A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. For a daily selection see our twitter feed at #ionCube24. More woe for Reddit. Which side is telling the truth? I’m sure it all be revealed in time.

Trustwave MailMarshal is a highly dependable and adaptable email security solution that has established itself as a leader in the industry, earning recognition over many years. With the inclusion of Trustwave MailMarshal's Blended Threat Module (BTM), it now offers enhanced protection against phishing attacks, utilizing the power of machine learning for security measures.

DDoS or Distributed Denial of Service attacks have been around for a while and are notorious and painful to deal with (as with any other attack). As the name suggests, a DDoS attack causes an application or service to become unavailable to users due to resources exceeding it’s capacity and causing the app to either crash or become unresponsive. DDoS is a form of DoS where the attack comes from multiple sources (bots), usually spread across geographical locations.

Cloudflare has done several deep dives into Zero Trust performance in 2023 alone: one in January, one in March, and one for Speed Week. In each of them, we outline a series of tests we perform and then show that we’re the fastest. While some may think that this is a marketing stunt, it’s not: the tests we devised aren’t necessarily built to make us look the best, our network makes us look the best when we run the tests.

Mac computers are becoming increasingly popular in business and enterprise applications. This growing adoption has had one negative side effect: Adversaries are increasingly targeting Macs, hoping that companies buy into the concept of macOS being immune to cyberattack. While macOS does provide advanced security features, these can be defeated by a determined attacker.