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Cloud attacks are getting faster and deadlier – here’s your best defense plan

Cloud attacks are getting faster and deadlier – here’s your best defense plan

Published by skeptic

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways AI is helping attackers exploit vulnerabilities faster than ever. Most cloud attacks now target weak third-party software. Businesses need automated, AI-powered defenses to keep up. The jury is still out on whether most businesses get any measurable benefit from implementing AI in their organizations, and the debate is likely to get more contentious over time. But at least one sector is reaping massive productivity gains in the Age of AI: Cybercriminals are more successful than ever before at leveraging vulnerabilities to attack businesses in the cloud, where they’re most vulnerable. Also: AI agents of chaos? New research shows how bots talking to bots can go sideways fast That’s the conclusion of a just-released report from Google’s army of security investigators and engineers that I was able to review in advance of its publication. Based on its observations from the second half of 2025, Google Cloud Security concluded, “The window between vulnerability disclosure and mass exploitation collapsed by an order of magnitude, …

Deadlier Than Gettysburg – The Atlantic

Deadlier Than Gettysburg – The Atlantic

Published by Sam Flores

The Civil War isn’t what it used to be. Instead of the romantic version, a “good war” of courage and glory, that emerged in the conflict’s immediate aftermath, or the post-civil-rights-era emphasis on the war as the vector of liberation for 4 million enslaved African Americans, a more recent direction has been labeled the “dark turn.” Grim rather than celebratory, it has chronicled the war’s cost and cruelty, exploring subjects such as death, ruins, starvation, disease, atrocities, torture, amputations, and postwar trauma, as well as a freedom that was rapidly undermined. Explore the March 2026 Issue Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read. View More W. Fitzhugh Brundage’s gripping new book, aptly titled A Fate Worse Than Hell: American Prisoners of the Civil War, represents an essential contribution to this rethinking in its account of what was perhaps the most horrifying realization of the suffering and inhumanity the war produced. But Brundage, who teaches at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, does more than expand our understanding …