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The first Aviation ISAC summit, a little over a decade ago, was about forty people in a room in Miami, hosted by the Health ISAC. This year’s conference in Vancouver hosted more than five hundred: airlines, airports, OEMs, suppliers, and government, all in one place for three days. Many in the audience were new to the conference. One of the opening speakers asked first-timers to raise their hands, and a lot of hands went up around the room.

During independent security research conducted as part of the Wordfence Bug Bounty Program, we identified an unauthenticated Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR) vulnerability in Bookly, a WordPress appointment booking plugin used to manage online scheduling, services, staff availability and customer appointments.

Zero Trust continues to present an often-overlooked challenge: keeping access decisions accurate as the real-world conditions behind them change. Over the past decade, AI, cloud transformation, mobile access, and remote work have challenged existing security paradigms at a fundamental level.

Critical infrastructure is where cyber risk becomes real-world risk. The environments powering energy, water, manufacturing, and transportation are among the most complex to defend as they often combine decades-old operational technology (OT) with modern IT. Downtime is not an option, and patching isn’t always possible. Now, AI is raising the stakes. Adversaries are using AI to move faster and operate at greater scale, compressing the time defenders have to respond to attacks.

On 6 October 2026, ASOS customers received an extortion message through the retailer's own app claiming its Snowflake instance had been compromised. CYJAX looks at what happened, why third-party and cloud platform risk sits at the centre of the incident, and how organisations can monitor their extended supply chain before attackers do. By now, most people in the UK will have heard about the cyber incident that hit ASOS on 6 October 2026.

Somewhere in your security and compliance stack, there are records that prove your employees completed their security awareness training. But when these records need to serve as evidence, would they actually hold up to scrutiny? For many companies, the answer is no, and that’s becoming a major risk. Following steadily rising claims over the years, insurers have narrowed their coverage definitions and requiring stricter adherence to security standards.

The Cyber Helpline is pleased to welcome Bell Integration as a new partner, supporting our work to help people affected by cybercrime, digital fraud and online harm. The partnership launched during Cybersecurity Awareness Month, with Bell employees supporting The Cyber Helpline through volunteering and fundraising throughout the year.

This year, the United States of America celebrated their 250th birthday, but Cybersecurity Awareness Month is already looking toward the future with the goal of securing the next 250 years together. It’s an ambitious theme that leads us all to wonder, “what does it actually take to build security that lasts?” The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) 2026 Cybersecurity Awareness Month guidance begins with four familiar practices.

The shift from the FIPS 140-2 standard is significant for organizations making use of HSMs, software-based cryptographic modules, VPN equipment, secure communications, and other items depending on validated crypto. That being said, it does not mean that the existing FIPS 140-2 modules will start malfunctioning or will become insecure. The transition has implications for how businesses will be appraising validated crypto devices, especially when purchasing or employing them in the new systems.