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Updating Wikipedia pages boosts public trust in scientific organizations, study finds

Updating Wikipedia pages boosts public trust in scientific organizations, study finds

Published by José Betancourt

A recent study published in the journal Anatomical Sciences Education has found that updating Wikipedia pages for scientific organizations improves public access to accurate information. The research suggests that when experts actively edit these digital encyclopedia entries, readers tend to view the academic institutions as more credible and trustworthy. These findings offer a practical roadmap for professional societies to boost their digital visibility and engage with a broader audience. Mike Pascoe, an associate professor at the University of Colorado Anschutz and the author of the study, conducted this research to address a noticeable gap in online science communication. Wikipedia receives billions of visits each month and consistently ranks at the top of search engine results. Because of this massive reach, the website serves as a primary entry point for people seeking scientific information on virtually any topic. Despite Wikipedia serving as a foundational resource for both the general public and artificial intelligence models, many scientific societies lack well-developed pages. Pascoe noted that these organizations are often underrepresented on the platform. “Wikipedia is the world’s most …

Adversaries hijacked AI security tools at 90+ organizations. The next wave has write access to the firewall

Adversaries hijacked AI security tools at 90+ organizations. The next wave has write access to the firewall

Published by skeptic

Adversaries injected malicious prompts into legitimate AI tools at more than 90 organizations in 2025, stealing credentials and cryptocurrency. Every one of those compromised tools could read data, and none of them could rewrite a firewall rule. The autonomous SOC agents shipping now can. That escalation, from compromised tools that read data to autonomous agents that rewrite infrastructure, has not been exploited in production at scale yet. But the architectural conditions for it are shipping faster than the governance designed to prevent it. A compromised SOC agent can rewrite your firewall rules, modify IAM policies, and quarantine endpoints, all with its own privileged credentials, all through approved API calls that EDR classifies as authorized activity. The adversary never touches the network. The agent does it for them. Cisco announced AgenticOps for Security in February, with autonomous firewall remediation and PCI-DSS compliance capabilities. Ivanti launched Continuous Compliance and the Neurons AI self-service agent last week, with policy enforcement, approval gates and data context validation built into the platform at launch — a design distinction that matters …

Hackers are abusing unpatched Windows security flaws to hack into organizations

Hackers are abusing unpatched Windows security flaws to hack into organizations

Published by skeptic

Hackers have broken into at least one organization using Windows vulnerabilities published online by a disgruntled security researcher over the last two weeks, according to a cybersecurity firm. On Friday, cybersecurity company Huntress said in a series of posts on X that its researchers have seen hackers taking advantage of three Windows security flaws, dubbed BlueHammer, UnDefend, and RedSun.  It’s unclear who the target of this attack is, and who the hackers are. BlueHammer is the only bug among the three vulnerabilities being exploited that Microsoft has patched so far. A fix for BlueHammer was rolled out earlier this week.  It appears that the hackers are exploiting the bugs by using exploit code that the security researcher published online.  Earlier this month, a researcher who goes by Chaotic Eclipse published on their blog what they said was code to exploit an unpatched vulnerability in Windows. The researcher alluded to some conflict with Microsoft as the motivation behind publishing the code.  “I was not bluffing Microsoft and I’m doing it again,” they wrote. “Huge thanks to …

The end of ‘shadow AI’ at enterprises? Kilo launches KiloClaw for Organizations to enable secure AI agents at scale

The end of ‘shadow AI’ at enterprises? Kilo launches KiloClaw for Organizations to enable secure AI agents at scale

Published by skeptic

As generative AI matures from a novelty into a workplace staple, a new friction point has emerged: the “shadow AI” or “Bring Your Own AI (BYOAI)” crisis. Much like the unsanctioned use of personal devices in years past, developers and knowledge workers are increasingly deploying autonomous agents on personal infrastructure to manage their professional workflows. “Our journey with Kilo Claw has been to make it easier and easier and more accessible to folks,” says Kilo co-founder Scott Breitenother. Today, the company dedicated to providing a portable, multi-model, cloud-based AI coding environment is moving to formalize this “shadow AI” layer: it’s launching KiloClaw for Organizations and KiloClaw Chat, a suite of tools designed to provide enterprise-grade governance over personal AI agents. The announcement comes at a period of high velocity for the company. Since making its securely hosted, one-click OpenClaw product for individuals, KiloClaw, generally available last month, more than 25,000 users have integrated the platform into their daily workflows. Simultaneously, Kilo’s proprietary agent benchmark, PinchBench, has logged over 250,000 interactions and recently gained significant industry …

How attackers hit 700 organizations through CX platforms your SOC already approved

How attackers hit 700 organizations through CX platforms your SOC already approved

