Hidden AI Backdoors: When a Trusted Model Becomes a Security Risk An AI assistant can answer questions correctly, handle routine work, and still carry a hidden instruction that changes its behavior under specific conditions. That possibility sits at the center of the supplied transcript of Security Now, episode 1100, recorded October 13, 2026. During the
An impressive AI demonstration can grab your attention. A realistic test asks a tougher question: what happens when the easy approach fails? That’s the idea behind zSecurity’s experiment comparing OpenClaw, Hermes Agent, and Agent Zero against four targets with different levels of difficulty. The hardest challenge required linking multiple security weaknesses together to achieve remote
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Guide to Ethical Hacking: How Legal Penetration Testing Actually Works Ethical hacking is the disciplined practice of finding security weaknesses with explicit permission, then translating those findings into fixes a business can ship. This guide walks through the real workflow—authorization, scoping, recon, testing, exploitation-with-restraint, reporting, and remediation—so you can understand what “good” looks like and
