Humans still need to be part of cyber defense, but refusing to deploy AI is no longer optional against AI-enhanced cyber threats, warns Dataminr’s Joe Slowik
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The AI pricing conundrum — it started as a nightmare, now it’s worse.
Enterprise IT leaders have always struggled with AI pricing, especially the need to pay for AI in a way that delivers ROI. But the typical IT exec may not be right person to decide how a company uses AI — and how it tries to deliver ROI — because so many line-of-business workers and partners…
AI, Global Security News, Network Security
Webinar: Too many tools are slowing network incident response
IT teams often need to jump between monitoring dashboards, infrastructure tools, ticketing systems, and communication platforms during network incidents. This webinar explores how automation and AI-assisted workflows can help reduce manual coordination and improve incident response times. […]
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Chinese APTs Share Linux Backdoor in Central Asia Telco Attacks
“Showboat” doesn’t show off, but clearly it doesn’t need to, as it’s long helped China spy on small market communications providers.
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How Parts Inventory Management Software Fixes Inventory Challenges
Why do maintenance teams struggle? Is it because they lack skills? Or do they need more advanced resources?…
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Webinar this week: Prevention alone is not enough against modern attacks
This upcoming webinar explores how organizations need to combine security, backups, and recovery planning to reduce the impact of modern cyberattacks. […]
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Sri Lanka makes 37 arrests as it raids another scam centre
You don’t need to live near a scam compound for it to wreck your life. Americans lost $5.8 billion to crypto investment scams last year alone – and a raid in Sri Lanka this month shows exactly how the operations behind them keep finding new places to hide. Read more in my article on the…
AI, Endpoint, Global Security News, Network Security
AI traffic is getting bigger, louder, and less predictable
AI workflows need storage that supports repeated movement across the model lifecycle. Large datasets are ingested, transformed, exported for training, pulled back for evaluation, and refreshed as models evolve. Backblaze’s Q1 2026 Network Stats report says this creates a shift from diffuse internet-style traffic to large, high-bandwidth flows between fewer endpoints. Monthly view of all…
AI, Compliance, Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Endpoint, Global Security News, Network Security, Risk Management
Enterprise VPN Solutions Every Business Should Know in 2026
This guide is for IT leaders, security teams, and growing businesses that need secure remote access to corporate systems. It highlights the top enterprise VPN solutions in 2026 that protect data, control access, and support reliable connectivity. Think of your enterprise network as a busy airport. Every employee, device, and data packet is trying to…
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Glasswing Secured the Code. The Rest of Your Stack Is Still on You
Forgotten integrations, shadow IT, SaaS, and now shadow AI and agents are everywhere, and attackers don’t need sophisticated AI models to take advantage.
AI, Cybersecurity, Global Security News
You’re About to See a Lot of Critical Software Updates. Don’t Ignore Them.
Anthropic’s newest, as-yet-unreleased AI model is a hacker’s dream, so here’s the cybersecurity advice you need to start taking seriously right now.
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Australian eComm Brands Risk Disappearing from AI Search, and Most Don’t Know It Yet.
AI-powered search has arrived and is here to stay, yet some are ignoring the urgent need to act quickly.
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29 million leaked secrets in 2025: Why AI agents credentials are out of control
AI agents need credentials to work. They authenticate with LLM platforms, connect to databases, call SaaS APIs, access cloud resources, and orchestrate across dozens of external services. Every integration point requires an identity. Most organizations are handling this badly, and the evidence is in the code. GitGuardian’s State of Secrets Sprawl Report found 28,649,024 new…
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Your Next Breach Will Look Like Business as Usual
These are the fundamental detection model shifts cybersecurity teams need to make to keep up with the rising number of credential-based attacks.
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Russia’s ‘Fancy Bear’ APT Continues Its Global Onslaught
Victims don’t need to match the cybercrime group’s technical sophistication, experts say. But patching and some form of zero trust are now non-negotiable.
AI, Apps, Cybersecurity, Global Security News, Risk Management
A framework for securely collecting forensic artifacts into S3 buckets
When customers experience a security incident, they need to acquire forensic artifacts to identify root cause, extract indicators of compromise (IoCs), and validate remediation efforts. NIST 800-86, Guide to Integrating Forensic Techniques into Incident Response, defines digital forensics as a process comprised of four basic phases: collection, examination, analysis, and reporting. This blog post focuses…
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AI Trainer Mercor Offers to Pay People for Prior Work—Work Employers Might Own
AI models from the tech giants constantly need new training data. This $10 billion startup is on the hunt for fresh resources.
