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cyber attacks
Phishing is old, but AI just gave it new life

The volume of cyberattacks has reached staggering levels, with new tactics that blur the line between legitimate and malicious activity. A new threat report from Comcast, …

week in review
Week in review: Many Cisco ASA firewalls still unsecure, hackers claim Red Hat’s GitLab breach

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Keeping the internet afloat: How to protect the global cable network The …

Brain
When loading a model means loading an attacker

You probably think twice before downloading a random app or opening an unfamiliar email attachment. But how often do you stop to consider what happens when your team downloads …

AI
Protegrity Developer Edition: Free containerized Python package to secure AI pipelines

Protegrity Developer Edition enables developers, data scientists, ML engineers, and security teams an easy way to add data protection into GenAI and unstructured data …

data analytics
4 ways to use time to level up your security monitoring

SIEMs excel at correlating events and firing alerts, but their ingest pipelines can get overwhelmed when scaled. And because most SIEMs rely on general-purpose log storage …

keys
Passkeys rise, but scams still hit hard in 2025

Americans are dealing with a growing wave of digital scams, and many are losing money in the process. According to the fourth annual Consumer Cyber Readiness Report, nearly …

Apple
Apple strengthens storage flexibility with new disk image formats

Apple’s release of macOS 26 Tahoe introduced a new disk image format and updated an older one, both of which are drawing attention from system testers and forensic examiners. …

AI
AI hype hits a wall when the data doesn’t deliver

Companies are pouring money into AI for IT operations, but most projects are still far from maturity. A global survey of 1,200 business leaders, IT leaders, and technical …

Infosec products of the week
New infosec products of the week: October 3, 2025

Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past week, featuring releases from Acronis, Legit Security, NowSecure, Siemens, and Telus. NowSecure Privacy helps …

Red Hat
Hackers claim to have plundered Red Hat’s GitLab repos

The Crimson Collective, an emerging extortion / hacker group, has made a bombshell claim on their Telegram channel: they have gained access to Red Hat’s GitLab and have …

OpenSSL
OpenSSL 3.6.0: New features, crypto support

The OpenSSL Project has announced the release of OpenSSL 3.6.0, a feature update that brings significant functionality improvements, standards compliance, and a few key …

Oracle
Oracle customers targeted with emails claiming E-Business Suite breach, data theft

Unknown attackers claiming affiliation with the Cl0p extortion gang are hitting business and IT executives at various companies with emails claiming that they have exfiltrated …

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