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The Agent Is the New Endpoint: MCP, Prompt Injection and the 2026 Wake-Up
AI Security Oct 23, 2026

The Agent Is the New Endpoint: MCP, Prompt Injection and the 2026 Wake-Up

Eleven vulnerabilities across the major agent frameworks, two exploited enterprise assistants, and a class of attack that needs no malicious tool at all. The model was never the vulnerable part — the orchestration layer and the credentials it holds are.

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Phishing Left the Inbox: QR Codes, Adversary-in-the-Middle Kits, and the ASCII Trick
Phishing & Social Engineering Sep 08, 2026

Phishing Left the Inbox: QR Codes, Adversary-in-the-Middle Kits, and the ASCII Trick

QR code phishing rose 146% in the first quarter of 2026, and the reason is structural: a QR code hands the attack to a phone, where the mail gateway, the proxy, and the endpoint agent all stop watching. Now an eighth of them are not images at all.

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Nobody Pays Anymore: Ransomware's Pivot to Pure Extortion
Ransomware Aug 18, 2026

Nobody Pays Anymore: Ransomware's Pivot to Pure Extortion

Payments fell to $820 million in 2025 even as attack volume hit a record in Q3 2026. When encryption stops paying, the business model does not die — it moves to the data, and to the sectors least able to absorb a leak.

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The 109:1 Problem: Non-Human Identity Is the Real Cloud Perimeter
Identity Management Jul 28, 2026

The 109:1 Problem: Non-Human Identity Is the Real Cloud Perimeter

Machine identities now outnumber human ones by ratios reported anywhere from 45:1 to more than 100:1, and most have never been rotated. Your cloud perimeter is not a network edge. It is a token.

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The Vault Is the Target: Why Password Managers Changed the Threat Model
Passwords Jul 07, 2026

The Vault Is the Target: Why Password Managers Changed the Threat Model

Password managers remain the single best upgrade most people can make — and they have quietly become the most valuable thing on the endpoint. Infostealers, not vault cryptography, are the problem.

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The SMS Sunset: What Encrypted RCS Means for the One-Time Passcode
Mobile Security Jun 16, 2026

The SMS Sunset: What Encrypted RCS Means for the One-Time Passcode

End-to-end encrypted RCS arrived cross-platform in May 2026 — a genuine privacy win that does nothing for authentication. Here is why the one-time passcode was always the weakest link, and what replaces it.

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Encryption in Use: Confidential Computing and the End of Trusting the Provider
Encryption May 26, 2026

Encryption in Use: Confidential Computing and the End of Trusting the Provider

For two decades, encryption protected data at rest and in transit and then handed it, fully readable, to whoever operated the machine. Confidential computing closes that gap — and in 2026 enterprises started asking for it by name.

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The DNS Encryption War: Threat Visibility When the Resolver Goes Dark
Network Security May 12, 2026

The DNS Encryption War: Threat Visibility When the Resolver Goes Dark

Encrypted DNS protects your queries from snooping — and blinds the cheapest control that sees malicious domains first. In 2026 the answer is a resolver you control, not an encryption you block.

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The Cyber Resilience Act's Clock Has Started: Reporting Since 11 September 2026
Regulation & Compliance Apr 28, 2026

The Cyber Resilience Act's Clock Has Started: Reporting Since 11 September 2026

The Cyber Resilience Act's reporting duty went live on 11 September 2026, with ENISA's Single Reporting Platform running from day one. Full conformity is still fourteen months out — but the operational test has already begun.

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The Room Where It Breaks: Tabletop Drills That Actually Change Your Response
Incident Response Apr 07, 2026

The Room Where It Breaks: Tabletop Drills That Actually Change Your Response

A tabletop exercise that ends with a pleasant discussion and no changed documents was theater. Here is how to run drills that produce artifacts — and why the communications plan is usually the first thing to fail.

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Awareness Training Isn't Broken — Your Metrics Are
Security Awareness Mar 24, 2026

Awareness Training Isn't Broken — Your Metrics Are

Multiple studies have found that click-through-rate training barely moves real-world resilience. The programs that do work stopped measuring clicks and started measuring outcomes.

