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Burnout, budgets and breaches – how can CISOs keep up?

By Richard Cassidy published

Security teams are at breaking point with the ever-evolving threat complexity and team burnout widening the cybersecurity skills gap.

Racing against time on a menacing caldera: survey finds majority of organizations take days to tackle critical vulnerabilities, each of them a potential open goal for cybercriminals

By Efosa Udinmwen published

Over half of organizations lack effective vulnerability management, with 73% fearing penalties and operational gaps increasing risks of breaches and regulatory scrutiny.

A huge amount of workers are exposing their companies to security risks

By Craig Hale published

Workers are failing to adhere to simple cybersecurity guidelines, putting their employers at risk of a breach.

Five lessons learned from the M&S, Co-op, and Harrods security breaches

By Steve Cobb published

Retail breaches highlight lessons in people, vendors, operations, planning, and trust.

Get the dunce's cap - experts warn pathetically weak passwords in the education sector leave classrooms at risk

By Ellen Jennings-Trace published

Schools records are vulnerable from weak passwords, report warns.

Many companies are still failing to budget for cybersecurity

By Craig Hale published

Report finds many businesses have no security budgets, or no plans to increase spending, with smaller companies most at risk.

FTC orders Marriott and Starwood to boost cybersecurity following major incidents

By Ellen Jennings-Trace published

Marriott has been ordered to implement stricter security after three major data breaches.

Staffing giant Manpower hit by major data breach - around 145,000 users affected, here's what we know

By Sead Fadilpašić published

Attack against Manpower in late 2024 was most likely conducted by a known threat actor.

One of the largest data leaks ever sees info on 1.5 billion people leaked online

By Ellen Jennings-Trace published

A huge breach exposes data on over a billion Chinese citizens.

The growing threat of data breaches in the age of AI and data privacy

By Fabien Rech published

With the fast-growing adoption of AI by cybercriminals, organizations need to stay ahead of the curve to prevent falling victim to these attacks and losing vital data.

Over 400 million unwanted and malicious emails were received by businesses in 2024

By Efosa Udinmwen published

Report highlights rising cyber threats, and urges businesses to adopt advanced cybersecurity practices and foster a strong security culture.

Insider risk on the rise as survey finds 50% of employees have too much privileged access - and AI will make it far worse

By Wayne Williams published

Privilege creep and shadow AI push insider threat levels higher, with 50% of workers granted more access than needed.

Salt Typhoon hackers used this clever technique to attack US networks

By Sead Fadilpašić published

More information about Salt Typhoon's October 2024 attack has been revealed.

SonicWall confirms all of its cloud backup customers were affected by data breach

By Sead Fadilpašić published

MySonicWall customers should be taking serious precautions.

Top VC firm is warning thousands their data may have been hacked - here's how to stay safe

By Sead Fadilpašić published

Insight Partners has started notifying roughly 12,000 people, months after concluding its investigation.

One in five security breaches now thought to be caused by AI-written code

By Craig Hale published

Nearly a quarter of production code globally is now AI-generated, and yet 69% admit to finding vulnerabilities, report finds.

UK Public Sector under fire: the battle against cybercrime

By Calum Baird published

With our reliance on technology, the stakes have never been higher.

Google says hackers stole some of its data following Salesforce breach

By Sead Fadilpašić published

ShinyHunters finds its way into Google systems, but the search engine giant says it's nothing to be worried about.

Over 4 billion user records leaked in "largest breach ever" - here's what you need to know

By Ellen Jennings-Trace published

Hundreds of millions of users could be exposed in "largest breach ever" against Chinese victims.

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165 million Americans suffered a data breach in 2025 – this $2 solution could stop you from being next

By Chiara Castro published

In the first half of 2025, 68% of Americans had their data compromised. Surfshark's security suite is the Black Friday purchase you need to ensure it won't happen to you.

Cyberattacks surged in 2025, with third party attacks seeing a huge rise

By Sead Fadilpašić published

Verizon data breach report finds third-party attacks doubled in 2024, and were present in 30% of all attacks.

Stalkerware data breach potentially hits over 2 million users, including thousands of Apple devices

By Ellen Jennings-Trace published

Consumer-grade spyware operation SpyX hit by data breach, with millions possibly affected.

iStorage launches 26TB hardware encrypted desktop hard drive; just make sure you remember your PIN and have backups

By Wayne Williams published

iStorage's PIN-authenticated 26TB desktop drive is built for companies who fear data breaches.

Most organisations are at risk thanks to immature supply chain security

By Ellen Jennings-Trace published

Supply chain worries affect 88% of respondents.

Many firms see cyberattacks as their top business concern this year

By Craig Hale published

Businesses are worried about cyber incidents and business outages, including ongoing geopolitical conflict.

Businesses are facing increased identity-based attacks, and rouge applications are a top culprit

By Sead Fadilpašić published

Many firms lost $100,000 and more to these attacks.

How DevOps tools are opening the gates for high-profile cyberattacks

By Daria Kulikova published

How DevOps security gaps are enabling massive cyberattacks on top global companies.

Most people still can’t identify a phishing attack written by AI - and that's a huge problem, survey warns

By Ellen Jennings-Trace published

Most Gen Z users admit to having interacted with a phishing attack over the last year.

Logitech confirms data breach - but says it isn't sure exactly what information was lost

By Sead Fadilpašić, Sead Fadilpašić published

Logitech is playing down the importance of the breach, but victims are speaking out.

Bags of info stolen from multiple top luxury brands - double check your data now

By Sead Fadilpašić published

Shiny Hunters are back to targeting luxury brands and this time around, it's Kering that fell.