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Louis Columbus

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Covers:  AI, cybersecurity, machine learning, CRM, ERP, enterprise software, new technologies.
Husband & Dad |Love to teach, travel & write | Writer & conference speaker on AI, cybersecurity, ERP, and zero trust | Love baseball

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Software product marketing and product management leader with experience in marketing management, channel, and direct sales with an emphasis in Cloud, catalog and content management, ERP, MES, and Quality Management systems. Former industry analyst covering CRM, CPQ, product configuration, pricing, and quoting systems. Expertise and insight into marketing and selling integration solutions for CRM, ERP, MES, Quality Management, SCM, and PLM systems. My passion is creating and launching new enter…

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Financial services MFA attack: resets MFA and steals token

Financial services MFA attack: resets MFA and steals token

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MFA verifies who logged in. It has no idea what they do next.

MFA verifies who logged in. It has no idea what they do next.

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GitHub confirms 3,800 repos stolen via poisoned VS Code extension

GitHub confirms 3,800 repos stolen via poisoned VS Code extension

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85% of enterprises run AI agents. Only 5% trust them enough to ship

85% of enterprises run AI agents. Only 5% trust them enough to ship

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Vercel breach exposes the OAuth gap most security teams cannot detect

Vercel breach exposes the OAuth gap most security teams cannot detect

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OpenClaw has 500,000 instances and no enterprise kill switch

OpenClaw has 500,000 instances and no enterprise kill switch

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The Shai-Hulud npm worm didn't fake its security check — it earned a legitimate one

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By Louis Columbus
| VentureBeat Verified
An attacker on Tuesday took over the GitHub account of the developer who maintains keyv, a small key-value storage library that npm serves roughly 127 million times a week. Within hours, poisoned versions of keyv and its sibling caching packages were live on npm, carrying a credential-stealing worm. By midday, security firm Aikido counted at least 868 compromised packages across 1,381 versions, together carrying over two billion monthly installs, a total still climbing.
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Mastercard spent decades training its fraud system to see bots as thieves. Now bots are the ones doing the buying. Original

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By Louis Columbus
| VentureBeat Verified
Every time a Mastercard gets tapped, the network has less than a tenth of a second to judge how likely the purchase is to be fraudulent. It made that call across 175 billion transactions last year. Now the buyer on the other side of that judgment is starting to change, and Greg Ulrich, the company's chief AI and data officer, spelled out the consequence for the VB Transform 2026 audience in Menlo Park on July 14.
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The lineage behind 69% of open models was never verified. Cisco just fingerprinted almost 900 for free

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By Louis Columbus
| VentureBeat Verified
A security team approving an open-source model for production today starts with a repository page. The page lists the model name, the license, and a tag identifying the base model it descended from. That tag is a string the uploader typed. Hugging Face does not require uploaders to substantiate the claim through weight-level analysis. The ATOM Report, published by Nathan Lambert and Florian Brand at Interconnects AI in April 2026, tracked roughly 1,500 mainline open models.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Writing for the Arizona Daily Wildcat while at the University of Arizona.

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Why did you become a journalist?

I love to write and learn, it's a perfect balance.