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CX platforms process billions of unstructured interactions a year: Survey forms, review sites, social feeds, call center transcripts, all flowing into AI engines that trigger automated workflows touching payroll, CRM, and payment systems. No tool in a security operation center leader’s stack inspects what a CX platform’s AI engine is ingesting, and attackers figured this out. They poison the data feeding it, and the AI does the damage for them. The Salesloft/Drift breach in August 2025 proved exactly this. Attackers compromised Salesloft’s GitHub environment, stole Drift chatbot OAuth tokens, and accessed Salesforce environments across 700+ organizations, including Cloudflare, Palo Alto Networks, and Zscaler. It then scanned stolen data for AWS keys, Snowflake tokens, and plaintext passwords. And no malware was deployed. That gap is wider than most security leaders realize: 98% of organizations have a data loss prevention (DLP) program, but only 6% have dedicated resources, according to Proofpoint’s 2025 Voice of the CISO report, which surveyed 1,600 CISOs across 16 countries. And 81% of interactive intrusions now use legitimate access rather than malware, per …

Warhol Foundation to Give M.+ in Grants to 57 Arts Organizations

Warhol Foundation to Give $4 M.+ in Grants to 57 Arts Organizations

Published by José Betancourt

The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts in New York has announced the cohort for its Fall 2025 grant recipients, which give over $4 million to 57 arts organizations. The Warhol Foundation is known for its decades-long support of arts and culture organization, which comes in the support of program support over two years and exhibition support, as well as a curatorial research fellowship. For the two-year program support, grantees receive between $60,000 and $180,000 this year, while exhibition support is between $35,000 and $100,000. Related Articles The Fall 2025 grantees hail from 17 states and Washington, D.C., and range from established institutions like Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Independent Curators International, and Anthology Film Archives to artist-run organizations like Mini Mart City Park in Seattle and Transformer in Washington, D.C. Additionally, 20 grantees are receiving funds from the Warhol Foundation for the first time, such as Path with Arts in Seattle, Access Gallery in Denver, the Galveston Artist Residency in Texas, and Harvester Arts in Wichita, Kansas. Organizations outside traditional art centers are also …

US Designates Chapters Of Muslim Brotherhood As Foreign Terrorist Organizations

US Designates Chapters Of Muslim Brotherhood As Foreign Terrorist Organizations

Published by Jenni Sidey

Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Trump administration has followed through on its stated goal of designating three branches of the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist organizations, sanctioning the groups and their members in accordance with President Donald Trump’s plan to strengthen national security. Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks during a press conference as President Donald Trump and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth listen at Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Fla., on Jan. 3, 2026. Joe Raedle/Getty Images The Lebanese, Jordanian, and Egyptian chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood were designated by the U.S. State Department as foreign terrorist organizations on Jan. 13. The designations are a first step in support of Trump’s November order that aims to eliminate chapters of the organization that pose security threats to the United States and its allies. The group’s leader, Muhammad Fawzi Taqqosh, has also been named as a specially designated global terrorist. The Department of the Treasury also named the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood and Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood as specially designated global terrorists for …

Trump Withdraws from International Cultural Organizations

Trump Withdraws from International Cultural Organizations

Published by Jenni Sidey

While the world was dealing with horrific news about an ICE agent fatally shooting an American civilian in the streets of Minneapolis on Wednesday, President Donald Trump’s administration was withdrawing the US from 66 international groups, conventions, and treaties, including 31 United Nations-affiliated organizations. Several of them are devoted to arts, culture, historic preservation, and freedom of expression. The withdrawal was announced in a presidential memorandum that stated that these organizations were “contrary to the interests of the United States.” The president had asked the Secretary of State Marco Rubio to conduct a review in a February 2025 executive order. Rubio asserted that many of the organizations are “dominated by progressive ideology.” Related Articles In addition to organizations devoted to climate change, counterterrorism, sustainable development, justice and the rule of law are cultural bodies such as the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM), the International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies (IFACCA), the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property, …

U.S. to exit 66 international organizations in further retreat from global cooperation : NPR

U.S. to exit 66 international organizations in further retreat from global cooperation : NPR

Published by Sam Flores

The symbol of the United Nations is displayed outside the Secretariat Building on Feb. 28, 2022, at United Nations Headquarters. John Minchillo/AP hide caption toggle caption John Minchillo/AP WASHINGTON — The Trump administration will withdraw from dozens of international organizations, including the U.N.’s population agency and the U.N. treaty that establishes international climate negotiations, as the U.S. further retreats from global cooperation. President Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order suspending U.S. support for 66 organizations, agencies, and commissions, following his administration’s review of participation in and funding for all international organizations, including those affiliated with the United Nations, according to a White House release. Most of the targets are U.N.-related agencies, commissions and advisory panels that focus on climate, labor, migration and other issues the Trump administration has categorized as catering to diversity and “woke” initiatives. Other non-U.N. organizations on the list include the Partnership for Atlantic Cooperation, the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance and Global Counterterrorism Forum. “The Trump Administration has found these institutions to be redundant in their scope, mismanaged, …