Cybersecurity Spending Slows & Security Teams Shrink
Summary News brief summarising findings from the 2025 Security Budget Benchmark Report by IANS Research and Artico Search. The report — based on a survey of more than 580 CISOs…
CISA Warns N-able Bugs Under Attack, Patch Now
CISA Warns N-able Bugs Under Attack, Patch Now Summary The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added two N-able N-central vulnerabilities — CVE-2025-8875 and CVE-2025-8876 — to its Known Exploited…
Police & Government Email Access for Sale on Dark Web
Police & Government Email Access for Sale on Dark Web Summary Criminals on the Dark Web are selling active law enforcement and government email accounts for as little as $40…
Google Chrome Enterprise: Advanced Browser Security for the Modern Workforce
Google Chrome Enterprise: Advanced Browser Security for the Modern Workforce Summary In a Dark Reading News Desk interview from Google’s “There’s No Place Like Chrome” event, Mark Berschadski, director of…
State and Local Leaders Lobby Congress for Cybersecurity Resources
State and Local Leaders Lobby Congress for Cybersecurity Resources Summary Emergency funding for the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) is due to lapse on 30 September after federal…
Downgrade Attack Allows Phishing Kits to Bypass FIDO
Downgrade Attack Allows Phishing Kits to Bypass FIDO Summary Researchers at Proofpoint have produced a proof-of-concept showing how commercial phishing kits can be modified to bypass FIDO authentication on Microsoft…
Brain editing now ‘closer to reality’: the gene-altering tools tackling deadly disorders
Brain editing now ‘closer to reality’: the gene-altering tools tackling deadly disorders Summary Researchers are making striking progress in applying gene-editing tools to the brain. Recent mouse studies using advanced…
Controversial quantum-computing paper gets hefty correction — but concerns linger
Controversial quantum-computing paper gets hefty correction — but concerns linger Summary The journal Science has removed an editorial expression of concern and published a substantial 20‑page correction to the supplementary…
A mind–reading brain implant that comes with password protection
A mind–reading brain implant that comes with password protection Summary A new brain–computer interface (BCI) decodes imagined (internal) speech in near real time but only activates when the user thinks…
Mysterious coffee species turns out to be a blend
Mysterious coffee species turns out to be a blend Summary Detailed analysis of an obscure, resilient coffee type commonly called liberica shows it is actually three distinct species. Researchers combined…