Despite years of investment in vulnerability scanning and shift-left security practices, known vulnerabilities continue to drive production security incidents, according to the Cloud Security Alliance’s 2026 State of Modern Application & AI Security Report. As AI accelerates both vulnerability discovery and exploit development, organizations are facing increasing pressure to reduce exposure windows before attackers can…
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Beyond Assume-Breach: How AI-Native Security Will Reshape Enterprise Defense
Twenty years after Dark Reading launched, we’re looking ahead at what’s next for enterprise security. Spoiler: It’s hyper-segmented, AI-orchestrated, and way more sophisticated than your dad’s firewall.
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China’s Chip Ambitions Run Into a Global Tech Wall
Plus, Huawei will likely trail rivals by six to eight years by 2031 despite its innovations.
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Snowflake Expands AWS Deal as Enterprise AI Demand Grows
Snowflake is committing $6 billion to AWS over multiple years as the cloud data company works to secure the compute capacity needed to support growing enterprise AI workloads. The expanded agreement deepens Snowflake’s long-running relationship with AWS and comes as the company reports stronger revenue growth tied to AI adoption. Revenue outlook improves as AI…
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Ransomware Operators Keep Business Hours. The Data Proves It
16,699 ransomware leak posts over 2 years show 84% drop Monday–Friday, peak at European afternoon hours. October spikes yearly. Someone analyzed 16,699 ransomware leak-site posts across 200 groups over two years and asked the question most threat intelligence reports dance around: when does this actually happen? The answer is mundane and useful. Ransomware runs on…
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Ransomware Operators Keep Business Hours. The Data Proves It
16,699 ransomware leak posts over 2 years show 84% drop Monday–Friday, peak at European afternoon hours. October spikes yearly. Someone analyzed 16,699 ransomware leak-site posts across 200 groups over two years and asked the question most threat intelligence reports dance around: when does this actually happen? The answer is mundane and useful. Ransomware runs on…
Compliance, Cybersecurity, Global Security News
The Security Growth Platform: Why MSPs Are Moving Beyond vCISO Tools
Three years ago, the practical question for an MSP building a cybersecurity practice was which “vCISO platform” to buy. The term was good shorthand for the work at the time: assessments, advisory, reporting, maybe a compliance module bolted on the side. The work has since outgrown the descriptor. A Security Growth Platform is the more…
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The Billionaire Coding Genius Making the Tough Decisions at OpenAI
After years in the shadow of better-known co-founders, Greg Brockman is stepping into the spotlight. He and his wife Anna are also Silicon Valley super-donors.
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Man sent to prison for selling data of 7 millions elderly Americans
A North Carolina man was sentenced to more than 10 years in prison for selling the personal information of over 7 million elderly Americans to Jamaican scammers. […]
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Websites can spy on user activity by analyzing SSD behavior
Websites have spent years collecting information about visitors through browser fingerprinting, tracking scripts, and other techniques designed to identify devices and monitor behavior. Researchers have demonstrated another method that relies on something most users would never expect a website to observe: activity on their SSD (Solid-State Drive), the storage device where applications and files are…
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The Gentlemen are coming for your files, and then your network
Ransomware operators have spent years refining the art of locking files. Now, some are working harder to get those lockers to every reachable system first. Microsoft’s recent warning of the Gentlemen ransomware revealed its operators using a self-propagating Go-based encryptor capable of moving laterally through compromised environments and deploying itself across additional systems. “Modern ransomware…
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Developers on H-1B face a tighter job market as AI shifts hiring priorities
For years, software developers on H-1B visas benefited from steady demand among US technology employers. That market is becoming more selective as companies redirect spending toward AI and rely more heavily on coding assistants. Recent layoffs at companies including Meta and Amazon have added to the uncertainty, with engineering and software roles affected even as…
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Sextortionist sentenced to 33 years for targeting 145 children
A Canadian man was sentenced to 33 years in prison after pleading guilty to targeting more than 145 children across the United States, some as young as 6 years old, in an eight-year-long sextortion scheme. […]
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Another IT governance headache: AI-enabled sanction evasion
Over the next three to five years, both governments and the private sector will need to rapidly adapt identification and mitigation protocols as adversaries move from AI-assisted to AI-enabled sanctions evasion and proliferation financing (PF), a new research paper warns. The report, Algorithms of Evasion: The Rise of AI-Enabled Proliferation Financing, from the Royal United…
