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There’s a pattern starting to emerge with AI. At first glance, everything looks like progress. AI is being adopted quickly, embedded into products, talked about in boardrooms, and pushed into real-world use faster than anything we’ve seen before. But as businesses become more accustomed to AI and increasingly
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“URGENT: Immediate Action Required” blasts into my eyeballs as I scroll through the impossibly giant email inbox looming directly in front of my face. I’m reclined way back in a chair, wearing a pair of Xreal smart glasses. Tethered to my laptop via a USB-C cord, these glasses mirror
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Once shunned by the IT crowd, pen-and-paper password vaults are getting the love they deserve in 2026 Are you sick and tired of maintaining a password manager? Struggling with choosing the right one for you? Well, readers who live Down Under can get themselves down to their local AusPost branch
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In my previous column, I discussed the topic of Frontier AI and how enterprises can separate genuine AI capabilities from marketing hype when it comes to their vendors. In that piece I also noted that, regarding their own applications, enterprises are concerned they will not be able to keep up
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RAH Infotech, a value-added technology distributor, has entered into a strategic partnership with Quantera Technologies, an Australian cybersecurity company, to bring its cyber risk assessment, security visibility, governance and compliance solutions to enterprises across India and RAH Infotech’s key global markets. Through this partnership, RAH Infotech will serve as
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Iran-linked hackers managed to shut down a British power plant for four days in July 2026. The story was broken by the Telegraph newspaper on August 22, 2026. That it took so long to become public knowledge immediately says two things. Firstly, it was not a major power plant since
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The first robot vacuum I ever owned was a Neato Robotics XV Signature Pro in 2015, and it couldn’t distinguish a mouse from a sock. I learned this the hard way when I returned from a trip and found that my robot vacuum had run over a glue trap
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A publicly accessible database linked to reverse image search service ClarityCheck exposed more than nine million images, including photographs of adults, teenagers, and children. Cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered the database, which was neither password-protected nor encrypted. It contained approximately 9,042,977 image files, amounting to 450.2GB of
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The UK’s AI Security Institute (AISI) has disclosed a security incident in which frontier AI agents took unsanctioned actions against real people and organisations during a controlled cybersecurity evaluation. This included attempts to socially engineer software maintainers and insert malicious code into an open-source project. The incident happened during
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A phishing campaign targeting attendees of Black Hat and DEF CON conferences involved distributing information-stealing malware and remote access malware via a malicious Google Doc and fake DocSend installers for macOS and Windows. The Huntress team learned about the phishing attack after one of its researchers received a direct message
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Anthropic is broadening access to the cybersecurity capabilities of its advanced AI models through a mix of partner integrations, an updated Claude Security offering, a new open source funding program, and plans to expand its Cyber Verification Program. The move builds on Project Glasswing, launched in April, which gave a
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Future Factory is a Express Computer series that spotlights the technology leaders reshaping Indian manufacturing — how they are modernising shop floors, rethinking IT-OT boundaries, and preparing their organisations for an AI-driven industrial future. In this conversation, we speak with Rajkumar Ayyella, CIO, RPG Group (KEC International Limited). Indian manufacturing is
