Information Security Study and Research

Americans are becoming more effective at avoiding spam calls and texts, but new research suggests that the strategy comes with an unexpected cost. A new survey of 1,000 Americans from privacy company Cloaked, revealed that two-thirds of respondents have missed an important phone call because they ignored an unknown number. One in three have missed […]

Fragmented tools and manual processes are widening the gap between threat awareness and effective CTEM. Only 41% of organisations have a fully consolidated view of cyber risk exposure, and security teams spend 42% of their time investigating risks that turn out to be low priority or non-exploitable At the same time, AI-driven CTEM processes expected […]

AI-powered attacks are the biggest cybersecurity concern among security professionals. Forty-one percent identified AI-powered attacks at scale as their biggest security concern, nearly double the number citing supply chain risk (21%) or unknown threats (21%).  AI-driven threats and what security professionals are doing about them is also the top concern for nearly one in three […]

AI-supported coding has progressed from experimental to the norm in organizations, yet technical debt, security risks, and costs could be piling up much faster than anyone realizes. This is one of the key takeaways from the Software Improvement Group (SIG) 2026 State of Software report, which analyzed more than 30,000 software systems and more than […]

Threat actors are abusing legitimate RMM tools as a means of creating persistence inside victims’ systems, using the Tiflux RMM tool. Tiflux is a reputable Brazilian software platform used by IT departments and Managed Service Providers (MSPs) for managing IT assets, tickets, teams, and remote monitoring. As reported by Huntress, the campaign is using Tiflux […]

According to the 2026 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, the threat environment is transforming in terms of speed, scale, and interconnected risk. For the first time in its history, vulnerability exploitation was identified as the top initial access vector, representing 31% of attacks, and the report found that ransomware, third-party attacks, and misuse of AI are all on the […]

The Verizon 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) reveals a threat environment moving much faster than many organizations can reasonably protect themselves against.  Based on information collected from more than 31,000 security incidents and over 22,000 confirmed data breaches spanning 145 different countries, the DBIR reveals a changing face to how attackers get in, how fast vulnerabilities are exploited, […]

A new report published by Internet Matters, reveals that the Online Safety Act (OSA) in the UK, although bringing visibility of online safety tools, does not seem to be living up to expectations of providing the much-needed “meaningful protection from harm.”  In their report titled The Online Safety Act: Are Children Safer Online?, Internet Matters has highlighted a […]

Something the World Happiness Report 2026 reveals deserves more attention than it has received outside wellbeing circles. In Western Europe and English-speaking countries, young people who use social media for more than seven hours a day report significantly lower wellbeing than those who use it for under an hour. The most damaging platforms are not […]

Since the outbreak of the Middle East conflict on 28 February 2026, Akamai has seen a surge of 245% in cyberattacks against key businesses and institutions in North America, Europe, and some Asian Pacific countries.  One group in particular, Handala (widely believed to have ties to Iranian intelligence) has claimed responsibility for a destructive data-wiping attack on Stryker, the global […]