London Legal Walk on track for record year – Legal Cheek
Legal sector charity walk returns on 9 June Credit: London Legal Walk The countdown is on for this year’s London Legal Walk, with organisers reporting that over 10,000 walkers across…
One onboarding platform, not five – Legal Futures
As law firms grow, they often find themselves building a tech stack from a patchwork of different platforms and solutions from dozens of vendors. The post One onboarding platform, not…
New Fragnesia Linux Kernel LPE Grants Root Access via Page Cache Corruption – The Hacker News
Details have emerged about a new variant of the recent Dirty Frag Linux local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability that allows local attackers to gain root access, making it the third…
18-Year-Old NGINX Rewrite Module Flaw Enables Unauthenticated RCE – The Hacker News
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed multiple security vulnerabilities impacting NGINX Plus and NGINX Open, including a critical flaw that remained undetected for 18 years. The vulnerability, discovered by depthfirst, is a…
Fired employee sought AI help to hide deletion of hosting firm’s customer data – CSO Online
The apparent revenge deletion of US federal databases after the dismissal of twin brothers from an online hosting company is another reminder to IT and HR leaders that tough off-boarding…
Indemnity costs ordered over threat to report solicitors to SRA – Legal Futures
A claimant has been ordered to pay indemnity costs because of its solicitors’ misuse of criminal contempt proceedings and threats to report their opposition to the SRA. The post Indemnity…
PE-backed law firm deals in Midlands, Manchester – and Reykjavík – Legal Futures
Private equity-backed Fletchers Group has announced its third acquisition in less than a month by taking on the clinical negligence and Court of Protection teams of Midlands firm Freeths. There…
Tribunal clears law clinic solicitor of trying to mislead employer – Legal Futures
An immigration solicitor has been cleared of misleading her employer over her conduct of an asylum case after a three-day Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal hearing. The post Tribunal clears law clinic…
King’s Speech: No litigation funding, SLAPPs or AML reform – Legal Futures
The King’s Speech yesterday was notable as much for what was not in it as what was, with significant omissions including the promised litigation funding bill. The post King’s Speech:…
Checkbox Assessments Aren’t Fit to Measure to Risk – Dark Reading
Security governance needs to be more than an annual compliance exercise. New companies are emerging to address risk-management gaps in current audit tools. – Read More
Attackers Weaponize RubyGems for Data Dead Drops – Dark Reading
Threat actors are publishing RubyGems packages that include scrapers targeting public-facing UK government servers, but with no clear objective. – Read More
Fortinet fixes two critical RCE flaws in FortiAuthenticator and FortiSandbox – CSO Online
Fortinet released a batch of patches across its products on Patch Tuesday, including two critical vulnerabilities that can lead to remote code execution. Fortinet flaws, both zero-day and n-day, have…
Tables Turn on ‘The Gentlemen’ RaaS Gang With Data Leak – Dark Reading
An OPSEC failure provides a window into what helped the ransomware group rise: a generous affiliate model, opportunistic TTPs, and an effective organizational structure. – Read More
Dark Reading Celebrates 20 Years as a Leading Authority on Cybersecurity, Highlighting the People, Events, Ideas, and Technologies Shaping the Modern Risk Landscape – Dark Reading
Informa TechTarget’s flagship cybersecurity media brand launches a special content series to mark two decades as a trusted source for cybersecurity professionals. – Read More