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Another IT governance headache: AI-enabled sanction evasion
Over the next three to five years, both governments and the private sector will need to rapidly adapt identification and mitigation protocols as adversaries move from AI-assisted to AI-enabled sanctions evasion and proliferation financing (PF), a new research paper warns. The report, Algorithms of Evasion: The Rise of AI-Enabled Proliferation Financing, from the Royal United…
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Romanian Hacker Gets Nearly 5 Years in US Prison Over Network Intrusion
Romanian hacker Catalin Dragomir (45) got 4 years and 8 months in prison for selling access to an Oregon state network. Romanian hacker Catalin Dragomir (45) will spend 4 years and 8 months in a US prison after admitting he sold access to an Oregon state network. ” A Romanian national was sentenced to 56 months…
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Remembering Tim Wilson, Whose Legacy Lives on at Dark Reading
The co-founder and former editor-in-chief passed away five years ago in November. As Dark Reading enters is third decade, we pause to celebrate and honor Wilson’s instrumental role in building and elevating the media site.
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Stop treating AI governance as a review layer. Make it release infrastructure
I’ve spent years building compliance into security products. FedRAMP and Department of War Impact Level authorizations, vulnerability management pipelines: They all follow the same pattern. Build the product, then prove it meets requirements. The compliance layer sits outside the engineering workflow. It reviews what already exists. That model worked when the product stayed static between…
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Downtime has become a $600 billion business problem
The average cost of downtime has reached $600 billion for the Global 2000, a 50% increase in two years. According to Splunk’s The Hidden Costs of Downtime report, unplanned outages and service degradation cost each company an average of $300 million. Percentage of technology executives who consider a direct cost very or prohibitively disruptive (2024…
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Defenders fall behind, as AI rewrites the rules of a data breach
For almost 20 years, stolen credentials have been the most common route for attackers into organizations, according to the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR). But that’s no longer the case. Read more in my article on the Fortra blog.
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The readiness paradox: Why a false sense of cyber confidence is becoming a liability
There’s this old proverb that’s stuck with me over the years: “Dig the well before you are thirsty.” It really means you should prepare for the crisis before it arrives. In cybersecurity, it’s a mentality that’s long underpinned investment, strategy and board-level conversations. And by many measures, organizations appear to have already ‘dug’ that well.…
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AI red teaming agents change how LLMs get tested
Adversarial probing of LLMs has piled up a sprawling toolkit over the past three years. Attack techniques with names like Tree of Attacks with Pruning, Crescendo, and Skeleton Key sit alongside hundreds of prompt transforms and scoring methods across open-source frameworks including Microsoft’s PyRIT, NVIDIA’s Garak, and Promptfoo. The catalog has grown faster than any…
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Copilot Chat: Your hub for document creation and analysis
Many years ago, Microsoft created a handy hub for its Office suite: type office.com into your browser, and you’d see a web page where you could launch the various Office apps — Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and so on — or access recently used documents in those apps. This hub’s appearance changed a bit over time…
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Are Attackers Hiding Inside Your Network Traffic?
I believe one of the important shifts in cybersecurity over the past several years is how attackers are hiding in plain sight. According to the 2026 IP Intelligence Study released by Spur Intelligence, anonymizing infrastructure, such as virtual private networks (VPNs) and residential proxies, are now involved in nearly every modern cyberattack. These tools allow…
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ANY.RUN Turns 10: Special Offers for Stronger Security Operations
Ten years in cybersecurity is a long journey. Threats have changed, attacks have become harder to spot, and security teams now need answers faster than ever. ANY.RUN has grown with those teams. What started as an interactive sandbox is now a trusted company with threat analysis and intelligence solution used by 15,000+ organizations, 600,000 security professionals, and teams at Fortune…
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The AI backdoor your security stack is not built to see
Enterprises deploying LLMs have spent the past two years building defenses around a reasonable assumption: malicious behavior leaves a trace in the input. Scan for suspicious tokens, filter unusual characters, watch for prompt injection patterns. New research from Microsoft and the Institute of Science Tokyo demonstrates that this defensive posture has a blind spot, and…
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Anthropic Was Behind. Now It’s the AI Boom’s Front-Runner.
