Topic: reputational damage
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Email Breaches: The Silent Threat to Your Business Growth
78% of organizations experienced an email security breach in the past year, primarily through phishing, impersonation, and account takeover, which often lead to ransomware and data loss. The consequences of breaches include reputational damage, operational downtime, and lost business, with smalle...
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The AI Mistake Tesla Already Made With Robots
Businesses replacing human customer service with AI risk alienating customers and damaging brand reputation, as seen in cases like Tesla's production issues. Research shows a strong consumer preference for human agents, with 82% favoring human interaction and satisfaction rates significantly high...
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Highguard Dev Confirms New Patch After Shutdown Fears
Wildlight Entertainment confirmed a new patch is in development for "Highguard", prioritizing game updates over fixing the currently offline official website, which had sparked shutdown fears. The studio's commitment follows significant post-launch layoffs and a steep decline in player count, rai...
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Protect Your Business from Deepfakes: 4 Essential Steps Now
Deepfakes, created using AI, are a growing threat to businesses, enabling cybercriminals to produce convincing fake audio and video for fraud and misinformation. The risks include severe reputational and financial damage, such as stock value drops from fake announcements, and identity theft throu...
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Google Reveals Search Engine Vulnerabilities
A senior Google executive warns that court-ordered sharing of its core search technology, like its index and ranking data, would cause immediate harm by enabling reverse engineering, crippling spam defenses, and compromising user privacy. The mandated sharing of sensitive data, including spam sco...
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Cybersecurity Leaders Hide Cyber Incidents From Executives
Corporate cybersecurity leaders are increasingly concealing security incidents from their own executive leadership and boards, creating a dangerous gap in understanding the organization's true risk profile and leading to decisions based on incomplete information. Nation-state cyberattacks are a p...
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TikTok's AI Reportedly Runs Racist Ads for Games Without Consent
TikTok's advertising AI autonomously created and distributed a racist, sexualized ad for Finji's game without the company's consent, despite having all AI tools disabled in its account settings. TikTok's support initially acknowledged the problem but later contradicted itself, ultimately dismissi...
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Australia excels at detecting cyberattacks but struggles with alert fatigue, Illumio finds
Australian organizations lead globally in detecting lateral movement security incidents (97% detection rate) but face severe operational challenges from overwhelming alert volumes and false positives. Security teams receive an average of 2,061 alerts daily, leading to alert fatigue and spending n...
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Marquis Sues SonicWall Over Firewall Flaws That Enabled Ransomware
Marquis is suing SonicWall, alleging a 2025 breach at the cybersecurity vendor exposed firewall configuration data that hackers used to launch a ransomware attack against Marquis, causing significant harm. The stolen data included sensitive personal and financial information for at least 400,000 ...
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Small Business Cyber Insurance Demand Jumps 50%
Small business cyber insurance adoption surged 50% in one year and 85% over three years, reflecting a major shift in risk management strategies. The increase is driven by growing awareness of cyberattacks' devastating financial impacts, including operational costs, legal fees, and reputational da...
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UK Firms Fear Cyberattacks, Fines, and Reputational Fallout
UK business leaders rank cybersecurity breaches as their top risk, with 58% citing it as their foremost threat, yet 75% doubt their organization's preparedness, a concern grounded in recent experience. Following cyber threats, compliance issues and financial crime are major concerns, driven by ag...
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Xbox Layoffs Risk Microsoft's Acquisition Reputation | Opinion
Microsoft’s Xbox division layoffs raise concerns about the impact on talent and corporate reputation, questioning its $100 billion acquisition strategy amid economic pressures. Employee morale has sharply declined due to repeated restructuring, disrupting projects and risking the loss of top tale...
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North Korean Lazarus Group Unleashes Medusa Ransomware
North Korean state-sponsored hackers, specifically the Lazarus Group, are conducting a new wave of Medusa ransomware attacks targeting the U.S. healthcare sector to demand significant ransoms. The attacks employ a sophisticated toolkit of malware for network intrusion and data theft, with the exa...
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Highguard's "Low Priority" Server Issues Spark Player Backlash
Wildlight released a new update with content like an airship base and new store items, despite ongoing player concerns about the game's future due to technical issues and a troubled launch. The developer downplayed significant problems like the website outage as a "low priority," focusing instead...
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CISA's New Insider Threat Guidance: How to Protect Your Organization
New guidance reframes insider risk as a core organizational challenge, requiring a proactive and collaborative approach that integrates security, HR, legal, and operations into dedicated teams. A recommended four-stage cycle (plan, organize, execute, maintain) helps organizations build mature pro...
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