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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

Chinese school and Russian Soup

Mar 25, 2004
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Kiska is learning Chinese in school, and seems to be adjusting pretty well. She brings home homework everyday of Chinese words (characters!) she has to…

Q: How do you go from writing for local business publications to national ones?

Oct 15, 2003
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I find that the transition from local business to national business pubs is very straightforward — my husband did it in a few months. Here’s…

Advice about pitching freelance stories to editors

Jul 3, 2003
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To be a successful freelancer, you really have to focus on networking and marketing. I met my primary editor at a financial services convention, and…

Freelance writers don’t get paid much. How do you make a living doing this?

Mar 2, 2003
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Freelancing is not an easy life, but it is possible to make decent money doing it. Unlike fiction writing, whether you either hit it big…

How important is networking to getting a job?

Feb 27, 2003
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When circumstances brought me back to the U.S. after living abroad, I found myself on a farm in western Massachusetts, disconnected from all my former…

About working with editors who change your words

Jan 20, 2003
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A beginning writer asks: My editors keep messing up my stories. How can I keep that from happening? My advice: If your skin is the…