After years as an also-ran, the startup has pulled ahead in the artificial-intelligence race after focusing on enterprise users and coding.
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8 critical questions about the Googlebook, Android, and ChromeOS
Well, hell’s bells: It’s finally happening. After years of misguided rumors and off-base expectations — over a decade’s worth, even! — Google is actually now on the brink of combining Android and ChromeOS into a single superpowered platform for laptops and mobile devices alike. The company officially announced the advent of an entirely new type…
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Fedora Hummingbird brings the container security model to a Linux host OS
Container image security pipelines have spent the past several years pushing toward minimal footprints, hermetic builds, and continuous CVE remediation. The Fedora Project is now applying that same approach to the host operating system. At Red Hat Summit 2026, Fedora announced Fedora Hummingbird, a container-based rolling Linux distribution delivered as an OCI image. “The Linux…
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It’s Patch Tuesday for Microsoft and Not a Zero-Day In Sight
It’s the first time in two years with no zero-days. But with 137 flaws to patch, including nine critical ones, admins still have plenty of work to do.
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AI is separating the companies built to scale from the ones built to sell
If you had time to walk the expo floor at this year’s RSA Conference, it was impossible to miss the shift in our industry. Artificial intelligence has moved from an emerging layer to the foundation of what powers cybersecurity companies. But from our vantage point as investors who work closely with founders and operators, the bigger…
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Romanian Man Faces Up to 30 Years in US Prison Over Vishing Scams
Romanian national Gavril Sandu faces up to 30 years in a US prison after extradition over a VOIP vishing and fake debit card fraud scheme.
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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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How a Job at OpenAI Became the Greatest Lottery Ticket of the AI Boom
Employees waited two years to sell their shares. Then, the company let them unload $30 million.
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After 17 years, Gavril Sandu extradited to U.S. for hacking scheme
Romanian citizen Gavril Sandu was extradited to the U.S. nearly 17 years after a hacking scheme. He was indicted in 2017 and arrested in 2026. Romanian national Gavril Sandu, 53, has been extradited to the United States for his role in a hacking scheme that took place 17 years ago. “On November 14, 2017, a…
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The Hacker News Launches ‘Cybersecurity Stars Awards 2026’ — Submissions Now Open
For nearly 20 years, we at The Hacker News have mostly told scary stories about cyberspace — big hacks, broken systems, and new threats. But behind every headline, there’s a quieter, better story. It’s the story of leaders making tough calls under pressure, teams building smarter defenses, and security products that keep hunting threats 24/7…
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She Opposed His Plan for a Blockchain City. Now He’s Bankrolling Her Primary Opponent.
Five years ago, a Nevada state senator helped kill a crypto tycoon’s vision of a blockchain city in the Reno desert. Now, that lawmaker is running for higher office, and the crypto mogul is bankrolling her primary opponent to the tune of millions. The battle playing out in the state attorney general’s race is one…
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U.S. court sentences Karakurt ransomware negotiator to 8.5 years
Deniss Zolotarjovs was sentenced to 8.5 years in the U.S. after pleading guilty to money laundering and fraud tied to ransomware. Deniss Zolotarjovs, a Latvian national linked to the Karakurt ransomware gang, has been sentenced to 8.5 years in U.S. prison, marking a significant step in efforts to combat global ransomware operations. “A Latvian national…
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Karakurt extortion gang ‘cold case’ negotiator gets 8.5 years in prison
A Latvian national extradited to the United States was sentenced to 8.5 years in prison for his “cold case” negotiator role in the Russian Karakurt ransomware group. […]
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Stronger Cybersecurity, Stronger Business: NIST Celebrates 2026 National Small Business Week
Happy National Small Business Week! For over 60 years, the U.S. Small Business Administration has led this initiative to acknowledge the critical contributions of America’s entrepreneurs and small business owners. Part of the U.S. Department of Commerce, NIST’s mission is to drive U.S. innovation and global competitiveness, and the small business community is central to…
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How Dark Reading Lifted Off the Launchpad in 2006
Twenty years ago, this media brand didn’t have a print edition to attract eyeballs and sponsors. Top-notch content and editorial talent did the heavy lifting.
