What is the cost of a data breach? – CSO Online
For modern businesses, regardless of industry or size the financial impact of a data breach is substantial. IBM’s latest Cost of a Data Breach report discovered that, from March 2024…
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Ex-Developer Jailed Four Years for Sabotaging Ohio Employer with Kill-Switch Malware – The Hacker News
A 55-year-old Chinese national has been sentenced to four years in prison and three years of supervised release for sabotaging his former employer’s network with custom malware and deploying a…
Black Country law firm becomes latest to take private equity – Legal Futures
Black Country-based Higgs has become the latest law firm to take private equity funding after striking a deal with August Equity – which first expressed an interest in the legal…
The Triple Threats CISOs cannot ignore: A Perfect Storm of Digital Frontlines, Dark AI and Quantum Leaps – CSO Online
In the ever-evolving digital battleground, the Southeast Asia region is at a critical inflection point. A new wave of threats is sweeping across governments, businesses, and everyday users, fueled not…
PE-backed business recovery firm aims to double size of law firm – Legal Futures
Leonard Curtis has announced ambitions to double the size of its law firm after Pollen Street Capital took a majority stake in the restructuring and turnaround business. The post PE-backed…
Personal injury lawyers “need guidance” on transgender claims – Legal Futures
Personal injury lawyers need guidance on transgender claimant compensation following this year’s Supreme Court ruling to avoid possible negligence claims, it was argued this week. The post Personal injury lawyers…
System Shocks? EV Smart Charging Tech Poses Cyber-Risks – Dark Reading
Trend Micro’s Salvatore Gariuolo talks with the Black Hat USA 2025 News Desk about how the new ISO 15118 standard for electric vehicle smart charging and vehicle-to-grid communications can be…
Scattered Spider Member Sentenced to a Decade in Prison – Dark Reading
Noah Michael Urban, 20, was one of several members of the Scattered Spider collective who were arrested and charged in 2024 in connection with high-profile cyberattacks. – Read More
Easy ChatGPT Downgrade Attack Undermines GPT-5 Security – Dark Reading
By using brief, plain clues in their prompts that are likely to influence the app to query older models, a user can downgrade ChatGPT for malicious ends. – Read More
Why Video Game Anti-Cheat Systems Are a Cybersecurity Goldmine – Dark Reading
Sam Collins and Marius Muench of the University of Birmingham, UK, join the Black Hat USA 2025 News Desk to explain how anti-cheat systems in video games provide valuable lessons…
How Architectural Controls Help Can Fill the AI Security Gap – Dark Reading
NCC Group’s David Brauchler III shared how foundational controls and threat modeling strategies can help secure agentic AI tools in ways traditional guardrails can’t. – Read More
Critical N-central RMM flaws actively exploited in the wild – CSO Online
Users of remote monitoring and management (RMM) solution N-able N-central are urged to deploy patches for two critical vulnerabilities that are being actively exploited in the wild. Frequently a target…
Hackers Abuse VPS Infrastructure for Stealth, Speed – Dark Reading
New research highlights how threat actors abuse legitimate virtual private server offerings in order to spin up infrastructure cheaply, quietly, and fast. – Read More
K-12 School Incident Response Plans Fall Short – Dark Reading
Quick recovery relies on three security measures. – Read More
Pre-Auth Exploit Chains Found in Commvault Could Enable Remote Code Execution Attacks – The Hacker News
Commvault has released updates to address four security gaps that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution on susceptible instances. The list of vulnerabilities, identified in Commvault versions before…