Guide for Payment Processors SAQ D begins with a major challenge in today’s digital payment landscape. Payment processors must secure payment pages across thousands of merchant websites, far beyond managing a single payment system. Let’s put this in perspective: Real-world example: A payment processor with 10,000 merchants needs to monitor approximately 30,000 payment pages daily. That’s 30,000 potential points of vulnerability requiring constant surveillance.

Sensitive data is information that must be protected against unauthorized disclosure. It can be in physical or electronic form and includes PII (Personally identifiable information), PHI (Protected health information), and more. There are three main types of sensitive data that hackers and malicious insiders tend to exploit: personal, business, and classified information.

Life sciences leaders gathered at SCOPE Summit 2025 to discuss the evolving landscape of clinical trials and the urgent need for modernization. The conference included sessions focused on optimizing clinical operations and trials, with topics including collaboration strategies and data analytics.

Recently, Palo Alto Networks disclosed CVE‑2025‑0108—a high-severity authentication bypass in the PAN‑OS management web interface. Although the flaw does not enable remote code execution, it compromises the confidentiality and integrity of management functions. In this post, we’ll break down the technical details, discuss the exploitation methodology, illustrate configuration and code examples, and outline effective mitigation strategies.

The holiday season may be over, but cybercriminals aren’t done shopping for victims. Check out how you can stay protected from these scams that put your payment details and personal data at risk.

Scammers are turning your favorite social media platforms into digital hunting grounds — learn how to spot and avoid their latest tactics.

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As AI Agents continue to revolutionize everything about how business is done, ensuring the security of these agents has become paramount. While organizations have rushed to adopt DLP processes and whitelist/blacklist policies to block the use of malicious prompts, it’s worth noting that DLP and firewalls have been around for a very long time and have proven limited in mitigating the risks of users copy/pasting sensitive information onto the internet.

Let’s catch up on the more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news gathered from articles across the web this week. This is what we have been reading about on our coffee break! A very popular setup under active attack. Watch out!

Unlike static environments, cloud workloads are constantly shifting, with containers and virtual machines spinning up and down, and crucial sensitive information flowing dynamically across multiple platforms. Recent incidents, such as the increase in container-based malware infections and cloud misconfigurations resulting in major data breaches, have highlighted the need for runtime security.