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Two cybersecurity pros get prison time for helping ransomware gang
Two American cybersecurity professionals were sentenced to four years in prison for facilitating BlackCat ransomware attacks in 2023. They pleaded guilty in December 2025 to one count of conspiracy to obstruct, delay, or affect commerce, or the movement of any article or commodity in commerce, by extortion. According to court documents, Ryan Goldberg, Kevin Martin,…
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The fake IT worker problem CISOs can’t ignore
Hiring fake IT workers has been a growing problem in recent years — but it’s often a problem very few want to admit to. From Fortune 500 companies down to smaller organizations, remote hiring practices have been exploited to grant trusted access to individuals who are not who they claim to be creating an insider…
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Relying on LLMs is nearly impossible when AI vendors keep changing things
Over the years, enterprise IT execs have gotten frighteningly comfortable having little control or visibility over mission-critical apps, from SaaS to cloud and even cybersecurity. But generative AI (genAI) and agentic systems are taking that problem to a new extreme, with vendors able to dumb down a system IT is paying billions for without so…
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ChatGPT advanced account security adds passkeys and hardware keys
Journalists, elected officials, researchers, and political dissidents have spent years adapting their accounts to phishing-resistant authentication on consumer platforms. ChatGPT now joins that list. OpenAI has introduced Advanced Account Security, an opt-in setting that strips password-based sign-in from ChatGPT and Codex accounts and replaces it with passkeys or physical security keys. What enrollment changes Enrolled…
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Two US cybersecurity experts sentenced in ransomware case, third awaits July ruling
Two US security experts were sentenced to 4 years for helping ransomware attacks. A third accomplice pleaded guilty and awaits sentencing. Two US cybersecurity professionals, Ryan Goldberg and Kevin Martin, were sentenced to four years in prison for their role in supporting ransomware attacks. Both pleaded guilty to conspiracy involving extortion. A third individual, Angelo…
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Name That Toon: Mark of (Security) Progress
Feeling creative? Have something to say about the last 20 years of cybersecurity? Our editors will award the best cybersecurity-related caption with a $20 gift card.
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Two Cybersecurity Professionals Get 4-Year Sentences in BlackCat Ransomware Attacks
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Thursday announced the sentencing of two cybersecurity professionals to four years each in prison for their role in facilitating BlackCat ransomware attacks in 2023. Ryan Goldberg, 40, of Georgia, and Kevin Martin, 36, of Texas, were accused of deploying the ransomware against multiple victims located throughout the U.S.…
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Netskope, Rubrik, Commvault Expand Google Cloud Security
At this year’s Google Cloud Next 2026 conference in Las Vegas, tech and cybersecurity companies across the channel unveiled their latest announcements spanning AI, security, infrastructure, and more. While artificial intelligence was firmly front and center, themes around enhanced cybersecurity, particularly AI guardrails and cyber resilience, emerged as equally important priorities. In this recap, we…
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Who’s the better CEO, Apple’s Tim Cook or Microsoft’s Satya Nadella?
Tim Cook’s impending retirement as Apple’s CEO marks the end of an era — the years when the Apple-versus-Microsoft fight dominated the tech world. Of course, it’s been a long time since those two companies ruled by themselves. These days, Google, Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic and Amazon are just as influential. Still, Cook’s decision to step…
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Vidar Rises to Top of Chaotic Infostealer Market
The malware has filled the gap created by last year’s law enforcement takedowns of Lumma and Rhadamanthys.
