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levelblue

When AI Becomes the Insider Threat

Jan 8, 2026 By James Prince In LevelBlue
Remember that annoying ‘paperclip’ in Microsoft Word 97? The one that was always trying to help you…Fast forward nearly 30 years and we now have AI. In the race to adopt artificial intelligence, businesses are embedding AI systems into their daily operations, streamlining workflows, enhancing productivity, and centralizing knowledge. But what happens when that very system becomes an attacker’s most valuable asset?
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neosystems

The "No Bid" Reality

Jan 8, 2026 By Megin Kennett In NeoSystems
The theoretical phase of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) is over. As of November 10, the “Enforcement Era” has officially begun with the activation of Phase 1. For Department of Defense (DoD) contractors, compliance is no longer a future goal—it is a present-day barrier to entry. If you want to bid, you must have your house in order.
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Why the Target Breach Wasn't a Detection Failure - It Was Prioritization | Garrett Hamilton at UCI

Jan 8, 2026 By Reach Security In Reach Security
Nicole Perlroth asks Garrett how Reach's involvement would have impacted the breach with Target. Attackers came in through a third-party HVAC vendor. Credentials were compromised. Alerts fired. But nothing rose to the level of urgency it deserved. As Garrett Hamilton explains at UCI, this is where security breaks down—not detection, but prioritization. Most teams keep investing in reacting faster inside the SOC. The harder (and more effective) shift is upstream: reducing the exhaust before it ever hits the console.
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Snyk

Beyond Detection: Building a Resilient Software Supply Chain (Lessons from the Shai-Hulud Post-Mortem)

Jan 8, 2026 By Liran Tal In Snyk
The Shai-Hulud npm supply chain incident was a wake-up call for the industry. The attack involved malicious packages containing hidden exfiltration scripts that targeted developers’ machines and CI environments. At Snyk, we watched this incident unfold in real-time, observing how quickly attackers can pivot from one compromised credential to a full-scale ecosystem infection.
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armo

Best Open-Source Kubernetes Security Tools: From Alert Fatigue to Full Attack Stories

Jan 8, 2026 By Jonathan Kaftzan In ARMO
Your morning scan returns 3,000 CVEs. Maybe a dozen actually matter. But which dozen? You’re running Trivy for image scanning, Falco for runtime detection, kube-bench for compliance, and Calico for network policies. Each tool generates alerts in its own format, its own dashboard, with its own context. When an incident happens, connecting a vulnerable image to a misconfigured RBAC role to a suspicious process requires manual work that doesn’t scale past a handful of clusters.
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armo

Best ASPM Tools for Kubernetes: Why Runtime Context Changes Everything in 2026

Jan 8, 2026 By Jonathan Kaftzan In ARMO
Your ASPM tool flagged 3,400 vulnerabilities across your Kubernetes clusters last night. Your team can remediate maybe 50 this quarter. Which 50 actually matter? Here’s the uncomfortable truth most ASPM vendors won’t tell you: their tools were designed for traditional applications running on traditional servers. They assume your code deploys once and sits there. Kubernetes breaks every one of those assumptions. Pods spin up and die constantly. Deployments change multiple times daily.
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acronis

How to simplify disaster recovery: Shifting from preventative security to cyber resilience

Jan 8, 2026 By Allison Ho In Acronis
Traditional cybersecurity operates on a simple premise: Keep cyberthreats out by building higher walls, adding more locks and deploying additional firewalls. But what happens when prevention fails? What happens when ransomware doesn't just breach your perimeter but spreads across your redundant systems, turning your backup infrastructure into a liability? The average ransomware claim now exceeds $1.18 million. For many organizations, that's not just a financial hit but a threat to their survival.
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knowbe4

Phishing Campaign Targets WhatsApp Accounts

Jan 8, 2026 By KnowBe4 Team In KnowBe4
Researchers at Gen warn that a phishing campaign is attempting to trick users into linking malicious devices to their WhatsApp accounts. The attack begins with an unsolicited message stating, “Hey, I just found your photo!” along with a link to a spoofed Facebook login page. Instead of trying to steal users’ Facebook credentials, however, the attackers are attempting to gain access to victims’ WhatsApp accounts.
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