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Understanding Cognitive Readiness in Cybersecurity: Why IQ Testing Matters

Understanding Cognitive Readiness in Cybersecurity: Why IQ Testing Matters

Dec 12, 2025 By SecuritySenses In SecuritySenses
Cybersecurity is more than technology-it is a mental battleground. Analysts, engineers, and incident responders are constantly challenged to spot anomalies, process complex information, and make high-stakes decisions under pressure. As cyber threats evolve, understanding one's cognitive strengths becomes increasingly valuable. Among the growing tools for cognitive self-assessment, the online IQ testing service MyIQ stands out thanks to its accuracy, accessibility, and positive community feedback on Reddit.
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manageengine

Top tips: Cyber hygiene habits you can build this week

Dec 11, 2025 By Nandana Ann Mathew In ManageEngine
Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what’s trending in the tech world today and list ways to explore these trends. This week, we’re breaking down the simple cyber hygiene habits that can make your digital life safer, calmer, and far easier to manage. If digital life had a skincare routine, most of us would be walking around with unwashed faces and expired sunscreen.
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levelblue

Extortion-as-a-Service: The Latest Threat Actor Criminal Ecosystem

Dec 11, 2025 By Serhii Melnyk In LevelBlue
For centuries, threat actors, both cyber and physical, have understood the benefits of using extortion to further their criminal activities. This has led some cyber threat groups to create Extortion-as-a-Service (EaaS) businesses. These are a formalized way for cybercriminals to offer extortion services to others for a fee or profit share. And, as we shall see, it is just one of many newer -as-a-service models that threat actors are applying.
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miniorange

Why Choose Active Directory Management Over Manual Scripts

Dec 11, 2025 By Puja More In miniOrange
A mid-sized company once tried to handle all its AD updates with a set of PowerShell scripts. Things worked fine while the user count was small, but trouble showed up once they crossed a thousand accounts. A script missed a group update, a disabled user stayed active for two extra days, and a bulk change took almost an entire afternoon to fix. None of this was a technical failure. It was the natural limit of manual scripting.
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splunk

When Your Fraud Detection Tool Doubles as a Wellness Check: The Unexpected Intersection of Security and HR

Dec 11, 2025 By Matthew J Joseff, CFE In Splunk
Let’s face it: humans are creatures of habit, and nothing rattles us quite like the prospect of change. (Just ask anyone who’s dared to swap out the office coffee brand—revolutions have started over less.) According to SHRM's research on change fatigue, today’s relentless pace of disruption is exhausting employees faster than a budget ergonomic chair. But here’s where it gets fascinating—where security, HR, and fraud analysis converge in ways you might not expect.
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sentrium

Enumerating Users and Mailboxes in Microsoft Outlook 365 Web

Dec 11, 2025 By James Drew In Sentrium
During our research into Microsoft 365 security, we discovered a flaw in Outlook on the web (OWA) that exposed information about users and their mailboxes. By manipulating certain request headers against the “/owa/service.svc” endpoint, an attacker could not only confirm whether a user account existed, but also determine if that account had a mailbox associated with it.
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indusface

CVE-2025-10573: Critical Unauthenticated Stored XSS in Ivanti Endpoint Manager

Dec 11, 2025 By Bhargavi Pallati In Indusface
A newly disclosed vulnerability in Ivanti Endpoint Manager (EPM) tracked as CVE-2025-10573 allows unauthenticated attackers to inject persistent JavaScript into the EPM administrative dashboard. Assigned a CVSS score of 9.6, this vulnerability presents a critical security risk because it enables attackers to hijack administrator sessions and gain full control over managed endpoints.
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CrowdStrike

Data Leakage: AI's Plumbing Problem

Dec 11, 2025 By Jim Hoagland - Vanessa Villa In CrowdStrike
Sensitive information disclosure ranks on the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications, and for good reason. When AI-powered applications inadvertently expose private data like personally identifiable information (PII), financial records, health information, API keys, or proprietary business intelligence, the consequences cascade quickly: regulatory violations, competitive disadvantage, and shattered user trust.
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protecto

PII Detection in Unstructured Text: Why Regex Fails (And What Works)

Dec 11, 2025 By Anwita In Protecto
Let’s look at something many teams quietly struggle with. Detecting PII inside unstructured text. It feels like it should be simple. After all, we’ve used regular expressions for years to find emails, phone numbers, and ID formats. Yet when we deploy regex in real environments. ticket systems, chat logs, CRM notes, uploaded documents, support transcripts. something becomes clear very quickly. Regex isn’t enough.
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