For nearly two decades, cybersecurity leaders have faced the same reality: No matter how catastrophic the latest breach, ransomware attack, or nation-state intrusion, security spending often struggled against competition with every other business priority. AI may finally be changing that equation. The rapid emergence of frontier AI systems capable of autonomous cyber operations — combined…
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AI may finally unlock the cyber budgets CISOs have wanted for years
For nearly two decades, cybersecurity leaders have faced the same reality: No matter how catastrophic the latest breach, ransomware attack, or nation-state intrusion, security spending often struggled against competition with every other business priority. AI may finally be changing that equation. The rapid emergence of frontier AI systems capable of autonomous cyber operations — combined…
AI, Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Global Security News, Risk Management
AI may finally unlock the cyber budgets CISOs have wanted for years
For nearly two decades, cybersecurity leaders have faced the same reality: No matter how catastrophic the latest breach, ransomware attack, or nation-state intrusion, security spending often struggled against competition with every other business priority. AI may finally be changing that equation. The rapid emergence of frontier AI systems capable of autonomous cyber operations — combined…
AI, Compliance, Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Endpoint, Exploits, Global Security News, Network Security, Risk Management
What the industrialization of exploitation means for defenders
For decades, cybersecurity was a battle of skill. Elite attackers versus elite defenders. The rules of engagement were understood, even if the playing field wasn’t level. If you hired better analysts and bought better tools, hopefully you hardened your systems well enough and built detection capabilities that wore out the adversary’s patience. That era is…
AI, Compliance, Data Breaches, Data Security, Global Security News, Network Security, Risk Management
GUEST ESSAY: AI pipelines are shattering network security — most companies haven’t even noticed yet
For the past two decades, enterprise security teams have gotten good at one thing: keeping sensitive data where it belongs. Related: Leaked secrets no. 1 exposure Production data stays in production. Test environments get masked or synthetic data. Access is controlled. Ownership is defined. The system, while imperfect, largely works. Then AI arrived — and…
AI, Data Breaches, Global Security News
Looking Back, Looking Forward: Digesting a Dynamic Bouillabaisse of Cyber Evolution
Dark Reading editors reflect on two decades of dramatic change — from perimeter defense to assume-breach strategies — and warn that while AI, cloud, and COVID-19 have transformed the threat landscape, organizations are still failing at fundamental security hygiene that could stop sophisticated attacks in their tracks.
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How the Story of a USB Penetration Test Went Viral
Two decades ago Dark Reading posted its first blockbuster — a story from a pen tester who sprinkled rigged thumb drives around a credit union parking lot and let curious employees do the rest. This episode looks back at the history-making column with its author Steve Stasiukonis, Dark Reading senior editor Becky Bracken, and Dark…
AI, Global Security News, Risk Management
We Scanned 1 Million Exposed AI Services. Here’s How Bad the Security Actually Is
While the software industry has made genuine strides over the past few decades to deliver products securely, the furious pace of AI adoption is putting that progress at risk. Businesses are moving fast to self-host LLM infrastructure, drawn by the promise of AI as a force multiplier and the pressure to deliver more value faster.…
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Berkshire Has a Website From the ’90s and Buffett Fans Say Don’t Mess With It
The conglomerate’s home page looks like it hasn’t been updated in decades. If the new CEO tries to change it, he might have a problem.
Global Security News, Government & Policy
Washington Rewrites the Rules of Funding Technological Innovation
For decades, the federal government supported basic scientific research. The Trump administration is trying to change that.
Global Security News, Network Security, privacy
Product showcase: Session, a messenger without phone numbers or metadata
Instant messaging has been around for decades, but it became widely adopted with the emergence of smartphones. Earlier, communication was limited to basic text messages. Messaging expanded to include photos, videos, and video calls without relying on telecom networks, as long as there is a reliable data connection. Privacy and metadata concerns With the growth…
AI, Exploits, Global Security News, malware, Risk Management
Hackers have been exploiting an unpatched Adobe Reader vulnerability for months
Adobe Reader vulnerabilities have been exploited for decades by threat actors taking advantage of the universal use of the utility to fool employees into downloading infected PDF documents through phishing lures. Now a security researcher says a Reader hole has been quietly exploited by malware for as long as four months, fingerprinting computers to gather…
AI, Global Security News, privacy, Venture
Chrome, Vivaldi, and the challenge of changing browsers
Ahem: My fellow Android-appreciating organisms — I’ve got a confession. After the better part of two decades of personally using Google’s Chrome browser on both Android and every desktop computer I own, I’ve made the leap into the arms of a shiny new web-weaving seductress. Her name is Vivaldi. Yes, it feels like a mildly…
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iTWire TV: TrendAI’s ANZ Field CISO on why Australian enterprises can’t wait to be “100% ready” for AI
GUEST INTERVIEW: Trend Micro has been around for nearly four decades. Now it’s got a new enterprise identity, TrendAI, and a new mandate: help organisations adopt AI without blowing themselves up in the process.
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VIDEO INTERVIEW: TrendAI’s ANZ Field CISO on why Australian enterprises can’t wait to be “100% ready” for AI
GUEST INTERVIEW: Trend Micro has been around for nearly 4 decades. Now it’s got a new enterprise identity, TrendAI, and a new mandate: help organisations adopt AI without blowing themselves up in the process.
