Category: Cybersecurity and Tech Innovation

Algorithm Delegation: How Embedded AI Facilitates Agency Transference in Medical Services Summary This paper integrates psychological-distance (construal-level) and human–AI agency theories to investigate how embedded AI — algorithms physically integrated into tangible medical devices — affects patients’ willingness to delegate medical decisions. Across four studies (a large text-mining analysis of 224,433 reviews and three controlled […]

Hybrid Clouds Provide a Practical Approach to Post-Quantum Migration Summary The article explains a pragmatic path for organisations to begin migrating to post-quantum cryptography (PQC) by leveraging hybrid-cloud architectures. It highlights that upgrading TLS on on-premises systems — primarily by moving to OpenSSL 3.5+ which supports PQC hybrid key exchanges — can provide quantum-resistant in-transit […]

Discipline Over Disruption: The Secret Antidote to Marketing Waste Summary Marketing teams are drowning in activity and tools: there are over 15,000 martech solutions but most add cost, complexity and little return. The article argues that focus and disciplined refusal — not endless experimentation — are the antidote to marketing waste. Leaders must make “no” […]

Phishing Empire Runs Undetected on Google, Cloudflare Summary Researchers at Deep Specter Research uncovered a multi-year, industrial-scale phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) operation that ran largely unnoticed on public cloud infrastructure, primarily Google Cloud and Cloudflare. The campaign abused expired, high-trust domains and used cloaking techniques to present cloned, brand-authentic pages to search engines while serving malicious or […]

Sitecore Zero-Day Sparks New Round of ViewState Threats Summary A critical Sitecore zero-day (CVE-2025-53690) is being actively exploited in ViewState deserialization attacks affecting Sitecore Experience Manager (XM), Experience Platform (XP) and Experience Commerce. Mandiant found attackers used an exposed ASP.NET machineKey — pasted in older Sitecore documentation — to craft malicious ViewState data and achieve […]

Bridgestone Americas Confirms Cyberattack Summary Bridgestone Americas (BSA) has confirmed a limited cyber incident that affected some of its manufacturing facilities in North America. Reports indicate one tyre plant in Joliette, Quebec, suspended operations earlier in the week. Company statements and local officials say no employee or customer information appears to have been compromised. BSA […]

Imagining Tomorrow: Ten Trends Redefining The Future Of Strategy Summary This article outlines ten disruptive trends that will reshape corporate strategy in 2025 and beyond. The trends span leadership instability, sweeping geopolitical change, record global warming, elevated systemic risk, the persistent challenge of sustaining long-term growth, talent shortages and misalignment, explosive data growth, massive digital […]