Cybersecurity

A cybersecurity team reviewing a patch queue dashboard during an AI security risk discussion
Cybersecurity

The Real AI Security Risk Isn’t Smarter Hackers — It’s Your Patch Queue

When people hear that a frontier AI model can chain together the steps of a cyberattack faster than a human expert, the instinctive reaction is fear: robots are coming for our firewalls. But the more useful question isn’t whether AI can find a way in — it’s whether your organization can find out, decide what matters, get the right person to approve a fix, and actually deploy it before the window of exposure closes. That unglamorous sequence of tasks, not some cinematic AI-versus-AI showdown, is where the next few years of cybersecurity will actually be decided.

A USB recovery drive beside a laptop, representing a Windows recovery drive used to repair boot problems
Cybersecurity

The USB Stick That Doesn’t Save Your Files but Might Save Your Weekend

Picture the moment a routine Windows update finally forces that reboot you’ve been postponing for days — and instead of your desktop, you get a spinning wheel, a restart, another spinning wheel. No login screen, no explanation, just a loop. For one user who wrote about the experience, that moment came after a cumulative update, and the fix wasn’t a miracle — it was a $0 USB stick made months earlier, sitting unused in a drawer.

A person reviewing a domain registration screen and privacy settings, illustrating domain privacy in cybersecurity
Cybersecurity

When Fighting Fake Websites Means Exposing Real People

Imagine registering a small blog, a nonprofit’s donation page, or a side business website, and discovering that your home address and phone number are now one search away from anyone who wants them — not because you did anything wrong, but because a court thousands of miles away decided that hiding that information makes fraud too easy. That is roughly the situation domain registrars say they now face because of a ruling from the Delhi High Court, and it is why GoDaddy, Namecheap, and other companies that sell website addresses for a living are pushing back hard.

A laptop screen showing cybersecurity compliance documents and a software inventory for the EU Cyber Resilience Act
Cybersecurity

When Software Grows a Legal Spine: Inside the EU’s Cyber Resilience Act

For years, building secure software in Europe meant following your own conscience — or your customer’s contract. You could ship a container image with no software inventory, patch vulnerabilities on whatever schedule suited you, and disclose flaws only if you felt like it. Good teams did better than that anyway, because it was good engineering. But nothing in EU law forced anyone to. The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) changes that calculus: it takes practices security-conscious teams already knew were “best practice” and turns them into conditions for selling a product in Europe at all.

Security analyst reviewing event security threat intelligence for fake domains and online chatter linked to a major venue
Cybersecurity

When a Fake Ticket Site Is the First Sign of a Real-World Threat

Weeks before a stadium fills or a parade route closes to traffic, a different kind of activity is often already underway: someone registers a domain that looks almost like the official event site, a scam vendor lists a “sold out” hotel room that doesn’t exist, and a name that matches a VIP’s travel schedule surfaces in a chat channel nobody official is watching. None of that looks like a security emergency. But taken together, these small digital traces are frequently the earliest form of warning that a major event’s security team will ever get — long before anyone reaches a checkpoint.

Security analyst reviewing autonomous AI pentesting results on a laptop dashboard
Artificial Intelligence

Why Security Teams Are Pulling Back from Autonomous AI Pentesting

A year ago, nearly one in three security professionals believed that fully autonomous AI systems could handle their organization’s penetration testing needs. Today, that number has collapsed to just 9%. The speed of that reversal is telling — not because AI-powered security tools have stopped improving, but because the gap between what they were marketed to do and what they actually deliver in practice has become impossible to ignore.

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