Digital executive protection: agentic powered External identity security. This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine. Sausalito, Calif. - Sep. 11, 2026 External identity is the personal data of executives, employees, and their families that attackers can find and exploit outside company systems. VanishID is tackling that exposure across the entire workforce. They've also partnered with outtake, a developer of agents that find the impersonations and scams already targeting those people. Matt Polack, founder and CEO at VanishID sat down with Alex Dhillon, CEO at outtake, for a fireside chat during Black Hat USA 2026 in Las Vegas. "It's the wild west," says Polack, on the AI era, and the victims aren't so obvious. "People often think that the CEO in the corner office is the biggest target," but usually it's high value personnel on the periphy with privileged access to critical apps and data. C-suite executives are definitely targets. But an attacker may find the executive assistant to the CFO on LinkedIn or elsewhere on social media, and that person is the exploit. Cybercriminals are bypassing security controls using exposed employee identity data, and AI is accelerating the problem at a rate never seen before. VanishID is promising an agentic powered control built to close this gap. Cybercrime Magazine is Page ONE for Cybersecurity. Go to any of our sections to read the latest: * SCAM. The latest schemes, frauds, and social engineering attacks being launched on consumers globally. * NEWS. Breaking coverage on cyberattacks and data breaches, and the most recent privacy and security stories. * HACK. Another organization gets hacked every day. We tell you who, what, where, when, and why. * VC. Cybersecurity venture capital deal flow with the latest investment activity from various sources around the world. * M&A. Cybersecurity mergers and acquisitions including big tech, pure cyber, product vendors and professional services. * BLOG. What's happening at Cybercrime Magazine. Plus the stories that don't make headlines (but maybe they should). * PRESS. Cybersecurity industry news and press releases in real time from the editors at Business Wire. * PODCAST. New episodes daily on the Cybercrime Magazine Podcast feature victims, law enforcement, vendors, and cybersecurity experts. * RADIO. Tune into WCYB Digital Radio at Cybercrime.Radio, the first and only round-the-clock internet radio station devoted to cybersecurity. Contact us to send story tips, feedback and suggestions, and for sponsorship opportunities and custom media productions.

VanishID returns to DEF CON 34 as Pinball Hackers village sponsor and contest builder. August 05, 2026, 12:00 GMT After its village contest earned a coveted Black Badge last year, VanishID brings its custom pinball challenge back to the Las Vegas Convention Center. LAS VEGAS, NV, UNITED STATES, August 5, 2026 / EINPresswire.com / - VanishID, the agentic AI-powered external identity protection company, will be on the floor at DEF CON 34, August 6-9 at the Las Vegas Convention Center West Hall, as a sponsor of the Pinball Hackers village and the builder of its signature pinball contest. This marks VanishID's continued investment in one of the hacker community's most hands-on villages. VanishID is a proud sponsor of the Pinball Hackers, the team that runs the village. VanishID engineers are part of the team, contributing to both the hardware and software behind the games. Last year, DEF CON designated the contest VanishID helped build as a Black Badge contest, meaning its winners earned one of the community's highest honors. A Black Badge grants the person who earns it free DEF CON admission for life, and DEF CON's organizers decide mid-conference which contests carry that status. Earning the designation in only the team's second year of participation was an honor. Out of the hundreds of contests that run across DEF CON, this one stood out for its design and the way it pulled players in. The contest is a game within a game: a custom puzzle layer built on top of a standard Stern pinball machine. Players make shots to trigger events, follow a narrative, and solve their way through a challenge that lives on the machine for the length of the conference. The build is non-destructive and fully reversible, applied on-site and removed when the event ends. VanishID is returning this year with a new challenge for the village. The team is keeping the details under wraps until players step up to the machine in Vegas. "Getting the opportunity to learn new things while building something people enjoy is a privilege, and we're thrilled that DEF CON has extended that privilege to us for another year. This community is second to none in creative spirit and we hope we can meet that standard with our contest this year," said Michael Hans, VP of Engineering at VanishID. Participants who progress far enough in the contest earn commemorative challenge coins, provided by the Pinball Hackers community. Media attending DEF CON 34 are invited to stop by the Pinball Hackers village to see the machine and meet the VanishID team. Alex Mulfinger and Michael Hans are available on-site for interviews. About VanishID VanishID is the external identity security company. Its agentic AI platform puts autonomous agents to work finding and neutralizing the exposed personal information attackers use against executives, employees, and their families. The agents hunt exposure the way an adversary would, at machine speed, across data brokers, breach dumps, the dark web, and public records. They remove what they can and mitigate residual risk. Onboarding takes a name and a corporate email, with no lift for the security team. The platform never trains on personal data and is SOC 2 Type II certified. More than 100 organizations rely on VanishID, from Fortune 500 enterprises and financial institutions to health systems and public sector agencies. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, VanishID is backed by Dell Technologies Capital, Crosslink Capital, Rally Ventures, Energy Impact Partners, Bright Pixel, LockStep Ventures, and strategic angels including former Palo Alto Networks CEO Mark McLaughlin and former Mandiant CPO Christopher Key. Legal Disclaimer: EIN Presswire provides this news content "as is" without warranty of any kind. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for the accuracy, content, images, videos, licenses, completeness, legality, or reliability of the information contained in this article. If you have any complaints or copyright issues related to this article, kindly contact the author above. You just read: August 05, 2026, 12:00 GMT EIN Presswire's priority is author transparency. We do our best to weed out false and misleading content. The content above is the sole responsibility of the author who makes it available. If you have any complaints, kindly contact the author above. Marketing at VanishID