The cyber insurance industry has made relatively weak inroads into Asia due to a a variety of factors, but that could be changing.
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ThreatsDay Bulletin: Claude Security Plugin, Azure Priv-Esc, Kali365 MFA Bypass, FIFA Scams +15 More
Every time you think the industry has finally stopped doing some reckless, low-effort crap, somebody spins up a fresh box full of sketchy loaders, fake installers, recycled social-engineering bait, and enough exposed infrastructure to make you wonder if prod is just a public beta now – meanwhile some researcher casually drops a technique that turns…
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Cybersecurity Evolution: How We Went From Perimeter Defense to AI-Native Security
The cybersecurity industry of 2006 barely resembled today’s billion-dollar behemoth. As part of Dark Reading’s 20th anniversary celebration, we trace the industry’s evolution through a technology lens.
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Meta says goodbye to those who won’t use AI
Meta is the latest company to trim its workforce as a result of the growing use of AI within the industry. The company laid off 8,000 employees earlier this week, while also moving 7,000 more to AI-focused roles. “AI is the most consequential technology of our lifetimes,” Zuckerberg said in a memo that he sent…
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Trump Postpones AI Executive Order Due to Concerns About Overregulation
The White House had been weighing more oversight over the fast-growing industry.
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Agent AI is Coming. Are You Ready?
New Industry Data Just Released Suggests Not. On May 19th, 2026, Orchid Security released the results of our Identity Gap: Snapshot 2026. Among the findings, “identity dark matter” (the unseen, unmanaged elements of identity) now overshadows the visible elements 57% vs. 43%. And it couldn’t have occurred at a worse time, with enterprises embracing Agent…
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A $50 Million Rocket Deal Fueled by Trump’s Hypersonic Dreams
The deal reflects a wave of change reshaping the aerospace industry as the Pentagon and venture-capital firms warm to startups.
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Q&A: AI Ushers in a New Era in MSP Service Efficiency
The managed services industry is under increasing pressure to scale operations, improve response times, and maintain profitability without continuously adding headcount. For many MSPs, the challenge lies in the operational burden that is created by workflows that still depend heavily on human coordination at nearly every stage of the service desk process. According to Mark…
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AI Chip Mania Sows Seeds of Its Own Destruction
Investors already factor in cyclicality in the chip industry. The bad news is that they’ve frequently gotten their assessments wrong.
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Introducing the updated AWS User Guide to Governance, Risk, and Compliance for Responsible AI Adoption
The financial services industry (FSI) is using AI to transform how financial institutions serve their customers. AI solutions can help proactively manage portfolios, automatically refinance mortgages when rates decrease, and negotiate insurance premiums for customers. However, this adoption brings new governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) considerations that organizations need to address. To help FSI customers…
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PCI PIN and P2PE compliance packages for AWS Payment Cryptography are now available
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce the successful completion of Payment Card Industry Personal Identification Number (PCI PIN) and PCI Point-to-Point Encryption (PCI P2PE) assessments for the AWS Payment Cryptography service. This assessment expands the AWS Payment Cryptography compliance portfolio, with AWS now validated as a component provider for Key Management (KMCP) and…
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The Tech Jobs That Are Safe From AI
Tech industry layoffs keep coming but there’s still a market for higher-grade talent to harness AI agents.
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LW ROUNDTABLE: Microsoft Edge normalizes credential exposure — security pros push back
By design. Two words that have done an awful lot of heavy lifting in the cybersecurity industry over the years. They tend to surface whenever a vendor wants to wave off a serious finding without fixing it. Related: The unending password problem Microsoft just deployed them again. This time in response to a Norwegian researcher…
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FIRESIDE CHAT: Cyber insurers deepen SMB security role as supply chain attacks spread
The cyber insurance industry set out to manage financial risk. Along the way, it has quietly became the security operations provider for a significant share of American small businesses. An $11 billion acquisition agreement announced earlier this year suggests it intends to stay in that role. Related: No easy AI security fixes I sat down…
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AI security is repeating endpoint security’s biggest mistake
The security industry is experiencing déjà vu, and most teams haven’t recognized it yet. If you were in the trenches during the early 2000s, you remember the antivirus arms race. IT teams buried under signature updates. Configuration baselines checked obsessively. Patch cycles treated as the primary defense. Meanwhile, attackers pivoted. They wrote malware that matched…
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AI Agents Are Creating a New Cybersecurity Blind Spot
The cybersecurity industry has spent years focusing on visibility. Dashboards expanded. Detection tooling improved. Telemetry volumes exploded. Yet one of the biggest emerging risks in 2026 is not hidden malware or an unknown zero-day. It is the rapid deployment of AI agents that organisations barely understand, cannot fully inventory, and often cannot meaningfully govern. AI…
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May 2026 Patch Tuesday forecast: AI starts driving security industry changes
Project Glasswing. This is one of three major security industry changes I’ll cover today. The Anthropic Mythos vulnerability discovery model has already proven to be game changing in its ability to identify new vulnerabilities in software. Many of these vulnerabilities have existed for 10 to 15 years without human discovery. In a recent announcement from…
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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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Musk Warns of Killer AI — While He and the Rest of Silicon Valley Cash In on AI That Kills
The bitter courtroom brawl between Elon Musk and Sam Altman captivating the tech industry this week revolves in no small part around fears that artificial intelligence technologies both men are building could spiral out of control and exterminate humanity. Such far-looking scenarios obscure the fact that tech companies are enlisting to kill today. Musk’s break…
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If AI’s So Smart, Why Does It Keep Deleting Production Databases?
