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Why Passwords No Longer Matter: The Rise of Infostealer Malware and Session Hijacking

3 Jul 2026

“Your password is strong. It uses 16 characters, symbols, numbers, and uppercase letters. You even enabled Multi-Factor Authentication. You’re safe… right?” Not necessarily. For years, cybersecurity advice revolved around creating stronger passwords. Organizations encouraged employees to use complex passwords, change them regularly, and enable MFA to secure their accounts. While these practices remain important, attackers have changed their strategy. Instead […]

Living Off the Land: When Legitimate Tools Become Cyber Weapons

24 Jun 2026

The greatest trick an attacker can pull isn’t hiding malware on your computer; it’s convincing your computer to attack itself. It sounds like something out of a cyber-thriller, but it’s one of the most effective techniques used by modern threat actors today. For years, cybersecurity teams have focused on detecting malicious files. Antivirus solutions searched for suspicious executables, endpoint security tools […]

Attack Surface Management: You Can’t Protect What You Don’t Know Exists

16 Jun 2026

Imagine locking every door and window in your house before leaving for vacation. You double check the front door. The back door is secure. Every window is locked. The alarm system is armed. You feel confident that your home is protected. But what if there was another door you forgot existed? A side entrance built years ago. A window left open in […]

AI-Driven SASE: The Next Evolution of Cybersecurity

29 Apr 2026

The cybersecurity landscape is undergoing a fundamental transformation. As organizations accelerate cloud adoption, embrace hybrid work, and expand their digital footprint, traditional security models are struggling to keep pace. At the same time, cyber threats are becoming more sophisticated, faster, and increasingly automated. This convergence of complexity and risk has led to the evolution of […]

PDPA in Sri Lanka: What Businesses Still Get Wrong

2 Apr 2026

You can’t secure what you don’t truly understand. When the Personal Data Protection Act No. 9 of 2022 (PDPA) was introduced, it marked a turning point in how organizations across Sri Lanka were expected to handle personal data. Boardrooms took notice. Legal teams rushed into action. Policies were drafted, updated, and circulated. On the surface, it looked like progress. […]

Your Business Is Already on Hackers’ Radars

27 Mar 2026

A Cybersecurity Wake-Up Call for Every Business Owner 43% of attacks target small businesses 24/7 automated bots scan your systems 60% of SMBs close […]

Beyond the Fingerprint: Anthropic’s 500 Bug Blowout and the New Security Order

4 Mar 2026

While the industry has long been locked in a cycle of tactical escalation, the introduction of reasoning-based analysis marks a transition from simple pattern recognition to sophisticated hypothesis generation. Anthropic’s launch of Claude Code Security following their discovery of over 500 high-severity vulnerabilities in production open-source code, marks a fundamental shift in how we protect the modern enterprise. For security […]

How Poor UI/UX Design Creates Cybersecurity Risks

17 Feb 2026

Cybersecurity is often viewed through a purely technical lens such as firewalls, encryption, intrusion detection systems, and access controls. However, an equally important and frequently overlooked aspect of security lies in how users interact with these technical controls. The design of user interfaces, workflows, warnings, and security prompts has a direct impact on user behaviour […]

Regex Gone Rogue: When One Pattern Breaks Everything

9 Feb 2026

When a Few Characters Become a Breach No malware was installed. No firewall was bypassed. No zero-day exploit was dropped. And yet access was granted, pipelines were triggered, and secrets were exposed. All because of a few misplaced characters in a regular expression. This is the quiet danger of regex misconfigurations, a class of security flaws so subtle they often pass code reviews, yet powerful enough […]

AI in Defense: Fighting Hackers with Hackers

9 Feb 2026

It was just past midnight when the security dashboard blinked to life. Thousands of login attempts poured in from unusual locations, files were being accessed at speeds no human could manage, and something about the network traffic didn’t feel right. But no human analyst had raised an alert yet. Behind the scenes, a quiet digital guardian had […]

Cybersecurity Myths You Should Stop Believing

30 Jan 2026

As technology becomes more integrated into our daily lives, cyber threats continue to grow in both scale and sophistication. Despite this, many individuals and organizations still rely on outdated assumptions about cybersecurity. These myths create blind spots that attackers are quick to exploit. Understanding what isn’t true about cybersecurity is just as important as knowing best practices. […]

Automation Gone Wrong

23 Jan 2026

Automation Gone Wrong: When Security Tools Create Blind Spots “How over-reliance on automated security tools is creating the very vulnerabilities they were designed to prevent” The Automation Paradox Cybersecurity has never been more automated than it is today. From AI-driven Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) systems and Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) platforms to […]