A lack of skilled staff is the top operational challenge faced by today’s security operations centers (SOCs), although practitioners and leaders have diverging perceptions of hiring needs, according to SANS Institute. The 2026 SANS SOC Survey was based on interviews… Read More "Staffing Is Top SOC Challenge Even as AI Proliferates, Says SANS"
Cybercrime is taking hold in Asia and the South Pacific just as it has elsewhere in the world, with organized crime gangs exploiting the adoption of new technologies, according to Interpol. The policing network said that cybercrime now accounts for… Read More "Cybercrime Surges in APAC as Digitalization Takes Hold"
It wraps data in a cryptographic layer, such as TLS/SSL, before it leaves the sending device, so the content is unreadable to anyone who intercepts it mid-transit. Only the intended recipient, holding the correct decryption key, can read the data… Read More "Securing Data at Rest, In Motion, and In Use with Encryption"
Cybersecurity leaders are increasingly concerned about their ability to detect threats as attackers shift beyond email to collaboration platforms such as Slack and Microsoft Teams. According to new research from KnowBe4, many organizations lack confidence in their visibility across these… Read More "Confidence Lacks in Threat Detection Across Non-Email Channels"
A major cybercriminal network involving thousands of infected websites used to distribute malware has been disrupted by an international law enforcement takedown. The action against the SocGholish malware group formed the latest part of Operation Endgame, an ongoing global police… Read More "Operation Endgame Disrupts Malware Linked to Major Ransomware Gang"
Security teams using Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure now have access to a new Amazon-made platform to manage the whole lifecycle of code vulnerabilities from discovery to remediation. The Seattle-based tech giant launched AWS Continuum among a wave of announcements… Read More "AWS Unveils A New AI‑Powered Vulnerability Management Platform"
Cybercriminals abused Facebook Messenger chatbots in a campaign which distributed phishing attacks designed to steal business information and other sensitive data from Meta For Business users. The campaign, identified by Huntress, found a way to successfully pass security validation checks… Read More "Phishing Attacks Targeted Facebook Users With Fake Verification Offer"
Ravie LakshmananAug 08, 2026Vulnerability / Network Security The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added a critical-severity security flaw impacting Progress Kemp LoadMaster to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports of active exploitation in the wild.… Read More "Progress Kemp LoadMaster Flaw Hits CISA KEV After 792 Reported Exploit Attempts"
Adobe has urged ColdFusion customers to patch their instances immediately after at least one maximum severity flaw was reported as being exploited by attackers. The software giant released patches for 11 CVEs on June 30 in the APSB26-68 bulletin. Six… Read More "Hackers Exploit Maximum Severity Adobe ColdFusion Flaw"
Ravie LakshmananAug 08, 2026Vulnerability / Enterprise Security N-able has released a fresh round of hotfixes for N‑central as part of its investigation into ongoing exploitation of a recently disclosed security flaw in the Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) product. “We… Read More "N-able Issues N-central Hotfix 2 as Attackers Reach Managed Systems and Persist"
