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As technology evolves, so do the security foundations that underpin the systems we rely on every day. One such foundational change is coming soon from Cisco Duo, the widely‑used multi‑factor authentication (MFA) platform that many organisations deploy to secure access to critical systems. Although this change isn’t a vulnerability in the traditional sense, it could impact the availability of Duo authentication services for outdated software and integrations.

The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) introduces a unified framework for managing ICT risk across the European financial sector, with key requirements, including penetration testing, coming into force in 2026. Its aim is to ensure that regulated organisations, and the critical third-party providers they rely on, can withstand, respond to and recover from operational disruptions. Within this context, operational resilience and robust ICT risk management become central to regulatory expectations.

In January 2026, a critical security vulnerability was disclosed in jsPDF, a popular JavaScript library used to generate PDF documents. The issue, tracked as CVE-2025-68428, affects server-side Node.js deployments of jsPDF prior to version 4.0.0 and has been assigned a CVSS score of 9.2. The vulnerability is a path traversal issue that can be abused to read arbitrary files from the local filesystem.

Cybersecurity risk is no longer an abstract concern relegated to IT teams, it is a material business risk that boards and senior leaders must actively manage.UK government research indicates that around 43% of businesses experienced a cyber security breach or attack in the past year, underlining how common these incidents have become across sector, from small business to large enterprises.

On December 12, 2025, the MongoDB Security Engineering team disclosed a high-severity vulnerability in MongoDB that allows unauthenticated memory disclosure. The issue is tracked as CVE-2025-14847 and has a CVSS score of 8.7 and was quickly nicknamed MongoBleed in the security community due to the way it exposes server memory.