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Enterprise applications often still use complex standards like SOAP for web services. The big advantage of SOAP is its tight and extensive standards, which enable interoperability across an enterprise governed by web services. The disadvantage of SOAP: First, while it is de facto usually used over HTTP, it does not leverage HTTP, leading to unnecessary…

Microsoft resolves Windows 11 update installation errors

June 1, 2026

The installation failures, often accompanied by messages like “Something didn’t go as planned. Undoing changes,” and log entries indicating “SpaceCheck” and “ServicingBootFiles failed,” occurred when the ESP had 10 MB or less of available space.

What One Predator Case Can Reveal About an Online Platform’s Safety Gaps

June 1, 2026

When a predator contacts a child through an online platform, the details of how it happened often expose…

Webinar tomorrow: From alert to resolution in network incident response

June 1, 2026

Network incidents are often detected quickly, but investigations and coordination can delay resolution. Join our webinar tomorrow to learn how automation and AI-assisted workflows can help IT teams accelerate incident response. […]

Webinar: Why network incidents take too long to resolve

May 28, 2026

Many organizations can detect network issues quickly, but investigations and coordination often slow incident resolution. This webinar explores how automation and AI-assisted workflows can help IT teams reduce delays and improve response times. […]

Webinar: Too many tools are slowing network incident response

May 26, 2026

IT teams often need to jump between monitoring dashboards, infrastructure tools, ticketing systems, and communication platforms during network incidents. This webinar explores how automation and AI-assisted workflows can help reduce manual coordination and improve incident response times. […]

Most dark web activity revolves around a handful of topics

May 21, 2026

Dark web activity often becomes visible during marketplace seizures, major data leaks, or sudden spikes in criminal activity. Those events can create an impression of an ecosystem where attention shifts quickly and new trends regularly replace old ones. A six-year dataset covering more than 25,000 dark web sites tracked what people discussed in underground forums…

Governing infrastructure as code using pattern-based policy as code

May 19, 2026

Organizations often struggle to enforce security and compliance requirements consistently across their cloud infrastructure. In one environment, a workload might be deployed in an AWS Region that was never approved for that class of data. In another, a security group might allow broader access than intended. Required tags might be missing. Encryption might be assumed…

How Fintech APIs Are Modernizing Business Cash Flow Management

May 14, 2026

Business cash flow is often harder to manage than revenue. A company can have strong sales and still…

What CISOs need to land a board role

May 14, 2026

Cybersecurity leaders often have complex relationships with their boards. Many boards lack cyber expertise, and CISOs can encounter roadblocks as a result when it comes to earning board approval. Other security leaders may not have a direct line to their board, or they may be viewed as too technical to win the support needed. One…

Webinar: Fixing the gaps in network incident response

May 12, 2026

IT teams often struggle to quickly coordinate responses across disparate systems during network incidents. This upcoming webinar explores how automation and AI-assisted workflows can reduce response times and help prevent outages. […]

Bots in translation: Can AI really fix SIEM rule sprawl across vendors?

May 7, 2026

Enterprises migrating between SIEM platforms often have to manually rewrite detection rules because vendors such as Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, IBM QRadar, and Google Chronicle use different query languages and data models. Researchers now say AI may be able to automate much of that work, though security experts remain divided over whether the problem really requires…

Are Those Brake Lights or a House on Fire? Your Security Camera Can’t Tell.

May 5, 2026

AI is allowing home-security cameras to offer detailed descriptions of what they see. The notifications are often spot on. They can also be wildly wrong.

Fusion Signage achieves ISO 27001 certification and hits 20,000 user licence milestone

April 28, 2026

In what is turning out to be a month of major achievements Fusion Signage, often referred to as Australia’s user-friendliest digital signage software, has officially achieved ISO 27001 certification and hit their 20,000 user licence milestone all in the same week. Fusion Signage MD James Ingram ISO 27001 is the leading international standard for information security…

Shadow AI is Creating New Security Blind Spots for Australian Organisations

April 28, 2026

GUEST OPINION: Employees are increasingly using artificial intelligence (AI) tools at work, often without formal approval or oversight. A Gartner survey of cybersecurity leaders revealed that 69% of organisations suspect or have evidence that employees are using prohibited public GenAI. This ‘shadow AI’ is emerging as a new source of risk for Australian organisations, as sensitive…

5 Places where Mature SOCs Keep MTTR Fast and Others Waste Time

April 21, 2026

Security teams often present MTTR as an internal KPI. Leadership sees it differently: every hour a threat dwells inside the environment is an hour of potential data exfiltration, service disruption, regulatory exposure, and brand damage. The root cause of slow MTTR is almost never “not enough analysts.” It is almost always the same structural problem:…

