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Why Phishers Love New TLDs Like.shop,top and.xyz

Krebs on Security

Currently, there are around 2,500 registrars authorized to sell domains by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the California nonprofit that oversees the domain industry. ICANN’s proposed next round envisions accepting applications for new gTLDs in 2026. “But they act a lot more like the latter.”

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ThreatLabz 2025 VPN Report: Why 81% of Organizations Plan to Adopt Zero Trust by 2026

Security Boulevard

Because VPNs are internet-connected, it has become relatively straightforward for attackers to use AI for automated recon targeting VPN vulnerabilities. This can take the form of simply asking your favorite AI chatbot to return all current CVEs for VPN products in use by an enterprise, which are then easily scanned over the public internet.

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MY TAKE: ‘Network Detection and Response’ emerges as an Internet of Things security stopgap

The Last Watchdog

There’s no stopping the Internet of Things now. trillion by 2026, up from $190 billion in 2018. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. (LW Related: The promise, pitfalls of IoT Companies have commenced the dispersal of IoT systems far and wide.

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RSAC Fireside Chat: Turning full attention to locking down the security of ‘open source’

The Last Watchdog

Open source coding has come to dominate business software applications; rising to comprise 75 percent of audited code bases and putting open source on a trajectory to become a $50 billion subsector of technology by 2026. Mend and other SCA solution vendors are stepping up their game to counter this trend. I’ll keep watch and keep reporting.

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Thousands of Data Center Management Apps Exposed to Internet

eSecurity Planet

Tens of thousands of applications that are critical to the operations of data centers around the globe are exposed to the internet, with many secured with default factory passwords, posing a significant cyber risk to enterprises worldwide. percent a year through 2026, when it will hit $4.4 This is laziness at its worst.”.

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NEW TECH SNAPSHOT: The role of ‘MSSPs’ in helping businesses manage cybersecurity

The Last Watchdog

The global market for managed security services is estimated to be growing at a compound annual rate of 14 percent and should climb to $44 billion by 2026 , up from $23 billion in 2021, says research firm MarketsandMarkets. A drill-down on MSSPs is coming tomorrow (Sept. 7) in a LW news analysis column and podcast. Stay tuned.

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Demand, CyberInsurance, and Automation/AI Are the Future of InfoSec

Daniel Miessler

2026-) Cyberinsurance will ascend as the primary mechanism for making cybersecurity-related product and service decisions within companies. Every country will have massive collections of internet and internal-facing systems that are continuously scanning and monitoring everything it owns.

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