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Smart Communications, a customer engagement technology provider serving regulated industries, reported its strongest-ever first-half bookings performance, with bookings increasing 17% year over year as enterprises invest in modernizing customer communications and preparing their operations for AI.

Online stores have spent years serving people who browse and buy, but some of the requests arriving at those stores now come from AI agents acting on behalf of human customers.

Phishing attempts are increasingly using familiar names, services and notification formats to make malicious emails more difficult to recognize. Seton Hall’s IT Security team recently identified a phishing campaign targeting the University community that demonstrates how attackers use this approach to impersonate trusted technology and prompt recipients to take action. 

Kroger reported second-quarter 2026 sales of $34.6 billion, up from $33.9 billion a year earlier, while adjusted earnings per diluted share increased 5% to $1.09 from $1.04.

Cyberattacks on UK property firms rise 17% as hackers target client data | Insurance Business

A study by Omdia and Object First found that successful ransomware attacks are becoming more common and recovery rates are worsening. It also identified a wide gap between the number of technology leaders who view immutable backup storage as essential and those who say they have it.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the way marketers ideate, execute, launch, and track campaigns. As audiences become more fragmented, their attention is dispersed across a wider range of channels, such as social media, streaming services, and more. This means that marketing teams can no longer afford to generalize their messages, as hyper-personalized content is quickly…

The increase of remote work has altered California’s labor landscape, potentially presenting challenges for workers to get certain in-state jobs and, at the same time, adjust to the state’s high cost of living.

If your company’s security chief looks a little more stressed, there is a reason. Wally Dalrymple, chief security officer at ETS, says the workload has exploded: “It feels like my job has doubled or quadrupled,” he said. “It’s coming at us so fast and at such large volumes.” The job now includes not only keeping…

Sept 4 (Reuters) – Companies worldwide are grappling with a surge in ⁠AI-driven cyberattacks and ransomware that steal sensitive data and disrupt operations.