Is a high cyber insurance premium about your risk, or your insurer’s?
A sky-high premium may not always reflect your company’s security posture 08 Aug 2025 • , 3 min. read When a cyber risk insurance quote lands on your desk and the premium is sky high, it’s natural to assume that the insurer is judging your environment to be...
Ex-White House cyber guru talks Microsoft security fails • The Register
Comment Roger Cressey served two US presidents as a senior cybersecurity and counter-terrorism advisor and currently worries he'll experience a "political aneurysm" due to Microsoft's many security messes. In the last few weeks alone, Microsoft disclosed two...
What is it, and how do I get it off my device?
Is your phone suddenly flooded with aggressive ads, slowing down performance or leading to unusual app behavior? Here’s what to do. 08 Aug 2025 • , 5 min. read There are various bad things that could end up on your smartphone. Spyware designed to turn your...
Royal and BlackSuit ransomware gangs hit over 450 US companies
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) says the cybercrime gang behind the Royal and BlackSuit ransomware operations had breached hundreds of U.S. companies before being taken down last month. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), DHS's main...
Why blow up satellites when you can just hack them? • The Register
Black Hat Four countries have now tested anti-satellite missiles (the US, China, Russia, and India), but it's much easier and cheaper just to hack them. In a briefing at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, Milenko Starcik and Andrzej Olchawa from German biz...
CISA orders fed agencies to patch new Exchange flaw by Monday
CISA has issued an emergency directive ordering all Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies to mitigate a critical Microsoft Exchange hybrid vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-53786 by Monday morning at 9:00 AM ET. Federal Civilian Executive Branch...
Policy compliance & the cybersecurity silver bullet
Who’s to blame when the AI tool managing a company’s compliance status gets it wrong? 07 Aug 2025 • , 3 min. read If you put a group of CISOs in a room, they are all likely to wait for one of them to declare they have the answer, the silver bullet, that...
Black Hat’s network ops center brings rivals together • The Register
Black Hat Neil "Grifter" Wyler is spending the week "looking for a needle in a needle stack," a task he'll perform from the network operations center (NOC) that powers the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas. The Register popped in to check it out. We...
Does successful cybersecurity today increase cyber risk tomorrow?
Success in cybersecurity is when nothing happens, plus other standout themes from two of the event’s keynotes 07 Aug 2025 • , 3 min. read The 2025 edition of the Black Hat USA conference kicked off with an address from founder Jeff Moss that featured several...
Massive IPTV piracy service with 28,000 channels taken offline
The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) announced the shutdown of Rare Breed TV, a major illegal IPTV service provider, after reaching a financial settlement with its operators. North Carolina-based Rare Breed TV was one of the world's largest...