CVE-2025-22271

CVE-2025-22271 affects CyberArk Endpoint Privilege Manager in SaaS version 24.7.1. The issue allows an attacker to spoof the client’s IP by supplying a value in the X-Forwarded-For header, which degrades accountability of action logging in the application. Other versions are listed as unknown. Pu...

CISA Warns of Hackers Exploiting Legacy Cisco Smart Install Feature

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has disclosed that threat actors are abusing the legacy Cisco Smart Install SMI feature with the aim of accessing sensitive data. The agency said it has seen adversaries "acquire system configuration files by leveraging available...

The Business of Cybersecurity Ownership

Who exactly owns cybersecurity in your organisation? Authored by Sean Vogelenzang Many would say the answer is obvious. It’s the chief information security officer CISO and his or her team, of course. However, it’s not that simple. Sure, the CISO and their team are responsible for setting the...

CISO Perspectives on Complying with Cybersecurity Regulations

Compliance requirements are meant to increase cybersecurity transparency and accountability. As cyber threats increase, so do the number of compliance frameworks and the specificity of the security controls, policies, and activities they include. For CISOs and their teams, that means compliance i...

Harnessing the Power of CTEM for Cloud Security

Cloud solutions are more mainstream – and therefore more exposed – than ever before. In 2023 alone, a staggering 82% of data breaches were against public, private, or hybrid cloud environments. What's more, nearly 40% of breaches spanned multiple cloud environments. The average cost of a cloud...

A Comprehensive Assessment of the General Personal Data Protection Law (LGPD)

Most nations need to protect sensitive data for any number of reasons. Assuring legal compliance, protecting national security, preventing abuse and prejudice, improving global competitiveness, and upholding ethical standards are all vital requirements. Data privacy enhances the safety, security,...

Global Coalition and Tech Giants Unite Against Commercial Spyware Abuse

A coalition of dozens of countries, including France, the U.K., and the U.S., along with tech companies such as Google, MDSec, Meta, and Microsoft, have signed a joint agreement to curb the abuse of commercial spyware to commit human rights abuses. The initiative, dubbed the Pall Mall Process, ai...

“You have blood on your hands.” Senate Committee calls for action by social media giants to protect children online

In an unusually emotional and unified setting, the Senate Judiciary Committee found common ground for the need to protect children online yesterday. On January 31, 2024, the CEOs of the most widely used social media platforms appeared before the Committee. Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Xs Linda...

Privacy, Security, and Connected Devices: Key Takeaways From CES 2024

The topic of data privacy has become so relevant in our age of smart technology. With everything becoming connected, including our homes, workplaces, cities, and even our cars, those who develop this technology are obligated to identify consumers' expectations for privacy and then find the best...

How to comply with HIPAA requirements

Understanding the Grounds of HIPAA Let's take a deep dive into understanding the broad structure and intent behind the Act for the Secure Management and Duty of Patient Data ASMDPD, a landmark piece of legislation that has deeply transformed the healthcare sector since its inception at the turn o...

CISO: Top 10 Trends for 2024

I recently hosted and moderated a distinguished panel of Chief Information Security Officers CISOs - Nitin Raina, CISO at ThoughtWorks, Mike Wilkes, former CISO at Marvel and Yogesh Badwe, CSO at Druva. We discussed major trends for 2024 across an array of topics including the evolving threat...

Social media giants to testify over failing to protect kids

US senators have urgently invited the CEOs of five of the major social media giants to testify about their failure to protect children online. The Senate Judiciary Committee said it will hear from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, X formerly Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew, Snap CEO...

CISA, NSA, FBI, and International Partners Release Updated Secure by Design Guidance

Today, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, National Security Agency NSA, and Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI released an update to Shifting the Balance of Cybersecurity Risk: Principles and Approaches for Security-by- Design and -Default with the following...

Which security framework? All of them, in the SCF

TL;DR: All roads lead to Rome. There are plenty of ways to meet your security requirements ISO 27001 is not everything. There, I said it What is the Secure Controls Framework SCF? Why you should consider SCF on your journey to security excellence PTP has a myriad of customers coming for help to...

LLM Summary of My Book Beyond Fear

Claude Anthropics LLM was given this prompt: Please summarize the themes and arguments of Bruce Schneiers book Beyond Fear. Im particularly interested in a taxonomy of his ethical arguments--please expand on that. Then lay out the most salient criticisms of the book. Claudes reply: Heres a brief...

Why is .US Being Used to Phish So Many of Us?

Domain names ending in ".US" -- the top-level domain for the United States -- are among the most prevalent in phishing scams, new research shows. This is noteworthy because .US is overseen by the U.S. government, which is frequently the target of phishing domains ending in .US. Also, .US domains...

White House cyber strategy: leadership is now accountable

The National Cybersecurity Strategy represents one of the most significant market-driving forces in the history of IT. It ushers in a new era of standards, requirements, and best practices that will define how our economy works and how buyers interact with sellers for decades to come...

Using InsightVM Remediation Projects To Ensure Accountability

One benefit of InsightVM reporting is that it enables security teams to build accountability into remediation projects. There are a number of ways this can be accomplished and the approach you take will be dictated by your organization’s specific structure and needs. In this blog, we’ll look at t...

PT-2023-21726 · Directus · Directus

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Directus versions prior to 9.23.3 Description: The issue concerns the improper redaction of the directus refresh token from log outputs, allowing it to be used to impersonate users without their permission. This can lead to issues with...

Executive Webinar: Confronting Security Fears to Control Cyber Risk, Part Two

Part two of Confronting Security Fears to Control Cyber Risk was presented live on March 9th for EMEA and will be delivered on March 16th for APAC. The 40-minute session focuses on the importance of developing cybersecurity elasticity. In the session, Jason Hart, Rapid7’s Chief Technology Officer...