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Bug bounties: risks and rewards

October 16, 2025 admin

Bug bounties are big business. The most accomplished hackers can now make a good living hunting down and disclosing security flaws. Some of the largest programmes now offer bounties of $1m or more. A growing […]

DDoS, geopolitics and AI

October 2, 2025 admin

Distributed denial of service attacks, or DDoS, remain a serious source of disruption across the internet. DDoS attacks continue to grow in their frequency and volume. Researchers at NETSCOUT recorded over 8m DDoS attacks in […]

Cyber skills: a crisis of our own making?

September 18, 2025 admin

Is cybersecurity’s skills crisis one of its own making? There are between three and four million vacancies for cybersecurity professionals worldwide, depending on the research you read. Over the years, there has been plenty of […]

Defending education: countering the cyber threat

September 5, 2025 admin

Education is an attractive target for malicious actors in cyberspace. Hackers attack schools, colleges and universities for the information they hold. That includes personal, academic and research data. And they are also vulnerable to extortion […]

Vulnerabilities, CVEs and the attack surface

August 21, 2025 admin

The way we measure security threats is changing. As security has become a board-level priority, cybersecurity teams need to think in terms of risk. But where does that leave vulnerability scores? Are venerable systems such […]

Human risk factors: cybersecurity’s hidden weak spot

August 7, 2025 admin

One of the biggest, if not the biggest, risks in cybersecurity is human behaviour. More than three quarters of security breaches result from human action or errors. But the cybersecurity industry focuses more on technical […]

AI, Testing and Red Teaming, with Peter Garraghan

July 24, 2025 admin

AI clearly offers benefits. But when it comes to security, it also brings its own risks. Artificial intelligence is often described as a “black box”. We can see what we put in, and what comes […]

Non-human identities: the rise of the machines

July 3, 2025 admin

The vast majority of internet users are no longer humans. The stark reality is that most online traffic is now between machines, or software. Non-human identities, or machine identities, now outnumber human actors on the […]

Balancing risk and security: Rich Seiersen

June 19, 2025 admin

Effective cybersecurity is no longer about stopping every attack. That is simply no longer possible. But moving from prevention to accepting that attacks will happen means thinking much more about business risk. That is not […]

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Cyber Security Foundations: security by the book

June 5, 2025 admin

There’s no shortage of information on cybersecurity online. But could a new book hold the answers to our cybersecurity challenges? Perhaps not, or at least not on its own. But a new book from the […]

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