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Articles Posted Week: Jan. 26th, 2026 — Feb. 1st, 2026 (334/4/9)
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Security Boulevard
When MFA Fails Quietly: Inside The Rise Of AiTM Phishing Attacks
A Lack Of Spending Isn’t The Problem With Cloud Security, Structural Complexity Is
AI-Powered Penetration Testing: Definition, Tools And Process
Platform Engineering
Techstrong.ai
Artificial Intelligence Vs. Humans: The Future Of Compliance Management
Survey: IT Leaders Seeing Significant Amounts Of AI Progress
NVIDIA News
Cisco News
Delivering Resilient Mission-Critical Communications For Demanding Industries
AI Search Framework That Teaches AI Models To Think Like Experts
Foundation-Sec-8B-Reasoning: The First Open-Weight Security Reasoning Model
Cloudflare News
Introducing Moltworker: A Self-Hosted Personal AI Agent, Minus The Minis
Cable Cuts, Storms, And DNS: A Look At Internet Disruptions In Q4 2025
In this webinar, Huntress break down how today's BEC attacks actually work - and how Huntress Managed Security Awareness Training (SAT) and Huntress Managed Identity Threat Detection & Response (ITDR) work together to close the two biggest BEC gaps... Register
Security Boulevard
When MFA Fails Quietly: Inside The Rise Of AiTM Phishing Attacks
Multi-factor authentication has long been treated as a security finish line. Once enabled, organizations assume that account takeover risks drop dramatically. Recent attacker behavior suggests otherwise....more
A Lack Of Spending Isn’t The Problem With Cloud Security, Structural Complexity Is
Organizations may have ramped up spending on cybersecurity but that hasn’t done much to keep defenders at least on pace with an attack surface that is growing like a weed-fueled in part by AI cloud adoption-and threats that are becoming ever more sophisticated....more
AI-Powered Penetration Testing: Definition, Tools And Process
AI-powered penetration testing is an advanced approach to security testing that uses artificial intelligence, machine learning, and autonomous agents to simulate real-world cyberattacks, identify vulnerabilities, and assess exploitability faster and more intelligently than traditional manual testing....more
Are Passkeys Safely Synced Across Multiple Devices?
Ever wonder why you can create a passkey on your iPhone and it just magically works on your MacBook? It feels like cheating, but it’s actually just clever engineering....more
Davos Reflections On AI, Security, And Responsibility
I just came away reflecting on the conversations around AI, cybersecurity, and the global economy at the World Economic Forum in Davos, and one thing feels clear. We are no longer talking about future disruption. We are living inside it....more
Platform Engineering
Platform Engineering Brings Multicloud Support To Its Formae Infrastructure-As-Code Platform
Infrastructure-as-code startup Platform Engineering Labs Inc. today announced a big update to its open-source formae platform, adding beta support for four new public clouds as it looks to expand its influence beyond Amazon Web Services environments....more
Modern Internal Platforms Aren’t Tools - They’re Products
The most effective internal platforms deliver self-service, security, and observability out of the box, but their real differentiator is product thinking....more
Techstrong.ai
Artificial Intelligence Vs. Humans: The Future Of Compliance Management
In the 1970s, when the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission uncovered widespread corporate bribery scandals, many companies chose to handle the issue internally rather than report violations to the authorities. That decision - to conceal instead of correct - ultimately led to the passage of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) in 1977, which was a turning point in corporate compliance....more
Build, Govern, And Scale AI With Precision
AI is a tidal wave reshaping how businesses operate, compete, and survive. You either ride it or get drowned by it. Most organizations stumble when integrating AI into their strategy. They chase shiny AI tools, pour money into pilot projects, and then wonder why they aren’t seeing results....more
Join us, your technology colleagues, and Chief Cloud Architect at Visa, Altaz Bhanji at this Technology Executive Dinner. A cloud technology strategist and cybersecurity expert, Altaz will cut through the noise in 'GenAI in the Cloud | Hype, Hysteria, or Hope?', drawing on deep experience across AWS, enterprise transformation, and secure cloud architecture to help leaders understand what GenAI really means for the future of business and technology. Register
Moltbots, Talk Among Yourselves
