October 2026 Was a Tough Month for Cybersecurity. Is AI Changing the Game?
31 October 2026
October 2026 saw major cyberattacks, data breaches and critical vulnerabilities. A personal look at the incidents and AI's growing role in cybersecurity.
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Can AI Agents Hide Backdoors? Anthropic Research Reveals a New Data Poisoning Threat
29 October 2026
New Anthropic-linked research shows how poisoning just 0.1% of AI training data can create hidden backdoors in coding agents that survive clean training.
I Left PHP Behind a Decade Ago. AI Just Gave Me a Reason to Revisit It
26 October 2026
PHP brought back memories of early web development in 2026, when AI-assisted researchers uncovered two critical RCE vulnerabilities hidden for years.
Can AI Finally Replace COBOL? Why Banks May Be Closer to Escaping Legacy Systems
25 October 2026
OpenAI and Anthropic are making COBOL migration easier with AI. Could banks finally modernise decades-old systems without the enormous costs and risks?
AI Distillation Attacks Explained - Why Anthropic Is Taking Model Theft Seriously
14 October 2026
Anthropic's September 2026 report reveals large-scale AI distillation attacks. Learn how model extraction works and why it raises security concerns.