Command integrity breaks in the LLM routing layer

April 16, 2026

Systems that rely on LLM agents often send requests through intermediary routing services before reaching a model. These routers connect to different providers through a single endpoint and manage how requests are handled. This layer can influence what gets executed and what data is exposed. A recent study examined 28 paid routers and 400 free…

Webinar: The IT Leader’s Guide to AI Governance

April 15, 2026

Generative AI is moving from experimentation to everyday enterprise use, often faster than governance models were designed to support. As adoption accelerates, organizations are navigating the evolving landscape with new questions around security, data privacy, compliance, and control, all while being asked to enable innovation at speed. This 30 to 35-minute conversation offers practical perspectives…

TPG Telecom’s quiet AI play is already cutting fault times from hours to minutes

April 14, 2026

For all the talk about AI transforming business it can often feel still theoretical. However, at TPG Telecom, the benefits of AI are already showing up in the numbers.

5 Ways Zero Trust Maximizes Identity Security

April 14, 2026

Stolen credentials remain a top breach vector, often leading to unchecked privilege escalation. Specops explains how identity-first Zero Trust limits access, enforces device trust, and blocks lateral movement. […]

Nvidia’s Stephen Jones on the toolkit powering GPUs: ‘A wild ride’

April 14, 2026

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang often shares the story of hand-delivering an AI supercomputer to OpenAI in 2016, back before it was the hotshot company it’s become in recent years. A key ingredient in the box was Nvidia’s CUDA toolkit, which helped turn OpenAI’s experiments into a foundation for modern AI applications. Huang credits the software…

Inventors Who Didn’t Invent What They Are Famous for Inventing

April 12, 2026

Any schoolchild knows who came up with the telephone or the sewing machine. But conventional wisdom often has it all wrong.

Webinar: From noise to signal – What threat actors are targeting next

April 9, 2026

Threat actors often signal their intentions before launching attacks, from dark web chatter to access-broker listings and credential requests. Join our upcoming webinar with Flare Systems to learn how to turn those early warning signs into proactive defensive action before an intrusion begins. […]

Asqav: Open-source SDK for AI agent governance

April 9, 2026

AI agents are executing consequential tasks autonomously, often across multiple systems and with little record of what they did or why. Asqav, a Python SDK released under the MIT license, addresses that gap by attaching a cryptographic signature to each agent action and linking entries into a hash chain. The signing algorithm is ML-DSA-65, standardized…

More Honeypot Fingerprinting Scans, (Wed, Apr 8th)

April 8, 2026

One question that often comes up when I talk about honeypots: Are attackers able to figure out if they are connected to a honeypot? The answer is pretty simple: Yes! Most “medium interaction” honeypots, like the one we are using, are just simulating various systems. These simulations are incomplete. For example, we are using the…

10 ChatGPT Prompts L1 SOC Analysts Can Use in Their Daily Work

April 8, 2026

Security operations center (SOC) analysts are expected to process a constant stream of alerts — often under tight response timelines. At the same time, they are expected to investigate accurately, document clearly, and communicate findings to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. This is where generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT can be helpful.…

What Is Digitization vs Digitalization vs Digital Transformation?

April 3, 2026

In today’s digital landscape, the terms “digitization,” “digitalization,” and “digital transformation” are often used interchangeably, leading to confusion about their distinct meanings and business implications. While these three concepts are interconnected, each represents a unique approach to leveraging technology to drive organizational change and growth. Understanding the nuances between them is crucial for companies seeking…

Digital assets after death: Managing risks to your loved one’s digital estate

April 1, 2026

Fraudsters often target the accounts of the deceased or their grieving relatives. Here’s how to keep the scammers at bay.

Why I’m done calling humans the weakest link

March 31, 2026

Cybersecurity has long suffered from a people problem, but not in the way we often hear about. As industry that is based on enabling communication across the globe via the internet and many types of devices, many of us practitioners are very bad at communicating to people. A primary example is the phrase “humans are…

AI-Powered Dependency Decisions Introduce, Ignore Security Bugs

March 26, 2026

AI models often hallucinate or make costly mistakes when tasked with recommending software versions, upgrade paths, and security fixes — leading to significant technical debt.

Cloud workload security: Mind the gaps

March 24, 2026

As IT infrastructure expands, visibility and control often lag behind – until an incident forces a reckoning

Plumber: Open-source scanner of GitLab CI/CD pipelines for compliance gaps

March 23, 2026

GitLab CI/CD pipelines often accumulate configuration decisions that drift from security baselines over time. Container images get pinned to mutable tags, branches lose protection settings, and required templates go missing. An open-source tool called Plumber automates the detection of those conditions by scanning pipeline configuration and repository settings directly. What Plumber checks Plumber reads a…

Move fast and save things: A quick guide to recovering a hacked account

March 20, 2026

What you do – and how fast – after an account is compromised often matters more than it may seem

What to look for in a client management tool for SEO

March 19, 2026

GUEST OPINION: Client work at an SEO agency often breaks down in quiet, familiar places. Notes sit in email threads, approvals land in chat, and invoices live somewhere else. Teams still move, but they spend extra time checking details they should already trust.

