Attackers increasingly rely on AI to influence behavior in real time. Cyber defense systems are now turning to personalized, trustworthy AI platforms to reduce human-driven incidents by 95%
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Free webinar – December 11, 5:00 PM CET As generative AI and automation move from experimental tools into everyday attackermore
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SecOps has always been at the cutting edge of cybersecurity innovation. Historically, it has had to be, given that teams sit on the front line against adversaries who are constantly innovating to achieve their goals. This cat-and-mouse game continues to this day as threat actors and security operations centre (SOC) analysts both tap the power of AI. But could the arrival of AI agents be a game changer for defenders?
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The MORSECORP settlement shows that cybersecurity lapses are now legal and financial liabilities—not just technical ones.
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criminals are exploiting GenAI to scale fraud like never before, using AI-generated text, images and videos, deepfakes, synthetic identities and other manipulations to deceive systems and victims alike.
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Happy Holidays – our last issue of the year is out, and it’s all about Disinformation or, as we like to put it: Dysinformation.
Dysinformation is a scourge of society, fueled by social media and malicious actors, but you may not have heard the term spelled this way. Dysinformation simply means “damaging information.” It puts misinformation and disinformation in the same bucket, but what is the difference?
Disinformation
Disinformation is intentional. The authors know it is false and distribute it with the desire to defraud, destabilize and delegitimize issues and individuals. It is often defended as, “Hey, I’m just asking questions.” The first recorded instance of disinformation occurs in Genesis. After Eve explains to the serpent why she should not eat forbidden fruit, the serpent replies “Has God really said…?”
Disinformation authors do not need to prove an allegation. They just need to get a small credulous audience to wonder if what they say is true. If the allegation reflects a particular opinion of the audience, they are more likely to accept the allegation as true. Every piece of disinformation may contain an element of truth to establish the author’s qualifications, but the majority is sheer speculation.
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Identity fraud remains one of the most persistent threats facing governments, industries, and individuals alike. This reality has prompted ongoing enhancements in identity security
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies are being widely adopted in across industries and are likely to bring disruptive benefits as well as challenging governance issues. Among such concerns is the escalation of Shadow AI
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Proxies are absolutely crucial to the operation of the internet, but they also represent a clear and present danger to users. Finding that balance is pretty much a full-time job for cybersecurity. The recent Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure outages are good examples of that.
Amazon explained the outage was caused by “failing intermediaries” monitoring system health, preventing proper traffic routing. Another word for intermediaries is “proxies”. When the monitoring subsystem malfunctioned, health check updates were not propagated properly, causing backend servers to appear offline even when they were active, which invalidated DNS lookups. This created a cascading failure.
Likewise, the Azure outage was caused by a misconfiguration of the proxy Front Door, a global entry point for content delivery network functionality, load balancing, and application acceleration.
How Proxies Function
When a user wants to access a website, the request goes to the proxy server instead of going directly to the internet. The proxy server receives the request, then forwards it to the target website. It modifies the request header to hide the user's original IP address.
For almost a decade and generally in the summer and early fall, email boxes get hit with several phishing attempts claiming to be from Docusign. This reporter received seven just in the past few weeks. It seems appropriate to give out a few tips about how to recognize them, avoid dealing with them and what you may have to do if you clicked on the link.
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