Mollick: WeWorm demo and Hugging Face incident show no company is worried enough about cybersecurity
emollick · x · 2026-09-09
Ethan Mollick argues it's increasingly clear that however worried your company is about the cybersecurity environment, it isn't worried enough.
Two recent cases back this up: the WeWorm demonstration shows how effective bad actors can be, while the Hugging Face incident proves you don't even need bad actors for things to go wrong.
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