Federal Cuts Put Local, State Agencies at Cyber-Risk Summary Federal budget and staffing reductions at national cyber programmes have coincided with a string of high-impact ransomware and intrusion incidents against…
CISA orders federal agencies to patch Sitecore zero-day following hacking reports Summary Federal civilian agencies have until 25 September to patch CVE-2025-53690 after incident responders interrupted an attack that abused…
‘SEO fraud-as-a-service’ scheme hijacks Windows servers to promote gambling websites Summary Security researchers at ESET have linked a previously unknown, likely China-aligned group — dubbed GhostRedirector — to an SEO…
AI code assistants make developers more efficient at creating security problems Summary Application security firm Apiiro analysed tens of thousands of repositories and several thousand developers at Fortune 50 companies…
Knock-on effects of software dev break-in hit schools trust Summary A cyberattack on Hull-based developer Intradev in early August has had knock-on effects for UK schools after sensitive staff data…
Embracing the Next Generation of Cybersecurity Talent Summary This commentary argues that student-run security operations centres (SOCs) are a practical, scalable way to address the global cybersecurity talent shortage. Using…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary Two independent Israeli researchers built an AI-driven pipeline, dubbed Auto Exploit, that uses LLM prompts (they used Anthropic’s Claude-sonnet-4.0 among others), CVE…
Summary An Israeli research duo built an AI-driven pipeline, dubbed Auto Exploit, that leverages LLM prompts, CVE advisories and open-source patches to automatically generate proof-of-concept exploit code. The system uses…
Embracing the Next Generation of Cybersecurity Talent Summary This commentary highlights the acute global shortage of cybersecurity professionals (NIST estimates ~3.4 million) and argues that student-run security operations centres (SOCs)…
Federal Cuts Put Local, State Agencies at Cyber-Risk Summary Cybercriminals and nation-state actors are increasingly targeting state and local governments just as federal cyber resources and staff face cuts. Recent…
