A survey of 2,000 senior security decision-makers published this week finds more than three quarters (78%) work for organizations that experienced an email security breach in the past 12 months. Conducted by the market research firm Vanson Bourne on behalf…
How to write an information security policy, plus templates
<p>CISOs and IT security leaders need well-documented information security policies that detail how the organization manages its security program, implements technologies and addresses cybersecurity threats and vulnerabilities. These policies also underscore the IT audit process by creating controls to examine…
Pwn2Own Ireland 2025: Major Cybersecurity Revelations & Critical Vulnerabilities
In this episode of Cybersecurity Today, host David Shipley covers the latest updates from the Pwn2Own 2025 event in Ireland, where top hackers earned over $1 million for uncovering 73 zero-day vulnerabilities. Despite significant hype, AI’s impact on cybersecurity remains…
Is Russia Cracking Down on Cyber Criminals? Fake Death Scams & Exposed AI Servers | Cybersecurity Today
In this episode of Cybersecurity Today, host Jim Love explores the potential shift in Russia’s stance on cyber criminals, including arrests of major network operators. Discover the latest phishing scams where hackers fabricate death notices to steal passwords, a critical…
Ubuntu Kernel Flaw Opens the Door to Privilege Escalation
A new Ubuntu kernel flaw lets local attackers gain root access through patch inconsistencies. The post Ubuntu Kernel Flaw Opens the Door to Privilege Escalation appeared first on eSecurity Planet. This article has been indexed from eSecurity Planet Read the…
Former L3Harris Trenchant boss pleads guilty to selling zero-day exploits to Russian broker
Prosecutors confirmed Peter Williams, the former Trenchant boss, sold eight exploits to a Russian buyer. TechCrunch exclusively reported that the Trenchant division was investigating a leak of its hacking tools, after another employee was accused of involvement. This article has…
Ex-L3Harris Cyber Boss Pleads Guilty to Selling Trade Secrets to Russian Firm
Peter Williams, a former executive of Trenchant, L3Harris’ cyber division, has pleaded guilty to two counts of stealing trade secrets and selling them to an unnamed Russian software broker. This article has been indexed from Security Latest Read the original…
Cyber Awareness Month: Why AI Literacy Matters for Cybersecurity
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New TEE.fail Attack Breaks Trusted Environments to Exfiltrate Secrets from Intel and AMD DDR5 Environments
A groundbreaking security vulnerability has emerged that fundamentally challenges the integrity of modern trusted execution environments across Intel and AMD server platforms. Researchers from Georgia Tech, Purdue University, and van Schaik LLC have unveiled TEE.fail, a sophisticated attack methodology that…
Microsoft DNS Outage Disrupts Azure and Microsoft 365 Services Worldwide
Microsoft reported a DNS-related outage on October 29, 2025, affecting access to key services, including Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365. The issue surfaced around 9:37 PM GMT+5:30, leaving users unable to reach the Microsoft 365 admin center and experiencing widespread…
How HPE’s New Security Playbook Is Actually Stopping Threats
For the past few years, the term “AI in cybersecurity” has been mostly marketing fluff. We’ve all sat through vendor presentations promising a magical AI black box that solves everything, only to find it’s just a fancier pattern matching engine.…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2025-10-29 18h : 17 posts
17 posts were published in the last hour 17:4 : ZEST Security launches free AI-based remediation risk assessment for security teams 17:4 : Is Russia Cracking Down on Cyber Criminals? Fake Death Scams & Exposed AI Servers | Cybersecurity Today…
ZEST Security launches free AI-based remediation risk assessment for security teams
ZEST Security announced its free remediation risk assessment. The industry is overflowing with tools to identify vulnerabilities, but these tools all fail to provide context that has real operational impact. ZEST is bridging that gap by offering curated remediation pathways…
Is Russia Cracking Down on Cyber Criminals? Fake Death Scams & Exposed AI Servers | Cybersecurity Today
In this episode of Cybersecurity Today, host Jim Love explores the potential shift in Russia’s stance on cyber criminals, including arrests of major network operators. Discover the latest phishing scams where hackers fabricate death notices to steal passwords, a critical…
Hackers Hijack Corporate XWiki Servers for Crypto Mining
Hackers exploit critical XWiki flaw CVE-2025-24893 to hijack corporate servers for cryptomining, with active attacks confirmed by VulnCheck researchers. This article has been indexed from Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, Tech, AI, Crypto and More Read the original article:…
EY exposes 4TB+ SQL database to open internet for who knows how long
The Big Four biz’s big fat fail exposed a boatload of secrets online A Dutch cybersecurity outfit says its lead researcher recently stumbled upon a 4TB+ SQL Server backup file belonging to EY exposed to the web, effectively leaking the…
Rogue WordPress Plugin Conceals Multi-Tiered Credit Card Skimmers in Fake PNG Files
The Wordfence Threat Intelligence Team recently discovered a sophisticated malware campaign targeting WordPress e-commerce sites, specifically those using the WooCommerce plugin. This malware exhibits advanced features including custom encryption methods, fake images used to conceal malicious payloads, a robust persistence…
Sweet Security Brings Runtime-CNAPP Power to Windows
Tel Aviv, Israel, 29th October 2025, CyberNewsWire This article has been indexed from Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, Tech, AI, Crypto and More Read the original article: Sweet Security Brings Runtime-CNAPP Power to Windows
BlueNoroff Expands Cyberattacks with AI-Driven Campaigns Targeting Executives
BlueNoroff uses AI-driven attacks in GhostCall and GhostHire to target global crypto and tech executives. The post BlueNoroff Expands Cyberattacks with AI-Driven Campaigns Targeting Executives appeared first on eSecurity Planet. This article has been indexed from eSecurity Planet Read the…
Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2025: Customer-Centric Innovation from ColorTokens
Bringing frictionless implementation [Progressive Segmentation™ and EDR integration] and rapid value realization to an award-winning and peer-recognized technology platform demystifies, simplifies, and makes it extremely easy for our customers to achieve cyber resilience. As a student of innovation and technology,…
OpenAI’s gpt-oss-safeguard enables developers to build safer AI
OpenAI is releasing a research preview of gpt-oss-safeguard, a set of open-weight reasoning models for safety classification. The models come in two sizes: gpt-oss-safeguard-120b and gpt-oss-safeguard-20b. Both are fine-tuned versions of the gpt-oss open models and available under the Apache…
New AI-Targeted Cloaking Attack Tricks AI Crawlers Into Citing Fake Info as Verified Facts
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new security issue in agentic web browsers like OpenAI ChatGPT Atlas that exposes underlying artificial intelligence (AI) models to context poisoning attacks. In the attack devised by AI security company SPLX, a bad actor can…
Experts Reports Sharp Increase in Automated Botnet Attacks Targeting PHP Servers and IoT Devices
Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a spike in automated attacks targeting PHP servers, IoT devices, and cloud gateways by various botnets such as Mirai, Gafgyt, and Mozi. “These automated campaigns exploit known CVE vulnerabilities and cloud misconfigurations to gain…
Chrome to Make HTTPS Mandatory by Default in 2026
Google Chrome will enhance security with enforced HTTPS connections from version 154, set for release in October 2026 This article has been indexed from www.infosecurity-magazine.com Read the original article: Chrome to Make HTTPS Mandatory by Default in 2026