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Scottish man pleads guilty to attack spree that created Scattered Spider’s notoriety

A core leader of the hacker subset of The Com responsible for a series of high-profile phishing attacks and cryptocurrency thefts from September 2021 to April 2023 pleaded guilty to federal charges, the Justice Department said Friday.  Tyler Robert Buchanan of Dundee, Scotland, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.…

Keepit: Outages Fail to Drive Recovery Testing Gains

High-profile global outages aren’t changing how organizations prepare for disruption, according to new research from Keepit. The company’s 2026 Annual Data Report finds that even widely publicized cloud and security incidents have not led to increased recovery testing, exposing a persistent gap between risk awareness and operational readiness, especially among SMBs. Major outages fail to…

Anthropic AI ultimatums and IP theft: The unspoken risk

Two recent high-profile events concerning Anthropic’s Claude AI underscore a little-discussed risk at the heart of the enterprise’s rush to capitalize on leading AI capabilities. The first incident involved a China-based extraction campaign against Anthropic’s intellectual property. The second was the Trump administration’s banning of Claude for federal use after the company resisted US demands…

Substack data breach leaks users’ email addresses and phone numbers

Substack, a high-profile publishing platform widely used by academics, journalists, subject matter experts, and controversialists, has suffered a data breach affecting an unknown number of its creators and subscribers. According to emails sent out this week to some users, on February 3 the company “identified evidence” that a third party had exploited an unspecified weakness…

Why boards should be obsessed with their most ‘boring’ systems

Following a series of high-profile cyberattacks, boards of directors are now requiring their organizations to take greater responsibility for the risks posed by enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems pose after a series of high-profile cyberattacks. The Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), incident in Sept. 2025 illustrates the severe consequences of such attacks. The cyberattack forced JLR…

Best Internet Security Software

After more than a year of high-profile cyber attacks and now the threat of cyber war, businesses and even consumers are taking cybersecurity seriously. Regardless of size or sector, every company is a potential target, and cybercrime will only grow as data becomes more valuable. In light of these risks, organizations need to reevaluate their…

Best Internet Security Software

After more than a year of high-profile cyber attacks and now the threat of cyber war, businesses and even consumers are taking cybersecurity seriously. Regardless of size or sector, every company is a potential target, and cybercrime will only grow as data becomes more valuable. In light of these risks, organizations need to reevaluate their…