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Brazilian LofyGang Resurfaces After Three Years With Minecraft LofyStealer Campaign
A cybercrime group of Brazilian origin has resurfaced after more than three years to orchestrate a campaign that targets Minecraft players with a new stealer called LofyStealer (aka GrabBot). “The malware disguises itself as a Minecraft hack called ‘Slinky,’” Brazil-based cybersecurity company ZenoX said in a technical report. “It uses the official game icon to…
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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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The Future of Data Platforms: From Pipelines to Intelligent Orchestration
GUEST OPINION: For years, organisations have invested heavily in building data pipelines — structured flows that move data from source systems into warehouses, lakes, and dashboards. These pipelines have been the backbone of reporting and analytics. But as enterprises accelerate their adoption of AI, digital platforms, and real-time decision-making, pipelines alone are no longer enough.
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Researchers Uncover Pre-Stuxnet ‘fast16’ Malware Targeting Engineering Software
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new Lua-based malware created years before the notorious Stuxnet worm that aimed to sabotage Iran’s nuclear program by destroying uranium enrichment centrifuges. According to a new report published by SentinelOne, the previously undocumented cyber sabotage framework dates back to 2005, primarily targeting high-precision calculation software to tamper
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Musk’s Chip-Making Vision With Intel Is a Distant Prospect
The Tesla chief’s ‘Terafab’ idea will take many years to materialize, if it works at all
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Ubuntu 26.04 LTS delivers memory-safe system tools and live patching for Arm servers
Linux distributions have spent the past few years absorbing GPU vendor toolchains, Rust-based system components, and more stringent encryption defaults. Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, codenamed Resolute Raccoon, pulls most of those threads together into a single release that will receive standard security support until April 2031. Rust moves into the system layer One of the more…
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With AI’s help, North Korean hackers stumbled into a near-undetectable attack
For many years, state-sponsored hacking was defined by human expertise in finding security holes, writing malware and exploits, pulling off social engineering and phishing attacks, and much more. Since the advent of LLM-powered AI assistants and tools, less skilled attackers have been able to carry out attacks and compromises that might otherwise have been out…
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The AI era demands a different kind of CISO
Many security leaders are still operating with frameworks built for a different era. For years, success was measured by fixed checkpoints, such as passing audits, closing vulnerabilities, and maintaining compliance. Those markers still have value, but they were designed for a threat landscape that moved in predictable, linear ways. Today, that landscape is shifting in…
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Microsoft trims cloud desktop pricing, even as it boosts AI costs
For years now, Microsoft has been doing its level best to move you from desktop Office and Windows to Microsoft 365, Windows 365, and Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD). Since the company first started down this road, however, something changed: the AI revolution, which has become a huge deal for the guys from Redmond. So, it…
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Kaseya Heads Into Connect with New CEO, API, and AI Strategy
Kaseya is coming into this year’s Connect conference after a year of significant change across its leadership team, platform strategy, and product roadmap. Since the 2025 event, the company has appointed a new CEO, adopted an API-first approach to improve integration across its portfolio, and rolled out new AI-focused product updates. As attendees gather for…
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Clarks Launches Curated Marketplace Powered by Marketplacer, Redefining How Iconic Brands Scale Online
COMPANY NEWS: Over two hundred years of shoemaking heritage meets modern marketplace technology: Marketplacer today reveals it is the platform behind the newly launched Clarks Marketplace, enabling the global footwear brand to expand its digital offering through curated third-party selling.
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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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Tim Cook Told Me His Advice for Apple’s Next CEO
He remembers what Steve Jobs told him 15 years ago. Now that Cook is stepping down, he has a message for his own successor.
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AI-ready skills are not what you think
Enterprises have spent the past two years rushing to make their workforces “AI-ready.” But many early training programs — focused on prompt writing and chatbot skills — are proving poorly suited to the realities of AI-powered work. The reason is simple: the skills that matter most once AI enters real workflows have less to do…
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Exhibit at or Sponsor the 2026 Community Meetings
Don’t miss your chance to join the excitement at this year’s highly anticipated PCI SSC Community Meetings in Vancouver, BC, Canada; Edinburgh, Scotland; and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Secure sponsorship or exhibitor opportunities to connect with payment security leaders, network with peers, and meet prospective customers—all while celebrating PCI SSC’s 20th anniversary with the global…
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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.
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Prepping for ‘Q-Day’: Why Quantum Risk Management Should Start Now
Quantum computers are coming and may impact systems in unexpected ways, and it will “take years to be fully quantum-safe, if ever,” cryptography expert warns.
