VPN use rises following Online Safety Act’s age verification controls

As the UK's Online Safety Act came into effect on Friday—along with its age verification controls—the use of virtual private network VPN services has skyrocketed by up to 20-fold across the region. Top10VPN, which monitors VPN traffic around the world, spotted UK VPN traffic spiking 1,327% on Jul...

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MedDream PACS Premium PACS privilege escalation vulnerability

Talos Vulnerability Report TALOS-2025-2156 MedDream PACS Premium PACS privilege escalation vulnerability July 28, 2025 CVE Number CVE-2025-27724 SUMMARY A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the login.php functionality of meddream MedDream PACS Premium 7.3.3.840. A specially crafted .php...

Cryptographic Data Exchange for Nuclear Warheads

Nuclear arms control treaties have historically focused on strategic nuclear delivery systems, leaving nuclear warheads outside formal verification frameworks. This paper presents a cryptographic protocol for secure and verifiable warhead tracking, addressing challenges in nuclear warhead...

Overcoming Risks from Chinese GenAI Tool Usage

A recent analysis of enterprise data suggests that generative AI tools developed in China are being used extensively by employees in the US and UK, often without oversight or approval from security teams. The study, conducted by Harmonic Security, also identifies hundreds of instances in which...

NewStart CGSL MAIN 7.02 : xdg-utils Vulnerability (NS-SA-2025-0195)

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version MAIN 7.02, has xdg-utils packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability: - When xdg-mail is configured to use thunderbird for mailto URLs, improper parsing of the URL can lead to additional headers being passed to thunderbird that should not...

[SECURITY] Fedora 42 Update: firefox-141.0-2.fc42

Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability...

PT-2025-30548 · Undefined · Undefined

URGENT: Oracle UEK kernel flaw CVE-2025-20480 patching guide: ✅ Exploit mechanics ✅ Mitigation commands ✅ Compliance checklist Read more: 👉 https://t.co/6cfH4WrvjP CVE202520480 DevSecOps https://t.co/AOwz4P72un...

Smarter ITSM Automation with ServiceNow Integration

Effective Information Technology and Service Management ITSM today requires intelligent automation, proactive security, and seamless integration between platforms. To keep security operations efficient, vulnerability management workflows need to be streamlined and connected with broader IT...

Metaverse Security and Privacy Research: a Systematic Review

The rapid growth of metaverse technologies, including virtual worlds, augmented reality, and lifelogging, has accelerated their adoption across diverse domains. This rise exposes users to significant new security and privacy challenges due to sociotechnical complexity, pervasive connectivity, and...

From Backup to Cyber Resilience: Why IT Leaders Must Rethink Backup in the Age of Ransomware

With IT outages and disruptions escalating, IT teams are shifting their focus beyond simply backing up data to maintaining operations during an incident. One of the key drivers behind this shift is the growing threat of ransomware, which continues to evolve in both frequency and complexity...

From Paranoia to Compliance: the Bumpy Road of System Hardening Practices on Stack Exchange

Hardening computer systems against cyberattacks is crucial for security. However, past incidents illustrated, that many system operators struggle with effective system hardening. Hence, many computer systems and applications remain insecure. So far, the research community lacks an in-depth...

Data-Driven Marketing in 2025: Navigating Risks, Ethics and Compliance Management

The modern marketing stack and every effective marketing platform runs on data. From ad campaigns to user journeys,…...

Improving IT efficiency with Microsoft Security Copilot in Microsoft Intune and Microsoft Entra

When Microsoft introduced Microsoft Security Copilot last year, our vision was to empower organizations with generative AI that helps security and IT teams simplify operations and respond faster. Since then, we’ve continuously innovated and learned alongside our customers. They consistently tell ...

SynthGuard: Redefining Synthetic Data Generation with a Scalable and Privacy-Preserving Workflow Framework

The growing reliance on data-driven applications in sectors such as healthcare, finance, and law enforcement underscores the need for secure, privacy-preserving, and scalable mechanisms for data generation and sharing. Synthetic data generation SDG has emerged as a promising approach but often...

Azure Linux 3.0 Security Update: azl-compliance / rust (CVE-2025-4574)

The version of azl-compliance / rust installed on the remote Azure Linux 3.0 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CVE-2025-4574 advisory. - In crossbeam-channel rust crate, the internal Channel type's Drop method has a race condition...

Azure Linux 3.0 Security Update: kernel (CVE-2025-39728)

The version of kernel installed on the remote Azure Linux 3.0 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CVE-2025-39728 advisory. - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: clk: samsung: Fix UBSAN panic in...

ARPaCCino: an Agentic-RAG for Policy As Code Compliance

Policy as Code PaC is a paradigm that encodes security and compliance policies into machine-readable formats, enabling automated enforcement in Infrastructure as Code IaC environments. However, its adoption is hindered by the complexity of policy languages and the risk of misconfigurations. In th...

CBL Mariner 2.0 Security Update: azl-compliance / rust (CVE-2025-4574)

The version of azl-compliance / rust installed on the remote CBL Mariner 2.0 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CVE-2025-4574 advisory. - In crossbeam-channel rust crate, the internal Channel type's Drop method has a race condition...

​​Forrester names Microsoft a Leader in the 2025 Zero Trust Platforms Wave™ report

We are proud to share that Forrester has named Microsoft a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Zero Trust Platforms, Q3 2025 report, ranking us highest in the strategy category. With so many strong vendors and solutions in the Zero Trust space, you need solid data to make the right choice for your...