Topic: cybersecurity risks
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Henkel CISO: The Messy Reality of Legacy Factory Monitoring
Modern smart factories face unique cybersecurity risks due to the convergence of legacy equipment and cloud platforms, requiring comprehensive visibility, local autonomy, and strict vendor accountability to build resilience. A critical vulnerability is the over-reliance on single points of failur...
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The Hidden Threat: Why Attackers Target Neglected Assets
Neglected assets, such as abandoned cloud instances and outdated technology, expand the attack surface by providing easy entry points for intruders without detection. Attackers actively target these overlooked resources, exploiting their lack of monitoring and controls to launch network intrusion...
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Cloud Quantum Computing: $1T Opportunity & Hidden Risks
Quantum computing poses major cybersecurity risks by potentially breaking current encryption methods, threatening industries like finance, healthcare, and defense with algorithms like Shor’s and Grover’s. The "harvest now, decrypt later" attack strategy endangers long-term data security, requirin...
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OpenAI Fortifies AI Defenses Against Rising Cyber Threats
AI capabilities in cybersecurity are advancing rapidly, with OpenAI's models showing a dramatic performance increase, which could enable more sophisticated cyber operations. Experts emphasize that strong foundational security practices remain the best defense, as AI amplifies existing threats and...
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Gartner's Dire Warning: Why It Says Block AI Browsers
Gartner advises businesses to immediately ban AI-powered browsers due to unresolved security vulnerabilities that prioritize convenience over robust enterprise safeguards. These autonomous browsers risk data breaches by potentially interacting with malicious sites or submitting sensitive informat...
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Gartner Urges Temporary Halt to AI Browser Features
Gartner advises businesses to temporarily block AI-powered browsers due to significant security risks, like data loss and exploitation, that currently outweigh their productivity benefits. Key threats include indirect prompt injection attacks, credential theft from phishing, and costly erroneous ...
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Secure Your Smart Building: Why Intelligence Demands Protection
Smart buildings offer convenience through automated systems but face serious cybersecurity risks, as criminals can exploit vulnerabilities to control essential functions like HVAC and security. The rapid growth of the smart building market is accompanied by outdated systems and protocols, with ma...
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Unseen Dangers of Generative AI
Businesses are rapidly adopting AI for productivity but are dangerously unprepared for the unique cybersecurity risks it introduces, such as vulnerabilities from generative models. A significant gap exists between AI investment and security readiness, with most organizations lacking processes to ...
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Securing Critical Infrastructure: A Cyber-Physical Threat Briefing
The convergence of operational technology with digital networks is increasing vulnerabilities in critical infrastructure like energy and transportation systems. Economic instability, geopolitical tensions, and supply chain disruptions are heightening cyber risks, with many organizations re-evalua...
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Connected Cars Advance, But Security Lags Dangerously Behind
Modern connected vehicles offer advanced features but also introduce significant cybersecurity vulnerabilities due to their reliance on software, sensors, and data links. Research highlights multiple risks, including remote access attacks, data leakage, and manipulation of onboard sensors, with r...
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OpenClaw: The Latest on the Trending AI Agent
OpenClaw is a new open-source AI agent that automates complex desktop tasks by taking instructions through messaging apps like WhatsApp and Telegram. Security experts warn the tool poses significant risks, as configuration errors have exposed sensitive user data like private messages and API keys...
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Moltbot: The AI Agent That Actually Does Things
Moltbot is an open-source AI agent that performs tangible tasks on personal devices via chat apps, acting as a proactive assistant for reminders, health tracking, and client communication. It operates with notable speed and reliability but poses significant security risks due to extensive system ...
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Cisco Warns: Aging Tech Poses Major AI Security Risk
Aging digital infrastructure poses a growing security threat, as outdated systems like routers and network storage often lack patches and support, leaving them vulnerable to exploitation by AI-enhanced attackers. Cisco's "Resilient Infrastructure" initiative addresses this by alerting customers t...
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AI Browser Agents: The Hidden Security Threat
A new generation of AI-powered browsers is emerging to challenge Google Chrome, offering automated online task assistance but raising significant privacy and security concerns. These browsers face critical vulnerabilities, particularly from prompt injection attacks that can manipulate AI agents i...
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AI & Cybersecurity Skills: The New Must-Haves for Manufacturing Workers
The manufacturing industry is rapidly adopting smart technologies, with most companies piloting or scaling initiatives and prioritizing cybersecurity, competitive pressures, and workforce shortages. Key investments include cloud platforms, AI, and cybersecurity to enhance quality control, supply ...
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Global Software Supply Chains Lack Critical Visibility
Only 23% of organizations have strong software supply chain visibility, leaving most vulnerable to cybersecurity risks and disruptions. 80% of businesses with poor visibility suffered breaches, with AI adoption and third-party integrations amplifying vulnerabilities. Regional gaps exist in prepar...
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Shadow AI Leaks: The Hidden Risk of Personal LLM Accounts
The unmonitored use of personal AI accounts for work, known as Shadow AI, strips organizations of visibility and control over nearly half of all workplace generative AI activity. This lack of governance leads to heightened data security risks, including a surge in policy violations and the potent...
