A smart TV makes an almost perfect proxy. It is always plugged in, always on a high-speed connection, sitting on standby around the clock, rarely watched, unmanaged, with no one...
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There’s no question that AI has transformed healthcare research and completely changed the trajectory of the healthcare industry. What would have taken researchers months to uncover even just a decade ago can...
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National Emergency Declaration for Grid Security White House released Executive Order 14420, which targets security risks within the nation’s bulk-power system. Invoking the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, the administration...
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Cybersecurity has spent decades focused on the human adversary. We built models for nation-state actors, cybercriminal gangs, insiders, access brokers, ransomware affiliates, and fraud operators. We mapped their Tactics, Techniques,...
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When AI Breaks Out of the Sandbox What Happens When AI Escapes? AI assistants are gaining unprecedented access to the inner workings of businesses, but that trust comes with one...
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Giving AI Freedom Without Losing Control Who’s Really in Control? AI agents are stepping into a bigger role inside the enterprise. They are not just providing answers anymore. They are...
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The Foundation Operation Jackal INTERPOL has been spearheading a continuing, multi-year international law enforcement effort known as Operation Jackal to destroy West African organized crime syndicates, including the worldwide network...
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Security teams are entering a period where many of the assumptions that shaped modern cybersecurity programs no longer hold the way they once did. Until recently, the security industry has...
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Cross-Platform Passkey Integration Meta revealed a major security upgrade for WhatsApp on August 25, 2026, which increases passkey support and enables users to create numerous passkeys for a single account....
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The Migration Nobody Plans For — Until It’s Too Late Most enterprise security teams treat Network Access Control as infrastructure — stable, durable, unglamorous. Honestly, it’s the kind of system...
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Widespread Infrastructure Breaches and Novel AI Threats Several significant security breaches and new exploitation patterns are highlighted in the Check Point Research threat bulletin, which was released on August 24,...
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HKCERT Bulletin Overview On August 24, 2026, the Hong Kong Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center (HKCERT) published security notice S26-0824-01, warning businesses of a number of Zimbra Collaboration Suite...
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Every few weeks I talk to a security leader who tells me they have shadow AI in progress. They wrote an acceptable use policy. They published a list of approved...
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For decades, cybersecurity strategies have been built around a single objective: preventing attacks. Organizations invested heavily in perimeter defenses, endpoint security, identity controls, and threat detection technologies with the expectation...
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Cybersecurity leaders are dealing with a threat landscape where disruption spreads quickly across systems, vendors, and business operations. AI is accelerating how quickly attackers identify and exploit weaknesses, while identity-based...
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Most organizations think they’ve solved the data sensitivity problem. AvePoint’s research says otherwise. In the company’s third annual State of AI Report, 82.7% of organizations said they were “very” or...
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Sysdig is acknowledging the fact that CISOs don’t have time to click through a dashboard anymore. Conor Sherman, the company’s Global CISO, argues the next era of cloud security has...
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Enterprise cybersecurity is undergoing a structural shift driven by two converging forces: the collapse of traditional network perimeters and the rapid weaponization of artificial intelligence by threat actors. Industry research...
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OAuth Exploitation Russian threat actors are shifting away from plain old password theft and moving toward legitimate platform features like OAuth permissions. Groups like UNC6293 and UNC7005 take their time...
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NIST’s New Guide for AI and CSF 2.0 NIST recently released a new draft, SP 1353, that acts as a practical guide for using AI alongside the Cybersecurity Framework 2.0....
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