Weekly Update 466
25 August 2025 I'm fascinated by the unwillingness of organisations to name the "third party" to which they've attributed a...
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Microsoft’s May 2025 Patch Tuesday Addresses 71 CVEs (CVE-2025-32701, CVE-2025-32706, CVE-2025-30400)
5Critical 66Important 0Moderate 0Low Microsoft addresses 71 CVEs including seven zero-days, five of which were exploited in the wild. Microsoft...
Microsoft to cut an estimated 6,000 employees
Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT) on Tuesday said it is laying off 3% of its employees, which equals an estimated 6,000 positions. This...
Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 05/02/25
Insight No. 1 — Know which vulnerabilities are active in production Consider this: your pre-production scans might flag hundreds of...
Vulnerability Management: A Race Against Time & Complexity
May 1, 2025 One of the cornerstones of robust security is an effective vulnerability management process, which involves identifying, assessing,...
Earth Kurma APT Campaign Targets Southeast Asian Government, Telecom Sectors
Upon consolidation of all documents into a secure archive protected by a password, typically named after the host name, the...
Google Unleashes Android Update to Fix Two Actively Used Weaknesses
Google has sent fixes for 62 weaknesses, of which, two have supposedly been employed in real-world attacks. Below are the...
Online Criminals Utilize CSS to Dodge Spam Filters and Monitor Email Recipients’ Activities
Malevolent individuals are taking advantage of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), which are employed to design and structure the layout of...
Security Breach in GitHub Action Exposes CI/CD Credentials in More Than 23,000 Repositories
Security experts have highlighted an event where the widely used GitHub Action tj-actions/changed-files was infiltrated leading to the exposure of...
Concerns of IT Teams Over Escalating Expenses of AI-Enhanced Cyber Tools, While Malefactors Barely Utilize Them
IT decision-makers are anxious about the rising costs of cybersecurity solutions, which are increasingly saturated with artificial intelligence features. In...
Revealed: More than 1 Million Log Entries, Confidential Codes Exposed in DeepSeek AI Database
Exciting Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, on a rapid ascent in fame lately, inadvertently revealed one of its databases online, potentially...
Latest U.S. Department of Justice Regulation Stops Massive Data Transfers to Hostile Countries to Safeguard Privacy
The final mandate from the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) implements Executive Order (EO) 14117, aiming to block large-scale movement...
Persistence in the Shadows: A Study of Zephyr Miner Exploiting System Services
Crypto Mining Crypto mining is the process by which individuals or organizations use computer power to solve complex mathematical problems,...
The European Union is soliciting suggestions for AI that ought to be prohibited
The EU is currently working on guidelines for ensuring compliance with the new AI legislation in the region. They have...
Commencing with Google Password Manager
Within the Google Password Manager web settings portion, various crucial choices exist — several of which remain inactive upon installation....