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The deepfake dilemma: From financial fraud to reputational crisis
Deepfake technology has crossed a critical threshold. What was impossible 10 years ago and required specific expertise only a few years ago is now cheap and accessible. Worse, it’s now good enough to fool a wide range of employees and executives. In fact, a 2025 Gartner survey found that 43% of cybersecurity leaders experienced at…
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Can Microsoft really meet its carbon-negative goal by 2030?
Six years ago, Microsoft pledged it would be carbon negative by 2030. It’s a worthy goal, and for several years the company was on track to meeting it. Then generative AI came along and the world changed. Electric power demand from data centers will more than double between 2025 and 2030, according to the International…
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Network segmentation projects fail in predictable patterns
Most enterprise networks have segmentation on the roadmap. Many have had it there for years. A survey of 400 U.S.-based network security practitioners who lived through failed segmentation projects finds that failure clusters into four distinct patterns, and the type of failure a team experiences depends heavily on the kind of environment and approach they…
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AI might be killing traditional SIEMs, but data advantage is as strong as ever
Over 3 years ago, I talked about the concept of data gravity – the idea that as more and more data gets centralized in a single place, it gives a huge advantage to companies that collect this data. That idea made a lot of sense back then, in January 2023, some 2 months after the…
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GUEST ESSAY: Google’s 2029 deadline exposes readiness gap as move to quantum-safe crypto lags
For years, quantum risk was easy for most institutions to treat as premature: real in theory, urgent someday, but not yet an operational problem. That is no longer tenable. Related: AI spawns semantic attacks Two developments this month brought the shift into focus. Google Quantum AI published research suggesting the computing resources needed to break…
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iTWire TV: After three years steering Australia’s robotics peak body, Nicci Rossouw hands over the controls with a packed expo, a gala night, and one clear message: buy Australian
Nicci Rossouw has spent three years running Robotics Australia Group, the country’s peak body for everything from warehouse arms to underwater hull-scrubbers. On May 1, she hands the CEO role to Paul Mason, co-host of the Manufacturing Tech Australia podcast and a mechatronics engineer with 20-plus years across product development, manufacturing, and commercialisation.
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After three years steering Australia’s robotics peak body, Nicci Rossouw hands over the controls with a packed expo, a gala night, and one clear message: buy Australian
Nicci Rossouw has spent three years running Robotics Australia Group, the country’s peak body for everything from warehouse arms to underwater hull-scrubbers. On May 1, she hands the CEO role to Paul Mason, co-host of the Manufacturing Tech Australia podcast and a mechatronics engineer with 20-plus years across product development, manufacturing, and commercialisation.
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WhatsApp brings long-awaited privacy control over who can contact you
After years of waiting, WhatsApp is set to roll out a username feature that will allow people to connect and communicate without sharing their phone numbers. This means more privacy and better control over phone number visibility by choosing a unique username. WhatsApp username feature (Source: WABetaInfo) The feature will become available to a limited…
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iTWire TV: HPE’s April Neoh on AI Bias, Trust, and Why the Scales Still Aren’t Balanced
GUEST INTERVIEW: April has spent roughly 20 years in tech. She’s watched the suits get replaced by suits wearing sneakers. She’s seen decisions go from months-long deliberation cycles to minimum viable products shipped at pace. And now, as Account Executive for High Performance Computing and AI at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, she’s watching AI reshape the…
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HPE’s April Neoh on AI Bias, Trust, and Why the Scales Still Aren’t Balanced
GUEST INTERVIEW: April has spent roughly 20 years in tech. She’s watched the suits get replaced by suits wearing sneakers. She’s seen decisions go from months-long deliberation cycles to minimum viable products shipped at pace. And now, as Account Executive for High Performance Computing and AI at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, she’s watching AI reshape the…
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iTWire TV: Zoho and ManageEngine plant their flag in Parramatta, betting big on Sydney’s second CBD
LAUNCH EVENT, GUEST INTERVIEWS: 22 years in Australia, and they’re only just getting started – see the full video of the Zoho and ManageEngine launch of the new Sydney office, hosted by ManageEngine’s marketing maven Jeremy Spence, plus exclusive video interviews with Vinayak Sreedhar, ANZ Country Manager of ManageEngine, and Rakesh Prabhkar, head of Zoho ANZ.
