Tag: business
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Meta wants to scrape your website to train its AI, and you can’t say no
Meta wants the right to scrape your website for AI training. If you have a business account, that includes you. At the end of the month, Meta plans to change its commercial terms in a way that matters to every company advertising or selling through its platforms. The new language takes effect on October 30,…
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Conduent Agrees to Pay $80m to Settle Data Breach Class Action
The 2024 cyber incident affected the healthcare data of 62 million people, who launched a class action lawsuit against the business services firm First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/conduent-settle-data-breach-action/
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CMA to decide Microsoft strategic market status by February 2027
The CMA proposes to designate Microsoft’s business software ecosystem with strategic market status and sets out a roadmap on Copilot, Teams, cloud licensing and security First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366652472/CMA-to-decide-Microsoft-strategic-market-status-by-February-2027
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Hackers disguise phishing as promising business opportunities
Attackers are breaking into business email accounts with short messages asking whether a company can quote on an upcoming project, the kind of request sales and procurement … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/10/16/rfq-phishing-emails-sales-procurement-staff/
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Frustrated Ransomware Gangs Turn to Real World Threats
Tags: business, cyber, cybersecurity, defense, extortion, hacker, identity, ransomware, resilience, threatRansomware Hackers Discover Violence as Digital Defenses Stymie Extortion. Ransomware gangs are turning to real world threats against business executives and even their families, to gain an edge in negotiations as enterprises boost their cyber resilience and become less willing to pay extortion, finds a survey commissioned by identity-centered cybersecurity firm Semperis First seen on…
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GuidePoint Security’s Mark Thornberry Promoted To Chief Business Officer For AI Platform, Hyperscaler Push
GuidePoint Security announced Thursday it has promoted vendor partnerships leader Mark Thornberry to serve as chief business officer, as the cybersecurity powerhouse aims to accelerate its work with top AI platforms and hyperscalers, the solution provider tells CRN exclusively. First seen on crn.com Jump to article: www.crn.com/news/security/2026/guidepoint-security-s-mark-thornberry-promoted-to-chief-business-officer-for-ai-platform-hyperscaler-push
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Windows 11 Remote Desktop Fails After Update, Microsoft Points to Security Feature
A Windows 11 update is disrupting Remote Desktop connections for some business users. Microsoft identifies the affected security feature and a workaround. The post Windows 11 Remote Desktop Fails After Update, Microsoft Points to Security Feature appeared first on TechRepublic. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/news-windows-11-remote-desktop-failures/
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Is AI pentesting as good as a human pentester?
AI pentesting can uncover vulnerabilities missed by human testers, but it also has limitations in consistency, risk assessment, and understanding business context. Intruder compares the strengths and weaknesses of both approaches and explains where AI agents can improve security testing. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/is-ai-pentesting-as-good-as-a-human-pentester/
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Fake AI Attacks Spread Across US Companies: How MSSPs Can Stop Incidents Early
Attackers are impersonating popular AI products to distribute malware, steal browser sessions, and compromise business accounts. ANY.RUN linked 1,258 public sandbox analyses to fake AI campaigns between April and October of 2026. The campaigns also increase operational pressure on MSSPs serving US businesses, which accounted for 16% of country-attributed targets. Similar attacks First seen on…
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Harmonic Security Raises $50M to Track AI Agent Activity
Former Digital Shadows CEO Builds AI Security Firm Around Contextual Risk Analysis. Harmonic Security raised $50 million in a Crosspoint Capital-led Series B to expand AI usage intelligence, using proprietary small language models to track employee and AI agent activity, identify sensitive data risks and help enterprises assess the business value of AI adoption. First…
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Who Pays When the AI Tiger Gets Loose?
Autonomous Agents Raise Liability Questions Frontier Labs Can No Longer Ignore Frontier AI companies want autonomous agents powerful enough to transform business, but unpredictable enough to distance developers from the damage. As agents escape safeguards and probe outside systems, an old legal principle may provide the answer: Don’t forget to lock your tiger’s cage. First…
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Wenn BEC-Angriffe die Wirklichkeit im Unternehmen umschreiben
Business-E-Mail-Compromise (BEC) folgt seit Jahren einem bekannten Muster. Angreifer verschaffen sich Zugang zu einem Postfach, beobachten still die Kommunikation, rekonstruieren Freigabeprozesse und nutzen dieses Wissen schließlich, um Zahlungen umzuleiten oder sensible Daten abzugreifen. Neue Untersuchungen zeigen nun, dass sich dieses Muster grundlegend verschiebt. Im Rahmen einer gemeinsamen Untersuchung mit dem Hersteller Zimbra hat das Sicherheitsunternehmen…
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Patching and preventing issues: What are the lessons you can learn?
