For the first time in five years, data breach costs are on the decline. This represents faster containment, largely powered by AI. Cybersecurity at large deserves a great pat on the back.But attackers hate being outpaced, and their AI attack rates show it. Despite GenAI only being publicly released (unleashed?) less than 3 years ago, AI-powered attacks now account for 16% of all cyber strikes. To...

MedusaLocker, the ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group that has been active since 2019 is openly recruiting for penetration testers to help it compromise more businesses. As Security Affairs reports, MedusaLocker has posted a job advert on its dark web leak site, which pointedly invites pentesters who already have direct access to corporate networks to make contact."If you don't have access,...

window._wq = window._wq || []; _wq.push({ id: "j33dm1zdrk", options: { preload: "auto" } }); Today’s Patch Tuesday Alert addresses Microsoft’s August 2025 Security Updates. We are actively working on coverage for these vulnerabilities and expect to ship ASPL-1169 as soon as coverage is completed.In-The-Wild & Disclosed CVEsCVE-2025-53779A vulnerability in...

Data erasure, or data wiping, is a software method that securely overwrites and destroys all electronic data on a disk drive or digital media.

Digital forensics identifies, collects, and analyzes digital evidence to trace cyber breaches, assess data loss, and enhance future security.

Over the next year, domestic and foreign adversaries almost certainly will continue to threaten the integrity of US critical infrastructure,” states the Homeland Threat Assessment 2025. “We are particularly concerned about the credible threat from nation-state cyber actors to US critical infrastructure.” In light of these and other severe threats to U.S. federal agencies, the issue of federal...

What Is Banking Regulatory Compliance?Banking regulatory compliance encompasses adhering to the policies put in place to ensure the stability and integrity of financial systems. These requirements are enacted by government institutions, or governing bodies of financial institutions themselves.Stable economies depend on trustworthy and resilient financial systems. Banking regulations exist to...

A company, which offered insurance and repair services to cell phone owners across Germany, and generated revenues of up to 70 million Euros (US $80 million) has collapsed following a ransomware attack. Einhaus Gruppe, located in Hamm, Nordrhein-Westfalen, was founded in 2003 and had over 5000 sales partners across Germany. And yet, despite the company's success, an attack by the Royal ransomware...

Fortra's July 2025 Patch Priority Index (PPI) brings together important vulnerabilities for Microsoft and Google.Up first on the list are patches for Chromium and Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) that resolve type confusion, information disclosure, and remote code execution vulnerabilities.Next on the list are patches for Microsoft Office, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams. These patches resolve...

AI data privacy refers to the ethical collection, storage, and usage of personal data by artificial intelligence systems.

Data loss is the unintentional deletion, corruption, or inaccessibility of critical data due to various causes preventing user access.

The digital world has become a battleground of code and consequence. Cybersecurity no longer hides behind the IT desk. It stands center stage, an operational, legal, and existential concern. In Portugal, as across Europe, the rules are tightening, and the margin for error is shrinking. For global businesses, understanding Portugal’s cybersecurity laws is not a footnote. It’s the headline.The Core...

It’s been over a decade that I’ve worked primarily in the world of File Integrity Monitoring and Secure Configuration Management, helping to ensure that hundreds of different companies are able to detect unauthorized or unexpected changes to their configurations.Security has changed a lot over that period, and yet there’s been some surprisingly consistent experiences in the field that I will often...

As more enterprises expand their business through an increasingly wide web of vendors, applications, and software supply chains, risk exponentiates. Find out how to build safely—without taking on unnecessary third-party risk.

Security teams don’t suffer from a lack of data. They suffer from a lack of clarity. Every scan, every alert, every dashboard shouts for attention. The result? A wall of red. Thousands of vulnerabilities. Hundreds marked critical. Dozens hitting the same system. Teams are left staring at the mess, asking the only question that matters: Which one do we fix first? That question doesn’t get enough...

The modern data stack is a cloud-based toolkit for collecting, transforming, storing, and analyzing data efficiently using advanced technologies.

Data ingress is incoming data to a system, while data egress is outgoing data. Both require secure and efficient management.