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Nearly three out of four European IT and cybersecurity professionals say staff are already using generative AI at work, up ten points in a year, but just under a third of organizations have put formal policies in place, according to new ISACA research. The use of AI is becoming more prevalent within the workplace, and so regulating its use is best practice. Yet 31% of organizations have a formal, comprehensive AI policy in place, highlighting a disparity between how often AI is used versus how closely it’s regulated in workplaces. Policies work twofold to enhance activity and protect businesses AI…
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a present-day force that’s being exploited by threat actors to scale attacks, manipulate perception, and erode trust with a precision and speed that simply wasn’t possible five years ago. With everything from deepfake-enabled fraud to multilingual phishing campaigns and jailbroken Large Language Models (LLMs), malicious innovation is rapidly advancing, and organizations must outpace it. Between January 1 and May 30, 2025, threat intelligence analysts from Flashpoint observed more than two and a half million AI-related posts: jailbreak prompts, deepfake service ads, phishing toolkits, and bespoke language models built for fraud and cybercrime. The firm has just released a new report titled…
In the world of cryptocurrency, where exchanges can appear and vanish in the blink of an eye, a decade of continuous operation is more than a milestone, it’s a testament to resilience, security, and trust. BTCC, founded in the nascent days of Bitcoin in 2011, is one of these rare veterans. But in today’s hyper-competitive market, does this pioneer still have what it takes to serve the modern trader and investor? To find out, we embarked on a comprehensive, hands-on review of the BTCC platform. This isn’t just a summary of features, we used demo capital, 100,000 USDT to be…
What you need to know about SCA tools Quick Answer: The top SCA tools in 2025 are Mend.io (best for automated remediation and proactive SCA), Sonatype Lifecycle (known for enterprise policy management), Snyk (known for developer experience), and Checkmarx SCA (known for comprehensive coverage). According to industry reports, organizations using SCA tools can reduce vulnerability remediation time by up to 80%. Key Statistics: 96% of applications contain open-source components 85% of software projects contain at least one outdated open source component Codebases contain at least one known vulnerability Supply chain attacks have become a significant threat to organizations According to…
Darin Roberts // ADVISORY: The techniques and tools referenced within this blog post may be outdated and do not apply to current situations. However, there is still potential for this blog entry to be used as an opportunity to learn and to possibly update or integrate into modern tools and techniques. According to the Identity Theft Resource Center, there were 781 data breaches tracked in 2015. That is, on average, over 2 per day. And that represents only the data breaches that were reported by legal requirements or that were reported by news media. This is the second highest year…
modeling is the pinnacle of analytics value. It doesn’t focus on what happened, or even what will happen – it takes analytics further by telling us what we should do to change what will happen. To harness this extra prescriptive power, however, we must take on an additional assumption…a causal assumption. The naive practitioner may not be aware that moving from predictive to prescriptive comes with the baggage of this lurking assumption. I Googled ‘prescriptive analytics’ and searched the first ten articles for the word ‘causal.’ Not to my surprise (but to my disappointment), I didn’t get a single hit.…
Palo Alto, California, June 30th, 2025, CyberNewsWire Every security practitioner knows that employees are the weakest link in an organization, but this is no longer the case. SquareX’s research reveals that Browser AI Agents are more likely to fall prey to cyberattacks than employees, making them the new weakest link that enterprise security teams need to look out for. Browser AI Agents are software applications that act on behalf of users to access and interact with web content. Users can instruct these agents to automate browser-based tasks such as flight bookings, scheduling meetings, sending emails, and even simple research tasks.…
You’ve probably felt your phone buzz and glanced at the screen, only to see an unfamiliar number. Should you answer? Maybe it’s important. Maybe it’s a scam. More often than not, it’s a spam call — an unwanted interruption that wastes your time and potentially puts your personal information at risk. These calls often rely on automated systems that dial thousands of numbers at once. Instead of speaking with a real person, you’re greeted by a pre-recorded pitch or a suspicious message pretending to be from a trusted company. In some cases, the number looks local, even familiar — a…
Mike Perez // At BHIS, a few of our customers have come to us very recently with the “risk du jour”; no, not the Cash for Creds program Beau highlighted but the risk posed when they discover that a business partner or far flung subsidiary has been hit by some ransomware variant. Side note: Be sure to take a listen to our recent ransomware webcast! To that end, we came up with some quick and dirty recommendations. Note that these recommendations also apply when you’ve got a partner that has suffered a breach or major infection. Delineate all business processes/possible interactions…