ICO ‘less effective as a regulator’ due to toxic culture
A toxic workplace culture stemming from the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) senior leadership team meant staff felt unable to raise concerns or push back…
Month: July 2026
Australia-India PACTS Strengthens Cyber Cooperation
Australia and India have unveiled the Australia-India PACTS, a new framework designed to deepen bilateral cooperation on cybersecurity, critical technologies, supply chain resilience, digital resilience,…
Microsoft Patch Tuesday July 2026 Fixes 622 Security Flaws
Microsoft Patch Tuesday July 2026 delivered the company’s largest security update to date, addressing 622 Microsoft CVEs, more than tripling the roughly 200 vulnerabilities patched in June. Among the…
Microsoft’s July security patch fest brings on the ‘bug apocalypse’
This month’s regular round of security patches from Microsoft is likely to cause more than one Patch Wednesday (antipodean time) chronicler to sit up due…
Critical Vulnerabilities Patched With Fresh Chrome 150, Firefox 152 Updates
Google and Mozilla have released fresh Chrome 150 and Firefox 152 updates that resolve critical-severity vulnerabilities. Mozilla rolled out Firefox 152.0.6 with patches for two…
SonicWall warns of active exploitation of two SMA 1000 zero-days
SonicWall warns of active exploitation of two SMA 1000 zero-days Pierluigi Paganini July 15, 2026 SonicWall warns of active attacks exploiting two SMA 1000 zero-days, including…
ACS welcomes planned Office of AI, calls for focus on skills and recognition
The Australian Computer Society (ACS) has welcomed the Federal Government’s intention to establish an Office of AI within the Department of the Prime Minister and…
Patch Tuesday roundup: Microsoft fixes a monthly record 569 holes; SAP patches a critical memory corruption bug
Prioritize the critical ABAP kernel issue, plus the AppRouter request smuggling note, and the Commerce Cloud sample-credential issue first, he said, because these are the…
3 Real Cloud Attacks Caused by App Misconfigurations
In the race to build and ship, the phrase “it just works” often describes everything a developer aspires to achieve. But for security teams, it…
Nearly 300 GitHub repos pose as legit software to push malware
A threat actor has published hundreds of fake GitHub repositories impersonating legitimate software and security projects to distribute infostealer malware. The campaign drew traffic from…
New LegacyHive Windows 0-day Vulnerability Released by Nightmare-Eclipse With PoC Details
A proof-of-concept exploit dubbed LegacyHive has been released, enabling a Windows elevation-of-privilege vulnerability in the Windows User Profile Service that allows a standard user to…
Cybercriminals Target Turkish Banks With 8,400 Phishing Domains and 6,600 Scam Ads
Cybercriminals are operating an industrial-scale fraud ecosystem targeting Turkey’s financial sector, using more than 8,400 phishing domains, thousands of social media advertisements, fake loan offers,…