A recent data loss incident involving an AI coding agent is drawing widespread attention for all of the wrong reasons. A startup using an AI coding agent had its entire database deleted in just 9 seconds. According to their founder, the issue led to more than 30 hours of disruption, forcing the business to manually […]
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St. Patrick’s Day celebrates luck, four-leaf clovers, and the hope of finding a pot of gold. But when it comes to business cybersecurity, luck is not a smart strategy. Half of IT Directors at global enterprises predict that cybercrime will surpass $15 trillion in costs by 2030. Cyberattacks are more common than ever before, so
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On January 14th, more than 1.5 million customers were affected by the Verizon outage. The network outage lasted for roughly 10 hours with customers having their phones in SOS mode and businesses having no Internet. For businesses, 10 hours offline means lost revenue, frustrated customers, and halted operations. Atlassian suggests that each minute of downtime
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Across the country, municipal cyberattacks are rising. From 2018 to 2024, there was an estimated $1.09 billion in downtime costs affecting local governments alone. We’re seeing an increase in sophisticated attacks, such as ransomware attacks, having devastating consequences that affect entire communities. This blog breaks down the recent jump in municipal cyberattacks, what local governments
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Modern energy infrastructure heavily relies on IT systems from monitoring, automation, safety, and compliance. With the energy sector considered critical infrastructure, even small IT failures can have massive consequences. In this blog we’ll explain the effects of IT failures on one of the most important sectors for everyday life. The Growing Dependence on IT in
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Forget horror movies and spooky ghost stories; the things that scare us most on Halloween are cybersecurity horror stories about famous cyberattacks. Whether they were data breaches caused by a ransomware attack or human error, we’ll go over cybersecurity horror stories that will scare even your CEO this Halloween. The Colonial Pipeline Attack In 2021,
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The energy sector is known as critical infrastructure. It enables the functioning of all other nearby sectors essential for public health, safety, the economy, and national security. So it’s not surprising that the average cost of downtime per hour is a staggering $2.48 million. Because without energy, society wouldn’t be able to function for long,
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