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If your employees are visiting Chinese-language gambling or adult sites, they may not just be wasting time and money, but potentially encountering serious malware hidden behind domains that look like mostly harmless entertainment at first glance.

For years, enterprise networking strategies were built around a relatively simple assumption: applications lived in one primary environment, connectivity followed predictable paths, and security controls could be enforced at well-defined boundaries.

Network engineers and security teams have long treated DNS as plumbing. Change it for a quicker lookup here, a more stable connection there. That view no longer holds.

For years, enterprise networking strategies were built around a relatively simple assumption: applications lived in one primary environment, connectivity followed predictable paths, and security controls could be enforced at well-defined boundaries.

Southeast Asia has quietly become the world’s largest manufacturing hub for financial fraud, and it’s no longer a distant problem for Australians. The scam economy operating out of Cambodia, Myanmar, Laos and the Philippines is already reaching into Australian bank accounts and phones.

Hackers carried out a supply chain attack that installed malware on networks using an unusual technique: hijacking a chunk of Internet space where cloud management software used by hosting providers, data centers, and other large infrastructure companies is updated.

Reps. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) and Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) are introducing a new bill Thursday, first shared with Axios, aimed at securing AI agents amid a growing number of safety incidents involving rogue agents.

Artificial intelligence, rapid skills evolution and shifting employee expectations are reshaping the future of work. As roles change and new capabilities emerge, workforce planning is becoming less about forecasting headcount and more about building an adaptable organization that can respond to constant change.

A cybercrime group is infiltrating Brazilian financial systems to abuse payment infrastructure and send itself illegal transactions.

Technology security leaders used International Women in Cyber Day to highlight the sector's gender gap and call for sustained efforts to bring more women into cybersecurity roles. Senior executives from Datadog, Infoblox and ManageEngine said the industry faces both a structural skills shortfall and a diversity challenge.