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CISOs, beware of deepfake social engineering! Four in ten chief information security officers have now sat through a deepfake on a work audio call. More than a third have seen one on video. Security awareness training taught people to spot a bad link and a wrong domain. It never taught them to doubt a familiar … Read more
AI security spending has moved to the front of the queue. Most security leaders still face flat or shrinking budgets. IANS and Artico Search found that 69% of surveyed CISOs selected AI among their priorities for additional security funding. Respondents could choose several priorities. AI attracted the most selections. The organizations released their 2026 Security … Read more
The CISO sees the threat. The boardroom sees a line item. New MetaCompliance research puts numbers on that old story at an awkward moment. AI is making attacks on human judgment cheaper, faster, and far more convincing. The survey covered 200 CISOs across the UK, France, Germany, and Sweden. Censuswide conducted it in February 2026 … Read more
It is Friday at 8 p.m. Your team has been wrestling with a problem all week. The systems are encrypted. The backups are gone. Somebody waves the white flag. The call goes to Matt Mosley, an incident response manager at Sygnia. He has answered calls like that from Nigeria. He has answered them from companies … Read more
Marks & Spencer, Co-op, and MGM Resorts, we could go on and on. These examples show how damaging cyberattacks can be for retail and hospitality. M&S had to pause some online orders during its 2025 breach. Co-op reported that hackers stole customer data that same year. MGM’s earlier breach disrupted hotel and casino operations and … Read more