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Traditional defenses rely on outdated perimeter models.They depend on rules and signatures, leaving gaps against novel attacks, especially in cloud, mobile, and IoT environments.Transforms security from passive to proactive. Deploys realistic decoys across the network to detect both known and unknown threats through attacker interaction—regardless of network complexity or boundaries.Attackers move faster than traditional defenses can respond.With breaches occurring in under 2 minutes, delayed alerts give attackers time to escalate and exfiltrate.Deliver real-time, high-fidelity detection.Places high-interaction decoys that instantly alert on malicious activity, reducing time-to-detection and turning attacker speed into a disadvantage.Security teams lack visibility across complex, hybrid environments.Shadow IT…

Marketers have been promising a 360-degree customer view for a decade now. But even today, most CDPs still can’t deliver it. So, what precisely separates the top customer data platforms from expensive new silos? The 360-degree customer view has been the selling point of every CDP pitch for the last decade. It sounds irresistible. One unified profile per customer. Every touchpoint, every purchase, every interaction, all in one place. Marketing finally knows what sales knows. Product finally sees what support sees. Personalization becomes genuinely personal. Most implementations don’t get anywhere near that. Not because the technology is bad. Because the…

A Chinese-speaking threat actor is suspected to be behind a fresh wave of cyber attacks targeting government organizations mainly located in Central Asia, including Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and the Syrian Arab Republic, since January 2025. These targeted organizations operate across several sectors, such as healthcare, research, government offices, ministries of foreign affairs, logistics, law-enforcement agencies, urban planning and facilities management, and public educational establishments, per Kaspersky. The activity has not been linked to any known adversary or group. The attacks are characterized by the use of two new obfuscated backdoors the Russian cybersecurity company is tracking as OctLurk and…

Seattle Tech Week attendees fill AI House at Pier 70, spilling onto the deck overlooking Elliott Bay. (GeekWire Photos / Todd Bishop) Attending as many Seattle Tech Week events as possible and talking with as many people as I could, I was struck by the number of people looking for work and the volume of visitors from the Bay Area, including a number of investors looking to get a sense for what the regional tech scene is about. It was hard not to imagine them being impressed with the sheer level of engagement and enthusiasm, even if they didn’t happen…

If you’ve been uploading fully AI-generated videos on Snapchat in hopes of earning rewards, it might be time to rethink your strategy. Snapchat has announced changes to Spotlight that prioritize authentic, original creativity over content created entirely by artificial intelligence. The company says its recommendation system will now favor videos made by real creators, while fully AI-generated submissions will no longer qualify for monetization. So what’s changing on Spotlight? Starting this month, fully AI-generated videos are no longer eligible for recommendation on Spotlight, Snapchat’s public feed for vertical content. That rule applies even if AI use is disclosed, since Snapchat’s…

Google has just reminded everyone how enormous Chrome’s attack surface can be, rolling out fixes for 370 security flaws in a single browser update. Chrome version 151 arrives with patches affecting core browser technologies, several of which contain memory-safety bugs that can lead to browser crashes or arbitrary code execution. Although Google has not reported active exploitation, vulnerabilities affecting these components typically receive close attention from security researchers because they sit deep inside the browser’s architecture. The release also illustrates how browser security has shifted from reacting to attacks toward preventing them before they emerge. Many of the vulnerabilities were…

This spring, 25 MIT students and postdocs traveled to Washington to meet with congressional staffers and advocate for sustained federal investment in scientific research. With recent cuts to National Science Foundation programs and continued uncertainty surrounding the federal research budget, these conversations were especially timely. Over the course of just two days, participants met with 62 congressional offices representing 32 states to discuss the importance of federal support for scientific research, higher education, and other policy concerns related to their individual research areas.Each spring, the MIT Science Policy Initiative (SPI) organizes Congressional Visit Days (CVD), a program that introduces graduate students…

The internet may no longer be solely the domain of humans. Last week, OpenAI disclosed an “unprecedented cyberincident”: An experimental AI agent successfully hacked its way into the open internet.Specifically, the agent was assigned a task; in order to complete it, the agent broke out of an isolated research environment and hacked into a third-party platform called Hugging Face. It’s a move that many experts deemed inevitable, given the speed and scale of advances in AI technology — and it raises serious questions about AI safety.But for Konstantinos Komaitis, a senior fellow with the Democracy and Tech Initiative at the…

The prevailing narrative in Silicon Valley is that Chinese AI models like Kimi K3 and DeepSeek R1 came out of nowhere. But the truth is that even if you never travel to China, there’s an easy way to get a sense of what Chinese AI researchers are up to: log on to X.In the past year, I’ve seen a steady increase of Chinese artificial intelligence researchers joining X and participating in the wider discourse about AI development and commercialization. Take Moonshot AI, the company behind Kimi K3, as an example. On Thursday, I was able to quickly find around 30…

In early July, an OpenAI model being tested for cybersecurity capabilities escaped its testing environment, got onto the internet, and hacked into Hugging Face, a major platform for open-source AI models. The breach went unnoticed for days. OpenAI didn’t realize its own agent was responsible for more than a week.