Cybersecurity Spending Slows & Security Teams Shrink
Summary The 2025 Security Budget Benchmark Report from IANS Research and Artico Search — based on a survey of more than 580 CISOs across the US and Canada — shows…
Navigating the Cybersecurity Budget Tug-of-War
Navigating the Cybersecurity Budget Tug-of-War Summary This commentary argues organisations must stop treating cybersecurity, data protection and resilience as competing budget lines. The piece explains how internal silos, differing team…
Hackers reportedly compromise Canadian House of Commons through Microsoft vulnerability
Hackers reportedly compromise Canadian House of Commons through Microsoft vulnerability Summary Hackers have reportedly accessed data from Canada’s House of Commons by exploiting a recent Microsoft vulnerability, according to CBC…
Turkish crypto exchange BTCTurk warns of security incident after $49 million leaves platform
Turkish crypto exchange BTCTurk warns of security incident after $49 million leaves platform Content summary BTCTurk, a leading Turkish crypto exchange founded in 2013, confirmed a security incident after blockchain…
Norway police believe pro-Russian hackers were behind April dam sabotage
Norway police believe pro-Russian hackers were behind April dam sabotage Summary Norway’s Police Security Service (PST) now suspects pro-Russian hackers were responsible for an April cyber-sabotage of a small dam…
FCC’s data breach reporting rules for telecoms are upheld in appeals court
FCC’s data breach reporting rules for telecoms are upheld in appeals court Summary The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has upheld the Federal Communications Commission’s 2024 rule…
Crooks can’t let go: Active attacks target Office vuln patched 8 years ago
Summary Security researchers at SANS Internet Storm Centre (via Xavier Mertens) have reported active malware campaigns still exploiting CVE-2017-11882 — a remote code execution flaw in Microsoft Office’s long-retired Equation…
US updates sanctions on Russian cryptocurrency exchange Garantex
US updates sanctions on Russian cryptocurrency exchange Garantex Summary U.S. authorities renewed and expanded sanctions against Russian crypto exchange Garantex and its successor Grinex, plus several executives and affiliated companies,…
Latest Windows patches cause false alarm error to appear in event viewer
Latest Windows patches cause false alarm error to appear in event viewer Summary Microsoft’s July 2025 non-security preview and the August 2025 security update can cause a spurious error to…
Fortinet discloses critical bug with working exploit code amid surge in brute-force attempts
Fortinet discloses critical bug with working exploit code amid surge in brute-force attempts Summary Fortinet has disclosed a critical OS command injection vulnerability in FortiSIEM (CVE-2025-25256) that carries a 9.8…