Collaboration tools have fueled configuration drift facilitating phishing attacks since they became widespread during the COVID pandemic. The core of the problem is, as usual, human failure, or more accurately, human procrastination. Configuration drift happens when vendors and customers join corporate networks with supposedly temporary credentials. When those credentials are…

Brian Silverstein, May 29th 2026 ​Modern phishing has evolved rapidly with AI. It doesn’t come from strangers or an unknownmore

Many shady practices on the internet are scams, but some seem "scammy." Cyber Protection Magazine came across one such operation. While ordering food on Grubhub recently, a pop-up appeared telling us we “earned a reward!” Clicking on the link it offered a $20 rebate on my next purchase. Sounds good,…

Time to dig into the RSAC Conference notes. It was only three years ago that vendors were warning of Q-day, the day quantum computers could break current encryption, filled the pages of technology publications and even general news outlets. Those warnings are much more muted this year. What happened? Primarily,…

Cybersecurity companies tend to target large enterprises because, that’s where all the money is. supposedly. They may be missing a lucrative bet and a solution to AI-generated attacks. In 2025, Comcast issued a report that said 95% of all cyber breaches began with someone in an organization clicking on a…

Cloud-native application protection platforms (CNAPP) emerged as an industry niche around 2021, when Gartner coined the term to describe to consolidate cloud‑security capabilities under a single term. The niche evolved as organizations adopted cloud-native technologies and needed integrated security solutions. In short, CNAPP providers consolidate security and compliance into a…

The AI industry appears to be reaching a crossroads that will determine its future in the next two years. The only clear outcome is it will not be what it is now, nor what it is predicted to be. Most doomsayers and cheerleaders largely agree on a single vision: The…

Vibe coding (using LLMs to create computer code) was all the rage when 2025 began. By June, the bloom had fallen off the rose. Companies offering platforms and tools for the practice saw dramatic downturns in users. What happened? Evidence points to the traditional market practice of targeting early tech…

The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) of 2015 expired January 30, 2026. Whether that means anything is debatable. The 10-year old act facilitates sharing cyber threat information between the government and private sector organizations. Many security experts are unimpressed by how the act performed. Chaim Mazal, Chief AI and Security…

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