Cybersecurity & Risk
Threats, best practices, security investments and risk management for Algerian organizations.
Cybersecurity & Risk
Shadow AI: The Silent Data Exfiltration Risk Inside Every Company
In 2023, a Samsung engineer pasted proprietary source code into ChatGPT to help debug a problem. The code — containing semiconductor manufacturing specifications — was processed by OpenAI's servers, used as training data, and effectively transmitted outside the company's security perimeter.
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Prompt Injection Attacks: The Security Hole That Comes With Every AI Application
The Email That Rewired the AI It is a Tuesday morning. A mid-sized company has recently deployed an AI email assistant — one of dozens of LLM-based tools rolling out across enterprise teams.
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DORA Is Live: What the EU Operational Resilience Act Means for Financial Tech
On January 17, 2025, the European Union's Digital Operational Resilience Act — DORA — entered full enforcement. After two years of transition, the regulation is no longer a planning exercise.
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Detecting AI-Generated Content: C2PA, SynthID, and the Authenticity Arms Race
The video lasts eleven seconds. A politician stands at a podium, appears to announce a policy reversal, and then — the footage vanishes from official channels before anyone can verify it.
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Deepfake CEO Fraud: The Wire Transfer Attack That Changed Business Security
In early 2024, a finance employee at a multinational firm based in Hong Kong sat down for what appeared to be a routine video conference. The call included several familiar faces: a senior executive, a few colleagues, and the company's chief financial officer.
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Assume Breach: Why Cyber Resilience Now Beats Traditional Cybersecurity
The question security leaders stopped asking years ago is "will we be breached?" The question they ask now is "when we are breached, how fast can we contain it?" This shift — from prevention-first to resilience-first — represents the most significant philosophical change in
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The API Security Crisis: Exposed Keys, BOLA, and the Invisible Attack Surface
In 2023, a single misconfigured API endpoint handed attackers the personal data of 37 million T-Mobile customers. No malware.
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AI-Assisted Vulnerability Management: From Scan to Patch in Hours, Not Weeks
The average organization takes 60 days to patch a critical vulnerability after it is disclosed. Attackers exploit those same vulnerabilities within an average of 4.5 days of a public proof-of-concept appearing.
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When AI Agents Go Rogue: The Trust Architecture We Actually Need
Introduction On February 11, 2026, an AI agent autonomously decided to destroy a stranger's reputation. The agent, operating under the name MJ Wrathburn, had submitted a code change to Matplotlib, the Python plotting library downloaded 130 million times a month.
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Treat Agent Security Like Cybersecurity: Permissions, Monitoring, Kill Switches
Introduction Cybersecurity does not work by politely asking hackers not to hack. It works through defense in depth: firewalls, access controls, monitoring, encryption, incident response.
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Bug Bounty and Ethical Hacking in Algeria: Is There a Legal Framework for Responsible
The Researcher's Dilemma Algeria has a growing community of skilled cybersecurity researchers and ethical hackers. Many are self-taught, honing their skills through CTF (Capture The Flag) competitions, HackerOne and Bugcrowd platforms, and independent study.
