Tech Can't Stop These Threats — Your People Can
Security controls can do only so much. Here are four attacks where your employees are usually your first, and only, line of cyber defense.
FCC Softens Ban on Foreign-Made Routers
The Federal Communications Commission eased some restrictions and pushed back deadlines for foreign router manufacturers, but the ban is still in place.
20 Leaders Who Built the CISO Era: 2 Decades of Change
As part of Dark Reading's 20th anniversary special coverage, we profile the CISOs, founders, researchers, criminals, and policymakers who rewrote the enterprise risk playbook.
Hugging Face Packages Weaponized With a Single File Tweak
A tokenizer library file present in Hugging Face AI models can be manipulated to hijack the model's outputs and exfiltrate data.
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Checkbox Assessments Aren't Fit to Measure Risk
Security governance needs to be more than an annual compliance exercise. New companies are emerging to address risk-management gaps in current audit tools.
AI Drives Cybersecurity Investments, Widening 'Valley of Death'
In a role reversal, investment dollars in security startups exceeded the value of mergers and acquisitions in 1Q26 by more than $1 billion, a rare occurrence.
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SecurityScorecard Snags Driftnet to Level Up Threat Intelligence
The acquisition looks to boost visibility into third-party ecosystems, which are becoming a bigger concern as vectors for supply chain attacks.
Taiwan Bullet Train Hack Highlights Cybersecurity Gaps in Rail Systems
A Taiwanese student experimenting with software-defined radio technology shut down three bullet trains for nearly an hour, leading to an anti-terrorism response.
Cyber Pioneers Ponder Past as Prologue
Robert "RSnake" Hansen, Katie Moussouris, Rich Mogull, Richard Stiennon, and Bruce Schneier reflect on how their favorite columns penned for Dark Reading over the past 20 years have stood the test of time.
Congress Puts Heat on Instructure After Canvas Outage
The House Committee on Homeland Security sent a letter about the Canvas cyberattack, the same day that the edtech company said it reached an "agreement" with the ShinyHunters cybercriminals.
Can Laws Stop Deepfakes? South Korea Aims to Find Out
South Korea's local elections next month will be a test bed for how effective regulations might be to stymie the flow of deepfakes.
One Missed Threat Per Week: What 25M Alerts Reveal About Low-Severity Risk
The dark secret of enterprise security operations is that defenders have quietly institutionalized the practice of not looking. This is not just anecdotal, but rather backed by a recent report investigating more than 25 million security alerts, including informational and low-sev