7 Ways to Prevent Privilege Escalation via Password Resets

March 19, 2026

Password resets are often weaker than login security, making them a prime target for privilege escalation. Specops Software explains how attackers abuse reset workflows and how to secure them. […]

How to get an early taste of Android’s next-gen multitasking magic

March 11, 2026

It isn’t often that we see an interface addition so significant — so shape-shifting — that it has the potential to completely change the way you use your phone. It may sound like hyperbole, but that very sort of enhancement is absolutely on its way into Android. After a comical amount of hemming, hawing, flippin’,…

Social media impersonation: The brand threat DMARC can’t see

March 10, 2026

Social media is often a visibility gap for security teams. Learn how to protect against impersonation and defend this platform.

Why Password Audits Miss the Accounts Attackers Actually Want

March 9, 2026

Password audits often focus on complexity rules but miss the accounts attackers actually target. Specops Software explains how breached passwords, orphaned users, and service accounts can leave organizations exposed. […]

How to Avoid Confidentiality Gaps in Early-Stage Startups

March 4, 2026

Startups often expose sensitive data during pitches and hiring. Learn when to use NDAs and simple workflows to close confidentiality gaps.

How to know you’re a real-deal CSO — and whether that job opening truly seeks one

March 4, 2026

Recruiters of senior-level IT professionals often say that a truly skilled and experienced CSO is among the hardest of all IT roles to fill. The reason is due to the increased responsibility placed on these key employees, who are often part of the C-suite and may even report directly to the CEO. Unfortunately, this can…

The Advisor Practice Sale Process: A Modern, Client-Safe Playbook for Selling Your Firm Without Losing Value

March 3, 2026

Selling a financial advisory practice is often described as a “transaction,” but that word doesn’t do it justice. This is closer to a trust transfer—and trust is the one asset you can’t rebuild overnight if the handoff goes sideways.

Mobile app permissions (still) matter more than you may think

February 27, 2026

Start using a new app and you’ll often be asked to grant it permissions. But blindly accepting them could expose you to serious privacy and security risks.

Chrome in 2026: Why your browser needs a security audit right now

February 26, 2026

GUEST OPINION: We often think of our web browser as a neutral window to the internet – a piece of software that fetches pages and displays images. This assumption is dangerously outdated.

Don’t trust TrustConnect: This fake remote support tool only helps hackers

February 20, 2026

After breaking into a system, crooks often install legitimate remote admin tools to keep a foothold on the network — with the risk that the tool’s vendor spots them and locks them out. Now they have a new option: a fake remote monitoring and management (RMM) tool, complete with serious-looking online storefront, built just for…

Attackers keep finding the same gaps in security programs

February 18, 2026

Attackers keep getting in, often through the same predictable weak spots: identity systems, third-party access, and poorly secured perimeter devices. A new threat report from Barracuda based on Managed XDR telemetry from 2025 shows that many successful incidents still start with basic access and configuration failures, not advanced malware. The report draws on more than…

One stolen credential is all it takes to compromise everything

February 18, 2026

Attackers often gain access through routine workflows like email logins, browser sessions, and SaaS integrations. A single stolen credential can give them a quick path to move across systems when access permissions are broad and visibility is fragmented. That pattern appears across more than 750 incident response engagements covered in Unit 42’s Global Incident Response…

Cohere’s Tiny Aya Models Bring 70+ Languages to Offline AI

February 17, 2026

In the world of generative AI, language support has often been a luxury reserved for a handful of global languages. That’s changing fast. Cohere just unveiled a suite of open multilingual models designed to push AI out of data centers and into everyday devices while embracing linguistic diversity at scale. These “Tiny Aya” models underscore…

Your encrypted data is already being stolen

February 17, 2026

Quantum computing is often treated as a distant, theoretical cybersecurity issue. According to Ronit Ghose, Global Head, Future of Finance of Citi Institute, that mindset is already putting financial institutions at risk. The biggest misconception, he says, is that quantum threats begin on a single future Q-day, when quantum machines suddenly crack encryption. In reality,…

Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS arrives with cumulative security and bug fixes

February 13, 2026

Security teams running Ubuntu in production often delay major OS upgrades until the next point release arrives with accumulated patches and newer hardware support. Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS is now available as refreshed installation media for Noble Numbat, bundling the latest updates and offering a current hardware enablement stack for new deployments. Support and update focus…