Cybersecurity

CrowdStrike Brings Cyber Insurance Into Project QuiltWorks to Counter Frontier AI Risk

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CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) has expanded Project QuiltWorks to include five major cyber insurance partners. Coalition, Liberty Mutual Insurance, Lockton, Resilience, and Marsh join the framework. The press release notes this expansion makes QuiltWorks the first coordinated model to span technical risk discovery, expert remediation, and financial protection against frontier AI risk. Boards and finance teams … Read more

Messi Beats Ronaldo. Your Password Still Loses

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Specops research finds Messi beats Ronaldo in breached password data with 1,221,563 occurrences versus 923,582, as World Cup 2026 football passwords dissolve into cybersecurity breach warnings.

Specops Finds Over 1.2 Million Breached Passwords Named After The World’s Most Famous Footballer The 2026 FIFA World Cup kicks off in weeks, and somewhere between the group stage predictions and the replica shirt sales, a cybersecurity company has settled one of football’s great debates using data nobody expected. Lionel Messi beats Cristiano Ronaldo, not … Read more

Nearly 3 In 10 US Businesses Hit By Cyber Incidents Involving Suspected AI Use

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QBE Survey Of 6,000 Businesses Across 15 Countries Finds The Threat Going Global The email looked genuine. The language was polished. The urgency was calibrated just so. Behind it was an AI model, crafting the attack with a precision no human phishing crew could match at scale. QBE’s new cyber survey puts a hard number … Read more

AI Security Scanner Cost: The $315 Scan That Costs $128,000

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Contrast Labs Puts A Price Tag On The AI Security Scanning Promise The idea seems straightforward: use an AI model to scan your codebase, wait an hour, and get a security report. There are no agents, no extra setup, and no need for a high-paid analyst. But when Contrast Labs put this to the test … Read more

Your Password Is Now The Perimeter – Sophos Finds 71% Of Firms Hit By Identity Attacks

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The Breach Nobody Saw Coming Imagine it’s Tuesday morning. The CFO gets a call: systems are locked, and a ransom note appears on the screen. The attacker didn’t break in physically; they used a stolen password. This happened to seven out of ten organizations Sophos surveyed last year. The State of Identity Security 2026 report, … Read more