About Maria Korolov

Maria Korolov is an award-winning tech journalist who covers cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and extended reality.

She’s also a science fiction author and the editor and founder of MetaStellar, an online magazine of speculative fiction, and of Hypergrid Business, one of the world’s top virtual reality blogs.

Contact her at maria@korolov.com to pitch articles or to hire her as writer, editor, or speaker at your event.

Follow her on Twitter at @MariaKorolov, on Threads at @MariaKorolov, and check out her latest videos on the Maria Korolov YouTube channel.

Latest AI articles

Broadcom’s vision for VMware highlights private clouds, private AI

Broadcom’s vision for VMware highlights private clouds, private AI

Aug 30, 2024

This week’s VMware Explore conference was all about AI, along with an unexpected focus on private clouds.

AI-fueled search gives more power to the bad guys

AI-fueled search gives more power to the bad guys

Mar 29, 2023
How to stay ahead of attacks by learning about the risks of AI-based search engines, what skill sets are needed to defend systems and ensuring employees can learn to use AI tools safely without inviting attackers in.
Real-time analytics presents challenges to unlock benefits

Real-time analytics presents challenges to unlock benefits

Mar 27, 2023
Real-time analytics enables organizations with faster decision-making. However, bad data, or a culture that isn’t ready for real-time analytics, can undermine the benefits.
How ChatGPT Can Help and Hinder Data Center Cybersecurity

How ChatGPT Can Help and Hinder Data Center Cybersecurity

Mar 20, 2023
We explore the benefits and dangers of cybersecurity professionals using AI tools like ChatGPT in the data center space – as well as how they’re already being leveraged by bad actors.

Latest quantum computing articles

Latest Cybersecurity articles

How CISOs can balance the risks and benefits of AI

How CISOs can balance the risks and benefits of AI

Jun 27, 2023

Rapid growth and development of AI is pushing the limits of cybersecurity and CISOs must take charge now to be ahead of a range of risks including data leak, compliance and prompt injection attacks.

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Trust no one: New technology platforms expand the attack surface

Nov 23, 2021
The rapid deployment of 5G and edge computing, the transition to work-from-home, combined with accelerating growth of mobile apps, APIs and web services are expanding the attack surface for cyber criminals. Are we prepared?
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On-prem-as-a-service comes into its own during pandemic

Nov 22, 2021
With this approach, the hardware is owned by the service provider, so upfront capital expenses are replaced by operating expenses. Scaling up and down is easy. And the on-prem-as-a-service provider handles all the installation, maintenance, networking, and other aspects of running a data center
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SolarWinds Hackers Step Up Attacks Against IT Services Firms

Nov 5, 2021
The Russian state actors behind last year’s SolarWinds attack have been targeting IT resellers and service providers since at least May, according to a Microsoft report.

Latest Networking articles

Commercial quantum networks inch closer to primetime

Commercial quantum networks inch closer to primetime

Mar 23, 2023

The potential for attackers to use quantum computers to crack public key cryptography algorithms is driving research and investment in developing quantum-safe networks.

latest Awards

latest Appearances

older Awards and Appearances

Judge, 2019 CSO50 awards

Maria is one of the judges of the annual CSO50 awards, which recognize 50 organizations for their security project or initiative that demonstrates outstanding business value and thought leadership.

Judge, Epica Awards

Maria is a member of the jury of the 2018 Epica awards, the only global creative prize judged by journalists.

Jan. 2018: Maria Korolov talks with Sine Wave about “Succeeding As A Retailer In Immersive Worlds.” 

Dec. 2017: Speaker at Stereopsia conference in Brussels, Belgium. Topic was women in virtual reality. Click here for slides.

Dec. 2017: Speaker at OpenSimulator Community Conference. Topic was a statistical overview of OpenSim development. Click here for slides.

Apr. 2017: Profiled in Viar360’s Women of VR – 35 Ladies Who Are Killing It In Virtual Reality

Aug. 2016: Mentioned in Marie Claire’s Virtual Reality Has a Female Mafia—and They’re Looking for New Recruits

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May 2016: Interviewed by the BCC about how virtual reality will change our lives. Listen to the broadcast hereRead the transcript here.

Sep. 2015: Mentioned in Fortune’s Meet the women shaping our virtual future.

Latest Blog Posts

How to get started as a foreign correspondent

May 3, 2002
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Looking for outlets to send you abroad is actually the *last* step of a going-overseas process. The first thing is, you need to ask yourself…

How to get into freelancing

Mar 2, 2002
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I’ve been a freelancer for most of the past ten years, and have also edited the work of many freelancers in various editing jobs. Read…