AI agent security starts with a simple fact: the more authority an agent has, the tighter its access…
Tag: simple
AI, Global Security News
Amazon SES increasingly abused in phishing to evade detection
The Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) is being increasingly abused to send convincing phishing emails that can bypass standard security filters and render reputation-based blocks ineffective. […]
AI, Compliance, Global Security News
LogicMonitor Adds AI-Driven Remediation to IT Platform
LogicMonitor is moving past the era of simple alerts. The tech company announced a massive expansion to its unified platform today, aiming to solve the “noise” problem that has plagued IT departments for years. By combining visibility, AI reasoning, and automated action, the company is pitching a new operating model where the system doesn’t just…
Global Security News
Fake CAPTCHA Scams Quietly Drive Rising Phone Fraud Costs for Carriers and Customers
Infoblox Threat Intel finds global scams turning simple “prove you’re human” pages into costly international text charges for consumers and telecom operators
Cybersecurity, Global Security News, Risk Management
Threat Intel Scraping Without Burning Your Cover or Your Stack
Threat Intel Scraping sounds simple until it isn’t, here’s how cybersecurity teams avoid blocks, bad data, and unnecessary risk.
Global Security News
Singer loses life savings to fake wallet downloaded from the Apple App Store
If you hold cryptocurrency, there’s a very simple golden rule that you should always follow. Never hand over your seed phrase. Garrett Dutton, better known as G. Love – the front man of blues-hip-hop outfit G. Love & Special Sauce – has learnt that lesson the hard way. Read more in my article on the…
Global Security News
The internet was built to keep bots out. Now it needs to let them in
GUEST OPINION: For years, the rules of the internet were simple. Humans searched. Bots were blocked. If you ran a website, your job was to rank on Google and protect your platform from automated traffic. You installed CAPTCHA, rate limits and bot detection. You kept the machines out and optimised for people.
AI, Global Security News
iTWire TV: SAP’s Thomas Pfiester – Your AI Won’t Work If Your Data Is a Mess
SAP is betting big on something it calls “agentic transformation.” The idea is simple, even if the execution is anything but: a future where human workers and AI agents coexist across every business process.
Apps, Global Security News
Understanding threats in today’s digital application landscape
GUEST OPINION: Have you ever wondered how a simple app on your phone could become a doorway for hackers? Most of us trust the apps we use every day, from banking to food delivery, without thinking twice. Yet behind those smooth screens lies a complex system that is constantly under attack. As our lives move…
AI, Apps, Global Security News, Risk Management
Slack’s AI updates signal shift towards agent orchestration
Slack has taken further steps to reposition Slackbot from a simple assistant to a more capable AI agent that can orchestrate workflows across external apps. The updates to Slackbot “signal a clear shift from a collaboration tool to what it hopes will become an operational layer for agentic work,” said Maria Bell, senior analyst,…
Global Security News
Claude AI finds Vim, Emacs RCE bugs that trigger on file open
Vulnerabilities in the Vim and GNU Emacs text editors, discovered using simple prompts with the Claude assistant, allow remote code execution simply by opening a file. […]
AI, Global Security News
SAP’s Thomas Pfiester: Your AI Won’t Work If Your Data Is a Mess
SAP is betting big on something it calls “agentic transformation.” The idea is simple, even if the execution is anything but: a future where human workers and AI agents coexist across every business process.
AI, APAC, Data Breaches, Endpoint, Global Security News, privacy, Risk Management
HIBP Mega Update: Passkeys, k-Anonymity Searches, Massive Speed Enhancements and a Bulk Domain Verification API
For a hobby project built in my spare time to provide a simple community service, Have I Been Pwned sure has, well, “escalated”. Today, we support hundreds of thousands of website visitors each day, tens of millions of API queries, and hundreds of millions of password searches. We’re processing billions of compromised records each year…
AI, Apps, Endpoint, Global Security News, Government & Policy, Network Security, Risk Management
Why US companies must be ready for quantum by 2030: A practical roadmap
Last year, I asked a room of infrastructure, identity and application leaders a simple question: “Where in our environment do we rely on RSA or elliptic curve cryptography?” The first answers were the usual suspects: TLS on the edge, our VPN and the certificates on laptops. Then we pulled up a dependency map and the…
AI, Global Security News, Venture
Your new on-demand Android memo machine
Sometimes, simple sure is tough to beat. In tech today, it’s all too easy to get lost in a sea of complexity — and to drown in desperate-seeming solutions for problems that don’t actually exist. (And that, ahem, is putting it nicely.) But perhaps not surprisingly, it’s the simple improvements to basic productivity challenges that…
Global Security News
Cisco Access Manager: Identity-Based Access Control That Lean IT Teams Can Actually Deploy
Learn how Cisco Access Manager makes identity-based access control simple in Meraki—no appliances, no complexity, just fast zero trust.
