Even with OT network visibility, critical infrastructure operators struggle with legacy equipment 2026-10-07 at 07:50 By Anamarija Pogorelec Large critical infrastructure operators run seven separate security tools on average, and most still cannot see every asset on their operational technology (OT) networks. That is the picture from a Palo Alto Networks survey of more than […]
Automation, AI agents or people? Sorting out who handles each security finding 2026-10-07 at 07:30 By Mirko Zorz Just over half of the 200 senior security and technology leaders polled for ArmorCode say their organizations will struggle to simplify their software security programs if they keep working the way they do today. The respondents are […]
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AI is giving attackers a head start, Microsoft warns 2026-10-02 at 15:47 By Sinisa Markovic Threat actors are using AI to find bugs, build malware and run intrusions faster than defenders can keep up. Microsoft’s 2026 Digital Defense Report, covering July 2025 to June 2026, describes a near-term period in which attackers collect the benefits […]
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Botnets, adversarial attacks and data poisoning top leaders’ AI threat list 2026-10-02 at 08:00 By Sinisa Markovic Companies are putting more money into AI while naming attacks on AI systems as the threat they are least ready to face. PwC surveyed 3,934 business and technology leaders in 71 countries between May and July 2026. Half […]
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Threat detection dashboards are masking security coverage gaps 2026-09-25 at 15:04 By Sinisa Markovic A detection rule can show up as deployed on a coverage dashboard and still never fire when an attacker uses the technique it was built to catch. Conifers assessed 14,652 detections in its customer base, including rules written by customers and […]
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Half of threat hunters say bad data is their biggest problem 2026-09-25 at 08:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Half of security professionals name data quality or quantity as their biggest barrier to effective threat hunting, according to the SANS 2026 Threat Hunting Survey. Teams with working playbooks describe the logs as their ceiling, and gaps in […]
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Your incident count is missing a few incidents 2026-09-25 at 07:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec If you run security for a brand with hundreds or thousands of locations, the tools you’ve bought may have little to do with whether an attack stays at one store. A new VikingCloud survey asked 200 security and IT leaders at […]
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Americans’ views on data centers have turned more negative 2026-09-24 at 01:15 By Anamarija Pogorelec American attitudes toward data centers have turned noticeably more negative over the course of 2026, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. 54% of U.S. adults now say data centers are mostly bad for the environment, up from 39% […]
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The latest deepfake numbers give CISOs plenty to worry about 2026-09-22 at 15:05 By Sinisa Markovic AI is letting cybercriminals reach deeper into organizations than a phishing email ever could. 41% of CISOs reported at least one social engineering incident involving a deepfake during an employee audio call in the past 12 months, according to […]
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AI compliance issues hit 2 in 5 large companies, and legacy workflows are a big factor 2026-09-21 at 07:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Forty percent of large companies had an AI-related compliance or governance issue in the past 12 months, according to 1,000 senior IT, operations, and transformation leaders surveyed by Sapio Research. Those leaders said […]
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Most WordPress pros still lack a breach recovery plan 2026-09-18 at 07:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Melapress, a maker of WordPress security plugins, surveyed 319 WordPress professionals and found that most had dealt with at least one known security incident. The respondents build and run WordPress sites for a living: agency staff, developers, designers, site owners […]
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MSPs say nearly half their customers rely on them for CISO services 2026-09-16 at 07:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec MSPs estimate that 46% of their customers, on average, look to them to act as CISOs, according to Sophos. Most of those providers do that job without the full set of compliance services, and many spread the […]
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Most chief audit executives can’t tell you what AI is worth yet 2026-09-15 at 07:30 By Sinisa Markovic Auditors are using AI in their daily work, and their departments have mostly left them to figure it out alone. 93% of audit leaders and auditors report some level of AI use, while 15% say their department […]
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Cybersecurity attention fades within months after a breach 2026-09-14 at 08:00 By Sinisa Markovic Cybersecurity attention often rises after an incident, then recedes as organizations return to their existing priorities and practices, according to a new ManageEngine survey of 700 IT and cybersecurity leaders in the US and Canada. (Source: ManageEngine) All of them had […]
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Novel-reading apps used users’ phones to generate fake ad traffic 2026-08-06 at 17:07 By Sinisa Markovic A new mobile ad fraud scheme, dubbed Papyrus, is using a cluster of novel-reading apps to generate hidden browser traffic, according to IAS Threat Lab. Sample novel-reading apps associated with Papyrus (Source: IAS Threat Lab) While a person taps […]
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Your AI agents can reach data no one approved 2026-07-29 at 07:30 By Mirko Zorz A credential expired. An AI agent kept using it anyway, and a mid-sized company’s systems went down for a quarter’s worth of trouble before anyone traced the failure back to a non-human account no one had been logging. That agent […]
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Companies keep bolting AI onto their products, and the security bill is coming due 2026-06-29 at 07:30 By Mirko Zorz Companies keep bolting AI and LLM features onto their products, and the security results are starting to show a pattern. The vulnerabilities those features create get rated high risk far more often than anything else, […]
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The SOC’s visibility gap comes down to staffing 2026-06-17 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz AI has settled into security operations centers faster than any earlier wave of technology. Around four in five practitioners report reaching for AI or machine learning tools in their daily work. The catch shows up one layer down. Roughly a third […]
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Planning a trip? Fake travel sites are multiplying this summer 2026-06-16 at 11:27 By Sinisa Markovic Cyberattacks against hospitality, travel, and recreation organizations rose 24% year over year, reaching an average of 2,291 incidents per organization each week in May 2026, according to Check Point. (Source: Check Point) “The sector has more than doubled its […]
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Cybercriminals are moving away from mass phishing campaigns 2026-06-12 at 13:47 By Sinisa Markovic Phishing activity declined by roughly 20% in both 2024 and 2025, according to research from Zscaler’s ThreatLabz team. The drop followed years of growth that pushed phishing activity above 2 billion hits in 2023. “Phishing volume measured by blocked emails is […]
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