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Your Cyber Insurance Questionnaire Is a Free Security Audit — Use It Like One
Small Business Mar 17, 2026

Your Cyber Insurance Questionnaire Is a Free Security Audit — Use It Like One

Cyber insurance rates have fallen for a fourth straight year, so price is no longer what keeps small businesses out. Evidence is. The same questionnaire that gets you declined is the clearest, cheapest security roadmap an SMB will ever be handed.

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The Death of Incognito: Reclaiming Your Digital Footprint in 2026
Privacy Mar 10, 2026

The Death of Incognito: Reclaiming Your Digital Footprint in 2026

Private browsing was never private, and in 2026 it isn't even invisible. As content blocking closes and age checks become an identity layer, true online privacy demands more than a checkbox — it demands decoupling.

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The Credential Sunset: A 2026 Enterprise Playbook for Passwordless Migration
Authentication Mar 03, 2026

The Credential Sunset: A 2026 Enterprise Playbook for Passwordless Migration

Passkeys for the SSO portal are the easy part. The real test of a 2026 passwordless migration is the legacy ERP, the vendor extranet, and the helpdesk call deciding who gets their identity back. Here's the enterprise playbook for closing that gap.

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Post-Quantum Cryptography Has a Deadline Now
Encryption Feb 25, 2026

Post-Quantum Cryptography Has a Deadline Now

FIPS 203 and 204 ended the old algorithm names, and a June 2026 executive order put federal migration plans on an October clock. What is binding, what is advisory, and what to inventory first.

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Passkeys Are Winning Slowly — and Identity Proofing Is the Gap
Authentication Feb 20, 2026

Passkeys Are Winning Slowly — and Identity Proofing Is the Gap

Passkeys carry 36% of successful sign-ins, not a majority. The harder problem sits at enrolment and recovery, where a convincing face can still become you.

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Labels, Patches and a Separate Network: Smart-Home Security That Works
IoT Security Feb 15, 2026

Labels, Patches and a Separate Network: Smart-Home Security That Works

The US Cyber Trust Mark and the UK's PSTI regime finally give buyers something to check. The devices already in the house still need patching, isolating and, eventually, replacing.

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The Phone Is the Credential: Mobile Security After Passwords
Mobile Security Feb 10, 2026

The Phone Is the Credential: Mobile Security After Passwords

Passkeys moved the centre of identity onto a device employees also use for everything else. Only 28% of organisations are actually passwordless, and the attacks have followed the phone.

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Your CFO on a Video Call: Deepfakes and the New Verification Rules
Phishing & Social Engineering Feb 08, 2026

Your CFO on a Video Call: Deepfakes and the New Verification Rules

The FBI recorded 22,364 AI-related complaints in 2025. Deepfake fraud is now a process problem, and the controls that work are the ones that assume the voice on the call is a stranger.

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The Control Plane Is the Perimeter: Cloud Security in 2026
Cloud Security Feb 06, 2026

The Control Plane Is the Perimeter: Cloud Security in 2026

Public buckets and open security groups are table stakes. The incidents that matter now start with a workload identity, an OAuth grant or an admin console that should never have been reachable.

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Most Intrusions No Longer Involve Malware
Malware & Endpoint Feb 06, 2026

Most Intrusions No Longer Involve Malware

CrowdStrike measured 79% of 2024 detections and 81% of H1 2025 intrusions as malware-free. Signature scanning is not obsolete, but it is no longer where the intrusion starts.

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What AI Actually Does in a SOC, and What It Cannot Do
AI Security Jan 28, 2026

What AI Actually Does in a SOC, and What It Cannot Do

Triage, correlation and investigation drafting are real gains. Anticipating attacks before they happen is not. A grounded look at where AI earns its place in security operations.

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Zero Trust Without the Slogans: How to Sequence It
Zero Trust Jan 25, 2026

Zero Trust Without the Slogans: How to Sequence It

The FY2024 federal deadline passed with most agencies at partial implementation. Zero trust stalls when it is bought as a product instead of sequenced as an identity programme.

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Restore Is Not Recovery: What Ransomware Actually Costs to Undo
Ransomware Jan 20, 2026

Restore Is Not Recovery: What Ransomware Actually Costs to Undo

Payments fell to $820 million on-chain in 2025 and only 28% of victims paid, yet Q3 2026 was the busiest quarter on record. Undoing an attack is an identity and verification problem.

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