What’s Your Blast Radius Worth? – Podcast

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Microsegmentation. Poland’s cyberwar. AI-powered attackers. The blast radius that decides your cyber insurance premium. New podcast episode. Poland absorbed 270,000 cyberattacks in the past year. That’s 2.5 times more than the year before, according to Deputy Digital Affairs Minister Paweł Olszewski. Russia tripled its military intelligence resources aimed at Polish targets in 2025, per Digital … Read more

Contrast Launches CVE Shield As AI Turns The Patch Backlog “Rotten”

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Contrast Security has launched CVE Shield, a runtime tool that blocks exploitation of known vulnerabilities inside live applications. A free tier arrives August 3, with a waitlist open now. The pitch is timing. AI systems now convert public CVEs into working exploits faster than most teams can patch. In April, Anthropic reported its Claude Mythos … Read more

Dangling DNS Takeover Risk: Inside Silent Push’s “Danglegeddon” Study

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There are billions of subdomains on the internet pointing to nothing. Silent Push calls them “billions of forgotten, abandoned, and misconfigured subdomains.” Most sit quietly. None of them look dangerous. Silent Push just proved how wrong that assumption is. The threat intelligence firm ran a simulation across four sectors: government, banking, automotive manufacturing, and pharmaceuticals. … Read more

Burp AT Puts Agentic AI on the Pentest. PortSwigger Keeps It Caged.

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The tool lets an AI agent hunt bugs on live targets. A human still signs the report. PortSwigger launched Burp AT today. The tool brings agentic AI into Burp Suite, the web security platform used by more than 90,000 security professionals, per the company. Agents can now form a hypothesis, act through tools, and choose … Read more

A Breach Convinced 64% To Spend More. An AI Announcement Convinced 85%.

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Both numbers sit inside IBM’s 2026 Cost of a Data Breach Report. The gap between them may be the most useful finding in the study. As follow-on research to the IBM data breach report, Ponemon Institute studied 602 breached organizations between March 2025 and February 2026. Nearly two-thirds said they planned to spend more on … Read more

Arctic Wolf: A Third Party Made The Call In Half Of Ransom Payments

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Security leaders trust AI with almost nothing. Their carriers approved ransom payments in half the cases where money moved. A third party made the payment decision in half of the ransomware cases where a ransom got paid. Arctic Wolf names the cyber insurer as the example. The finding sits on page 13 of the company’s … Read more

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