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GISEC GLOBAL 2026 – The Middle East & Africa’s Largest Cybersecurity Event
2 weeks 3 days hence
How NIST's Cutback of CVE Handling Impacts Cyber Teams
13 hours 30 minutes ago
Industry and ad hoc coalitions appear poised to help fill the gap created by NIST's decision to cut back on CVE data enrichment.
Becky Bracken
Tycoon 2FA Phishers Scatter, Adopt Device Code Phishing
14 hours 16 minutes ago
In embracing device code phishing, attackers trick victims into handing over account access by using a service's legitimate new-device login flow.
Nate Nelson
Every Old Vulnerability Is Now an AI Vulnerability
18 hours 34 minutes ago
AI's danger isn't that it's creating new bugs, it's that it's amplifying old ones.
Nik Kale
Coast Guard's New Cybersecurity Rules Offers Lessons for CISOs
20 hours 22 minutes ago
The Maritime Transportation Security Act (MTSA) requires plans to protect OT systems, audits by independent third parties, and a hybrid OT-security role.
Robert Lemos
NIST Revamps CVE Framework to Focus on High-Impact Vulnerabilities
1 day 11 hours ago
The National Institute of Standards and Technology carved a new path for vulnerability remediation by changing the way it prioritizes software flaws.
Arielle Waldman
North Korea Uses ClickFix to Target macOS Users' Data
1 day 13 hours ago
Sapphire Sleet uses fake job offers and phony Zoom updates to deliver ClickFix attacks that steal credentials and sensitive data from Macs.
Alexander Culafi
'Harmless' Global Adware Transforms Into an AV Killer
1 day 14 hours ago
A benign looking update Dragon Boss pushed out in March 2025 established persistence via scheduled tasks and arranged for future payloads to be excluded from Windows Defender.
Nate Nelson
Two-Factor Authentication Breaks Free from the Desktop
1 day 17 hours ago
Threat actors know how to bypass security systems outside of traditional IT environments. Implementing 2FA could provide a needed extra security barrier in the physical world.
Arielle Waldman
Microsoft's Original Windows Secure Boot Certificate Is Expiring
1 day 18 hours ago
The Secure Boot refresh is one of the largest coordinated security maintenance efforts across the Windows ecosystem, Microsoft said. Update those PCs soon.
Jeffrey Schwartz
6-Year Ransomware Campaign Targets Turkish Homes & SMBs
2 days 3 hours ago
While enterprises breaches make more headlines, smaller incidents tend to be under-reported, if at all, allowing campaigns to last longer with less disruption.
Nate Nelson
Critical MCP Integration Flaw Puts NGINX at Risk
2 days 11 hours ago
Attackers can abuse the near-maximum severity flaw in nginx-ui to restart, create, modify, and delete NGINX configuration files.
Jai Vijayan
Navigating the Unique Security Risks of Asia's Digital Supply Chain
2 days 13 hours ago
Regulatory differences, interconnected digital ecosystems, and the rise of AI have created a complex supply chain Asian organizations must wrangle.
Alexander Culafi
Prepping for 'Q-Day': Why Quantum Risk Management Should Start Now
2 days 18 hours ago
Quantum computers are coming and may impact systems in unexpected ways, and it will "take years to be fully quantum-safe, if ever," cryptography expert warns.
Rob Wright
Audit: Big Tech Often Ignores CA Privacy Law Opt-Out Requests
2 days 18 hours ago
Google, Meta, and Microsoft about half the time don't comply with requests to opt out of online tracking per a California law mandate, privacy watchdog finds.
Elizabeth Montalbano
Microsoft, Salesforce Patch AI Agent Data Leak Flaws
2 days 21 hours ago
Two recently fixed prompt injections in Salesforce Agentforce and Microsoft Copilot would have enabled an external attacker to leak sensitive data.
Alexander Culafi
Microsoft Bets $10B to Boost Japan's AI, Cybersecurity
3 days 9 hours ago
The deal aims to accelerate AI adoption, train workers, and develop cybersecurity partnerships — the latest move by a hyperscaler to compete for sovereign AI and data centers.
Robert Lemos
Privilege Elevation Dominates Massive Microsoft Patch Update
3 days 11 hours ago
Elevation-of-privilege bugs accounted for more than half of the 165 vulnerabilities patched, with two zero-days in that mix.
Jai Vijayan
EDR-Killer Ecosystem Expansion Requires Stronger BYOVD Defenses
3 days 13 hours ago
Stopping EDR killers, which employ bring-your-own-vulnerable-driver (BYOVD) attack techniques, is difficult, but not impossible.
Rob Wright
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