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The Email That Never Arrived: Inside a Real Business Email Compromise

March 30, 2026

The picture above is thirty years old, yet its message still hold true today. Our legal and business systems are built on the assumption that we know who we're dealing...

AML Tranche 2 and Cybersecurity: Same Problem, Different Regulator

March 2, 2026

Australian law firms are spending serious time and money preparing for AML Tranche 2. And they should be. The Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Amendment Act 2024 brings legal...

First 24 Hours Post-Breach: Key to Your Firm’s Next Year

February 23, 2026

Your Firm's First 24 Hours After a Breach Will Define the Next 12 Months In every incident I've worked, from compromised email accounts at mid-tier firms to full-scale ransomware events...

Fractional Security Leadership: The vCISO Model for Law Firms

February 16, 2026

The security questionnaire from your largest client just landed. It's 200 questions. Your IT provider can answer maybe 40 of them. The rest require someone who understands your firm's risk...

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Apple Issues Security Updates After Two WebKit Flaws Found Exploited in the Wild

December 13, 2025

Apple on Friday released security updates for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS, visionOS, and its Safari web browser to address two security flaws that it said have been exploited in...

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Securing GenAI in the Browser: Policy, Isolation, and Data Controls That Actually Work

December 12, 2025

The browser has become the main interface to GenAI for most enterprises: from web-based LLMs and copilots, to GenAI‑powered extensions and agentic browsers like ChatGPT Atlas. Employees are leveraging the...

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MITRE shares 2025’s top 25 most dangerous software weaknesses

December 12, 2025

MITRE has shared this year's top 25 list of the most dangerous software weaknesses behind over 39,000 security vulnerabilities disclosed between June 2024 and June 2025. The list was released...

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UK fines LastPass over 2022 data breach impacting 1.6 million users

December 12, 2025

The UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) fined the LastPass password management firm £1.2 million for failing to implement security measures that allowed an attacker to steal personal information and encrypted...

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MS Teams Guest Access Can Remove Defender Protection When Users Join External Tenants

November 28, 2025

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a cross-tenant blind spot that allows attackers to bypass Microsoft Defender for Office 365 protections via the guest access feature in Teams. "When users...

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OpenAI discloses API customer data breach via Mixpanel vendor hack

November 27, 2025

OpenAI is notifying some ChatGPT API customers that limited identifying information was exposed following a breach at its third-party analytics provider Mixpanel. Mixpanel offers event analytics that OpenAI uses to...

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ShadowPad Malware Actively Exploits WSUS Vulnerability for Full System Access

November 24, 2025

A recently patched security flaw in Microsoft Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) has been exploited by threat actors to distribute malware known as ShadowPad. "The attacker targeted Windows Servers with...

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Google Sues China-Based Hackers Behind $1 Billion Lighthouse Phishing Platform

November 13, 2025

Google has filed a civil lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) against China-based hackers who are behind a massive Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) platform...