RSAC 2026: No easy fixes for expanding AI attack surface, but a coordinated response is emerging
By Byron V. Acohido SAN FRANCISCO — Forty-four thousand cybersecurity practitioners converged on Moscone Center this week with an...
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News alert: DDoS attacks surge 150%—Gcore analysis shows faster, cheaper more frequent attacks
LUXEMBOURG, Luxembourg, March 24, 2026, CyberNewswire— Gcore, the global infrastructure and software provider for AI, cloud, network, and security solutions,...
FIRESIDE CHAT: In the AI age, your MFA, authentication apps can be compromised in minutes
By Byron V. Acohido The authentication layer that corporate America spent a decade building is now a liability. Listen...
MY TAKE: As RSAC 2026 opens, AI has bifurcated cybersecurity into two wars—the clock is running
By Byron V. Acohido SAN FRANCISCO — RSAC 2026 opens here Monday at Moscone Center, with upwards of 40,000...
GUEST ESSAY: Executives trust AI security even as security teams confront blind spots, new risks
By Daniel Bardenstein In our recent report, Beyond the Black Box, we found a striking gap: 80% of executives...
News alert: SpyCloud study reveal stolen tokens, session data fuel surge in non-human identity attacks
AUSTIN, Texas, Mar. 19, 2026, CyberNewswire—SpyCloud, the leader in identity threat protection, today released its annual 2026 Identity Exposure...
News alert: Orchid Security brings Zero-Trust to AI Agent identities, earns Gartner recognition
NEW YORK, Mar. 17, 2026, CyberNewswire—Orchid Security, the company bringing clarity and control to the complexity of enterprise identity,...
News alert: GitGuardian study shows AI coding tools double leak rates as 29M credentials hit GitHub
NEW YORK, Mar.17, 2026, CyberNewswire — GitGuardian, the security leader behind GitHub’s most installed application, today released the 5th...
MY TAKE: The AI magic is back — whether it endured depends on Amazon’s next moves
By Byron V. Acohido I ran an experiment this week that I did not expect to be instructive, and...
News alert: Qevlar AI raises $30M to turn security alerts into actionable defense insights across SOCs
PARIS, March 10, 2026 — Qevlar AI, a leader in AI for transforming security operations centres (SOCs), has raised...
MY TAKE: ChatGPT is turning into Microsoft Office — and power users are paying the price
By Byron V. Acohido Something has been shifting inside the tools millions of us use every day, and it’s...
News alert: DDoS attacks surge 75% in 2025; Link11 says attacks now sustained, not sporadic
FRANKFURT, Mar. 2, 2026, CyberNewswire — Link11 has published its European Cyber Report 2026, revealing that DDoS attacks reached a...
GUEST ESSAY: Real cyber risks arise when small flaws combine and alerts are viewed in isolation
By Jeremy Colvin Security teams are drowning in signals. Alerts fire. Logs accumulate. Dashboards light up. Yet breaches still...
MY TAKE: The Pentagon punished Anthropic for red lines it accepted from OpenAI hours later
By Byron V. Acohido KINGSTON, Wash. — On Friday afternoon, President Trump ordered every federal agency to stop using...
News alert: One Identity fills CFO-COO role to strengthen operating discipline amid expansion
ALISA VIEJO, Calif., Feb. 25, 2026, CyberNewswire—One Identity, a trusted leader in identity security, today announced the appointment of...
