of its employees installed a poisoned Visual Studio Code extension, the Microsoft Corp.-owned developer platform disclosed late Tuesday. The breach was detected Tuesday and traced to a malicious extension that GitHub’s security team found on the employee’s device. GitHub said the compromise has ...

Network verification company Forward Inc. today launched Forward Predict, a new capability that lets network teams test proposed changes against a digital twin of their production network before deploying them. The company says Predict runs every proposed change against a mathematically accurate model of the entire production environment, flagging outages, security exposures and policy conflicts ...

Cybersecurity and password service provider 1Password LLC today expanded its collaboration with OpenAI Group PBC, releasing a Model Context Protocol server that lets the Codex coding agent pull credentials from 1Password vaults at runtime without exposing them to prompts, code or model context. The 1Password Environments MCP Server for Codex provisions a secure runtime environment ...

Digital employee experience company Riverbed Technology LLC today rolled out six additions to its Aternity Experience Platform that the company says move enterprise information technology closer to autonomous operations focused on preventing disruption rather than responding to it. Riverbed is pitching the release as a shift away from reactive ticket queues and artificial intelligence copilots ...

Bot and agent trust management company DataDome SAS today launched Priority Protect, a virtual waiting room product designed to sort human shoppers, authorized artificial intelligence agents and malicious bots before they reach the front of the queue during high-demand sales events. The product extends DataDome’s existing bot detection engine into queue management, classifying every request ...

Exposure management company Tenable Holdings Inc. today unveiled new capabilities for Hexa AI, the agentic engine inside its Tenable One Exposure Management Platform, pushing the tool into general availability with multistep reasoning and Model Context Protocol support that the company says can shrink the gap between vulnerability discovery and remediation. The announcement was made at Tenable’s Exposure ...

Agentic offensive security platform provider Terra Security Inc. today announced the launch of continuous exploitation validation for network infrastructure, extending the company’s platform beyond web applications and artificial intelligence systems. Terra’s platform uses swarms of hundreds of AI agents paired with human reviewers to probe customer environments for exploitable weaknesses. With the addition of network ...

Meta Platforms Inc. is reportedly reassigning about 7,000 workers into new artificial intelligence roles as part of the broader restructuring that brings layoffs of roughly 8,000 staff into effect on Wednesday. The reassignments were disclosed in a memo on Monday from Meta Chief People Officer Janelle Gale that was reviewed by Bloomberg, which first reported ...

Cybersecurity startup Sola Security Ltd. today announced the launch of Lumina, an autonomous risk intelligence platform that applies contextual artificial intelligence across cloud, identity, software-as-a-service and endpoint environments to deliver prioritized security signals instead of raw alerts. The company is pitching Lumina as an answer to one of the most persistent problems in enterprise security: ...

Artificial intelligence fraud prevention platform company Darwinium UK Ltd. today released updates to its Android and iOS mobile software development kits, adding continuous in-session detection of remote access scams, screen-sharing manipulation and the device tricks behind large-scale account farming. The company is pitching the refreshed SDKs as being suited for banks, payment providers and digital businesses contending ...