Despite years of investment in vulnerability scanning and shift-left security practices, known vulnerabilities continue to drive production security incidents, according to the Cloud Security Alliance’s 2026 State of Modern Application & AI Security Report. As AI accelerates both vulnerability discovery and exploit development, organizations are facing increasing pressure to reduce exposure windows before attackers can…
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AI, Global Security News
China’s Chip Ambitions Run Into a Global Tech Wall
Plus, Huawei will likely trail rivals by six to eight years by 2031 despite its innovations.
Global Security News
AI Has Made Memory Chips More Valuable Than Oil
Micron, Samsung and SK Hynix are cheap despite their $1 trillion valuations if long-term contracts stabilize the sector.
AI, Compliance, Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Global Security News, malware, Risk Management
7 tips for accelerating cyber incident recovery
Despite strong and redundant defenses, enterprises remain vulnerable to a wide range of cyberattacks. And because attacks — and cyber incidents — are inevitable, developing an incident response and recovery process that’s quick, comprehensive, and coordinated is essential. Expediting incident recovery time is critical because the longer an outage persists, the more costs, risk, and business…
Global Security News
White House Opposes Anthropic’s Plan to Expand Access to Mythos Model
The relationship between the administration and the company is still complicated despite efforts from both sides to ease tensions.
AI, Cybersecurity, Exploits, Funding, Global Security News, Government & Policy, Network Security, Risk Management
The US NSA is using Anthropic’s Claude Mythos despite supply chain risk
Axios reports the National Security Agency uses Anthropic Mythos model despite Department of Defense concerns, blurring AI risk vs defense lines. The reported use of Anthropic’s Mythos model by the U.S. National Security Agency is a reminder that the line between AI as a defensive tool and AI as a security risk is getting harder…
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Apple worst, Asus best for laptop repairability
Broken laptops are not becoming easier to fix, despite the availability of public data about their repairability and growing support for right-to-repair legislation. That’s according to US PIRG Education Fund, a consumer protection nonprofit. Its fifth annual Failing to Fix survey found Asus to be the most repairable laptop brand — although its score dropped…
Global Security News, Government & Policy
Intermediaries Driving Global Spyware Market Expansion
Third-party resellers and brokers foil transparency efforts and allow spyware to spread despite government restrictions, a study finds.
Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Global Security News
Enterprise Security in 2026: Why Most Organizations Are Still Getting It Wrong
Enterprise security has never been more urgent — or more misunderstood. Despite ballooning security budgets, the average cost of a data breach hit a record high in 2024, and the trend hasn’t reversed. Organizations are spending more on tools than ever before, yet the breaches keep coming. The uncomfortable truth? Spending more isn’t the problem.…
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Why enterprise AI adoption still fails to scale
GUEST OPINION: Despite billions invested in enterprise AI, many organisations still struggle to move beyond experimentation and deploy AI at scale. The challenge is rarely the algorithms themselves, but the data infrastructure, governance frameworks, and organisational alignment required for enterprise deployment.
AI, Global Security News, malware
3 Android theft protection additions you should absolutely activate
BRRRRRRRRRREAKING NEWS, y’all: Despite what the internet’s many misleading headlines may lead you to believe, Android security (gasp!) isn’t actually all that scary. You know that by now, right? Any reasonably recent Android device has layers upon layers of built-in protection. You’ve got mountains of Android security settings standing by and waiting to protect you…
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Ransomware Payments Decline 8% as Attacks Surge 50%
Chainalysis reveals a big surge in median ransomware payment size in 2025 despite overall drop in criminal revenue
AI, Cybersecurity, Global Security News, privacy, Risk Management
It’s time to rethink CISO reporting lines
Despite inroads in the C-suite and rising prominence across the business at large, security leaders are still more likely to operate at a remove from the organization’s executive leadership when it comes to reporting structures. According to IANS Research and Artico Search’s 2026 State of the CISO Benchmark Report, 64% of CISOs still report into…
AI, Apps, Compliance, Cybersecurity, Global Security News, Risk Management
AI FOMO: How Pressure to Adopt AI is Outpacing Understanding
AI – or large language models (LLMs) – is introducing new attack surfaces, despite the new capabilities that the technology promises. The new threats it is introducing, including prompt injection, deepfakes, and alignment risks, are huge security concerns at a strategic level. AI FOMO is driving enterprise adoption before risk mitigation At the Genetec Global…