Tag: skills
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6 ways attackers abuse AI services to hack your business
Tags: ai, api, attack, backdoor, breach, business, ceo, china, control, cve, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data, email, espionage, exploit, framework, group, hacking, injection, leak, LLM, malicious, malware, marketplace, microsoft, monitoring, open-source, openai, service, skills, software, startup, supply-chain, threat, tool, vulnerabilityAbusing AI platforms as covert C2 channels: Cybercriminals are also abusing AI platforms as covert command-and-control (C2) channels by turning AI services into proxies that hide malicious traffic inside the flow of legitimate content.Instead of running a dedicated C2 server, malware is programmed to fetch commands and exfiltrate data through AI services, circumventing traditional security…
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12 cyber industry trends revealed at RSAC 2026
Tags: access, ai, application-security, authentication, awareness, business, ciso, cloud, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, deep-fake, defense, detection, edr, endpoint, firewall, gartner, governance, identity, infrastructure, insurance, metric, microsoft, monitoring, mssp, phishing, programming, risk, risk-management, service, siem, skills, soc, software, startup, technology, threat, tool, trainingLegacy security vendors have the inside track on AI, for now: As far as AI technology consumption for cybersecurity, most CISOs I spoke with were open-minded while leaning toward their existing vendors, at least in the short term. This may buy legacy security vendors a bit, but not much time.Remember what happened in the cloud…
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Mutation testing for the agentic era
Tags: ai, api, authentication, blockchain, framework, guide, metric, open-source, risk, rust, skills, software, switch, tool, vulnerabilityCode coverage is one of the most dangerous quality metrics in software testing. Many developers fail to realize that code coverage lies by omission: it measures execution, not verification. Test suites with high coverage can obfuscate the fact that critical functionality is untested as software develops over time. We saw this when mutation testing uncovered…
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How we made Trail of Bits AI-native (so far)
Tags: access, ai, application-security, attack, automation, blockchain, business, ceo, chatgpt, computer, computing, conference, control, data, email, germany, government, identity, injection, jobs, macOS, marketplace, nvidia, open-source, risk, service, skills, strategy, supply-chain, technology, threat, tool, vulnerabilityThis post is adapted from a talk I gave at [un]prompted, the AI security practitioner conference. Thanks to Gadi Evron for inviting me to speak. You can watch the recorded presentation below or download the slides. Most companies hand out ChatGPT licenses and wait for the productivity numbers to move. We built a system instead.…
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MIWIC26: Laura Price, Cyber Skills Partnership Lead at BT
Organised by Eskenzi PR in media partnership with the IT Security Guru, the Most Inspiring Women in Cyber Awards aim to shed light on the remarkable women in our industry. The following is a feature on one of 2026’s Top 20 women selected by an esteemed panel of judges. Presented in a Q&A format, the nominee’s answers are…
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How OpenClaw’s agent skills become an attack surface
OpenClaw;and similar AI agent ecosystems, present pressing security risks. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/spons/how-openclaws-agent-skills-become-an-attack-surface/815635/
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8 steps CISOs can take to empower their teams
Once when we were rolling out a well-known EDR tool, I knew the settings weren’t tight enough, nor were the received updates applied fast enough. So I asked two people to own this, come up with suggestions for tightening the screws, and guarantee a successful rollout on multiple OSes in parallel. The phased approach took…
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Pentagon Piloting Skills-Based Assessments for Cyber Workers
Proponents Favor Performance Tests Over Certs. The U.S. Department of Defense is for the first time piloting new skills-based assessments for its cyber hiring as an alternative to checking paper qualifications. Many certificates, officials say, don’t reflect the skills their cyber teams need in the real world. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/pentagon-piloting-skills-based-assessments-for-cyber-workers-a-31222
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Channel Has ‘Huge’ Role In Securing AI Agent Revolution: Top Execs At RSAC 2026
The widespread adoption of AI agents may be an unprecedented opportunity for channel partners to tap into their unique skills and expertise to create a fast-growth business, top executives from cybersecurity vendors including CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Palo Alto Networks told CRN at RSAC 2026. First seen on crn.com Jump to article: www.crn.com/news/security/2026/channel-has-huge-role-in-securing-ai-agent-revolution-top-execs-at-rsac-2026
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Try our new dimensional analysis Claude plugin
We’re releasing a new Claude plugin for developing and auditing code that implements dimensional analysis, a technique we explored in our most recent blog post. Most LLM-based security skills ask the model to find bugs. Our new dimensional-analysis plugin for Claude Code takes a different approach: it uses the LLM to annotate your codebase with…
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Why AI agents are one prompt away from ransomware
As AI adoption advances beyond chatbots, security leaders are up against rogue AI agents mirroring threat actors and a generational skills gap as security operations teams become overly dependent on AI First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366640722/Why-AI-agents-are-one-prompt-away-from-ransomware
