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Cloud Misconfiguration: The Security Risk You're Most Likely to Have
Misconfigured cloud environments are responsible for a significant proportion of UK data breaches. Here's what to check if you're running AWS or Azure.
AI Governance for SMEs: What You Actually Need to Do
Most AI governance guidance is written for enterprises with dedicated legal teams. This is the practical version: what SMEs using AI tools actually need to do.
Why Most SMEs Fail Cyber Essentials (And How to Fix It)
Cyber Essentials has a 3% adoption rate among UK businesses. Here's why so many fail and what practical steps to take before your next assessment.
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⚡ Weekly Recap: This2Shell, That2Shell, Everything's an RCE? Rogue AI, Supply Chain Chaos and More
This2Shell, That2Shell, Everything2Shell. That's pretty much how the last week went. Critical bugs that let attackers run code remotely are showing up everywhere. Hackers are scanning for targets, som
10 Software Security Practices Built for the Next 250 Years
This Cybersecurity Awareness Month's theme, "Securing the Next 250," asks us to look beyond vulnerabilities and consider what will make our digital systems resilient for generations.
Two Critical Wasmtime Flaws Could Let Malicious WebAssembly Modules Escape Sandboxes
Two critical flaws in Wasmtime, a WebAssembly runtime that can be built into other software, could allow a malicious WebAssembly module to escape the sandbox intended to contain it, the project's main
Between alerts: What Attackers Do in the Spaces Ordinary Detection Misses
Every SOC struggles with a pile of alerts. Very few of those alerts explain how an attack started or how it progressed. Network data, like that from a network detection and response (NDR) platform, co
Bias in Qwen3-Coder Model
Interesting research: TL;DR: Chinese AI models now sit inside Western products, and some carry geopolitical triggers: tell the model who the code is for, and the security of what it writes changes. Fo
Looking for a Language [Guest Diary], (Wed, Oct 21st)
[This is a Guest Diary by Jeffray Spence, an ISC intern as part of the SANS.edu BACS program]
ISC Stormcast For Monday, October 26th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10150, (Mon, Oct 26th)
(c) SANS Internet Storm Center. https://isc.sans.edu Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.
YARA-X 1.22.0 Release, (Sun, Oct 25th)
YARA-X&#;x26;#;39;s 1.22.0 release brings 11 improvements and 9 bugfixes.
Friday Squid Blogging: Increasing Squid Populations
This article in Nature argues that it’s due to an overfishing of predators and warming sea temperatures. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that