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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 need to implement right now.
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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One Click, Total Shutdown: The "Patient Zero" Webinar on Killing Stealth Breaches
The hardest part of cybersecurity isn't the technology, it’s the people. Every major breach you’ve read about lately usually starts the same way: one employee, one clever email, and one "Patient Zero"
PAN-OS RCE Exploit Under Active Use Enabling Root Access and Espionage
Palo Alto Networks has disclosed that threat actors may have attempted to unsuccessfully exploit a recently disclosed critical security flaw as early as April 9, 2026. The vulnerability in question is
World's First AI-Driven Cyberattack Couldn't Breach OT Systems
The most sophisticated AI-integrated campaign to date hit a brick wall in the form of a SCADA login screen.
'TrustFall' Convention Exposes Claude Code Execution Risk
Malicious repositories can trigger code execution in Claude Code, Cursor CLI, Gemini CLI, and CoPilot CLI with minimal or no user interaction, thanks to skimpy warning dialogs.
ThreatsDay Bulletin: Edge Plaintext Passwords, ICS 0-Days, Patch-or-Die Alerts and 25+ New Stories
Bad week. Turns out the easiest way to get hacked in 2026 is still the same old garbage: shady packages, fake apps, forgotten DNS junk, scam ads, and stolen logins getting dumped into Discord channels
Smart Glasses for the Authorities
ICE is developing its own version of smart glasses, with facial recognition tied to various databases.
ISC Stormcast For Thursday, May 7th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9922, (Thu, May 7th)
(c) SANS Internet Storm Center. https://isc.sans.edu Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.
An Adaptive Cyber Analytics UI for Web Honeypot Logs [Guest Diary], (Wed, May 6th)
[This is a Guest Diary by Eric Roldan, an ISC intern as part of the SANS.edu BACS program]
Yet Another Way to Bypass Google Chrome's Encryption Protection
Authors of the VoidStealer Trojan uncovered a way to get around Google's App-Bound Encryption (ABE), opening the door to infostealers.