Consider the history of any recent corporate scandal, and it is quite possible to guess what the story…
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AI, Cybersecurity, Global Security News
Channel Insider Opens Nominations for 2026 AI Leaders List
Artificial intelligence is no longer an emerging technology story in the IT channel — it is rapidly becoming central to how partners deliver services, drive operational efficiency, improve cybersecurity outcomes, and create new revenue opportunities for customers. To recognize the executives and innovators leading that transformation, Channel Insider is officially opening nominations for the 2026…
Global Security News
How the Story of a USB Penetration Test Went Viral
Two decades ago Dark Reading posted its first blockbuster — a story from a pen tester who sprinkled rigged thumb drives around a credit union parking lot and let curious employees do the rest. This episode looks back at the history-making column with its author Steve Stasiukonis, Dark Reading senior editor Becky Bracken, and Dark…
AI, Data Breaches, Global Security News
Story retracted
BleepingComputer initially published a story about a new data breach at Instructure. Shortly after publication, we determined that the information was incorrect and primarily based on outdated details from a prior incident. The article has been retracted, and we regret the error. […]
Global Security News
What to Look for in an Exposure Management Platform (And What Most of Them Get Wrong)
Every security team has a version of the same story. The quarter ends with hundreds of vulnerabilities closed. The dashboards are bursting with green. Then someone in a leadership meeting asks: “So, are we actually safer now?” Crickets. The room goes quiet because an honest answer requires context – which is something that patch counts…
AI, Cybersecurity, Global Security News
Can You Get Banned for Using Story Viewers?
In this post, I will answer the question – can you get banned for using story viewers? People worry about story viewers for a reason. Instagram makes normal Story views visible to the account owner, warns users to be careful with third party apps and websites, and says data scraping goes against its Terms of…
AI, Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Global Security News, privacy, Risk Management
Ghost breaches: How AI-mediated narratives have become a new threat vector
A company wakes up to a news story claiming it has suffered a major data breach. The details are specific, technical and convincing. But the breach didn’t happen. No systems were compromised. No data was taken. A language model generated the entire story, filling in plausible details from scratch. And before the company can figure…
AI, APAC, Apps, Global Security News, Risk Management
Nvidia’s Stephen Jones on the toolkit powering GPUs: ‘A wild ride’
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang often shares the story of hand-delivering an AI supercomputer to OpenAI in 2016, back before it was the hotshot company it’s become in recent years. A key ingredient in the box was Nvidia’s CUDA toolkit, which helped turn OpenAI’s experiments into a foundation for modern AI applications. Huang credits the software…
AI, Compliance, Cybersecurity, Global Security News, Network Security, Risk Management, Venture
Blind Men and the Elephant: the story of cybersecurity
Blind men and the elephant There’s an old story about a group of blind people who come across an elephant for the first time. Since they can’t see it, each of them tries to understand what it is by touching a different part. One person grabs the trunk and says the elephant is like a…
AI, Global Security News, privacy
Nvidia NemoClaw promises to run OpenClaw agents securely
In the few short weeks since OpenClaw became the biggest story in agentic AI, it has been dogged by concerns that it is not secure enough to be safely let loose in enterprises. This week at the Nvidia GPU Technology Conference (GTC) conference, CEO Jensen Huang announced what he believes is the answer: NemoClaw. Built…
AI, Global Security News, privacy
Nvidia NemoClaw promises to run OpenClaw agents securely
In the few short weeks since OpenClaw became the biggest story in agentic AI, it has been dogged by concerns that it is not secure enough to be safely let loose in enterprises. This week at the Nvidia GPU Technology Conference (GTC) conference, CEO Jensen Huang announced what he believes is the answer: NemoClaw. Built…
AI, Cybersecurity, Global Security News, Russia
Notorious ransomware gang allegedly blackmailed by fake FSB officer
There is a certain poetic justice in a cybersecurity-related story that has emerged from Moscow this week: A man has been accused of trying to extort money… from a notorious Russian ransomware gang. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.