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Strategic AI readiness for cybersecurity: From hype to reality
2025-04-16 05:30

AI readiness in cybersecurity involves more than just possessing the latest tools and technologies; it is a strategic necessity. Many companies could encounter serious repercussions, such as...

U.S. Govt. Funding for MITRE's CVE Ends April 16, Cybersecurity Community on Alert
2025-04-16 05:06

The U.S. government funding for non-profit research giant MITRE to operate and maintain its Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program will expire Wednesday, an unprecedented development...

Attack Flow: Learn how cyber adversaries combine and sequence offensive techniques
2025-04-16 05:00

MITRE’s Attack Flow project aims to translate complex cyber operations into a structured language. By describing how adversaries sequence and combine offensive techniques to reach their...

The future of authentication: Why passwordless is the way forward
2025-04-16 04:30

By now, most CISOs agree: passwords are the weakest link in the authentication chain. They’re easy to guess, hard to manage, and constantly reused. Even the most complex password policies don’t...

Browser extensions make nearly every employee a potential attack vector
2025-04-16 04:00

Despite being present on virtually every employee’s browser, extensions are rarely monitored by security teams or controlled by IT, according to LayerX. Most extensions have access to sensitive...

Uncle Sam kills funding for CVE program. Yes, that CVE program
2025-04-16 00:00

Because vulnerability management has nothing to do with national security, right? Updated US government funding for the world's CVE program – the centralized Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures...

ChatGPT 4.1 early benchmarks compared against Google Gemini
2025-04-15 21:20

ChatGPT 4.1 is now rolling out, and it's a significant leap from GPT 4o, but it fails to beat the benchmark set by Google's most powerful model, Gemini. [...]

Gartner’s 12 Emerging Tech Disruptors & Why ‘Technology Leaders Must Take Action Now’
2025-04-15 20:49

A Gartner distinguished VP analyst offers TechRepublic readers advice about which early-stage technologies that will define the future of business systems to prioritize.

Now 1.6M people had SSNs, life chapter and verse stolen from insurance IT biz
2025-04-15 20:43

800K? Make that double, and we'll need a double, too, for the pain A Texas firm that provides backend IT and other services for American insurers has admitted twice as many people had their info...

Midnight Blizzard deploys new GrapeLoader malware in embassy phishing
2025-04-15 20:25

Russian state-sponsored espionage group Midnight Blizzard is behind a new spear-phishing campaign targeting diplomatic entities in Europe, including embassies. [...]