Travelling has never been easier or more digital. Today, a smartphone is all you need to book flights, check into your hotel, make payments, navigate with maps, or even plan your itinerary using artificial intelligence.
The adoption of QR codes has become massive in recent years, driven by the digitalisation of services, the standardisation of digital payments and the demand for contactless experiences. This convenience has turned the QR code into an everyday item and, therefore, an increasingly exploited vector by attackers.
Organisations rely daily on open-source libraries, package managers, CI/CD pipelines, cloud platforms, development tools, and external services to accelerate the creation of applications and digital services. In this context, trust is essential to ensure innovation, agility, and scalability but it has also become part of the attack surface.
What began as a curious experiment quickly turned into a serious warning about the risks associated with the Internet of Things (IoT). An engineer and technology enthusiast decided to explore a simple idea: controlling his robot vacuum with a console command, turning a household task into a technological exercise.
Personal AI Assistants are transforming organisational productivity, supported by large language models (LLMs) and integrations with enterprise applications. Tools such as ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot and Google Gemini represent only the first generation of this technology, typically general-purpose.
A Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) attack is a cyberattack in which the attacker secretly positions themselves between two systems or users who believe they are communicating directly with one another.