A spike in incidents of financial fraud has reportedly turned America’s bank tellers into quasi-detectives. That’s according to a report Sunday (June 7) from The New York Times (NYT), which noted that this is happening against the backdrop of a five-fold increase in cybercrime losses, per FBI data. Last year, those losses came to $21...Read More
Company background Palo Alto Networks Inc is a global cybersecurity provider that was incorporated in 2005, debuted on the NYSE in July 2012, and is currently headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It serves enterprises, organisations, service providers, and government entities. Palo Alto is the largest cybersecurity company by market cap, at US$222bn. Investment highlights Non-discretionary...Read More
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a renewed warning to government agencies and private-sector organizations after adding a high-risk Linux kernel vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-0492, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog. The move signals that federal authorities have identified credible evidence that threat actors are actively exploiting the flaw in...Read More
Identifying vulnerabilities and exploits with Claude Mythos Preview Over the past few weeks, we have used Claude Mythos Preview to identify thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities (that is, flaws that were previously unknown to the software’s developers), many of them critical, in every major operating system and every major web browser, along with a range of...Read More
Blog This report from Idaho National Laboratory aims to raise awareness of proven areas of high cybersecurity risk, as well as highlight mitigation tactics that can help prevent similar attacks. Integrated Energy Systems Office February 8, 2024 Estimated Read Time min Idaho National Laboratory recently published a report that provides an overview of potential cybersecurity...Read More
A couple of years ago, I went to a PR’s office to demo a battle royale game that looked like RuneScape and played like Magic: the Gathering—Inferni: Hope & Fear. I had an absolute blast, but I didn’t hear anything more about the game. Now, it’s been reborn. Hack ’95 takes the bones of Inferni’s...Read More
The cybersecurity industry faces a historic workforce challenge. The global cybersecurity workforce gap exceeds 4.8 million unfilled positions, with roughly 67% of organizations actively reporting severe staffing shortages. (StationX, May, 2026) With cybersecurity jobs projected to grow 33% this decade, colleges and universities must evolve rapidly to prepare the next generation of defenders. IBM Cyber...Read More
Informed by National Priorities and Directives CESER’s RD&D program aligns with the National Cybersecurity Strategy, as well as DOE’s Multiyear Plan for Energy Sector Cybersecurity, which follows the sector’s vision of resilient energy delivery control systems designed, installed, operated, and maintained to withstand a cyber incident while sustaining critical functions. Transition to Practice CESER moves innovative...Read More
DentaQuest Breach: ShinyHunters Publish Data Impacting 2.6M People Pierluigi Paganini June 07, 2026 ShinyHunters leaked 234 GB of data allegedly stolen from DentaQuest after failed negotiations, potentially impacting 2.6 million people. The ShinyHunters extortion group has published a 234 GB archive of data allegedly stolen from dental benefits administrator DentaQuest. The cybercrime gang added the...Read More
Universal Robots, a Danish company specializing in collaborative industrial robots, or cobots, has patched a critical vulnerability affecting one of its operating systems. Advisories published last week by the cybersecurity agency CISA and Universal Robots revealed that PolyScope 5, an operating system and GUI designed to power and control the company’s cobots, is affected by...Read More