The issue isn’t artificial intelligence, but rather an industry adding AI agent integrations into production environments before proper security testing.
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FBI links cybercriminals to sharp surge in cargo theft attacks
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warned the transportation and logistics industry of a sharp rise in cyber-enabled cargo theft, with estimated losses in the United States and Canada reaching nearly $725 million in 2025. […]
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Stopping AiTM attacks: The defenses that actually work after authentication succeeds
The security industry has spent years building better authentication. Longer passwords, second factors, hardware tokens. And attackers responded by moving past authentication entirely. Adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) phishing does not steal credentials and replay them. It sits between the user and the legitimate service, watches a real authentication succeed in real time, and walks away with the…
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New Industry Event Adopts Rising Tide Approach To MSP Sector
EVENT: In a turnaround from traditional vendor‑led events, a new industry Conference called Catalyst delivered by (mostly) MSPs for MSPs, IT service providers and IT leaders, is set to launch in Sydney on Wednesday June 3, 2026.
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No Exploit Needed: How Attackers Walk Through the Front Door via Identity-Based Attacks
The cybersecurity industry has spent the last several years chasing sophisticated threats like zero-days, supply chain compromises, and AI-generated exploits. However, the most reliable entry point for attackers still hasn’t changed: stolen credentials. Identity-based attacks remain a dominant initial access vector in breaches today. Attackers obtain valid credentials through credential stuffing
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AI opportunity is clear for Australia’s architecture, engineering, and construction yet the sector is struggling to govern it
GUEST OPINION: Australia’s architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry is not struggling to find uses for artificial intelligence (AI); it is grappling with how to govern it.
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How NIST’s Cutback of CVE Handling Impacts Cyber Teams
Industry and ad hoc coalitions appear poised to help fill the gap created by NIST’s decision to cut back on CVE data enrichment.
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AI Is Finding Bugs That Hackers Can Exploit. Get Ready for Bugmageddon.
The White House and industry leaders are racing to fix vulnerabilities, which AI models such as Anthropic’s Mythos can discover with frightening speed.
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Quantum Threats Move from Theory to Reality as ‘Harvest Now, Decrypt Later’ Attacks Rise
Cybersecurity leaders are being urged to rethink long-held assumptions about encryption as the industry marks World Quantum Day, with experts warning that the risks posed by quantum computing are no longer a distant concern.
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Cloudflare ‘actively adjusting’ quantum priorities in wake of Google warning
Google’s accelerated post-quantum encryption deadline has spurred other leaders in the industry, including Cloudflare, to consider pushing forward their own plans. The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has set a 2030 deadline for depreciating legacy encryption algorithms ahead of their planned retirement in 2035. Late last month Google brought forward its own…
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Is compliance complexity outpacing IT capacity?
No matter the country, industry, or company size, IT and cybersecurity teams report a heavy regulatory load and worry about staying aligned with requirements Categories: Sophos Insights Tags: PRODUCTS & SERVICES, surveys, Compliance, GDPR compliance, regulatory compliance
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Is compliance complexity outpacing IT capacity?
No matter the country, industry, or company size, IT and cybersecurity teams report a heavy regulatory load and worry about staying aligned with requirements Categories: Products & Services Tags: CISO, Compliance
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Human vs AI: Debates Shape RSAC 2026 Cybersecurity Trends
As AI dominated RSAC 2026, CISOs and industry leaders debated its role in security, from agentic applications to the challenges of scaling human involvement in decision-making.
