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October 22, 2025
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Why You Should Swap Passwords for Passphrases

October 22, 2025
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TARmageddon Flaw in Async-Tar Rust Library Could Enable Remote Code Execution

October 22, 2025
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Researchers Identify PassiveNeuron APT Using Neursite and NeuralExecutor Malware

October 22, 2025
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TP-Link Patches Four Omada Gateway Flaws, Two Allow Remote Code Execution

October 21, 2025
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Meta Rolls Out New Tools to Protect WhatsApp and Messenger Users from Scams

October 21, 2025
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PolarEdge Targets Cisco, ASUS, QNAP, Synology Routers in Expanding Botnet Campaign

October 21, 2025
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Securing AI to Benefit from AI

October 21, 2025
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Google Identifies Three New Russian Malware Families Created by COLDRIVER Hackers

October 21, 2025
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Hackers Used Snappybee Malware and Citrix Flaw to Breach European Telecom Network

October 20, 2025
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Five New Exploited Bugs Land in CISA’s Catalog — Oracle and Microsoft Among Targets

Zara Owner Inditex Confirms Customer Data Breach Affecting Nearly 200,000 People May 11, 2026
Fashion retailer Inditex, the parent company of Zara, has confirmed unauthorized access to customer transaction databases hosted by a third-party provider. Data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned said approximately 197,400 unique email addresses were included in the leaked dataset. The company said it had launched security protocols and notified the relevant authorities following the incident, Reuters […]
Kirsten Doyle
Online Safety Act failing to deliver “step change” for children, report warns May 11, 2026
A new report published by Internet Matters, reveals that the Online Safety Act (OSA) in the UK, although bringing visibility of online safety tools, does not seem to be living up to expectations of providing the much-needed “meaningful protection from harm.” In their report titled The Online Safety Act: Are Children Safer Online?, Internet Matters has highlighted a […]
Kirsten Doyle
Investigating the aftermath: understanding digital forensics after a cyber incident May 7, 2026
Successfully recovering your business from a cyberattack often requires much more than just loading up backups. Although your first instinct is likely to prioritize normal operations as quickly as possible, there’s also the important process of taking a detailed look at events before moving forward. Taking the time to investigate past events helps you understand […]
Nazy Fouladirad
“Recovery Is the New Prevention”: a Q&A with CSO of Health-ISAC, Errol Weiss May 7, 2026
Errol Weiss spent fourteen years in banking and finance before joining Health-ISAC, where he serves as Chief Security Officer. His career has tracked a quiet but profound shift in how critical sectors think about cyber defense, away from prevention at all costs, toward resilience and rapid recovery. In a conversation with Joe Pettit, Weiss explains why treating attacks as inevitable changes […]
Errol Weiss and Joe Pettit
Trelix admits breach on a ‘portion’ of its source code repository May 7, 2026
Trellix has disclosed unauthorized access to a portion of its source code repository. However, it did not specify which portion of its source code was accessed, nor did it provide many further details about the incident. “Upon learning of this matter, we immediately began working with leading forensic experts to resolve it. We have also notified law enforcement,” the company said in a statement. Based on its investigation to date, Trellix added […]
Kirsten Doyle
Security’s Blind Spot: The Threats Hiding in “Low-Severity” Alerts May 6, 2026
Security operations centers (SOCs) operate under a difficult reality where there are far more security alerts than human analysts available to investigate them. As organizations expand their digital environments and deploy more security tools, alert volume continues to grow faster than teams can realistically manage. AI is really just another layer that accelerates the volume […]
Mitchem Boles
Microsoft Edge Found Holding Saved Credentials in Plaintext Memory May 6, 2026
Security researcher Tom Jøran Sønstebyseter Rønning, posting as @L1v1ng0ffTh3L4N, has revealed that Microsoft Edge decrypts every saved password at startup and holds all of them in process memory, in cleartext, for the entire browser session. He says this includes passwords for sites the user is visiting as well as every credential the user’s ever saved. The passwords are held in memory from the moment Edge […]
Kirsten Doyle
US weighs slashing vulnerability patching deadlines as AI-driven threats accelerate May 6, 2026
There are discussions in US cybersecurity circles to radically shorten the time given to government agencies to fix software vulnerabilities currently being exploited, especially amid concerns about the growing use of artificial intelligence-based attacks. According to a report by Reuters, there are talks of reducing the time frame from the current two or three weeks down to just three days, dramatically raising the pace of defensive operations across government systems. These conversations, initiated by CISA and the […]
Kirsten Doyle
How Iranian Cyber Intrusions Unfold Inside Enterprise Networks May 5, 2026
Iranian cyber operations have gone from being disruptive single events to ongoing campaigns against governments, infrastructure providers, technology companies, and research organizations. Their ability to operate inside the same tools and infrastructure that defenders rely on makes these intrusions difficult to detect. The stakes extend well beyond espionage. For example, in 2022, Iranian-linked attackers caused […]
Hüseyin Can Yüceel
Copy Fail lands in CISA KEV as actively exploited Linux flaw threatens widespread privilege escalation May 5, 2026
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added another Linux kernel vulnerability, CVE-2026-31431, also known as Copy Fail, to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEVs). Inclusion in the list implies active real-world attacks and increases the priority of patches. This particular vulnerability, which has been affecting almost all major Linux distributions since 2017, involves transferring resources incorrectly between security domains […]
Kirsten Doyle