The quality of malicious ads has improved immensely, making it harder for users to distinguish between what’s real or fake.

Blockchain technology, renowned for its decentralized and immutable nature, promises enhanced security for various applications. However, like any technology, it is not without vulnerabilities. This in-depth examination explores the security aspects of blockchain, identifies common vulnerabilities, and outlines the measures needed to secure blockchain applications effectively.

For the Sysdig Customer Success team, our mission is simple: ensuring that our customers get the most value from our product. Usually that means helping them use the product, answering questions, and requesting feature enhancements. In our line of work, sometimes you have to throw out the usual playbook to make things happen. This particular story started when we noticed a change in a customer’s agent usage.

The number 42 has gained legendary status in popular culture, largely due to Douglas Adams’ science fiction series, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. In this series, a group of hyper-intelligent beings build a supercomputer named Deep Thought to calculate the “Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything”. After much contemplation, Deep Thought reveals the answer to be simply “42”.

As the NIS2 Directive reshapes the cybersecurity landscape across Europe, a key focus for organisations is understanding and managing their critical suppliers. The directive mandates heightened scrutiny and tighter controls around these essential entities, underscoring their importance in your overall cybersecurity strategy. But the pivotal question remains: How do you determine who qualifies as a 'critical supplier'?

A critical chained vulnerability (CVE-2024-47076, CVE-2024-47175, CVE-2024-47176, and CVE-2024-47177) has been detected within the open-source printing system CUPS (present in most Linux distributions). Attackers can achieve remote code execution, potentially leading to complete control of the vulnerable system. Detectify customers can assess whether their systems are running affected versions of CUPS.

A newly discovered spyware tool named MerkSpy is targeting users in Canada, India, Poland, and the U.S., exploiting a patched security flaw in Microsoft MSHTML. This campaign, identified by Foresiet researchers, highlights the critical need for vigilant cybersecurity practices, including stolen credentials detection, darknet monitoring services, and digital footprint analysis. Attack Overview The attack begins with a Microsoft Word document disguised as a job description for a software engineer.

In Part 1, the existing global regulations around IoT were introduced. In this part, the challenge of complying with these rules is examined.