Brandolini’s law, also known as the “bullshit asymmetry principle”, is simple but devastating: “The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.” While it’s often thrown around in political debates and…
7-Zip Vulnerability Lets Hackers Write Files and Run Malicious Code
A security vulnerability has been discovered in the popular 7-Zip file compression utility that could allow attackers to write arbitrary files to victim systems and potentially execute malicious code. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-55188, affects all versions of 7-Zip prior…
GPT-5 Compromised Using Echo Chamber and Storytelling Exploits
Cybersecurity researchers have successfully demonstrated a new jailbreaking technique that compromises OpenAI’s GPT-5 model by combining “Echo Chamber” algorithms with narrative-driven manipulation, raising fresh concerns about the vulnerability of advanced AI systems to sophisticated exploitation methods. Novel Attack Vector Emerges…
Review: From Day Zero to Zero Day
From Day Zero to Zero Day is a practical guide for cybersecurity pros who want to move beyond reading about vulnerabilities and start finding them. It gives a methodical look at how real vulnerability research is done. About the author…
From legacy to SaaS: Why complexity is the enemy of enterprise security
In this Help Net Security interview, Robert Buljevic, Technology Consultant at Bridge IT, discusses how the coexistence of legacy systems and SaaS applications is changing the way organizations approach security. He explains why finding the right balance between old and…
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Pentesting is now central to CISO strategy
Security leaders are rethinking their approach to cybersecurity as digital supply chains expand and generative AI becomes embedded in critical systems. A recent survey of 225 security leaders conducted by Emerald Research found that 68% are concerned about the risks…
Breaches are up, budgets are too, so why isn’t healthcare safer?
A new report from Resilience outlines a growing cyber crisis in the U.S. healthcare sector, where ransomware attacks, vendor compromise, and human error continue to cause widespread disruption. In 2023, breaches exposed 168 million records, and the first half of…
I tested GPT-5’s coding skills, and it was so bad that I’m sticking with GPT-4o (for now)
In my latest coding benchmark, GPT-5 stumbled badly, delivering broken plugins, flawed scripts, and confidence-laden wrong answers that could derail projects without careful human oversight. Here’s what to know before you use it. This article has been indexed from Latest…
ISC Stormcast For Monday, August 11th, 2025 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9564, (Mon, Aug 11th)
This post doesn’t have text content, please click on the link below to view the original article. This article has been indexed from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green Read the original article: ISC Stormcast For Monday, August 11th, 2025…
Security flaws in a carmaker’s web portal let one hacker remotely unlock cars from anywhere
Security researcher Eaton Zveare told TechCrunch that the flaws he discovered in the carmaker’s centralized dealer portal exposed vast access to customer and vehicle data. With this access, Zveare said he could remotely take over a customer’s account and unlock…
Securing Machine Identities: Best Practices
Why is Machine Identity Security Essential? Do you find that businesses underestimate the significance of machine identity security? When innovation accelerates and we move our activities more to the cloud, securing machine identities, or non-human identities (NHIs), has become a…
Ensuring Compliance Through Enhanced NHI Security
What comes to mind when we think of compliance in cybersecurity? For many, it’s a focus on human identities: creating secure passwords, providing access control, and educating employees on security best practices. However, there’s a growing recognition that to truly…
New ‘Win-DoS’ Zero-Click Vulnerabilities Turns Windows Server/Endpoint, Domain Controllers Into DDoS Botnet
LAS VEGAS — At the DEF CON 33 security conference, researchers Yair and Shahak Morag of SafeBreach Labs unveiled a new class of denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, dubbed the “Win-DoS Epidemic.” The duo presented their findings, which include four new Windows…
Trend Micro offers weak workaround for already-exploited critical vuln in management console
PLUS: Crypto mixer founders plead guilty; Another French telco hacked; Meta fights WhatsApp scams; And more! Infosec In Brief A critical vulnerability in the on-prem version of Trend Micro’s Apex One endpoint security platform is under active exploitation, the company…
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New Win-DDoS Flaws Let Attackers Turn Public Domain Controllers into DDoS Botnet via RPC, LDAP
A novel attack technique could be weaponized to rope thousands of public domain controllers (DCs) around the world to create a malicious botnet and use it to conduct power distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The approach has been codenamed Win-DDoS by…
Google Hacked – Approx 2.5 Million Records of Google Ads Customer Data Leaked
Google has disclosed a significant data breach involving one of its corporate Salesforce instances, compromising customer data tied to its Google Ads platform. Google has not revealed the exact number of people impacted, but according to ShinyHunters, who spoke with…
Google confirms Salesforce CRM breach, faces extortion threat
Google disclosed a Salesforce Customer Relationship Management (CRM) breach exposing data of some prospective Google Ads customers. Google confirmed a breach in a Salesforce CRM instance affecting the data of prospective Google Ads customers. The website Databreaches.net reported that the…
Bouygues Telecom Hit by Cyberattack, 6.4 Million Customers Affected
A cyberattack on Bouygues Telecom exposed data for 6.4 million customers. Find out what information was compromised and… This article has been indexed from Hackread – Latest Cybersecurity, Hacking News, Tech, AI & Crypto Read the original article: Bouygues Telecom…
Cyber Incident Response Needs Dynamic Command Structure Instead of Static Guidelines
The SolarWinds cyberattack, which impacted over 18,000 entities, revealed that many organizations respond to breaches with disorganized, makeshift command centers. Kevin Mandia, CEO of Mandiant, recognized the 2020 attack on his own firm as the work of Russia’s SVR,…