• PJ Bradley
    Contributing Writer Security Buzz

    PJ Bradley is a writer from southeast Michigan with a Bachelor's degree in history from Oakland University. She has a background in school-age care and experience tutoring college history students.

    Currently, PJ is focused on building a career in higher education while freelancing as a writer. A lover of literature and art, she dedicates much of her free time to creative writing and reading.

Articles by PJ Bradley
NSPM-12 NSS cyber defense https://www.pexels.com/photo/white-concrete-building-with-flags-on-top-7017138/
NSPM-12 Rewires the Governance of America's Most Sensitive Cyber Networks
July 09, 2026
For over 35 years, the framework governing the National Security Systems (NSS) of the United States has been governed by National Security Directive (NSD) 42, a policy set by the Bush administration in 1990. This…
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How Hacked Devices Are Rewriting the Threat Landscape
July 07, 2026
The nationally-recognized nonprofit Identity Theft Resource Center recently published its 2026 Trends in Identity Report (TIR), the fifth installment in the annual series exploring the current state of the identity threat landscape. The report outlines…
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Accenture Is Repositioning OT Cybersecurity Around Asset Intelligence
July 05, 2026
In recent years, with rising geopolitical tensions, nation-state threat actors have been increasingly targeting industrial and critical infrastructure environments. Operational technology (OT) environments have historically been underprotected due to reliance on the assumed safety of…
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How DragonForce Weaponized Microsoft Teams to Outlast Its Own Ransomware
July 03, 2026
In a recent attack, threat actors compromised a U.S. services firm’s network using malware tactics unseen prior to this incident. The attackers’ initial access was traced to an unidentified vulnerability in either an SQL or…
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How a $200 Million Acquisition Exposes the Identity Crisis No One Is Watching
June 26, 2026
According to the Cloud Security Alliance’s recent report on The Non-Human Identity Governance Vacuum, non-human identities now outnumber human ones by roughly 45 to 1. These identities include API keys, tokens, and service accounts that…
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Inside the PeopleSoft Zero-Day That Let Attackers Look Like Legitimate Users
June 25, 2026
Threat researchers have discovered a campaign by the cybercrime group known as ShinyHunters, historically known for carrying out massive data breaches and extortion attacks. This most recent campaign, based on activity observed between May 27th…
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How Cybercriminals Turned Ticket Mania Into a Global Attack Surface
June 23, 2026
With 48 teams playing 104 matches in three countries, the FIFA World Cup 2026 is an event of unprecedented scale and ticket scarcity. Dynamic pricing of tickets can push seats at the final match to…
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Frontier AI Just Got a Kill Switch for Hackers
June 22, 2026
On June 9th, Anthropic AI announced the public release of Claude Fable 5, a version of the Mythos model with additional safeguards for general use. Until recently, Mythos-class AI models were confined to use only…
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The Case for Runtime Security Is Now Undeniable
June 19, 2026
There has long been an industry consensus that moving threat detection earlier in the development lifecycle is an effective way to prevent incidents in production. Heavy investment in pre-production scanning, DevSecOps tooling, and “shift earlier”…
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Dragos's Acquisition of Phosphorus Signals a Fundamental Rethink of Industrial Cybersecurity
June 16, 2026
For many years, operational technology (OT) security programs have been designed around the concept of a discrete, identifiable set of industrial control systems. Technologies traditionally relied upon, like Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), Distributed Control Systems…
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How a Fake Purchase Order Becomes a Full-Scale Enterprise Data Breach
June 09, 2026
Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs recently discovered a phishing campaign with the goal of stealing sensitive data from target devices using a PureLogs variant. The lure hidden behind business document theming exploits the urgency and routine that…
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Torq Jit AI SOC https://www.pexels.com/photo/futuristic-digital-tunnel-with-bright-led-lights-30547580/
Torq's Acquisition of Jit and the Rise of Context-Driven SecOps
June 08, 2026
Since the inception of AI security operations center (SOC) platforms, they have operated around and struggled against fragmented, context-free data. Architectures that center around security alerts treat each of these events in isolation, stripping out…
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CVE-2026-9082 and the Hidden Risk in Drupal's Core
June 06, 2026
A recently discovered vulnerability in Drupal Core, tracked as CVE-2026-9082, has been exploited in the wild and added to the United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) KEV catalog. The vulnerability is an SQL…
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Akamai's LayerX Acquisition Redraws the AI Governance Perimeter
June 03, 2026
In the ongoing AI boom, the adoption and implementation of AI tools and agents is rapidly outpacing the rate at which governance instrumentation is being built to contain and manage them. Previously existing controls like…
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Claw Chain Exposes the Blind Spot at the Center of Agentic AI Security
June 02, 2026
Open-source agentic AI platform OpenClaw has undergone rapid adoption since its late 2025 launch. First introduced as Clawdbot, OpenClaw has seen broad enterprise integration across IT automation, customer service, and messaging platforms. With the use…
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How AI Is Collapsing the Federal Patching Window
May 29, 2026
The United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) established the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog in November 2021 as a resource to aid federal agencies and the public in their efforts to defend against…
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Cisco acquires Astrix agentic AI identities https://www.pexels.com/photo/an-artist-s-illustration-of-artificial-intelligence-ai-this-image-depicts-how-ai-could-adapt-to-an-infinite-amount-of-uses-it-was-created-by-nidia-dias-as-part-of-the-visualising-ai-pr-17485658/
Why Cisco Paid $400M to Secure the Identities No One Is Watching
May 27, 2026
The broad digital landscape in recent years has seen a massive increase in non-human identities (NHIs), including API and access keys, service accounts, OAuth tokens, and AI agents. These identities now outnumber human users by…
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The AiTM Campaign That Made Your Policies Work Against You
May 22, 2026
A recent large-scale credential theft campaign discovered by Microsoft Defender Research serves as a prime demonstration of how institutional culture can become the attack surface for increasingly sophisticated phishing attacks. The design of the lure…
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