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When it comes to small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), the conversation around financial empowerment is overdue for an overhaul. Despite accounting for over 99% of businesses in the United States, SMBs have historically been treated as an afterthought by traditional financial institutions — a vast, diverse market that often gets compressed into one generic offering. “Let’s not think that it’s applied the same way if I am in construction or landscaping as compared to if I’m in design and eComm products,” i2c Senior Vice President, Transformation David Durovy told PYMNTS. “They’re very different. And those business owners are looking for…

With employees working in the office, from home, and points beyond, securing the hybrid workforce requires more than just a VPN replacement in the cloud, or a scattered mix of point solutions. Organizations need a cloud-delivered platform that combines secure access, threat prevention, and AI-driven automation without compromising performance or visibility. That’s what SASE is supposed to deliver, but not all SASE platforms are created equal. In its recent AI-Powered Cyber Security Platform Assessment, Miercom evaluated the top cyber security vendors—including Check Point, Zscaler, Palo Alto Networks, Cisco, and Fortinet—across 10 real-world enterprise use cases. Check Point emerged as the…

Austin, United States / TX, July 21st, 2025, CyberNewsWire Living Security, the global leader in Human Risk Management (HRM), today released the 2025 State of Human Cyber Risk Report, an independent study conducted by leading research firm Cyentia Institute. The report provides an unprecedented look at behavioral risk inside organizations and reveals how strategic HRM programs can reduce that risk 60% faster than traditional methods. Drawing on behavioral data from more than 100 enterprises and hundreds of millions of user events, the study offers a first-of-its-kind, data-driven map of where cyber risk actually lives in the workforce and how leading organizations are shrinking it.…

Microsoft has recently observed the threat group Octo Tempest, also known as Scattered Spider, Muddled Libra, UNC3944, or 0ktapus, targeting the airline sector, marking a shift from its earlier activity between April and July this year that focused on retail, food service, hospitality, and insurance organizations. The behavior is consistent with the group’s pattern of concentrating on a specific industry for an extended period before pivoting to new targets. Microsoft Security is actively updating its protection coverage in response to these evolving tactics. The financially motivated cybercriminal group has been observed impacting organizations using varying methods in their end-to-end attacks.…

Topic: The Future of Pen Testing: How AI Is Reshaping Ethical Hacking Watch Now Abstract: With cyberthreats becoming more sophisticated, traditional penetration testing capabilities often fall short in addressing the demands of the evolving threat landscape. The integration of artificial intelligence is set to redefine the boundaries of ethical hacking, with automated exploitation and intelligent risk assessment enabling security teams to manage and mitigate threats more quickly and effectively. This webinar will discuss the role of AI in ethical hacking, from intelligent vulnerability discovery to automated exploitation and real-time risk assessment. It sheds light on how to leverage AI to simulate…

As artificial intelligence (AI) accelerates across industries from financial modeling and autonomous vehicles to medical imaging and logistics optimization, one issue consistently flies under the radar: Physical security.  The post The Overlooked Risk in AI Infrastructure: Physical Security  appeared first on Security Boulevard.

is the science of providing LLMs with the correct context to maximize performance. When you work with LLMs, you typically create a system prompt, asking the LLM to perform a certain task. However, when working with LLMs from a programmer’s perspective, there are more elements to consider. You have to determine what other data you can feed your LLM to improve its ability to perform the task you asked it to do. In this article, I will discuss the science of context engineering and how you can apply context engineering techniques to improve your LLM’s performance. In this article, I…

More than 913,111 ETH has been permanently lost due to user and contract-related errors, according to Conor Grogan, a director at Coinbase.At current prices, that amounts to approximately $3.43 billion in inaccessible assets, which represent over 0.76% of Ethereum’s total circulating supply.Grogan highlighted several major incidents that have contributed to this significant number of irreversible ETH losses.Lost Ethereum (Source: X/ Grogan)Topping the list is the Web3 Foundation, which lost 306,000 ETH due to a vulnerability in the Parity multisig wallet. The defunct Canadian crypto exchange QuadrigaCX lost 60,000 ETH through a faulty smart contract. NFT project Akutars mistakenly burned 11,500…

U.S. CISA urges to immediately patch Microsoft SharePoint flaw adding it to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Pierluigi Paganini July 21, 2025 U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Microsoft SharePoint flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Microsoft SharePoint flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-53770 (“ToolShell”) (CVSS score of 9.8), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. This week, Microsoft released emergency SharePoint updates for two zero-day flaws, tracked as CVE-2025-53770 and CVE-2025-53771, exploited since July 18 in attacks dubbed “ToolShell.” Both vulnerabilities only impact on-premises SharePoint Servers, threat actors could chain them for unauthenticated, remote code…