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The Last Watchdog Mission Last Watchdog exists to restore trust, context, and clarity to cybersecurity storytelling. We are a journalist-led editorial platform — not a newswire, not a content farm, and not a PR mouthpiece. Founded and edited by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Byron V.
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MY TAKE: Black Hat 2026 Part 3 - Agentic AI can do the work, but somebody has to prove it
Security work used to leave a trail without anyone trying. A developer who wanted an open source library went and got it, and the license came along. An analyst who closed a case wrote down why. The record was a byproduct of a person doing the work. Relat
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MY TAKE: Black Hat 2026 Part 2 - Security shifts to deciding in advance what an AI agent may reach
Humans get identity. That is what MFA and single sign-on are for, and we all understand the bargain: prove you are who you say, then go do your work. Machines get predictability. That is what monitoring is for. A script does the same thing every day. If i
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MY TAKE: Black Hat 2026 Wrap-up Part 1 - AI is forcing security and operations to merge in the SOC
Companies have kept security in one silo and operations in another for as long as both have existed. Related:Part 2 - deciding what AI can reach Agentic AI is collapsing the divide. That is what a week at Black Hat USA 2026 made plain to me. Here's what I
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News Alert: Pulse Security AI's research reveals C-suite, board confidence gap on cyber exposures
LAS VEGAS, Aug. 5, 2026, CyberNewswire - Boards of directors believe they understand their company's security posture and what it means for the business. The security leaders presenting to them are far less sure. Only 12.5% of security leaders are very co
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BLACK HAT ROUNDTABLE: Security pros dissect fallout from Hugging Face's double guardrail failure
LAS VEGAS - It's come to this. A cyberattack carried out by a machine. Worse, a machine that picked its own victim. Whether that counts as agency is where the experts below part company. Related: Huggy Face break-in explained Hugging Face disclosed July 1
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News alert: Airlock extends endpoint control to govern AI agents and define operating boundaries
Atlanta, GA-August 4, 2026-Airlock Digital, a leader in preventative endpoint security, today announced Agentic AI Control & Governance at Black Hat USA 2026. The new capabilities build on application control by providing command- and session-level visibi
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News alert: Mallory links threat intelligence to governed response as exploit timelines shrink
Las Vegas, United States, August 4th, 2026, CyberNewswire - Mallory, the AI-native Threat and Exposure Management platform, today introduced a unified context and intelligence layer for security teams. The architecture has three parts: a context graph tha
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News alert: Community voting shapes 2026 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards
LAS VEGAS, Aug. 4, 2026, CyberNewswire - The Cybersecurity Excellence Awards today announced the winners of the 2026 Community Choice Award, selected through 79,455 votes cast during the awards season. AI security ranked among the highest-voted award cate
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AI Agents Behave More Like Employees Than Applications
Security teams have spent decades controlling what software does; Agentic AI is forcing them to control what it decides to do next.
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BLACK HAT Q&A: The AI agent that clears the human door and slips past the machine gate
LAS VEGAS - Companies are deploying AI agents into everyday work at a pace no security program was built for. Related: AI layoffs pays for AI infrastructure As Black Hat USA 2026 gets underway in Las Vegas, that question is moving rapidly from theoretical
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