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Adaptive Security Leadership in an Expanding Threat Surface

Last week I joined fellow security leaders at CISO Inspire Summit North for a panel discussion on The Expanding Threat Surface: Adaptive Security Leadership for 2026 and Beyond. It was a timely discussion, because the challenge facing security leaders today is not simply more threats. It is more connections, more dependencies, and more complexity. Suppliers, SaaS, identities, automation…

Tech giants launch AI-powered ‘Project Glasswing’ to identify critical software vulnerabilities

Major technology companies have joined forces in an effort to use advanced artificial intelligence to identify and address security flaws in the world’s most critical software systems, marking a significant shift in how the industry approaches cybersecurity threats. Anthropic announced Project Glasswing on Tuesday, bringing together Amazon, Apple, Broadcom, Cisco, CrowdStrike, the Linux Foundation, Microsoft,…

Feds Disrupt IoT Botnets Behind Huge DDoS Attacks

The U.S. Justice Department joined authorities in Canada and Germany in dismantling the online infrastructure behind four highly disruptive botnets that compromised more than three million Internet of Things (IoT) devices, such as routers and web cameras. The feds say the four botnets — named Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid and Mossad — are responsible for a…

Inside the mob’s million-dollar poker hack, and a Formula 1 fumble

Basketball stars have allegedly joined forces with the mafia to fleece high-rollers in a poker scam involving hacked shufflers, covert cameras, and an X-ray card table. Meanwhile, researchers have found they could poke around an FIA driver portal to pull up the personal details of Formula 1 megastars. Plus: Graham’s “Pick of the Week” turns…

Insteon’s Surprise Failure Highlights the Problems with Smart Home Tech

This week, Insteon joined a growing number of failed Smart Home companies that died ignoble deaths. In this latest case there was little or no warning, they just shut down and the apps stopped working. Smart home products were pioneered by X-10 back in the 1970s and the company is apparently still around. These companies…