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At first glance, Palantir receiving access to an address book containing up to 1.5 million NHS staff may seem like just one more example of digital transformation on a grand scale in healthcare, or simply a necessary step for a supplier supporting such a complex environment. However, underneath this
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The UK’s critical national infrastructure (CNI) is entering a converged threat era - one where cyber, physical and aerial risks are overlapping attack surfaces targeting the same high-value assets. Furthermore, data centers have been formally designated as CNI, elevating both their strategic importance and their exposure to attack. Historically,
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The cybersecurity industry has a hiring problem that isn’t getting better. ISC2’s latest Cybersecurity Workforce Study puts the global shortfall at 4.8 million unfilled positions — up 19 percent year over year, even as active hiring stalled. ISACA found that 55 percent of security teams are currently understaffed
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Google Cloud this week announced an always-on autonomous platform designed to protect enterprises from the rising wave of AI-powered cyberattacks. The new Google AI Threat Defense cybersecurity solution leverages AI to identify machine-powered threats faster and stop them before they can do harm. According to Google, the platform continuously prioritizes
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It is safe to say that the current cybersecurity landscape has touched the exhaustion line. Security Operations Centers (SOCs) have operated under the "more is better" narrative for years. Consequently, piling up independent tools, such as NDR and SIEM, until the resulting friction became something out of a
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Welcome to the Proof of Usefulness Hackathon spotlight, curated by HackerNoon’s editors to showcase noteworthy tech solutions to real-world problems. Whether you’re a solopreneur, part of an early-stage startup, or a developer building something that truly matters, the Proof of Usefulness Hackathon is your chance to test your
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The AI era is not a post-engineering era. A boundary-first pattern for security, governance, and auditability in agentic AI workflows. Prompt-injection attacks are not just an AI cybersecurity problem. They are a symptom of weak agentic architecture: raw inputs travel too far, agents lack clear boundaries, and reading, reasoning, tool
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* A quarter of central government IT systems are bogged down by legacy tech, report claims * £200 billion in AI-induced savings are being left on the table * Modernization needs a dedicated taskforce and centralized procurement Nearly one-quarter of the 319 central government IT systems evaluated under the Legacy IT Risk Assessment
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In the Netflix thriller Leave the World Behind, a massive cyberattack plunges the U.S. into a complete electrical and technological blackout. While the scope and scale of the fictional attack are improbable, research suggests real-world malicious hackers are increasingly interested in causing physical harm. Cyberattacks with physical impact are
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India’s cybersecurity ecosystem is entering a phase where the speed of attacks may soon exceed the speed of human response. Over the past few weeks, the debate around AI-powered cybersecurity has intensified globally. CERT-In’s latest cybersecurity guidance has pushed organisations toward significantly faster remediation timelines for known exploited
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* Microsoft researchers observed cybercriminals adapting SEO poisoning tactics to AI platforms, tricking AI into recommending spoofed utility sites like HWMonitor and CrystalDiskInfo * Victims who follow these AI‑suggested links download malware via DLL sideloading, which installs ScreenConnect for attacker access and can lead to cryptojacking * Defenders should treat AI recommendations
