James Bower

Breaking: IBM Autonomous Security for Agentic Attacks • New IBM cybersecurity assessment identifies risks from frontier AI models capable of vulnerability discovery • IBM Autonomous Security uses AI agents to automate vulnerability remediation at machine speed This marks a significant shift in how organizations approach AI-driven cybersecurity threats. ow.ly/Kq6v50YRMYn

This is interesting.

This will be interesting.

6/8 Detection-as-code pipelines validate Sigma syntax beautifully. They don't validate whether the TTPs the rules model are still current. That's a silent failure mode. Most teams are carrying it.

5/8 This happens everywhere. Every detection library I've looked at has silent staleness: - Rules written for ATT&CK v12, deployed post-v14 - Technique descriptions changed, regex didn't - Sub-techniques split, rules only cover half

MICROSOFT BUILT A TOOL THAT CONVERTS LITERALLY ANYTHING INTO CLEAN MARKDOWN FOR YOUR LLM pdfs. word docs. excel. powerpoint. audio. youtube urls one pip install and your AI pipeline stops choking on raw files forever no custom parsers. no broken layouts. no garbled text. just clean, structured markdown your LLM can actually read github.com/microsoft/mark…

@threatinsight @proofpoint Where’s the link to the @proofpoint write up?

Researchers at @Proofpoint have uncovered a recent brute force campaign, tracked as UNK_CustomCloak, targeting the first-party app, Windows Live Custom Domains. Activity was observed from September 20th-30th, affecting nearly half a million users in over 4,000 tenants.

@criskittner This is really interesting, thanks

Forget fingerprints! These days threat actors are wearing new gloves every time. Dynamic #UserAgents are the new stealth mode #UNK_CustomCloak

A massive leak from China's Great Firewall revealed over 500 GB of internal documents, disclosing the role of Geedge Networks and MESA Lab in censorship and surveillance tech exports, raising significant implications for global digital rights. #GFWLeak gfw.report/blog/geedge_an…

Neurosymbolic AI: Bridging Neural Networks and Symbolic Reasoning for Smarter Systems netguru.com/blog/neurosymb… #aisoc #mlsec

Phish-Blitz: Advancing Phishing Detection with Comprehensive Webpage Resource Collection and Visual Integrity Preservation arxiv.org/abs/2509.08375 #arxivmlsecpapers #phishing

AI-Enhanced Intelligent NIDS Framework: Leveraging Metaheuristic Optimization for Robust Attack Detection and Prevention arxiv.org/abs/2509.00896 #arxivmlsecpapers #infosec

Time to get started!

For those starting to work with agents, understanding “agency” will be a game changer.

Mac owners don't miss this: MLX LM is now integrated directly within Hugging Face 🤯 ⬇️ Run 4,400+ LLMs locally on Apple Silicon at max speed, no cloud, no wait.

@StelahAmiel What are some of your favorites for motivation?

The best teacher in life? Hands down, it's books. 📚 They’ve got all the wisdom, lessons, and experiences you could ever need,, no deadlines, no judgments, just pure knowledge at your own pace.🔥

I’ve been doing some work in using self-reasoning agents and it’s pretty exciting. Not sure what the next level is after this.