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The Hidden Cost of Cybersecurity Specialization: Losing Foundational Skills
Cybersecurity has changed fast. Roles are more specialized, and tooling is more advanced. On paper, this should make organizations more secure. But in practice, many teams struggle with the same basic problems they faced years ago: unclear risk priorities, misaligned tooling decisions, and difficulty explaining security issues in terms the business understands. These challenges do…
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BSidesCache 2025 From Law Enforcement To Cybersecurity: Building Skills That Matter
BSidesSLC Author, Creator & Presenter: Andrew Crottym – Warrant Officer (Cyber Warfare), United States Army Reserve Our thanks to BSidesCache for publishing their Creators, Authors and Presenter’s outstanding BSidesCache 2025 content on the Organizations’ YouTube Channel. Permalink First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/03/bsidescache-2025-from-law-enforcement-to-cybersecurity-building-skills-that-matter/
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AI is Everywhere, But CISOs are Still Securing It with Yesterday’s Skills and Tools, Study Finds
A majority of security leaders are struggling to defend AI systems with tools and skills that are not fit for the challenge, according to the AI and Adversarial Testing Benchmark Report 2026 from Pentera.The report, based on a survey of 300 US CISOs and senior security leaders, examines how organizations are securing AI infrastructure and…
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Simply Offensive Podcast: The Future of Pentesting: AI, Automation, and Better Reporting with Dan DeCloss
Tags: ai, automation, computer, corporate, cybersecurity, data, exploit, hacker, hacking, jobs, penetration-testing, skills, technology, threat, tool, update, vulnerability<div cla The Future of Pentesting: AI, Automation, and Better Reporting with Dan DeCloss In this episode of Simply Offensive, Philip Wylie welcomes Dan DeCloss, the founder of PlexTrac. The two veterans of the cybersecurity industry discuss their history together, the evolution of report writing, and the seismic shift AI is bringing to offensive security.…
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Simply Offensive Podcast: The Future of Pentesting: AI, Automation, and Better Reporting with Dan DeCloss
Tags: ai, automation, computer, corporate, cybersecurity, data, exploit, hacker, hacking, jobs, penetration-testing, skills, technology, threat, tool, update, vulnerability<div cla The Future of Pentesting: AI, Automation, and Better Reporting with Dan DeCloss In this episode of Simply Offensive, Philip Wylie welcomes Dan DeCloss, the founder of PlexTrac. The two veterans of the cybersecurity industry discuss their history together, the evolution of report writing, and the seismic shift AI is bringing to offensive security.…
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What it takes to win that CSO role
Tags: access, ai, attack, automation, business, ceo, ciso, cloud, compliance, control, cybersecurity, data, defense, finance, flaw, framework, google, identity, insurance, jobs, monitoring, network, resilience, risk, skills, startup, strategy, technology, threatGovern the explosion of shadow AI and establish guardrails for generative AI before it creates material data leakage.Move beyond prevention and operate as a business enabler, proving the organization can maintain a minimum viable business during a sustained outage.Address compliance burdens, such as SEC disclosure rules or the EU AI Act, not as a checklist,…
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What it takes to win that CSO role
Tags: access, ai, attack, automation, business, ceo, ciso, cloud, compliance, control, cybersecurity, data, defense, finance, flaw, framework, google, identity, insurance, jobs, monitoring, network, resilience, risk, skills, startup, strategy, technology, threatGovern the explosion of shadow AI and establish guardrails for generative AI before it creates material data leakage.Move beyond prevention and operate as a business enabler, proving the organization can maintain a minimum viable business during a sustained outage.Address compliance burdens, such as SEC disclosure rules or the EU AI Act, not as a checklist,…
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North Korean fake IT worker tradecraft exposed
Opportunistic and broadly targeted: These suspect code silos were abused in a variety of illicit projects split between targeting job-seeking programmers and fake IT worker operations.”Based on our visibility, malware operations targeting individual developers seeking employment are most common,” Oliver Smith, senior threat intelligence engineer at GitLab, told CSO. “Threat actors appear to have a…
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North Korean fake IT worker tradecraft exposed
Opportunistic and broadly targeted: These suspect code silos were abused in a variety of illicit projects split between targeting job-seeking programmers and fake IT worker operations.”Based on our visibility, malware operations targeting individual developers seeking employment are most common,” Oliver Smith, senior threat intelligence engineer at GitLab, told CSO. “Threat actors appear to have a…
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President Trump’s Cyber Strategy for America: What It Means for the U.S. and Why It Matters Globally
Tags: access, ai, awareness, business, ceo, cloud, compliance, computing, cryptography, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data, defense, exploit, governance, government, healthcare, incident response, infrastructure, intelligence, international, malicious, network, regulation, resilience, risk, skills, startup, strategy, supply-chain, technology, threat, tool, training, usa, vulnerability, zero-trustPresident Trump’s Cyber Strategy for America signals a shift toward risk-based security and cooperation across emerging technologies. While centered on U.S. interests, the strategy provides a blueprint to collectively strengthen global cyber resilience. Key takeaways Cybersecurity as a global security imperative: The strategy signals that cybersecurity has evolved beyond a mere “IT issue” to become…
