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Maria Korolov is an award-winning technology journalist who covers artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and quantum computing.

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AI gives superpowers to BEC attackers

Attackers use business email compromise to pretend to be company executives, vendors, or other trusted parties and trick employees into sending them money. AI makes these attacks more effective — but also puts new tools in the hands of defenders.

Case in point: taking stock of the CrowdStrike outages

It may have faded into obscurity but by an order of magnitude, the outage last July caused by the cybersecurity vendor was the costliest in IT history. What have we learned to prevent something similar from happening again?

Breach and attack simulation (BAS) tools buyer’s guide

From the editors of CSO, this enterprise buyer’s guide helps IT security staff understand what the various breach and attack simulation (BAS) options can do for their organizations and how to choose the right solution. Download the breach and attack simulation (BAS) tools buyer’s guide here.

10 most critical LLM vulnerabilities

Prompt injection and supply chain vulnerabilities remain the main LLM vulnerabilities but as the technology evolves new risks come to light including system prompt leakage and misinformation.

Latest Blog Posts

Where to find low-cost, pre-made covers for spec fic books

Dec 17, 2020
Where to find low-cost, pre-made covers for spec fic books

Pre-made book cover sites offer low-cost, professional-looking covers for independent authors.

Body language master list for writers

Dec 17, 2020
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“Show, don’t tell” is the first lesson of Fiction Writing 101, and one of the easiest and quickest fixes is to replace the emotional adverbs…

Resources for writers

Sep 7, 2020
Resources for writers

Our master list of best resources for writers of fantasy, horror and sci-fi. Writing advice sites Writer’s Knowledge Base:  Huge database of more than 40,000…

MetaStellar site soft launch

Aug 6, 2020
MetaStellar site soft launch

We’ve just started doing the initial design of the website for MetaStellar, our new magazine of speculative fiction. The magazine will officially launch on September…

14 Reasons to Use Google Docs to Write

Aug 3, 2020
14 Reasons to Use Google Docs to Write

I use Google Docs. Most writers use Microsoft Word, Scrivener, or Google Docs to write their novels, with a few other, lesser-known platforms thrown in.…

Writing Advice Sites

Aug 3, 2020
Writing Advice Sites

Our list of great sites for beginning speculative fiction writers. Writer’s Knowledge Base Huge database of more than 40,000 articles about writing. Always my favorite…