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Cyber Insurance, Audit, and Policy: Review, Analysis and Recommendations

Cyber insurance, which protects insured organizations against financial losses from cyberattacks and data breaches, can be difficult and expensive to obtain for many organizations. These difficulties stem from insurers difficulty in understanding and accurately assessing the risks that they are...

Microsoft Begins NTLM Phase-Out With Three-Stage Plan to Move Windows to Kerberos

Microsoft has announced a three-phase approach to phase out New Technology LAN Manager NTLM as part of its efforts to shift Windows environments toward stronger, Kerberos-based options. The development comes more than two years after the tech giant revealed its plans to deprecate the legacy...

Faraday 5.19.0

Faraday is a tool that introduces a new concept called IPE, or Integrated Penetration-Test Environment. It is a multiuser penetration test IDE designed for distribution, indexation and analysis of the generated data during the process of a security audit. The main purpose of Faraday is to re-use...

Who Said CVE? How Vulnerability Identifiers Are Mentioned by Humans, Bots, and Agents in Pull Requests

Vulnerability identifiers such as CVE, CWE, and GHSA are standardised references to known software security issues, yet their use in practice is not well understood. This paper compares vulnerability ID use in GitHub pull requests authored by autonomous agents, bots, and human developers. Using t...

TikTok Forms U.S. Joint Venture to Continue Operations Under 2025 Executive Order

TikTok on Friday officially announced that it formed a joint venture that will allow the hugely popular video-sharing application to continue operating in the U.S. The new venture, named TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC, has been established in compliance with the Executive Order signed by U.S...

How Microsoft builds privacy and security to work hand-in-hand

The Deputy CISO blog series is where Microsoft Deputy Chief Information Security Officers CISOs share their thoughts on what is most important in their respective domains. In this series, you will get practical advice, tactics to start and stop deploying, forward-looking commentary on where the...

How Microsoft builds privacy and security to work hand-in-hand

The Deputy CISO blog series is where Microsoft Deputy Chief Information Security Officers CISOs share their thoughts on what is most important in their respective domains. In this series, you will get practical advice, tactics to start and stop deploying, forward-looking commentary on where the...

Data Protection and Corporate Reputation Management in the Digital Era

This paper analyzes the relationship between cybersecurity management, data protection, and corporate reputation in the context of digital transformation. The study examines how organizations implement strategies and tools to mitigate cyber risks, comply with regulatory requirements, and maintain...

Faraday 5.18.0

Faraday is a tool that introduces a new concept called IPE, or Integrated Penetration-Test Environment. It is a multiuser penetration test IDE designed for distribution, indexation and analysis of the generated data during the process of a security audit. The main purpose of Faraday is to re-use...

OPENSUSE-SU-2025:20020-1 Security update for chromium

This update for chromium fixes the following issues: Chromium 141.0.7390.76: Do not send URLs as AIM input. This is to resolve a privacy concern, around passing urls to AI Mode. Chromium 141.0.7390.65 boo1251334: CVE-2025-11458: Heap buffer overflow in Sync CVE-2025-11460: Use after free in Stora...

EUVD-2022-29725

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How Agentic AI Powers Seamless Audit Readiness with Agent Chang

Audits are rarely simple. Security and compliance teams often find themselves buried in repetitive, time-consuming tasks—collecting logs from multiple systems, exporting reports from various tools, and manually reconciling data in spreadsheets. Evidence must be traced back to the correct controls...

Securing the Agentic Era: Introducing Astrix's AI Agent Control Plane

AI agents are rapidly becoming a core part of the enterprise, being embedded across enterprise workflows, operating with autonomy, and making decisions about which systems to access and how to use them. But as agents grow in power and autonomy, so do the risks and threats. Recent studies show 80%...

GitHub's Copilot Code Review: Can AI Spot Security Flaws Before You Commit?

As software development practices increasingly adopt AI-powered tools, ensuring that such tools can support secure coding has become critical. This study evaluates the effectiveness of GitHub Copilot's recently introduced code review feature in detecting security vulnerabilities. Using a curated...

AMD Client Vulnerabilities – August 2025

Summary Potential vulnerabilities in AMD Client Processor platforms that affect SMM, ASP, and other platform components, were found during audits performed internally and by third parties...

AMD Graphics Vulnerabilities – August 2025

Summary Audits performed on AMD graphics and datacenter accelerator products, as well as external reports received by AMD, uncovered potential vulnerabilities affecting AMD graphics, datacenter, and some client processors...

Applications of Zero-Knowledge Proofs on Bitcoin

This paper explores how zero-knowledge proofs can enhance Bitcoin's functionality and privacy. First, we consider Proof-of-Reserve schemes: by using zk-STARKs, a custodian can prove its Bitcoin holdings are more than a predefined threshold X, without revealing addresses or actual balances. We...

Stable Channel Update for Desktop

The Stable channel has been updated to 137.0.7151.119/.120 for Windows, Mac and 137.0.7151.119 for Linux which will roll out over the coming days/weeks. A full list of changes in this build is available in the Log. Security Fixes and Rewards Note: Access to bug details and links may be kept...

Securing Generative AI Agentic Workflows: Risks, Mitigation, and a Proposed Firewall Architecture

Generative Artificial Intelligence GenAI presents significant advancements but also introduces novel security challenges, particularly within agentic workflows where AI agents operate autonomously. These risks escalate in multi-agent systems due to increased interaction complexity. This paper...