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4 ways to prepare your SOC for agentic AI
Tags: access, ai, attack, automation, best-practice, cloud, compliance, control, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, edr, framework, governance, guide, identity, injection, intelligence, least-privilege, metric, mitre, radius, RedTeam, risk, siem, skills, soar, soc, threat, toolBuild capabilities for AI governance, content and quality: Upskilling existing analysts alone is not enough. As AI agents begin operating across tools, making decisions and triggering actions with minimal human involvement, the demands on the SOC will extend well beyond traditional analyst capabilities, experts say.Content engineering, for instance, is one emerging requirement. In an AI-enabled…
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Teenage hacker myth primed for a middle-age criminal makeover
Tags: access, breach, business, corporate, crypto, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data, detection, extortion, finance, group, hacker, hacking, infrastructure, jobs, malware, network, penetration-testing, programming, ransomware, service, skills, software, technology, threat, vulnerabilityCybercrime cartels: Dray Agha, senior security operations manager at managed detection and response services firm Huntress, said the analysis illustrates that the “Hollywood image of a teenage lone wolf hacking for bragging rights” is vastly outdated since the threat landscape is dominated by “highly organised, profit-driven syndicates.””While young people may still engage in digital vandalism…
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How to know you’re a real-deal CSO, and whether that job opening truly seeks one
Tags: access, ai, breach, business, communications, compliance, control, cyber, data, data-breach, finance, framework, governance, incident response, infosec, insurance, jobs, metric, privacy, radius, risk, skills, strategy, threat, training, vulnerabilityStriking the right balance of experience and responsibility: Mark G. McCreary, partner and chief AI and IT security officer at Boston-based legal firm Fox Rothschild LLP, has seen both extremes: security being completely sidelined and security professionals given excessive, unjustified authority.In some firms, a newly appointed CSO might be positioned as a gatekeeper without the…
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AI-powered attack kits go open source, and CyberStrikeAI may be just the beginning
100-plus prebuilt tool recipes and a human-readable YAML-based extension system;Attack-chain graph, risk scoring, and “step-by-step replay”;Password-protected web user interfaces (UIs) and audit logs;A knowledge base with vector search, hybrid retrieval, and searchable archives;Vulnerability management with create, read, update, delete (CRUD) operations, severity tracking, status workflow, and statistics;Batch task management that can organize task queues and…
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AI Emerges as the New Insider Threat: Thales Releases the 2026 Data Threat Report
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, business, cloud, compliance, container, control, credentials, cyber, data, deep-fake, encryption, governance, identity, infrastructure, risk, saas, skills, software, strategy, theft, threat, toolAI Emerges as the New Insider Threat: Thales Releases the 2026 Data Threat Report madhav Tue, 03/03/2026 – 15:00 Over the past year, I’ve watched AI move to operational reality across nearly every industry we work with. The conversation is no longer about whether AI will transform business. It already has. Cybersecurity Todd Moore –…
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AI and Deepfakes Supercharge Sophisticated Cyber-Attacks, Says Cloudflare
Cloudflare Threat Report warns that AI tools enable attackers who lacked required skills to generate effective attacks rapidly and at scale First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/ai-deepfakes-supercharge/
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7 factors impacting the cyber skills gap
Tags: ai, attack, automation, breach, business, ciso, control, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, group, incident response, intelligence, jobs, risk, service, skills, strategy, technology, threat, tool, training, vulnerability2. Emerging technologies: New technologies, particularly AI, are contributing to a cyber landscape that’s evolving so quickly it’s hard for even highly skilled cybersecurity professionals to pace, says Dan Lohrmann, CISO at enterprise strategy and consulting firm Presidio.AI-driven threats keep moving the target, allowing cybercriminals to attack with unprecedented levels of speed and agility, Lohrmann…
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Vulnerability monitoring service secures public-sector websites faster
Tags: business, ceo, cyber, dns, government, Internet, monitoring, office, resilience, risk, service, skills, technology, threat, tool, update, vulnerabilityTools good, talk better: The UK government’s VMS uses a combination of commercial and proprietary scanning tools to detect vulnerabilities in internet-facing assets.But McKay cautions against drawing the wrong conclusion from the results.”Process, accountability and taking ownership for explaining why this matters to the resilience of the business is far more important than the technical…
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How CISOs can build a resilient workforce
Tags: ai, automation, ciso, communications, cyber, cybersecurity, data, infrastructure, jobs, monitoring, network, risk, service, skills, soc, software, strategy, technology, threat, tool, trainingBurnout leads to job dissatisfaction: Burnout is an ongoing concern for many CISOs and their teams, especially when unpredictable events can trigger workload spikes, burnout can escalate fast. “It’s something that can overwhelm pretty quickly,” Ford says.Industry surveys continue to flash red on persistent burnout that leads to job dissatisfaction. The ISC2 study found almost…