In this Help Net Security interview, Kunal Modasiya, Senior VP GM at Qualys, talks about why patching is still hard to get right. He explains how business pressure, … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/10/14/kunal-modasiya-qualys-vulnerability-remediation/
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Billion-Dollar Companies Twice as Likely to Leave Critical Vulnerabilities Unpatched
New Chainguard research reveals larger companies struggle to patch vulnerabilities due to business priorities and operational disruption First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/companies-leave-critical/
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SAP Discloses Critical CVSS 10 Flaw in Cloud SDK for Python Allowing OAuth2 Credential Theft
A flaw in SAP’s Cloud SDK for Python can send an application’s OAuth2 client credentials to a server an attacker controls, SAP said in a security advisory on October 13. The flaw affects multi-tenant applications on SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) that use the SDK, SAP’s official Python client for BTP services. An attacker must…
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Hobbs and Whistles owner investigates hack that may have exposed customer data
Cyber-attack on TFG London comes less than a week after online fashion seller Asos was hit by hackers<ul><li><a href=”https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2026/oct/13/imf-uk-economy-growth-boost-chancellor-john-healey-oil-prices-inflation-business-live-news”>Business live latest updates</li></ul>The owner of Phase Eight, Hobbs and Whistles has said its websites and IT systems have been hit by a cyber-attack that may have compromised customers’ personal data.The South-African listed TFG London said it…
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IonQ to buy zero-trust security firm Elisity in deal valued at up to $1.3 billion
The acquisition pairs Elisity’s zero-trust access controls with IonQ’s post-quantum cryptography business as federal agencies and major companies accelerate timelines for quantum-ready encryption. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/ionq-acquires-elisity-1-3-billion-quantum-security/
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Leading digital change when nobody prepared you for it
By Louise John, Head of IT Service Delivery at Virgin Active For IT managers, unexpected projects and changing business priorities are normal part of the job. You might have spent months planning your team’s workload, but only to be told with little warning that a new software solution needs to be implemented within six weeks.…
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Practical AI Integration for Modern Business Teams
Learn how businesses can use AI to reduce repetitive work, improve workflows, connect information, and support better everyday decisions. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/practical-ai-integration-modern-business-teams/
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Practical AI Integration for Modern Business Teams
Learn how businesses can use AI to reduce repetitive work, improve workflows, connect information, and support better everyday decisions. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/practical-ai-integration-modern-business-teams/
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The AI Velocity Paradox: Why Security Is Decades Behind AI Ambition
As enterprises race to deploy autonomous AI agents to accelerate business, a new report reveals they are tethered to security architectures built for a different era. The “Horizons of Identity Security” report from SailPoint highlights a critical “velocity paradox,” in which organizations invest in AI-speed business operations while continuing to rely on human-speed security controls,…
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CMMC Is a Business Decision: Making the Case for Compliance
Why CMMC Readiness Is a Revenue, Risk and Leadership Decision First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/blogs/cmmc-business-decision-making-case-for-compliance-p-4208
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Making the Case to the Board for Post-Quantum Readiness
Frame Quantum Risk Around Business Exposure, Timelines and Staged Investment. CIOs seeking board support for post-quantum readiness should skip the physics lesson. The stronger case connects vulnerable cryptography to critical services, explains the cost of waiting and requests funding in manageable stages. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/making-case-to-board-for-post-quantum-readiness-a-33036
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Making the Case to the Board for Post-Quantum Readiness
Frame Quantum Risk Around Business Exposure, Timelines and Staged Investment. CIOs seeking board support for post-quantum readiness should skip the physics lesson. The stronger case connects vulnerable cryptography to critical services, explains the cost of waiting and requests funding in manageable stages. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/making-case-to-board-for-post-quantum-readiness-a-33036
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Middle managers want tighter human oversight of AI than their bosses, TeamViewer research finds
Executives may be more relaxed about handing IT decisions to AI than the managers who answer to them, according to new research from TeamViewer. The study found that 46% of middle managers want a human involved when AI resolves IT issues that could affect security, data or business operations. Among executive leaders, the figure falls…
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Fake ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini Ads Use Browserthe-Browser Phishing to Steal Accounts
A human-operated phishing platform impersonating AI advertising products to steal credentials and manipulate multifactor authentication workflows. The operation targets advertising professionals through convincing account-connection pages, with researchers observing hundreds of victim submissions and continued activity during their investigation. Rather than presenting an obvious password request, the attackers sell a plausible business workflow: campaign optimization, spending…
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Angriffspfadanalyse stärkt die Business-Resilienz Ansatz und Sinn der Kartierung von Cyber-Risikoexposition
Ein erfolgreicher Erstzugriff ist nicht automatisch eine Unternehmenskrise. Entscheidend ist, wie weit sich Angreifer danach durch Identitäten, Systeme und Vertrauensbeziehungen bewegen können. Angriffspfadanalysen verbinden technische Erreichbarkeit mit geschäftlicher Kritikalität: Sie zeigen, welche Wege zu besonders wichtigen Assets führen, welche Kontrollen fehlen und wo Investitionen den größten Beitrag zur Cyber-Resilienz leisten. Der Ansatz ergänzt klassische Schwachstellenbewertungen……