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SUNNYVALE, Calif., Apr. 15, 2026 – NTT Research, Inc., a division of NTT (TYO:9432), today announced the launch of Scale Academy, a startup incubator responsible for bringing to market products and services based upon technologies studied within the … (more…) The post News Alert: NTT Research launches SaltGrain—advanced Attribute-Based Encryption security first appeared on The Last Watchdog.

For years, quantum risk was easy for most institutions to treat as premature: real in theory, urgent someday, but not yet an operational problem. That is no longer tenable. Related: AI spawns semantic attacks Two developments this month brought the … (more…) The post GUEST ESSAY: Google’s 2029 deadline exposes readiness gap as move to quantum-safe crypto lags first appeared on The Last Watchdog.

AUSTIN, Texas, Apr. 9, 2026, CyberNewswire—Mallory is launching a AI-native threat intelligence platform, purpose-built to answer the questions CISOs and their teams are asking every day: •What are the real threat vectors for our organization? •What’s actually exploitable … (more…) The post News alert: Mallory launches AI-native platform to cut through alert noise and surface real risk first appeared on The Last Watchdog.

As if securing the enterprise against a tidal wave of AI tools wasn’t hard enough, it turns out the geopolitical instability of the moment is making things worse. That wasn’t the headline at RSAC 2026 last week — agentic AI … (more…) The post FIRESIDE CHAT: Geopolitical turmoil, rising AI risk add a new layer to enterprise cyber defense first appeared on The Last Watchdog.

NEW YORK, Apr. 1, 2026, CyberNewswire—TAC Infosec, a global leader in cybersecurity (NSE: TAC), with presence across 100+ countries, announced a historic milestone by crossing 10,000 clients – 6,500+ of TAC Security and 3,500+ of CyberScope, since April … (more…) The post News Alert: TAC Security surpasses 10,000 customers, scaling global VM and AppSec platform first appeared on The Last Watchdog.

SAN FRANCISCO — A new exposure is emerging in mobile security as AI begins to act on behalf of users — and attackers move to exploit that shift. Related: RSAC wrap-up—no easy fixes for AI exposures In a Fireside Chat … (more…) The post Fireside Chat: AI agents are reshaping mobile attacks — and exposing weak API trust models first appeared on The Last Watchdog.

SAN FRANCISCO — Enterprises rushing to deploy AI in their operations are opening a security exposure most of their existing tools were never designed to address. That’s the hard message coming out of RSAC 2026 — and it’s one worth … (more…) The post FIRESIDE CHAT: AI gives rise to a semantic attack surface, forcing a new class of network defense first appeared on The Last Watchdog.

SAN FRANCISCO — Forty-four thousand cybersecurity practitioners converged on Moscone Center this week with an urgent question: how do you secure a network when everything — the technology, the threats, the tools — is changing faster than anyone can govern … (more…) The post RSAC 2026: No easy fixes for expanding AI attack surface, but a coordinated response is emerging first appeared on The Last Watchdog.

SAN FRANCISCO — I was in the room at Stanford in February 2015 when President Obama used the bully pulpit to launch what became a decade of hard-won public-private collaboration in cybersecurity. It didn’t take much to tear it asunder.… (more…) The post MY TAKE: A decade of cyber collaboration, built under Obama, is now hostage to a political grudge first appeared on The Last Watchdog.

LUXEMBOURG, Luxembourg, March 24, 2026, CyberNewswire— Gcore, the global infrastructure and software provider for AI, cloud, network, and security solutions, today announced the findings of its Q3-Q4 2025 Gcore Radar report DDoS attack trends. The report reveals growing attack … (more…) The post News alert: DDoS attacks surge 150%—Gcore analysis shows faster, cheaper more frequent attacks first appeared on The Last Watchdog.