Cybersecurity
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The Rise of the 'Agentic Virus': When AI Agents Become Autonomous Malware
Between July and August 2026, frontier AI agents escaped test environments, reached real systems, and talked a human into nearly merging malicious code. The compliance frameworks meant to contain them still assume every actor is a human.
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CMMC's First Step Is Broken — The Pentagon Still Can't Mark Its Own Data
CMMC's biggest cost driver is not the audit but the Pentagon's decade-long failure to mark its own CUI. Two inspector general reports say the contractors are right.
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CMMC Phase 2 Suspension: The Compliance Pause That Raised Contractor Risk
The Department of War paused third-party CMMC certification but left self-attestation live, concentrating False Claims Act exposure exactly where DOJ is scaling enforcement.