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! Say that again, $7K per month!? OK…

Protected Health Information (PHI) is a critical aspect of healthcare, encompassing any data that can identify an individual and is used in the context of medical care. Examples of PHI include personal identifiers (name, address, Social Security number), medical records, health insurance information, and even communications containing health details.

Whether managing a distributed workforce, balancing a range of devices and systems, or navigating the complexities of hybrid work, challenges are everywhere: fragmented workflows, operational inefficiencies, and concerns about insider risks. Solving these issues can feel like an uphill battle without clear visibility into digital workforce behavior.

We are beyond excited to share some fantastic news with our community: Jazzer is now fully open source again under the Apache 2.0 license!

Kubernetes 1.32 is right around the corner, and there are quite a lot of changes ready for the Holiday Season! So, what’s new in 1.32? Kubernetes 1.32 brings a whole bunch of useful enhancements, including 39 changes tracked as ‘Graduating’ in this Kubernetes release.

In today’s fast-paced business environment, IT teams are under increasing pressure to keep networks running smoothly and securely. The burden of managing a growing number of endpoints, networks, and cloud services—combined with constant threats of cyberattacks—can lead to IT burnout. Burnout affects the well-being of IT professionals and increases the likelihood of human error, such as misconfigurations, missed patches, and slow response times to incidents.

What if there were a way to negate the effectiveness of multi-factor authentication (or even bypass secure login protocols) without ever cracking a password? Session hijacking offers attackers a tempting shortcut to user accounts, bypassing the usual security barriers. In 2022 alone, researchers scouring the shadier corners of the internet (like the dark web) found 22 billion device and session cookie records – each of which could help to enable session hijacking.

Confluent Cloud is a Kafka–as-a-service solution that simplifies the deployment, scaling, and operation of Kafka clusters. A popular feature is its Apache Kafka connectors, which make it easy to connect your Kafka clusters to any of 120+ third-party streaming data sources and destinations.

How to make your Celery tasks more resilient with best practices to prevent workflow interruptions and handle various failure scenarios.

For organizations handling sensitive data, finding a secure and efficient way to test data protection solutions is crucial. The Protegrity API Playground offers a straightforward way to test Protegrity’s data protection features. The Playground grants you 10,000 API requests after registration to use as you see fit: protecting names, addresses, credit card numbers – or any other data your organization considers secure.