OPEN THREAD: What do barristers earn post-pupillage? – Legal Cheek
Spill the (chambers) tea… Last week, Legal Cheek launched an open thread exploring solicitor salaries after the training contract — aiming to shed light on an area often shrouded in…
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Mayer Brown matches Magic Circle NQ pay at £150k – Legal Cheek
Exclusive: Extra £15k The London office of international law firm Mayer Brown has increased the salaries of its newly qualified (NQ) associates by 11%. The uplift means fresh-faced juniors will…
Mind the overconfidence gap: CISOs and staff don’t see eye to eye on security posture – CSO Online
CISOs and their security chains of command appear to have significantly divergent views of their organization’s cyber security maturity and resilience. According to a recent BitDefender report, CISOs expressed far…
Hackers Exploit Critical WordPress Theme Flaw to Hijack Sites via Remote Plugin Install – The Hacker News
Threat actors are actively exploiting a critical security flaw in “Alone – Charity Multipurpose Non-profit WordPress Theme” to take over susceptible sites. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-5394, carries a CVSS…
GenAI als Security-Gamechanger? – CSO Online
Für CISOs bietet generative KI nicht nur eine bloße Arbeitserleichterung, sondern zahlreiche neue Möglichkeiten für die Cybersicherheit. SomYuZu – shutterstock.com Durch den Einsatz von GenAI ergeben sich für CISOs neue…
Tangled in the web: Scattered Spider’s tactics changing to snare more victims – CSO Online
Scattered Spider is using fresh tactics to snare more victims in its web. Governments around the globe are warning that the hacker group is impersonating employees to trick IT help…
Ransomware gang tells Ingram Micro, ‘Pay up by August 1’ – CSO Online
The Safepay ransomware gang has given IT distributor Ingram Micro until Friday to pay up or it will release 3.5TB of what it claims to be the company’s stolen data.…
Koreans Hacked, Blackmailed by 250+ Fake Mobile Apps – Dark Reading
A swath of copycat Korean apps are hiding spyware, occasionally leading to highly personal, disturbing extortions. – Read More
LeO eyes £600 case fee for lawyers who do not handle complaints well – Legal Futures
LeO has decided against introducing a ‘polluter pays’ principle to penalise firms which repeatedly fail to deal with complaints properly – but wants to increase the case fee by 50%.…
Solicitor fails to overturn SDT finding over misuse of client money – Legal Futures
A solicitor struck off for using client money to prop up his firm has failed in his appeal to the High Court – and also in his effort to remain…
OPRC consults on inclusion framework and pre-action model – Legal Futures
The Online Procedure Rule Committee has launched its first public consultation, on an inclusion framework and pre-action model that would set standards for digital services. The post OPRC consults on…
Tonic Security Harnesses AI to Combat Remediation Challenges – Dark Reading
Attackers are becoming faster at exploiting vulnerabilities, but this startup seeks to stop threats before they lead to breaches. – Read More
Palo Alto Networks Grabs IAM Provider CyberArk for $25B – Dark Reading
The deal shakes up the identity and access management landscape and expands Palo Alto Networks’ footprint in the cybersecurity market. – Read More
Inside the FBI’s Strategy for Prosecuting Ransomware – Dark Reading
The US government is throwing the book at even midlevel cybercriminals. Is it just — and is it working? – Read More
32% of exploited vulnerabilities are now zero-days or 1-days – CSO Online
Patching windows for organizations keep shortening, as threat actors exploit important vulnerabilities increasingly faster. According to recent report from VulnCheck, a third of flaws leveraged by attackers this year have…