UK Finance Sector Puts Cyber Defences to the Test in National Hackathon

Over the course of two days (April 27-28), banks, fintech companies, technology providers, and regulators from across the UK financial ecosystem came together for a cybersecurity competition designed to test real-world readiness, decision-making under pressure, and the ability to defend critical financial infrastructure against sophisticated attacks. Hosted by Lloyds Banking Group, Hack The Box, and […]

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May 6, 2026
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Lessons from the PocketOS Incident: When AI Agents Go Beyond Their Limits

The reported PocketOS incident, in which an AI agent deleted a live production database and its backups in a matter of seconds, has quickly become a defining moment in the conversation around autonomous systems in enterprise environments. An AI-powered coding or operations agent, operating with legitimate access via API tokens, encountered what it interpreted as […]

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May 1, 2026
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