Cybersecurity, Global Security News
Are We Training AI Too Late?
Ask the Expert: Cybersecurity teams need to expand their field of view to include new, unique threat sources, rather than relying on past, proven threat actors.
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Gigamon Extends Leadership Position in the Expanding Deep Observability Market with 51 Percent Market Share in 2025, According to New 650 Group Research Report
Surging AI traffic, evolving cyberthreats, and hybrid cloud complexity drive the need for deep observability across modern infrastructure
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Stop Chasing ‘AI-Driven.’ Start Building ‘AI-Fluent’ Teams
There’s a phrase I keep hearing in marketing circles: “We need to become AI-driven.”
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AI-Native Security Is a Must to Counter AI-Based Attacks
Attacks by artificial intelligence agents are a reality. Experts at Nvidia’s GTC conference say defenders need to use the same tools to fight them off.
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Microsoft Proposes Better Identity, Guardrails for AI Agents
Companies need better controls to manage key threats rising from the growth of agentic AI. These new features provide a starting point.
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Why Your Weather-Powered Design Tool Needs More Than Just an API Key
Weather-powered design tools need more than an API key. Learn how authentication, access control, and server-side calls keep…
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PwC US tells staff to opt out of company, not AI
PwC partners will need to embrace AI or face being replaced. The consultancy firm has made clear that it doesn’t see AI as a disruptive force and is set to amend its tax and consulting services into AI-powered automated tools, reducing the requirement for PwC US staff. PwC US CEO Paul Griggs told the Financial…
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OpenAI’s Promptfoo Deal Plugs Agentic AI Testing Gap
OpenAI’s latest acquisition addresses a security need Jamieson O’Reilly, security advisor at OpenClaw, raised during an exclusive interview with Infosecurity
AI, Global Security News, Risk Management
AI adoption is surging – ‘but only 1 in 5 employees say expectations are very clear’
Findings suggest a growing need for clearer capability frameworks and workforce design to support AI-enabled roles Nearly 9 in 10 (87%) employees are using AI at work, but only 1 in 5 say leadership expectations are very clear 41% are concerned their role could be made redundant, while half feel pressure to work harder to…
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Cities Hosting Major Events Need More Focus on Wireless, Drone Defense
Major events like the FIFA World Cup need to look beyond traditional physical and cyber security to active and passive wireless threats, say experts.
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Cities Hosting Major Events Need More Focus on Wireless, Drone Defense
Major events like the FIFA World Cup need to look beyond traditional physical and cyber security to active and passive wireless threats, say experts.
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How Jack Dorsey Explained Cutting Almost Half of Block’s Staff
The tech entrepreneur said companies need flatter structures and fewer employees to thrive in the AI era.
AI, Cybersecurity, Global Security News
Why You Need Both Autonomous and Manual Vacuums
In this post, I will show you why you need both autonomous and manual vacuums. For generations, household cleaning was viewed as a singular, monolithic chore. You set aside a Saturday morning, gathered your broom, mop, and bucket, and spent hours scrubbing the entire house. By Sunday afternoon, the floors were already accumulating dust again,…
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AI agents still need humans to teach them
AI agents need skills — specific procedural knowledge — to perform tasks well, but they can’t teach themselves, a new research suggests. The authors of the research have developed a new benchmark, SkillsBench, which evaluates agentic AI performance on 84 tasks across 11 domains including healthcare, manufacturing, cybersecurity and software engineering. The researchers looked at…
AI, Global Security News, Security
Password guessing without AI: How attackers build targeted wordlists
Attackers don’t need AI to crack passwords, they build targeted wordlists from an organization’s own public language. This article explains how tools like CeWL turn websites into high-success password guesses and why complexity rules alone fall short. […]
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Password guessing without AI: How attackers build targeted wordlists
Attackers don’t need AI to crack passwords, they build targeted wordlists from an organization’s own public language. This article explains how tools like CeWL turn websites into high-success password guesses and why complexity rules alone fall short. […]
Cybersecurity, Global Security News, Tutorials
Digital Fingerprinting in 2026: What Platforms Know About You Before You Click
