Collaborate Disseminate
Here’s where you ought to spend your security billable hours budget this year Strengthen your MFA policies, double-down on anti-phishing training, and for Jobs’ sake, patch all your vulns right away. The past year of intelligence collected by Cisco’s T… Continue reading Lightning-fast exploits make it essential to patch fast, ask questions later
Claims it can analyze millions of daily events with 98 percent accuracy RSAC 2026 Google’s Gemini AI agents are crawling the dark web, sifting through upward of 10 million posts a day to find a handful of threats relevant to a particular organization…. Continue reading Google unleashes Gemini AI agents on the dark web
Voice phishing is second most common initial access method across all IR probes, and top in cloud break-ins RSAC 2026 Voice phishing surged last year to become the second most common method used by cybercriminals to gain initial access to their victim… Continue reading Smooth criminals talking their way into cloud environments, Google says
Trio-Tech International initially said hack wasn’t ‘material,’ but then stolen data was published Trio-Tech International initially shrugged off a ransomware attack at a Singapore subsidiary as immaterial, only to reverse course days later after discov… Continue reading US chip testing firm shrugged off ransomware hit as minor – then came the data leak
Infosec pros descend on San Francisco kettle When El Reg cybersecurity editor Jessica Lyons joins infosec industry colleagues in San Francisco for RSAC 2026 this week, she’s expecting agentic AI to be on everyone’s lips – at least those who aren’t bus… Continue reading RSAC 2026: Uncle Sam backs out, and AI agents are everywhere
The era of reliability begins… right after this out-of-band patch Microsoft has released an out-of-band update to resolve bugs introduced by a Windows patch just days after promising improved reliability.… Continue reading Microsoft fixes broken Windows update days after vowing fewer broken updates
Ukraine’s battlefield lessons show quantity and affordability now trump exquisite hardware NATO is unprepared to deal with attacks by cheap, mass-produced drones and urgently needs layered, affordable air defense systems to counter the threat, taking a… Continue reading The drone swarm is coming, and NATO air defenses are too expensive to cope
PLUS: US takes down Iranian propaganda sites; Marketing company asks ‘Why Do We Have Your Information?’ And more! Infosec In Brief Russian intelligence-affiliated parties are posing as customer support services on commercial messaging applications suc… Continue reading Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacks
Rust security maintainers contend Nadim Kobeissi’s vulnerability claims are too much Updated Since February, cryptographer Nadim Kobeissi has been trying to get code fixes applied to Rust cryptography libraries to address what he says are critical bug… Continue reading Cryptographers engage in war of words over RustSec bug reports and subsequent ban
Cams statistically more likely to ID Black people, says new research A UK police force has suspended its deployment of live facial recognition (LFR) technology after a study revealed it was statistically more likely to identify Black people on a watchl… Continue reading UK police force presses pause on live facial recognition after study finds racial bias