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The financial services industry operates in one of the most heavily regulated environments in the business world. With sensitive client data flowing through every transaction and communication, financial institutions face an increasingly complex web of compliance requirements that can make or break their operations. Traditional approaches to data governance simply aren't cutting it anymore. from Human Risk Management Blog https://blog.knowbe4.com/the-compliance-catch-22-how-financial-institutions-can-master-data-governance-and-regulatory-risk

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new campaign that exploited a recently disclosed security flaw impacting Cisco IOS Software and IOS XE Software to deploy Linux rootkits on older, unprotected systems. The activity, codenamed Operation Zero Disco by Trend Micro, involves the weaponization of CVE-2025-20352 (CVSS score: 7.7), a stack overflow vulnerability in the Simple from The Hacker News https://thehackernews.com/2025/10/hackers-deploy-linux-rootkits-via-cisco.html

Penetration testing helps organizations ensure IT systems are secure, but it should never be treated in a one-size-fits-all approach. Traditional approaches can be rigid and cost your organization time and money – while producing inferior results.  The benefits of pen testing are clear. By empowering “white hat” hackers to attempt to breach your system using similar tools and techniques to from The Hacker News https://thehackernews.com/2025/10/beware-hidden-costs-of-pen-testing.html

CNN has a great piece about how cryptocurrency ATMs are used to scam people out of their money. The fees are usurious, and they’re a common place for scammers to send victims to buy cryptocurrency for them. The companies behind the ATMs, at best, do not care about the harm they cause; the profits are just too good. from Schneier on Security https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/10/cryptocurrency-atms.html

The online world is changing fast. Every week, new scams, hacks, and tricks show how easy it’s become to turn everyday technology into a weapon. Tools made to help us work, connect, and stay safe are now being used to steal, spy, and deceive. Hackers don’t always break systems anymore — they use them. They hide inside trusted apps, copy real websites, and trick people into giving up control from The Hacker News https://thehackernews.com/2025/10/threatsday-bulletin-15b-crypto-bust.html

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a critical security flaw impacting Adobe Experience Manager to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-54253 (CVSS score: 10.0), a maximum-severity misconfiguration bug that could result in arbitrary code execution. from The Hacker News https://thehackernews.com/2025/10/cisa-flags-adobe-aem-flaw-with-perfect.html

New research has uncovered that publishers of over 100 Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extensions leaked access tokens that could be exploited by bad actors to update the extensions, posing a critical software supply chain risk. "A leaked VSCode Marketplace or Open VSX PAT [personal access token] allows an attacker to directly distribute a malicious extension update across the entire install base," from The Hacker News https://thehackernews.com/2025/10/over-100-vs-code-extensions-exposed.html