AI, Global Security News
Weekly Update 495
In the beginning, it was simple. A website, a database and 150M+ email addresses to search. Time has added serverless functions (which run on servers 🤷♂️), code on the edge, new data storage constructs and a completely different mechanism for even just querying a simple email address. HIBP is a continually evolving beast, and barely…
AI, Compliance, Global Security News
What to Look for in Oil and Gas ERP Software Before You Invest
Buying ERP software for an oil and gas business is rarely a simple technology decision. It affects finance, field operations, procurement, maintenance, compliance, and long-term profitability all at once. That is why so many companies get stuck during the selection process. They are not just comparing software. They are trying to figure out what to…
AI, Compliance, Exploits, Global Security News, Government & Policy, Network Security, Risk Management
If consequences matter, they should apply to vendors, too
Washington has rediscovered consequences. Just not consistently. The March 6 executive order rests on a simple, correct idea: cyber-enabled fraud persists because it is profitable, scalable, and too often tolerated. So the government’s answer is to raise the cost. More coordination. More disruption. More prosecutions. More diplomatic pressure on the states that shelter these operations.…
Global Security News, malware, Russia
Russian Threat Actor Sednit Resurfaces With Sophisticated Toolkit
After several years of using simple implants, the Russia-affiliated actor is back with two new sophisticated malware tools.
AI, Apps, Global Security News, Government & Policy
iTWire TV: AI With Accountability – How Smart Communications Is Proving That Regulated Industries Don’t Have to Choose Between Innovation and Trust
There’s an old IBM slide from the 1970s that carries a deceptively simple message: A computer can never be held accountable. Therefore, a computer must never make a management decision. Half a century later, as AI agents draft insurance claims, process government applications, and orchestrate healthcare communications at scale, that maxim hasn’t become obsolete – it’s become…
AI, Apps, Global Security News, Government & Policy
AI With Accountability: How Smart Communications Is Proving That Regulated Industries Don’t Have to Choose Between Innovation and Trust
There’s an old IBM slide from the 1970s that carries a deceptively simple message: A computer can never be held accountable. Therefore, a computer must never make a management decision. Half a century later, as AI agents draft insurance claims, process government applications, and orchestrate healthcare communications at scale, that maxim hasn’t become obsolete – it’s become…
AI, Exploits, Global Security News
‘Silent’ Google API key change exposed Gemini AI data
Google Cloud API keys, normally used as simple billing identifiers for APIs such as Maps or YouTube, could be scraped from websites to give access to private Gemini AI project data, researchers from Truffle Security recently discovered. According to a Common Crawl scan of websites carried out by the company in November, there were 2,863…
AI, Global Security News, malware
Fake Fedex Email Delivers Donuts!, (Fri, Feb 27th)
It’s Friday, let’s have a look at another simple piece of malware to close a busy week! I received a Fedex notification about a delivery. Usually, such emails are simple phishing attacks that redirect you to a fake login page to collect your credentials. Here, it was a bit different: Nothing really fancy but it…
AI, Cybersecurity, Global Security News
How to Save YouTube Videos on Chromebook
Learn how to save YouTube videos on a Chromebook using browser-based methods. Simple steps, formats, and tips for offline viewing. Chromebooks are designed to work mainly through the browser. Most apps, files, and everyday tasks depend on a stable internet connection rather than installed software. This matters because Chromebooks are widely used in education. Studies…
AI, APAC, Apps, Compliance, Global Security News, Risk Management
Task management software gets an agentic boost
The digital workplace has outgrown the simple project checklists you may have once associated with task management apps. The software has moved from passive repositories for to-do lists to active participants in workflows. In 2026, the biggest shift in task management applications is the rise of agentic AI. The category has moved from simple automation…