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Phishing attacks are the most common security issue for smartphone users, according to a new study by Omdia. The survey found that nearly a quarter (24%) of respondents have fallen victim to a mobile phishing attack. The second most common mobile threat was malware, which is usually delivered via social engineering. The researchers note that phishing attacks reached all the smartphones assessed in the study, regardless of vendor.

One of the primary goals of information security is to protect data, which of course entails protecting the resources that store and provide access to that data. According to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, organizations need to develop and implement the necessary protections to restrict or mitigate the effect of a possible cybersecurity incident. Security should be integrated right from the source of the cloud architecture design process.

Much has been written about how AI, particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), will transform cybersecurity. Some say it'll be for the worse, and some say it'll be for the better. Although SURGe firmly believes that AI will end up helping defenders much more than it helps threat actors, it's sometimes hard to envision the exact form in which this help will, or should, come.

The recent cyber breach at the U.S. Treasury Department, linked to state-sponsored Chinese hackers, has set off alarm bells in the public sector. As the investigation continues, this incident reveals a pressing issue that all government agencies must confront: securing their APIs (Application Programming Interfaces).