Sofia Elizabella WyciÅ›lik-Wilson    More than a year-and-a-half after announcing its retirement, Microsoft has revealed its plans to fully remove Defender Application Guard from Office. The journey has been a long a slow one for the this security feature which isolates untrusted Office documents in a virtualized contained....

Wayne Williams    ESET has added new ransomware recovery and scam protection capabilities to its consumer and small business products. The security firm’s latest offerings, ESET HOME Security and ESET Small Business Security, bring its enterprise-grade Ransomware Remediation feature to homes and small offices for...

Sofia Elizabella WyciÅ›lik-Wilson    It has been known for a little while that Meta has been working on a username system for WhatsApp. The popular messaging app is slightly unusual in not offering people a way to choose a username, but this is going to change at some point in the future. Recent beta builds of the iOS and Android apps...

Sofia Elizabella WyciÅ›lik-Wilson    Microsoft may have all but abandoned Windows 10, but this is not true of its users. There are still millions of Windows 10 systems in use around the world, causing security concerns for many. But not all software developers are turning their backs on Windows 10 - Mozilla included. The company has...

Sofia Elizabella WyciÅ›lik-Wilson    The impact of Internet Explorer is still being felt years after the world moved on from the web browser. Microsoft has announced that it is Restraining IE Mode Access in Microsoft Edge, citing concerns about exploitation of 0day vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer’s JavaScript engine. That...

Sofia Elizabella WyciÅ›lik-Wilson    Five years after it was launched, Apple has announced major changes to its bug bounty program. The Apple Security Bounty program is entering what the company describes as a new chapter , and the headline change is a massive boost to the payments made for the discovery of the most serious types of...

Sofia Elizabella WyciÅ›lik-Wilson    Following a previously acknowledged security breach last month, SonicWall has published an updated bulletin to customers having investigated the incident. The company says that it is now aware that an unauthorized party accessed firewall configuration backup files for all customers who have used...

Wayne Williams    Malwarebytes has introduced a new range of security packages designed to protect individuals and families based on the number of people in a household rather than the number of devices. Malwarebytes says its research shows most users now own at least two devices, often including a smartphone,...

Sofia Elizabella WyciÅ›lik-Wilson    Both Microsoft and Valve have issued warnings about flaws in the Unity engine that could expose gamers to attack. A new version of Steam has been released to plug the security hole as well. Tracked as CVE-2025-59489, the Unity Gaming Engine Editor vulnerability has a severity rating of 8.4. The...

Sofia Elizabella WyciÅ›lik-Wilson    The situation regarding Red Hat’s recent data breach is worsening - both for the company and for its customers. With GitLab instances belonging to the company having been breached by the Crimson Collective, hundreds of gigabytes of data were stolen. Now the data breach has transformed into a demand...

Sofia Elizabella WyciÅ›lik-Wilson    Oracle has released an emergency patch and an urgent security warning about a 0-day vulnerability in Oracle E-Business Suite. Tracked as CVE-2025-61882, the security flaw has a severity rating of 9.8 and is described as an easily exploitable vulnerability . Oracle warns that the vulnerability is...

Sofia Elizabella WyciÅ›lik-Wilson    The personal data of Discord users has been exposed after a third-party customer service provider suffered a data breach. Hackers were able to obtain support tickets from an unnamed company used by Discord to provide support. From this, they were then able to gain access to data including names and...

Sofia Elizabella WyciÅ›lik-Wilson    Perplexity is the latest company to release an AI-powered web browser. Comet is available free of charge for Windows and macOS, and it is looking to compete with the likes of Opera’s Neon. Comet is not brand new. It launches in July to a limited audience, but now its AI powers are being made...

Sofia Elizabella WyciÅ›lik-Wilson    A group of hackers calling itself the Crimson Collective says that it has compromised GitLab instances belonging to Red Hat and stolen hundreds of gigabytes of data. Red Hat has confirmed that it has suffered a data breach, but is yet to provide much in the way of details. The hacking group says...

Ian Barker    A new study of 500 US IT and cybersecurity staff reveals that 84 percent report feeling uncomfortable levels of stress at work due to IT security risks, while 78 percent fear they will be personally blamed for security incidents. The report from Object First exposes a gap in how organizations...

Sofia Elizabella WyciÅ›lik-Wilson    Details have emerged about a now-patched flaw in Microsoft Entra ID which could have been exploited to gain access to any tenant of any company in the world. Tracked as CVE-2025-55241, the Azure Entra Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability has a CVSS 3.1 severity rating of 10.0. The security...

Sofia Elizabella WyciÅ›lik-Wilson    The move from passwords to passkeys is making gradual progress, and Google is among the companies pushing to encourage people to make the switch. Now there are signs that things are being taken up a notch. Hidden away in the most recent Canary build of Chrome, Google is testing a flag which, when...

Ian Barker    A growing cybersecurity skills crisis is forcing 64 percent of the organizations across Europe the Middle East and Africa to take risky shortcuts and temporary fixes to meet security demands. Research from Insight Enterprises shows only 24 percent of IT decision-makers across EMEA say they have...

Wayne Williams    PasswordManager.com has released a new survey looking at how business leaders view Gen Z employees (those born around the mid-to-late 1990s through the early 2010s), especially when it comes to the handling of sensitive company information. The results reveal that many bosses are worried about the...

Sofia Elizabella WyciÅ›lik-Wilson    History appears to be repeating. Plex has announced that it has suffered a security breach, exposing user data. The last time this happened was in 2022, and users are being advised to change passwords as soon as possible. The company is referring to it as a security incident that may potentially...