Pay-for-access dinners. Equity asks. Quiet kickbacks. The CISO payola problem is real — and it’s threatening the integrity of cybersecurity leadership.
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AI is moving from proof-of-concept into everyday security operations. In many SOCs, it is now used to cut down alert noise, guide analysts during investigations, and speed up incident response. What was once seen as experimental technology is starting to deliver results that CISOs can measure. Some of this has been in place for years. Machine learning already powers many threat detection engines and behavioral analytics tools. But the recent wave of GenAI has opened … More →
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In a significant breach of both cybersecurity defenses and secrecy, a trove of sensitive hacking tools and technical documentation, believed to originate from a North Korean threat actor, has recently been leaked online. The dump, revealed through an extensive article in Phrack Magazine, includes advanced exploit tactics, a detailed system compromise log, and most notably, […]
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A threat actor operating under the alias “Chucky_BF” has posted a concerning advertisement on a well-known cybercrime forum, claiming to possess and sell a “Global PayPal Credential Dump 2025” containing over 15.8 million email and plaintext password pairs. The dataset, measuring approximately 1.16GB in plain text format, allegedly comprises sensitive credentials sourced from multi-domain PayPal […]
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The PostgreSQL Global Development Group released emergency security updates on August 14, 2025, addressing three critical vulnerabilities that enable code injection attacks during database restoration processes. The flaws affect all supported versions from PostgreSQL 13 through 17, requiring immediate patching across enterprise environments. Dangerous Dump and Restore Vulnerabilities Two severe code execution vulnerabilities, CVE-2025-8714 and […]
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