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Terminated employee cost company hundreds of thousands of dollars because nobody revoked access

A terminated employee's unrevoked access let him delete files and corrupt a database, costing the company hundreds of thousands of dollars and weeks of delays.

The Register's PWNED column recounts an anecdote from Yad Senapathy, CEO of the Project Management Training Institute, about a company with 1,000+ employees where a terminated employee's credentials were never revoked. The former worker retained shared admin credentials and used them to delete files, lock accounts, and corrupt a database, causing hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage and weeks of project delays. The takeaway is that unclear offboarding responsibility and unreviewed admin access enabled the sabotage.

The Register · SecuritySep 3, 07:00 UTC · 13d agoIndustry

John McCumber becomes co-chair of NICE Working Group on Training and Certifications

Help Net SecurityFeb 11, 00:00 UTC · Feb 11, 2019AI research

Risky Bulletin: White House lets private companies carry out offensive cyber ops

A White House memo directs DHS to create a program letting vetted private companies conduct US-government-directed offensive cyber operations against cybercrime.

A presidential memo tasks the DHS National Coordination Center with building a program, under DOJ and DHS oversight, through which private-sector companies can conduct offensive cyber operations against large-scale cybercrime organizations. Requirements include secure facilities, vetted personnel, a $1 million escrow for damages, and written approvals co-signed by DHS and DOJ executive directors. The program must launch within 60 days, around October 11, expanding a March executive order targeting scam compounds, ransomware, and other large-scale cybercrime.

Risky Business NewsAug 14, 04:42 UTC · Aug 14, 2026Policy & legal

Researchers built a $7 gadget for anyone paranoid about hidden cameras in hotel rooms

KAIST-led researchers built SweepLED, a sub-$7 smartphone LED clip using AI to detect hidden cameras with 93.9-95.1% accuracy.

SweepLED, built by KAIST with the National University of Singapore and Singapore Management University, clips 15 LEDs to a smartphone camera and sweeps multi-angle light while the phone films reflections. A spatio-temporal AI model compares LED-on and LED-off frames to distinguish lens reflections from glossy surfaces across three viewpoints. Testing on 30 objects, 12 with hidden cameras, achieved 93.9% accuracy handheld and 95.1% static. Core components cost under $7, targeting privacy checks in hotels and short-term rentals.

Help Net SecuritySep 3, 00:00 UTC · 13d agoResearch1

This AI entrepreneur is developing agents that can plan ahead for the unexpected

Ex-Google DeepMind researcher Danijar Hafner founded a stealth robotics startup applying world models and model-based reinforcement learning to humanoid agents.

Danijar Hafner, 31, left Google DeepMind in fall 2025 to found a stealth San Francisco startup developing humanoid robots that plan ahead using world models trained via model-based reinforcement learning. His prior work includes PlaNet, Dreamer 2 (first human-level Atari agent in a world model), Dreamer 3 (solved the Minecraft Diamond challenge), Dreamer 4 (learned diamond mining from offline video), and DayDreamer, which let robots adapt to novel situations without task-specific training. The profile covers his career from Google Brain intern to founder aiming to handle unfamiliar real-world environments.

MIT Technology Review · AISep 8, 10:34 UTC · 8d agoAI industry1

Open-Source AI & Open Models Reading List

Interconnects publishes a curated open-model reading list covering release strategy, US-China competition, adoption data, and a narrowed 4-6 month open-closed frontier gap.

The list, updated September 11, 2026, compiles essays on open-model strategy, licensing gradients, safety of open weights, adoption data, and Chinese open-source history. It notes leading open models have come from Chinese labs since roughly 2024, citing Kimi K3 and GLM-5.2/5.3, and that the open-closed gap has narrowed to roughly 4-6 months. It also documents Western adoption of Chinese models, including Perplexity's use of DeepSeek R1 and Thomson Reuters moving to Qwen, which has drawn lawmaker probes at DoorDash, Airbnb, Anysphere/Cursor, and Apple.

InterconnectsSep 11, 12:36 UTC · 4d agoAI industry1

Unsolved Problem by Fields Medalist Breached by Two High School Students

Two high school students used Claude Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol to help solve an open Lorentzian polynomials problem, posting a 75-page arXiv proof.

Aayush Bathija and Prince Rohatgi of Oak Park High School, mentored by UCLA postdoc Daniel Soskin, published the 75-page paper 'Bounded Ratios for Lorentzian Polynomials' (arXiv 2609.05341), solving an open problem in Fields Medalist June Huh's Lorentzian polynomial theory. The main structural theorem extends bounded coefficient-ratio characterization from quadratic to arbitrary-degree polynomials via discrete convexity conditions. The students used Claude Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol for exploration and proof ideas but independently verified all arguments; the result follows an open letter from 25 Fields Medalists voicing concerns about AI's impact on mathematical rigor.

Hacker News · securitySep 14, 12:23 UTC · 2d agoAI research HN 22↑ · 19 comments