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Why hiring Aussie tech talent needs humans not AI
COMPANY NEWS: In a time in which much of the recruitment industry is moving toward automation and AI-driven candidate matching under the guise of speed and scale, Six Degrees Executive, one of Australia’s leading specialist executive recruitment agencies, is using its latest rebrand to reaffirm its commitment to human-led recruitment.
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Under the Skin of America’s Humanoid Robots: Chinese Technology
Tesla and others turn to suppliers in China for components in an industry seen as strategic by both Washington and Beijing.
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Crypto industry may be running out of time to prepare for quantum attacks
Google’s latest research suggests the cryptocurrency industry may have less time than expected to prepare for quantum computing. In a whitepaper, Google examines risks to elliptic curve cryptography, the system securing most blockchain networks. The researchers revisit earlier assumptions about how difficult it would be for a quantum computer to break these protections, concluding that…
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Why I’m done calling humans the weakest link
Cybersecurity has long suffered from a people problem, but not in the way we often hear about. As industry that is based on enabling communication across the globe via the internet and many types of devices, many of us practitioners are very bad at communicating to people. A primary example is the phrase “humans are…
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Meta the Defendant
Plus, Apple’s autocorrect fix, Sora’s untimely demise, Nvidia’s iron grip on the AI industry and the 10-year feud shaping AI’s future.
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How Organizations Can Use Blunders to Level Up Their Security Programs
The industry highlights how organizations repeatedly make common security mistakes but one session during RSAC detailed ways to avoid them.
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How the AI Boom Has Transformed the Chip Industry Into a Market Monster
Led by Nvidia, seven of world’s 25 most valuable firms hail from the semiconductor industry.
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RSA Conference: UK NCSC Head Urges Industry to Develop Vibe Coding Safeguards
The head of the UK’s NCSC is calling the cybersecurity industry to “seize the disruptive vibe coding opportunity” to make software more secure
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High-Tech Sector Overtakes Finance as Top Target for Cyber-Attacks, Mandiant Reports
High tech was the most frequently targeted industry in Mandiant investigations in 2025, overtaking financial services which led in 2023 and 2024
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The Veteran Podcasters Hanging up Their Headphones
Podcasts can run forever, but some hosts are bowing out as celebrities and YouTube dominate the industry.
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5 key priorities for your RSAC 2026 agenda
RSA Conference 2026 arrives at a significant inflection point for the cybersecurity industry — one that will see its more than 43,000 attendees and 600-plus exhibitors navigating an agenda that has fundamentally shifted in character. For the first time, “AI” is not a track at RSAC. It is the event. Of the 450-plus sessions across…
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Copilot and Claude Signal a New AI Services Market
In 2026, the conversation around AI coworkers has become a key talking point in the enterprise industry. Anthropic introduced its Claude Cowork program earlier this year, a solution that transcends traditional AI chatbots and appears capable of doing real, task-driven work on its own. Not long after, Microsoft announced its own take on an agentic…
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Datadog Strengthens A/NZ Commitment with New Channel and Alliances Leadership
COMPANY ANNOUNCEMENT: Leveraging extensive industry experience, Renee Mitsis will focus on deepening collaboration with partners and customers while helping scale Datadog’s partnership strategy across the region.
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The cyber perimeter was never dead. We just abandoned it.
Industry has comforted itself with the idea that the perimeter is dead. It is not. What happened is far worse. We ignored the edge, let unsupported hardware decay in place, and effectively donated our perimeter to adversaries who were more than willing to accept it. The FBI’s Winter SHIELD effort is the operational side of…
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Does Anthropic deserve the trust of the cybersecurity community?
The cybersecurity industry runs on trust. The belief that when a vendor says they will behave a certain way, they will, that critical CVEs are in fact critical, or when companies say they’re GDPR compliant, they really are. But earning trust is not a one-and-done thing. Anthropic understood this better than any AI company. As…
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Cynomi: Third-Party Risk is Untapped MSP Revenue Opportunity
Cynomi has released its latest industry guide, The Rise of Third-Party Risk Management: Securing the Modern Perimeter, offering a practical roadmap for MSPs to formalize, scale, and monetize third-party risk management (TPRM). Scaling third-party risk management According to the guide, TPRM represents the largest untapped recurring revenue opportunity for managed service providers beyond human cyber…
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How hackers bypassed MFA with a $120 phishing kit – until a global takedown shut it down
In a co-ordinated public-private operation between law enforcement agencies and cybersecurity industry partners, Tycoon 2FA – one of the world’s most prolific phishing-as-a-service platforms – has been dismantled. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
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Global Takedown Neutralizes Tycoon2FA Phishing Service
Law enforcers and industry partners have taken down notorious phishing-as-a-service platform Tycoon2FA
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Europol, Microsoft, TrendAI™ and Collaborators Halt Tycoon 2FA Operations
Tycoon 2FA was dismantled this week by law enforcement and industry partners including TrendAI™. The phishing-as-a-service platform offered MFA bypass services using adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) proxying.
