Introduction Web applications are the backbone of modern organizations, enabling digital transformation, customer engagement, and business operations. However, rapid development cycles, complex cloud environments, and increasingly sophisticated threats expose critical security gaps. Weak access controls, insufficient visibility, and delayed threat…
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Your Backup System Is Your Biggest Security Blind Spot
The cybersecurity industry has made tremendous strides in protecting organizations from external threats. Zero Trust architecture, advanced endpoint detection, and AI-powered threat hunting have become standard components of the modern security stack. Yet despite these investments, many organizations remain vulnerable…
Securing the Gaps: Firewalls in a Hybrid Cloud World
Hybrid cloud has fundamentally changed how systems are built—but how we secure them hasn’t evolved at the same pace. The illusion that a firewall can “secure the edge” is still baked into most architectures, even though there’s no meaningful edge…
A New Breed of Ransomware Threatens Total Data Destruction
Until now, most ransomware attacks have revolved around double or triple extortion tactics—where hackers not only encrypt the victim’s data but also steal it and threaten to leak it publicly unless a ransom is paid. However, a new and even…
Google Warns Users About Phishing Scam Targeting 2 Billion Active Accounts
Google has recently issued a security alert regarding a sophisticated phishing scam that is targeting its massive user base of 2 billion active accounts. The company has made it clear that emails coming from the address “no-reply@accounts dot google dot…
Catfishing via ChatGPT: A Deep Cybersecurity Concern
The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing technologies has revolutionized the way we interact online. Tools like ChatGPT, which leverage deep learning models to generate human-like responses, have become commonplace in various fields—ranging from customer service…
The Cybersecurity Gap Is No Longer Talent—It’s Tempo
It sounds like an exercise in theory: what if a researcher could prompt an AI to reverse-engineer a vulnerability, locate the patched commit, and generate a working exploit—all in a single afternoon? But that’s exactly what security researcher Matt Keeley…
It’s Time to Move Away from the “Phonebook” Approach to Cybersecurity
Database expert Dominik Tomicevic highlights the limitations of traditional cybersecurity defense methods and why knowledge graphs could be a better avenue for the CISO to pursue Data shows that the global cost of cybercrime will soar by four trillion dollars…
Ransomware attack on UK Food Distributor to supermarkets
In a troubling development, a new victim of ransomware has emerged today, targeting a key food distributor that supplies refrigerated goods and groceries to major UK supermarket chains, including Tesco, Aldi, and Sainsbury’s. This follows a string of similar incidents…
The End of VPNs — Part 2: Beyond the Buzz of Zero Trust
[Part 2 of 2 – Based on an interview with Zscaler CSO Deepen Desai] By Holger Schulze, Cybersecurity Insiders “Zero Trust isn’t a feature,” Deepen Desai told me during our RSA Conference interview. “It’s an architectural decision to stop trusting…