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Security pros reckon the biggest AI risk comes with an employee badge

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Security pros reckon the biggest AI risk comes with an employee badge 2026-10-26 at 15:16 By Sinisa Markovic Employees pasting company data into AI tools worry security teams more than AI-powered attacks do. Most-concerning risks of AI agents (Source: O’Reilly) AI-generated phishing, the attack they run into most often, made the list of top concerns […]

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AI agent observability is struggling to keep up with hallucinations

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AI agent observability is struggling to keep up with hallucinations 2026-10-22 at 07:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Sixty-two percent of IT and engineering professionals now rely on AI agents frequently to work out why their systems broke, and more than half have no way to measure whether the agents get it right. Splunk surveyed 2,050 of […]

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Your frontline workers have a workaround for that MFA prompt

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Your frontline workers have a workaround for that MFA prompt 2026-10-20 at 07:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Frontline workers in healthcare and manufacturing are getting around slow, unreliable logins by staying signed in, sharing credentials and trying to bypass multifactor authentication. Sapio Research surveyed 700 IT and security decision-makers in August, and 95% said they had […]

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Most companies count AI agents as insiders, and CISOs worry about their own liability

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Most companies count AI agents as insiders, and CISOs worry about their own liability 2026-10-14 at 07:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Software that works on an employee’s behalf is now turning up in incident reports. At 95% of the companies in a Trellix survey of 600 CISOs, an AI agent or other autonomous system was linked […]

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Even with OT network visibility, critical infrastructure operators struggle with legacy equipment

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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 […]

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Automation, AI agents or people? Sorting out who handles each security finding

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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