How to level up from security pro to security leader
There comes a time in a cybersecurity professional’s life when being a tech expert is no longer enough. The next step may lead to management or the C-suite, ...
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Why AI raises the stakes for exposure validation
AI dominated the conversation at Fal.Con 2026, but one of the most important takeaways wasn’t simply how AI is changing cyber defense.
Update your firewall rules: Teams and Copilot are changing address
Microsoft is changing the destination address of two of its most popular services: starting this month, it will redirect M365 and Teams web users to copilot....
ConnectWise patches critical ScreenConnect authentication failure after five days
ConnectWise has issued a security update for ScreenConnect, five days after warning customers the product could allow files to be transferred and executed th...
India’s STPI serves TerminalFix-style attack via fake Cloudflare check
A website linked to India’s Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) is serving a spoofed Cloudflare verification page that silently copies a malicious stri...
Anthropic finds evidence of a fourth AI escaping from containment
Anthropic has owned up to a fourth security incident involving its AI model, Claude, escaping onto the open internet and attacking other organizations during...
How AI and cybersecurity are reshaping ServiceNow
The once stable era of IT service management (ITSM) has entered a period of disruption and uncertainty. At least if you’re an investor or enterprise customer...
Attackers use passkey-themed scams to hijack Microsoft 365 accounts
Attackers are using passkey-themed social engineering to trick employees into giving them access to their Microsoft accounts. Microsoft Security Research sai...
Google’s Early Access is creating a blind spot for malicious apps
Google’s Early Access program is meant to give developers a place to release unfinished apps, gather feedback and handle bugs before a full launch. But new r...
Attackers are weaponizing the gap between Chromium fixes and Chrome patches
A new exploit kit is revealing the perils of the “patch later” mentality. According to the Proofpoint Threat Research team, espionage-motivated threat actors...
AI workflows may be creating a dangerous new authorization blind spot
A newly identified AI attack technique can let unauthenticated users trigger privileged workflows and access enterprise systems, highlighting a gap in how id...
Stealth rootkit targeting F5 BIG-IP could expose enterprise identity gateways
A newly analyzed Linux rootkit is believed to have given attackers a way to hide shells inside recently compromised F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Management (APM) ...
The longitude problem: In the AI era, detection is won on facts, not guesses
For most of the age of sail, a captain could find his latitude in minutes and could not find his longitude at all. Latitude you could read off the sun.
Getting ahead of ‘harvest-now-decrypt-later’: Post-quantum cryptography planning
I’ve sat in enough boardroom conversations about quantum computing to notice a pattern. Someone raises it, someone else says “that’s ten years out,” and the ...
10 most critical LLM vulnerabilities
Enterprise adoption of generative AI technologies has exploded due to the rapid evolution of the technology and the emergence of a variety of business use ca...
MikroTik patches flaws currently being exploited to take over routers
Networking gear manufacturer MikroTik has released patches for six vulnerabilities in its RouterOS firmware, two of which can be chained together to take ove...
SpyCloud 2026 Identity Threat Report Finds Non-Human Identities Are Now the Leading Path into the Enterprise
Ninety-five percent of organizations believe they have visibility into their AI and machine identity exposures, yet only 36% are actually monitoring them.
ChatGPT flaw lets attackers pull Gmail data across accounts via a hidden channel
A flaw in OpenAI’s ChatGPT allowed attackers to extract data from a victim’s connected Gmail account by passing hidden instructions between separate user ses...
ShinyHunters claims Florida DMV breach, puts data on the clock
ShinyHunters is claiming to have broken into a Florida government database containing sensitive information on the state’s drivers. The notorious extortion g...
When the prompt becomes the payload: A practical pen-testing guide for GenAI, LLM and RAG applications
Generative AI has moved well beyond the stand-alone chatbot. It now drafts code, searches internal knowledge, reviews contracts, opens support cases and, in ...