2025 was a wild ride for cyber security. The landscape is shifting faster than ever, and several themes stand out when I think about the most important cyber security lessons from the year.
“Crossing the Rubicon” means passing a point of no return. The idiom comes from Julius Caesar illegally leading his army across the river Rubicon in 49 B.C., an act that sparked the Roman civil war ...
The China-linked attacks utilizing ‘Brickstorm’ backdoors have targeted long-term persistence on VMware vCenter and ESXi servers, according to the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency ...
What were once largely opportunistic attacks such as phishing emails, social engineering scams and firewall breaches aimed at data theft or ransom; evolved in the year 2025. More and more ...
Today, there's an uncomfortable truth in cybersecurity: It's often far easier for a threat actor to log in using existing authentication mechanisms than to hack in using exploits. For decades, ...
While 95% of organizations are confident in their ransomware recovery, AI-driven attacks and limited data governance are undermining that certainty WATERLOO, ON, Oct. 23, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- ...
The rapid advancement of AI and agentic technologies has been dominant in the cybersecurity space in 2025 — with early-stage startups playing a central role in helping to protect the emerging AI ...
The command expects to exceed that number in 2026, Gen. Josh Rudd told lawmakers Tuesday. A new Pentagon cyber strategy is also on the way, according to senior cyber official Katie Sutton.
2025 marked yet another busy year in security, between big attacks, government shakeups, and dangerous flaws that echo of the past. The moments that defined this year were impactful but felt evenly ...
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Once again threat actors kept cyber pros on their toes in 2025 in a never-ending cat-and-mouse game. But amid the noise, there were some notable stories and incidents affecting household names in the ...
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