AI, Exploits, Global Security News
Anthropic’s new AI model finds and exploits zero-days across every major OS and browser
Automated vulnerability discovery tools have existed for decades, and the gap between finding a bug and building a working exploit has always slowed attackers. That gap is now substantially narrower. Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview, a new general-purpose language model being made available only to a limited group of critical industry partners and open source developers,…
AI, Apps, Cloud Security, Compliance, Cybersecurity, Exploits, Global Security News, Network Security, Risk Management
Building AI defenses at scale: Before the threats emerge
At AWS, we’ve spent decades developing processes and tools that enable us to defend millions of customers simultaneously, wherever they operate around the world. Every day, our security and threat intelligence teams are doing work with AI and automation that most people never see. Our AI-powered log analysis system has reduced the time SecOps engineers…
AI, Cybersecurity, Exploits, Global Security News, Government & Policy, Network Security, Risk Management
The rise of proactive cyber: Why defense is no longer enough
For more than two decades, cybersecurity has been built on a reactive model: detect intrusions, patch vulnerabilities, respond to incidents, and repeat. That model is now under sustained pressure from a threat environment that is faster, more coordinated, and increasingly automated. Two recent developments illustrate how quickly that model is breaking down. Earlier this month,…
Global Security News, Risk Management
Cashflow-Driven Scores vs. Traditional Credit Scores
Credit scoring is going through an important shift. For decades, lenders leaned on the same basic logic. Look at a person’s borrowing history, measure past repayment behavior, and turn that record into a three-digit summary of risk. That system brought speed and consistency to lending, but it also left obvious gaps. A borrower can pay…
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The Epic 50-Year Story of Apple, Told Through the WSJ Archive
See the headlines from decades of coverage that chronicle the evolution of an American icon
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Building a flexible contractor workforce: strategies that work
PAXUS RESEARCH: For decades, flexibility in the workplace was seen as a perk. In 2026, it’s a business necessity.
AI, Apps, Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Data Security, Endpoint, Global Security News, Government & Policy, Risk Management
It’s time to get serious about post-quantum security. Here’s where to start.
After decades of development, quantum computing is now becoming increasingly available for advanced scientific and commercial use. The potential marvels range from accelerating drug discovery and materials science, to optimizing complex logistics and financial modeling. But there’s a paradox to this trend: Quantum computing also poses a growing threat to data security. The risk is…
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iTWire TV: 62% of Enterprise AI Projects Are Stuck in Limbo. Riverbed’s CIO Knows Why.
GUEST INTERVIEW: Fernando Castanheira has decades of experience buying and selling technology. He’s got a clear-eyed view of why most AI initiatives never escape the lab.
AI, Apps, Data Breaches, Exploits, Global Security News, Network Security, Risk Management
Why access decisions are becoming the weakest link in identity security
In my nearly two decades leading identity and risk programs, I’ve learned a sobering truth that every CISO eventually confronts: hackers don’t hack in — they log in. We often obsess over the perimeter and the sophistication of technical exploits, but many of the most damaging security failures I’ve witnessed didn’t involve a zero-day or…
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AI’s Rapid Rise: Cybersecurity and Lifestyle Changes
Artificial intelligence has changed so much. A few decades ago, we thought AI would mean having moving robots around the house. Few of us accurately imagined what the reality would be (robot vacuum cleaners aside).
AI, Apps, Global Security News, Risk Management
Out of the Shadows: How to Safely Migrate Data for AI Deployments
Roughly two decades ago, organizational leaders began asking many questions about a watershed technology migration in the making: Should we move our data to the cloud? How much should we commit to the cloud? Could our employees use the cloud without IT’s approval? From Cloud Migration to AI Migration Today, another massive migration is underway,…
AI, Apps, Global Security News
Rimini Street pivots beyond third-party support, betting on agentic AI for ERP innovation
Rimini Street has spent nearly two decades building a formidable reputation as a leading provider of third-party enterprise software support. Now, according to Chief Revenue Officer Steve Hershkowitz, the company is repositioning itself as the global leader in independent third-party support for enterprise software applications.
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Rimini Street pivots beyond third-party support, betting on agentic AI for ERP innovation
Rimini Street has spent nearly two decades building a formidable reputation as a leading provider of third-party enterprise software support. Now, according to Chief Revenue Officer Steve Hershkowitz, the company is repositioning itself as the global leader in independent third-party support for enterprise software applications.
AI, Global Security News, Government & Policy
As Apple’s Cook bows to Trump, Microsoft’s Nadella quietly refuses
Microsoft and Apple have for decades been seen as the Yin and Yang of the tech world, with Microsoft’s products portrayed as being for buttoned-corporate drones, while Apple’s were for the truth seekers and rebels — the people willing to stand up to those in power. Those cliches reflected the way the company’s founders and…
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Intel’s Fab Moves in Europe Could Change Chip Industry
For much of the last two decades, the microprocessor market has been defined by companies divorcing themselves from manufacturing to focus solely on design and sales. But since the pandemic, and now the war in Ukraine, it has become clear that this business model puts too much manufacturing capacity in Asia and creates huge supply…
AI, APAC, china, Cybersecurity, Europe, Funding, Global Security News, Government & Policy, Russia
Intel’s Fab Moves in Europe Could Change Chip Industry
For much of the last two decades, the microprocessor market has been defined by companies divorcing themselves from manufacturing to focus solely on design and sales. But since the pandemic, and now the war in Ukraine, it has become clear that this business model puts too much manufacturing capacity in Asia and creates huge supply…