Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

You don’t have to dig far into a payment page before the pattern makes itself obvious. A few scripts are yours. A few belong to vendors you expected. But then the list keeps going, and you start to see something else.

For many DevOps and ITSM workflows, Jira is the nerve center. It’s relied upon by thousands of teams for everything from agile sprint planning to enterprise-scale incident management. However, beneath the robust interface and powerful automation, your Jira data remains fragile – far more than you think. Scenarions around Jira data loss aren’t a theory. At least nowadays, when such things happen it’s quickly and quietly.

A CI/CD pipeline deploying to production. A nightly database backup job. An AI agent performing maintenance tasks. New opportunities for engineering automation emerge every day. However, many of these workflows depend on stored secrets like hardcoded credentials, API keys, and long-lived tokens for privileged access.

The merits of deploying offensive testing to strengthen an organization’s security posture are well-understood by today’s security leadership. Much to the relief of defenders, obtaining approval for an offensive security exercise has never been easier. However, the process of selecting the most appropriate offensive testing solution requires untangling overlapping definitions and vaguely defined terminology that leaves security teams more confused than when they started.

Security and observability teams generate terabytes of log data every day—from firewalls, identity systems, and cloud infrastructure, in addition to application and access logs. To control SIEM costs and meet long-term retention requirements, many organizations archive a significant portion of this data in cost-optimized object storage such as Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, and Azure Blob Storage.

The finance and banking sector across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) faces extraordinary cybersecurity challenges, according to KnowBe4’s Cyber Risk in Finance and Banking Across EMEA report. While digital transformation has revolutionized operations and customer engagement, it has also created vulnerabilities that threaten the stability of the entire financial system.

In recent weeks, the UK government has announced the introduction of its new Cyber Security and Resilience Bill. The bill aims to strengthen cyber defences for organisations that fall within the scope of critical national infrastructure (CNI), including the NHS, energy, water and transport sectors, ultimately making these industries more resilient to increasing cyber threats.

Between 1:48pm ET on October 29 and 6:53pm ET on October 30, 2025, KnowBe4 threat analysts observed a high volume of phishing emails detected by KnowBe4 Defend that were sent from the legitimate domain of one of the world’s largest sportswear brands.

1.8X, that’s how much cloud vulnerabilities have skyrocketed over the past year, fueled not just by attackers but by the routine tweaks teams make every day. Modern vulnerability scanners were built to find everything that looks risky. They just never learned to tell what actually is. Dashboards lit with thousands of “critical” alerts, endless CSVs, and reports that read like alarm bells on repeat. Yet less than 10 percent of those alerts ever lead to a real exploit.

Once again, the npm supply chain has been compromised, putting developers relying on these vital open source components at risk. On November 24th, a sophisticated attack that borrows techniques from the Shai-Hulud malware used in the npm hijacking this past September was discovered. This is not an isolated incident. It’s a continuation of an existing campaign that is now abusing CI/CD pipelines, and GitHub automation to spread faster and steal more secrets than before.