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Phishing Exposes Employee Data at 86% of Fortune 100 Companies

A new report from SpyCloud has found that phishing attacks have exposed employee data at 86% of Fortune 100 companies over the past 12 months, with the technology, airline and automotive ...

Shadow AI Is Not Shadow IT With a Better Marketing Budget

I saw a venn diagram on social media. One circle is Shadow IT, one circle is Shadow AI, a substantial overlap, and the implicit message is that they are effectively the same challenge.

Cybersecurity Starts At Home This World Social Media Day

Remember when "social media safety" meant advising employees not to post pictures of their security badges or laptop screens?

Report: Online Shoppers Increasingly Ignore Scam Warning Signs

New research by McAfee has found that many consumers tend to ignore red flags associated with scams when searching online for a good deal. The research identified the following consumer ...

Security Training Needs Google Maps, Not Christopher Columbus

If you’re around my age, then you know the joy of using an old paper map. Not real joy, obviously. More the sort of joy normally associated with trying to keep track of 3 pages, getting ...

Cybersecurity Awareness Training for AI: Key Focus Areas

As employees increasingly rely on AI tools and AI agents in daily workflows, organizations are facing a new workforce security challenge: how to reduce risk without slowing productivity.

Americans Lost $900 Million to AI-Powered Scams Last Year

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warns that Americans lost just under $900 million to AI-powered scams in 2025, Malwarebytes reports. Total reported losses to scams last year ...

What AI Can’t Hide When It Writes a Phishing Email

Lead Analysts: Jeewan Singh Jalal, Prabhakaran Ravichandhiran, and Shikhar Dalela

Your AI Agents Are Eager to Please And Easy to Exploit

An AI-driven system at a beverage manufacturer recently churned out several hundred thousand excess cans after misreading unfamiliar packaging. The system didn’t recognize the company’s ...

From 1% to 26%: How AIDA Orchestration Fixes the Remedial Training Gap

As we speak, bad actors are using AI agents to do their dirty work. Our own research tells us 85.8% of phishing attacks were AI-driven in the past 12 months. Agentic power is helping ...