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Zoho and ManageEngine plant their flag in Parramatta, betting big on Sydney’s second CBD
LAUNCH EVENT, GUEST INTERVIEWS: 22 years in Australia, and they’re only just getting started – see the full video of the Zoho and ManageEngine launch of the new Sydney office, hosted by ManageEngine’s marketing maven Jeremy Spence, plus exclusive video interviews with Vinayak Sreedhar, ANZ Country Manager of ManageEngine, and Rakesh Prabhkar, head of Zoho ANZ.
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ClickFix Meets AI: A Multi-Platform Attack Targeting macOS in the Wild
For years, macOS environments carried an aura of relative safety. Not immunity, but lower priority in the threat landscape. That perception has aged about as well as an unpatched server. The reality in 2026 is very different. Apple devices now make up a significant share of corporate endpoints. And they sit in the hands of the people attackers most want…
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ClickFix Meets AI: A Multi-Platform Attack Targeting macOS in the Wild
For years, macOS environments carried an aura of relative safety. Not immunity, but lower priority in the threat landscape. That perception has aged about as well as an unpatched server. The reality in 2026 is very different. Apple devices now make up a significant share of corporate endpoints. And they sit in the hands of the people attackers most want…
AI, APAC, Apps, Compliance, Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Endpoint, Europe, Exploits, Global Security News, Risk Management
Supply chain security is now a board-level issue: Here’s what CSOs need to know
For many years, supply chain security was viewed purely as a technical concern. However, with high-profile vulnerabilities and regulations, it is now a board-level issue that requires organizations to rethink how to build resiliency and insulate their operations. The changing regulatory landscape has been a key driver of the C-suite’s focus, as legislation such as…
AI, Apps, Global Security News, Network Security
8 ways to be more productive in Windows 11
You’ve probably spent a lot of time through the years gathering productivity tips for your favorite applications — after all, that’s where you get most of your work done. If you’re like most people, though, you’ve managed to find your way around Windows 11 but figured there’s not much you can do to improve your productivity in…
AI, Cybersecurity, Global Security News, Network Security, Risk Management
Escaping the COTS trap
Over the years, enterprise cybersecurity environments have accumulated staggering numbers of commercial tools. Industry research converges on a consistent picture of tool proliferation that drives complexity, cost, and risk. The global cybersecurity market is valued at approximately $243 billion in 2024 and projected to surpass $520 billion annually by 2026. Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software promises…
Global Security News
Nigerian romance scammer jailed after being caught out by fellow fraudster
A Nigerian fraudster spent years posing as a woman online, romancing unsuspecting American men out of their savings – until he accidentally tried the same trick on a fellow scammer, who told him to “learn how to do a clean job.” The recovered chat logs helped put him behind bars for 15 years. Read more…
AI, china, Europe, Global Security News, Government & Policy, malware, Russia
European-Chinese geopolitical issues drive renewed cyberespionage campaign
A Chinese cyberespionage group has shifted its gaze back to Europe after years of focusing on other parts of the world, Proofpoint research published Wednesday found. The surge began in mid-2025, with a bevy of issues bubbling up between China and Europe, the company said. Proofpoint labels the government-linked group TA416, but other companies track…
Compliance, Global Security News
Why AI for financial crime is becoming a core operating advantage
GUEST OPINION: Fraud and compliance teams have spent years trying to keep pace with rising alert volumes, faster payment flows, more complex fraud patterns, and growing regulatory expectations. The problem is that most of these teams are still being asked to solve modern financial crime with operating models built for a slower, more predictable environment.