I swear I saw something like this on Star Trek: The Next Generation once, where what the crew assumed were computer ‘bugs’ turned out to be a life form. Now, I’m not here saying these Moltbots are alive (hold the phone, sci-fi purists), but the fact that thousands of autonomous AI agents self-organized in a digital forum and then started asking for end-to-end encrypted communications to ‘keep the humans out’? Dude... that’s downright scary. And, a little bit hilarious too....more
Survey: IT Leaders Seeing Significant Amounts Of AI Progress
A global survey of 1,244 IT leaders published today finds three quarters (75%) work for organizations that have successfully deployed some type of artificial intelligence (AI) initiative, while another 23% said there have been a mix of success and failure....more
NVIDIA News
Into The Omniverse: Physical AI Open Models And Frameworks Advance Robots And Autonomous Systems
Open source has become essential for driving innovation in robotics and autonomy. By providing access to critical infrastructure - from simulation frameworks to AI models - NVIDIA is enabling collaborative development that accelerates the path to safer, more capable autonomous systems....more
Cisco News
Personal AI Agents Like OpenClaw Are A Security Nightmare
Over the past few weeks, Clawdbot (then renamed Moltbot, later renamed OpenClaw) has achieved virality as an open source, self-hosted personal AI assistant agent that runs locally and executes actions on the user’s behalf....more
Delivering Resilient Mission-Critical Communications For Demanding Industries
In sectors like defense, manufacturing, shipping, and mining, delivering resilient, always-on, mission-critical communications is a tough challenge. Assets and teams may be constantly moving....more
AI Search Framework That Teaches AI Models To Think Like Experts
For researchers, analysts, and security professionals alike, the ability to quickly and accurately retrieve relevant information is critical. Yet, as our information landscape grows, so do the challenges of traditional search methods....more
Foundation-Sec-8B-Reasoning: The First Open-Weight Security Reasoning Model
Today marks another milestone in Cisco’s commitment to advancing AI-native cybersecurity. Following the success of Foundation-sec-8B and Foundation-sec-8B-Instruct, the Foundation AI team is proud to announce the public release of Llama-3.1-FoundationAI-SecurityLLM-8B-Reasoning (Foundation-sec-8B- Reasoning), now available on Hugging Face....more
Cloudflare News
Introducing Moltworker: A Self-Hosted Personal AI Agent, Minus The Minis
The Internet woke up this week to a flood of people buying Mac minis to run Moltbot (formerly Clawdbot), an open-source, self-hosted AI agent designed to act as a personal assistant....more
Cable Cuts, Storms, And DNS: A Look At Internet Disruptions In Q4 2025
In 2025, we observed over 180 Internet disruptions spurred by a variety of causes - some were brief and partial, while others were complete outages lasting for days. In the fourth quarter, we tracked only a single government-directed Internet shutdown, but multiple cable cuts wreaked havoc on connectivity in several countries....more
Building A Serverless, Post-Quantum Matrix Homeserver
Matrix is the gold standard for decentralized, end-to-end encrypted communication. It powers government messaging systems, open-source communities, and privacy-focused organizations worldwide....more
In this webinar, we'll explore strategies that enable holistic incident responses to maintain business continuity in every scenario. Register
Upcoming Webinars
Wednesday, February 11th, 2026
Technology Executive Dinner - Boston, MA (Feb. 11th)- 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM ET
Thursday, February 12th, 2026
Modernizing Mainframe Applications: From Monolithic Code to Modular Architecture (Feb. 12th)- 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
How Agentic AI Transforms the Role of Storage (Feb. 12th)- 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
From Live Exploitation to Zero-Day Discovery: Investigating Attacks on Gogs (Feb. 12th)- 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM ET
Tuesday, February 17th, 2026
Building a Platform for Velocity: Accelerating Adoption with Internal Developer Portals (Feb. 17th)- 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM
Deepfake: Empowering Your Users to Recognize What AI Can Fake (Feb. 17th)- 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
TechTalk Tuesday (Feb. 17th)- 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM ET
From Reliable to Self-Optimizing: An AIOps Roadmap for Data Center Networking (Feb. 17th)- 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Rethinking Virtual Desktops for the AI Era (Feb. 17th)- 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Wednesday, February 18th, 2026
AI-Powered Cloud Security Posture Management (Feb. 18th)- 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
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