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How Australian insurers are turning automation into competitive advantage
GUEST OPINION: Australia’s insurance industry has crossed a decisive threshold. For the past decade, artificial intelligence has lived at the edges of the business, mainly in pilots and innovation labs that didn’t fundamentally change workflows. However, by the end of 2025, most insurers had embraced generative AI and began actively seeking to shift early wins in key areas such as claims processing and underwriting into repeatable operational advantage.
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Forensic IT ‘strengthens forensic leadership’ with new executive GM
Digital forensics and incident response specialist, Forensic IT, has appointed industry veteran, Chris Hatfield as Executive General Manager.
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NATO approves iPhone and iPad to handle classified info
In an impressive and unique industry first that reflects the work Apple has done on mobile device security since the first iPhone arrived almost 20 years ago, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) says iPhones and iPads running iOS 26 are secure enough to handle classified information in NATO-restricted environments — pretty much out-of-the-box. That’s going…
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Datadog Finds 87% of Organisations Are Running Software With Known, Exploitable Vulnerabilities
GUEST RESEARCH: The State of DevSecOps Report 2026 highlights a broader industry shift as security risk increasingly moves upstream into the software supply chain
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Google Disrupts UNC2814 GRIDTIDE Campaign After 53 Breaches Across 42 Countries
Google on Wednesday disclosed that it worked with industry partners to disrupt the infrastructure of a suspected China-nexus cyber espionage group tracked as UNC2814 that breached at least 53 organizations across 42 countries. “This prolific, elusive actor has a long history of targeting international governments and global telecommunications organizations across Africa, Asia, and the Americas,”
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RSA mafia continues to shape the industry 44 years later
Although, as a startup founder now, I don’t get much (any?) time to look at parts of the industry unrelated to what I am building, I would still consider myself to be pretty plugged into the cybersecurity ecosystem. I have a good idea what is being discussed, what people pay attention to, and what questions…
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Micron Is Spending $200 Billion to Break the AI Memory Bottleneck
Memory chips used to be considered low-margin commodity products. Now the industry can’t make enough to satisfy data centers’ hunger.
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CISOs must separate signal from noise as CVE volume soars
In 2026, the cybersecurity industry is expected to cross a threshold it has never reached before: More than 50,000 publicly disclosed software vulnerabilities in a single year. According to a new forecast from the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST), the median projection for 2026 is roughly 59,000 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs).…
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From Ransomware to Residency: Inside the Rise of the Digital Parasite
Are ransomware and encryption still the defining signals of modern cyberattacks, or has the industry been too fixated on noise while missing a more dangerous shift happening quietly all around them? According to Picus Labs’ new Red Report 2026, which analyzed over 1.1 million malicious files and mapped 15.5 million adversarial actions observed across 2025,…
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Updated PCI PIN compliance package for AWS CloudHSM now available
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce the successful completion of Payment Card Industry Personal Identification Number (PCI PIN) audit for the AWS CloudHSM service. With CloudHSM, you can manage and access your keys on FIPS 140-3 Level 3 validated hardware, protected with customer-owned, single-tenant hardware security module (HSM) instances that run in your…
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Updated PCI PIN compliance package for AWS Payment Cryptography now available
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce the successful completion of Payment Card Industry Personal Identification Number (PCI PIN) audit for the AWS Payment Cryptography service. With AWS Payment Cryptography, your payment processing applications can use payment hardware security modules (HSMs) that are PCI PIN Transaction Security (PTS) HSM certified and fully managed by…
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Supporting Rowhammer research to protect the DRAM ecosystem
Posted by Daniel Moghimi Rowhammer is a complex class of vulnerabilities across the industry. It is a hardware vulnerability in DRAM where repeatedly accessing a row of memory can cause bit flips in adjacent rows, leading to data corruption. This can be exploited by attackers to gain unauthorized access to data, escalate privileges, or cause…