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As we near the start of summer, it’s time for the next installment of our cybersecurity roundup, focused on keeping you up to speed on all the latest cybersecurity news. As usual, there’s more to report than we have room for, but this time out we focus on AI implementation risks in business (as well …| Peterson Technology Partners
We begin our bi-monthly roundup of cybersecurity news at the year’s first quarter point with these surprising results from Cloudflare research released in mid-March: Based on an analysis from late last year on sites they protect, Cloudflare discovered a surprisingly large number of successful logins (41%) used passwords that were already leaked. These included …| Peterson Technology Partners
It’s a new year for our cybersecurity roundup in 2025, and this time out we’ll be looking back at the end of last year and diving forward into January’s major cybersecurity news. Let’s begin with some general observations: Cybersecurity is only getting more complex, on the basis of more unpredictable supply chains and the rapid …| Peterson Technology Partners
Cybercrime keeps on surging. Late last year, US Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Tech Anne Neuberger said that the annual average cost will reach $23 trillion in 2027, worldwide. Breaches are constant and costly, and AI is both helping with defense and exponentially proliferating attacks, driving a staggering 1,265% increase in phishing …| Peterson Technology Partners
The CrowdStrike Microsoft story is all over the news, so I won’t waste time with a restatement of facts. People all over the world were at best inconvenienced, and at worst suffered true hardships as computer systems were knocked out all over the world, halting entire processes. The very security we look to for protection, …| Peterson Technology Partners
It’s the end of July, 2024: do you know where your passwords are? On July 4th a plaintext file containing nearly 10 billion passwords was released in the biggest dump of its kind. Gathered from varying sources, the file (named rockyou2024), updates prior releases, like rockyou2021 (with 8.4 billion passwords), and a 2009 data breach …| Peterson Technology Partners
KrebsOnSecurity recently heard from a reader whose boss's email account got phished and was used to trick one of the company's customers into sending a large payment to scammers. An investigation into the attacker's infrastructure points to a long-running Nigerian…| krebsonsecurity.com
11,000 applications per minute. According to The New York Times’s Sarah Kessler, that’s what LinkedIn is dealing with today, up 45% from just a year ago. This is because it’s now so easy to get resumes updated, keywords added, and cover letters revised. All with the help of AI chatbots. Even easier are AI agents, …| Peterson Technology Partners
By now everyone who reads this has experienced the real-world impacts of cybercrime. If you’re lucky, maybe it’s just been a few notifications that your personal data has been breached. Maybe it’s led to longer lines, unexpected temporary closures, or slow service at a hotel or favorite store. For those less fortunate, this …| Peterson Technology Partners
