A big finish to 2025 in December’s Patch Tuesday
A month with no Critical-severity Windows bugs is overshadowed by a mass of Mariner mop-up Categories: X-ops Tags: threat research, featured, Microsoft, Patch Tuesday, zero days
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EMERGENCY BREAKING NEWS PODCAST: Tim, Cooked
Today after recording our normal weekly podcast, Sam, Emanuel, and Jason spontaneously began discussing the legacy of Tim Cook as Apple CEO, the #BreakingTechNewsofTheWeek. We got really riled up so decided to press record to discuss Tim Cook’s accountant energy, his legacy of creating different sizes and shapes of rectangle and square phone-like devices, and…
Stopping real-world attacks: Lessons for business leaders from the 2026 cyber frontline
Practical steps to reduce business cyber risk based on analysis of 661 incidents remediated by Sophos X-Ops as detailed in the Sophos Active Adversary Report 2026 Categories: Products & Services Tags: MDR., Identity Security, ITDR, Secure by Design, XDR
DeepSeek AI claims services are facing ‘large-scale malicious attacks’
As its low-cost AI model receives accolades, the Chinese company says ongoing attacks on its services are making it harder for new users to sign up.
Trump administration fires members of cybersecurity review board in “horribly shortsighted” decision
The Department of Homeland security told members of the Cyber Safety Review Board that their membership was terminated.
How Does DeepSeek’s A.I. Chatbot Compare to ChatGPT and Other Competitors?
The chatbot from China appears to perform a number of tasks as well as its American competitors do, but it censors topics such as Tiananmen Square.
ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’
The developer of ICEBlock, an app that let people crowdsource sightings of ICE officials, has said he is determined to fight back after Apple removed the app from its App Store on Thursday. The removal came after pressure from Department of Justice officials acting at the direction of Attorney General Pam Bondi, according to Fox…
Watch an AI-Generated Recruiter Make a Job Interview Even Worse
Job hunting can be a dehumanizing, demoralizing experience even if you’re interacting with an empathetic recruiter on the other end. For the 1.7 million people slogging through long-term unemployment in the U.S., the process is grueling at best. Add to this the advent of AI-generated recruiter avatars that glitch out on you before you even…
5 ways boards can improve their cybersecurity governance
No more delegating—when it comes to oversight of cyber risk, boards are tackling it head (and hands) on. Here’s how.
The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers
For someone who says she is fighting AI bot scrapers just in her free time, Xe Iaso seems to be putting up an impressive fight. Since she launched it in January, Anubis, a “program is designed to help protect the small internet from the endless storm of requests that flood in from AI companies,” has…