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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

How do you get into business writing?

Dec 27, 2002
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A beginning writer asked me: How do you get into business writing? My rule of thumb is you’re as good a writer as your last…

War reporting: advice for interviewing refugees

Oct 2, 2002
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Refugees are scared, upset, mad at the other side — they’ll tell stories that happened to “a friend of a friend” as if they happened…

Struggling to make a living

Sep 16, 2002
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I recently got the following question from a beginning journalist: I have reached the point where a job in journalism in any capacity seems a…

Advice for public relations people pitching stories to me

Sep 12, 2002
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The biggest problem is inappropriate pitches. I didn’t do consumer finance — I work for a trade publication, not a consumer magazine! The PR folks…

How do you sell articles to trade magazines where most other contributors write for free?

Aug 2, 2002
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Many trade publications — as well as academic publications — don’t pay contributors. The reason is that the people who contribute are getting something other…

If you’re just starting out, how do you come up with story ideas?

Jul 14, 2002
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If you’re new to freelancing or new to the area, you might not have a lot of story ideas handy, and you need a LOT…