Why SIEM Rules Fail and How to Fix Them: Insights from 160 Million Attack Simulations

Security Information and Event Management SIEM systems act as the primary tools for detecting suspicious activity in enterprise networks, helping organizations identify and respond to potential attacks in real time. However, the new Picus Blue Report 2025 , based on over 160 million real-world...

Aligning Core Aspects: Improving Vulnerability Proof-Of-Concepts Via Cross-Source Insights

For vulnerabilities, Proof-of-Concept PoC plays an irreplaceable role in demonstrating the exploitability. PoC reports may include critical information such as specific usage, test platforms, and more, providing essential insights for researchers. However, in reality, due to various PoC templates...

Cyber Security Educational Games for Children: a Systematic Literature Review

Educational games have been widely used to teach children about cyber security. This systematic literature review reveals evidence of positive learning outcomes, after analysing 91 such games reported in 68 papers published between 2010 and 2024. However, critical gaps have also been identified...

Smuggling Requests with Chunked Extensions: A New HTTP Desync Trick

A new HTTP request smuggling technique was recently discovered, where attackers take advantage of inconsistent parsing behaviors between front-end proxy servers and back-end application servers. This attack technique leverages ambiguous request formatting to inject malicious secondary requests th...

Connected and Exposed: Cybersecurity Risks, Regulatory Gaps, and Public Perception in Internet-Connected Vehicles

The rapid advancement of Internet-connected vehicle technologies has introduced a new era of smart mobility, while simultaneously raising significant cybersecurity and privacy concerns. This paper explores the evolving threat landscape associated with connected vehicles, focusing on risks such as...

When Machine Learning Meets Vulnerability Discovery: Challenges and Lessons Learned

In recent years, machine learning has demonstrated impressive results in various fields, including software vulnerability detection. Nonetheless, using machine learning to identify software vulnerabilities presents new challenges, especially regarding the scale of data involved, which was not a...

CVE-2025-7496

CVE-2025-7496 describes a DOM-based Stored XSS vulnerability in the WordPress plugin WPC Smart Compare for WooCommerce, affecting all versions up to 6.4.7. Exploitation requires authenticated access at Contributor level or higher, enabling injection of scripts that run when users load injected pa...

PT-2025-32621 · WordPress · Inline Stock Quotes

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Inline Stock Quotes plugin for WordPress versions up to and including 0.2 Description: The Inline Stock Quotes plugin for WordPress is susceptible to Stored Cross-Site Scripting due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on...

Compliance Without Coverage is a Risk: How to Close the Gaps with Qualys Policy Audit

Modern compliance and security programs often fail due to technology blind spots rather than weak policies or procedures. Today's IT environments, spanning hybrid, cloud-native, containerized, and legacy platforms, introduce complexities that traditional compliance tools can't fully address. When...

The vulnerability of the LDAP protocol implementation in HashiCorp’s Vault and Vault Enterprise archiving platforms allows attackers to circumvent security restrictions and gain unauthorized access to protected information.

The vulnerability of the LDAP protocol implementation in HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise, a platform for archiving corporate information, is related to the improper handling of gaps when processing the usernameasalias parameter. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to bypass...

CVE-2025-7726

The The7 theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via its lightbox rendering code in all versions up to, and including, 12.6.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. The theme’s JavaScript reads user-supplied 'title' and 'data-dt-img-description'...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2018-18021

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - arch/arm64/kvm/guest.c in KVM in the Linux kernel before 4.18.12 on the arm64 platform mishandles the KVMSETONREG ioctl. This is exploitable by attackers who ca...

Gatling Enterprise 安全漏洞

Gatling Enterprise is a load testing and performance testing management platform from Gatling France. A security vulnerability exists in Gatling Enterprise versions prior to 1.25.0 that stems from a lack of authorization checking and could result in a low-privileged user accessing read-only...

The Dark Side of Upgrades: Uncovering Security Risks in Smart Contract Upgrades

Smart contract upgrades are increasingly common due to their flexibility in modifying deployed contracts, such as fixing bugs or adding new functionalities. Meanwhile, upgrades compromise the immutability of contracts, introducing significant security concerns. While existing research has explore...

Top IT Staff Augmentation Companies in USA 2025

Staff augmentation is a strategy for smart tech teams looking to launch something big. Trying to plug skill gaps or scale without the overhead? Collaborate with a trusted IT staff augmentation company...

Stablecoins: Fundamentals, Emerging Issues, and Open Challenges

Stablecoins, with a capitalization exceeding 200 billion USD as of January 2025, have shown significant growth, with annual transaction volumes exceeding 10 trillion dollars in 2023 and nearly doubling that figure in 2024. This exceptional success has attracted the attention of traditional...

AI Agents Act Like Employees With Root Access—Here's How to Regain Control

The AI gold rush is on. But without identity-first security, every deployment becomes an open door. Most organizations secure native AI like a web app, but it behaves more like a junior employee with root access and no manager. From Hype to High Stakes Generative AI has moved beyond the hype cycl...

The vulnerability of software platforms for developing and managing online stores such as Magento Open Source, Adobe Commerce, and Adobe Commerce B2B lies in the lack of authentication mechanisms. This allows attackers to gain unauthorized access to protected information.

The vulnerability of software platforms for developing and managing online stores such as Magento Open Source, Adobe Commerce, and Adobe Commerce B2B is related to the lack of authentication. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor, operating remotely, to gain unauthorized acces...

The vulnerability of the Command Execution function in the file manager for managing files and directories in the File Browser allows a hacker to gain access to read and modify files.

The vulnerability of the Command Execution function in the file manager and File Browser web manager is related to the lack of measures taken to clean data at the management level. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker, operating remotely, to gain access to read and modify files...

PT-2025-35975

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel affected versions not specified Description A buffer overflow issue exists in the do register framebuffer function within the fbdev component of the Linux kernel. The vulnerability occurs due to potential NULL gaps in the register...