AI, Cybersecurity, Global Security News, malware
3 Reasons Attackers Are Using Your Trusted Tools Against You (And Why You Don’t See It Coming)
For years, cybersecurity has followed a familiar model: block malware, stop the attack. Now, attackers are moving on to what’s next. Threat actors now use malware less frequently in favor of what’s already inside your environment, including abusing trusted tools, native binaries, and legitimate admin utilities to move laterally, escalate privileges, and persist without raising…
AI, Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Exploits, Global Security News, Network Security, privacy, Venture
5 unexpected takeaways and one big prediction from RSAC
This year’s RSAC was different. A big part of that is because for the first time, I showed up not as a product leader or industry insider, but as a founder of a venture-backed cybersecurity startup. From presenting in front of George Kurtz, CJ Moses, Robert Herjavec, and Bartley Richardson as one of just six…
AI, Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Exploits, Global Security News, Network Security, Politics, Risk Management
The external pressures redefining cybersecurity risk
Over the last four years, I’ve watched organizations get blindsided by threats that originated in a third-party network. More than 35% of data breaches are caused by a compromised vendor or partner, not by any failure in the organization’s controls. While many organizations know that the biggest threats to their security come from forces entirely…
AI, Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Global Security News, Risk Management
RSAC 2026: AI Leads Security Shift Across Vendors & MSPs
At this year’s RSA Conference 2026, cybersecurity companies across the board took the opportunity to announce new partnerships and capabilities. Unsurprisingly, AI was a central theme across vendors. Whether focused on AI-powered defense, addressing shadow AI, or embedding AI into security operations, the technology is now more than ever a cornerstone of how cybersecurity companies…
AI, Global Security News
Agent Computers: The PC Era, Amplified
For 40 years, the personal computer has been the most important tool in human hands. Now AI Agents are real, and amplifying the PC Era as never before.
AI, Apps, Compliance, Endpoint, Exploits, Global Security News, malware, Network Security
Why Kubernetes controllers are the perfect backdoor
In my years securing cloud-native environments, I’ve noticed a recurring blind spot. We obsess over the “front doors” such as exposed dashboards, misconfigured RBAC, or unpatched container vulnerabilities. We harden the perimeter, but we often ignore the machinery humming inside. Sophisticated adversaries have moved beyond simple smash-and-grab tactics. They don’t just want to run a…
AI, Global Security News, Risk Management
Why risk alone doesn’t get you to yes
I have been in security rooms for years, from military operations centers to corporate boardrooms. In all those years I can tell you that the hardest mission that most security leaders will face is not identifying a threat, but getting someone to act on it. We’re trained to see exposure before they are identified by…
AI, Global Security News
Agent Computers: the PC era, amplified
For 40 years, the personal computer has been the most important tool in human hands. You sat down, opened your apps, and got to work. You wrote, built, designed, analyzed, edited, explored, and created. The machine worked for you. It was personal. It was powerful. It extended individual capabilities in a way nothing else had.…
AI, Global Security News
Why the real bottleneck in enterprise AI isn’t GPUs – it’s data
For the past two years, the conversation around enterprise AI has been dominated by GPUs: who has them; who can buy them; who is waiting months for them. But a new wave of announcements at NVIDIA’s recent annual AI conference suggests something more subtle is happening inside enterprise data centres. While the GPU shortage grabbed…
AI, Compliance, Cybersecurity, Global Security News, Government & Policy, Risk Management
AI regulations are already out of date — IT leaders need to think ahead
Most AI regulations passed in the last few years are already irrelevant, but enterprises should think ahead with rudimentary governance plans for quicker compliance, said legal experts in two panel discussions at Nvidia’s GTC trade show last week. Current AI regulations target frontier models, high-risk models, and transparency. They typically focus on LLMs and the…
AI, Exploits, Global Security News, malware, Network Security, Russia
Russian national convicted for running botnet used in attacks on U.S. firms
A Russian hacker got 2 years in prison, $100K fine, and $1.6M judgment for running a botnet used in ransomware attacks on U.S. firms. Russian national Ilya Angelov (40) was sentenced to 24 months in prison for operating a botnet used to carry out ransomware attacks on dozens of U.S. companies. He was also fined…
AI, Global Security News, Russia
Russian Hacker Sentenced to 2 Years for TA551 Botnet-Driven Ransomware Attacks
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) said a Russian national has been sentenced to two years in prison for managing a botnet that was used to launch ransomware attacks against U.S. companies. Ilya Angelov, 40, of Tolyatti, Russia, was also fined $100,000. Angelov, who went by the online aliases “milan” and “okart,” is said to…