Platforms don’t need cookies to track you. Learn how digital fingerprinting works across four layers and practical steps to reduce your exposure. You cleared your cookies. You’re using incognito mode. Maybe you even have a VPN running. None of that matters as much as you think. Modern platforms don’t need cookies to identify you. They’ve…
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VIDEO: Think Small to Win Big – How Helikai Is Proving That Micro AI Agents Beat the Billion-Dollar Brute-Force Approach
Every CEO in the Fortune 500 has issued some version of the same mandate: We need an AI strategy. Most of them have also experienced the same humbling result – twelve months of well-funded engineering effort that produced little more than a glossy slide deck and a bruised budget. So, how does going micro produce macro results?…
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File integrity monitoring with AWS Systems Manager and Amazon Security Lake
Customers need solutions to track inventory data such as files and software across Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, detect unauthorized changes, and integrate alerts into their existing security workflows. In this blog post, I walk you through a highly scalable serverless file integrity monitoring solution. It uses AWS Systems Manager Inventory to collect…
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Implementing data governance on AWS: Automation, tagging, and lifecycle strategy – Part 1
Generative AI and machine learning workloads create massive amounts of data. Organizations need data governance to manage this growth and stay compliant. While data governance isn’t a new concept, recent studies highlight a concerning gap: a Gartner study of 300 IT executives revealed that only 60% of organizations have implemented a data governance strategy, with…
AI, Apps, Compliance, Cybersecurity, Data Security, Global Security News, governance, Risk Management, Security & Governance, Security Blog, Security, Identity, & Compliance
Implementing data governance on AWS: Automation, tagging, and lifecycle strategy – Part 1
Generative AI and machine learning workloads create massive amounts of data. Organizations need data governance to manage this growth and stay compliant. While data governance isn’t a new concept, recent studies highlight a concerning gap: a Gartner study of 300 IT executives revealed that only 60% of organizations have implemented a data governance strategy, with…
AI, Apps, Compliance, Cybersecurity, Data Security, Global Security News, governance, Risk Management, Security & Governance, Security Blog, Security, Identity, & Compliance
Implementing data governance on AWS: Automation, tagging, and lifecycle strategy – Part 1
Generative AI and machine learning workloads create massive amounts of data. Organizations need data governance to manage this growth and stay compliant. While data governance isn’t a new concept, recent studies highlight a concerning gap: a Gartner study of 300 IT executives revealed that only 60% of organizations have implemented a data governance strategy, with…
AI, Apps, Compliance, Cybersecurity, Data Security, Global Security News, governance, Risk Management, Security & Governance, Security Blog, Security, Identity, & Compliance
Implementing data governance on AWS: Automation, tagging, and lifecycle strategy – Part 1
Generative AI and machine learning workloads create massive amounts of data. Organizations need data governance to manage this growth and stay compliant. While data governance isn’t a new concept, recent studies highlight a concerning gap: a Gartner study of 300 IT executives revealed that only 60% of organizations have implemented a data governance strategy, with…
AI, API security, Data Breaches, Endpoint, Exploits, Global Security News, Network Security, Risk Management
Attackers Don’t Need to Breach Your API -They’ll Breach the Tools That Touch It
The API supply chain is the new security blind spot. Attackers no longer need to breach your APIs directly; they can target the third-party services that connect to them. These unmanaged dependencies are now the shortest path to your sensitive data. The recent Mixpanel incident is a stark reminder of that fact. What Happened During…
AI, API security, Data Breaches, Endpoint, Exploits, Global Security News, Network Security, Risk Management
Attackers Don’t Need to Breach Your API -They’ll Breach the Tools That Touch It
The API supply chain is the new security blind spot. Attackers no longer need to breach your APIs directly; they can target the third-party services that connect to them. These unmanaged dependencies are now the shortest path to your sensitive data. The recent Mixpanel incident is a stark reminder of that fact. What Happened During…
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Advanced Protection: Google’s Strongest Security for Mobile Devices
Posted by Il-Sung Lee, Group Product Manager, Android Security Protecting users who need heightened security has been a long-standing commitment at Google, which is why we have our Advanced Protection Program that provides Google’s strongest protections against targeted attacks. To enhance these existing device defenses, Android 16 extends Advanced Protection with a device-level security setting…