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5 Essential Ways to Guard Your AI Browser from Prompt Injections
The integration of AI into web browsers introduces significant security risks, with "prompt injection attacks" being a primary threat that can manipulate AI assistants to produce harmful outputs or steal data. These attacks, which can be direct or indirect (like the HashJack technique), exploit...
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Rented Accounts: Who's Really Behind Your Gig Platform Job?
Fraud is a pervasive issue in the gig economy, with over a third of workers reporting being defrauded by customers through tactics like payment disputes and tip baiting, leading to calls for stronger platform intervention. A significant security challenge arises from the normalization of risky pr...
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Microsoft Copilot Accessed Private Emails Without Consent
A security flaw in Microsoft's AI Copilot service allowed it to access and summarize confidential emails, bypassing data protection policies. Microsoft identified and fixed the code defect, which affected the Copilot Chat feature in Outlook and other 365 apps, highlighting new AI-related cybersec...
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AI Debt Collectors: Less Judgment, More Relief
AI-driven debt collection systems offer 24/7 service and can reduce consumer feelings of judgment and stigma compared to human agents, but they create a significant empathy gap in sensitive interactions. While consumers show similar trust in factual information from both AI and human agents, this...
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EU Launches Public Consultation on Digital Ecosystems
The European Commission is launching a public consultation to shape a 2026 policy on open digital ecosystems, aiming to strengthen EU technological sovereignty and resilience by leveraging open source software. A key driver is reducing Europe's external technology dependence, as reliance on forei...
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How a Few Companies Are Winning Big With AI
A vast majority of companies are failing to see financial returns from AI investments, with studies showing most projects have stalled or underperformed despite widespread adoption. Top-performing "Pacesetters," about 13-14% of companies, succeed by treating AI as a core organizational operating ...
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New Prime Number Discovery Threatens Encryption Security
A new method to predict prime numbers, called the Periodic Table of Primes (PTP), could disrupt digital security by revealing patterns in previously thought-random sequences. Cryptographic systems relying on prime factorization may become vulnerable, but the breakthrough could also enable stronge...
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ServiceNow and Nvidia Launch Open-Source Security Model
ServiceNow and Nvidia have launched Apriel 2.0, an open-source AI model designed for building custom agents and enhancing security operations in regulated environments. Built on Nvidia’s Nemotron architecture, it integrates with ServiceNow’s compliance-certified platform, allowing seamless use of...
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Generative AI's Impact on Financial Forecasting
Generative AI is transforming financial forecasting and analysis in the Middle East by processing vast data to produce rapid, sophisticated forecasts and natural-language insights, with widespread adoption by banks and regulators. Adoption is accelerating, with 71% of UAE financial institutions d...
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AI Budgets Soar, But Data Readiness Lags: Qlik 2025 Study
A major gap exists between financial investment and practical implementation of Agentic AI in corporations, primarily due to foundational data challenges like quality, accessibility, and integration. While 97% of organizations have budgeted for Agentic AI and 69% have a defined strategy, only 19%...
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Hackers Breach Federal Agency via GeoServer Flaw, CISA Warns
A critical vulnerability (CVE-2024-36401) in GeoServer was exploited to breach a U.S. federal agency's network after attackers compromised an unpatched server. The attackers moved laterally from the initial entry point, deploying malicious tools like China Chopper and using brute force attacks to...
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Mass SharePoint hacks expose hundreds of organizations
A critical Microsoft SharePoint vulnerability (CVE-2025-53770) has been exploited in a widespread cyberattack, compromising hundreds of organizations, including government agencies like the U.S. NNSA. Dutch firm Eye Security discovered over 400 affected servers, with hackers gaining unauthorized ...
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Socure Workforce Verification Stops Fake & Altered IDs
Businesses face rising employment fraud, with fake applicants using AI-generated documents and synthetic identities to bypass hiring checks, prompting Socure to launch its Workforce Verification solution. Fraudsters exploit outdated verification methods, using deepfake credentials to access sensi...
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Is Europe Ready for the Self-Driving Car Revolution?
Autonomous vehicles are advancing toward reality in Europe, with technologies like Level 2 autonomy serving as critical steps toward fully self-driving systems. Europe faces significant hurdles including regulatory fragmentation, infrastructure inconsistencies, and cybersecurity risks, which coul...
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US Treasury Sanctions Entities in Illegal IT Worker Scheme
The US Treasury sanctioned two individuals and four companies for facilitating illegal IT work by North Koreans, who used fake identities to secure remote jobs and funnel earnings to Pyongyang. Key figures include North Korean operative Song Kum Hyok, who orchestrated identity theft, and Russian ...
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AI at Work: The Hidden Divide Between Employees and Employers
AI adoption in the workplace is growing but uneven, with 45% of U.S. workers using it for tasks, yet a significant communication gap exists as many employees are unaware of their company's official AI stance. Organizations face a challenge in balancing employee-driven AI experimentation with nece...
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AI Outpaces Enterprise Security Controls
Rapid AI adoption is outpacing security and governance, creating a critical gap between technological ambition and the operational controls needed for safe, scalable deployment. Infrastructure readiness is a major bottleneck, with legacy systems struggling to support AI at scale, leading to slow ...
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