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Report: More Than Half of Adults Encountered a Scam Last Year

Researchers at Bitdefender warn that scams are seeing a steady increase globally. Citing a recent report from the Global Anti-Scam Alliance (GASA), the researchers note that 57% of adults worldwide have reported encountering a scam in the past year, and 13% encounter a scam at least once per day. One in four adults lost money to a scam, and annual global scam losses now exceed $1 trillion.

Password Policy: A History of Getting It Wrong and how to do it right in 2025 | October Cyber Bytes

In this session, Sedara’s David Frier explores the fascinating history of password policies—how the industry went wrong in the early 2000s, and what we’re finally getting right in 2025. From outdated complexity rules to modern authentication standards, this webinar breaks down decades of password practices and reveals how organizations can strengthen security while making life easier for users.

How AI Cuts SIEM Migration Time from Months to Minutes

SIEM migration is tedious, time-consuming, and pulls security professionals away from actual security work. Manually exporting thousands of detection rules, translating query logic, and fixing errors can take weeks or months. In this episode of AI can do what now?!, Haran Kumar (principal security solutions architect at Elastic) walks through how AI actually helps automate SIEM migration.

Understanding the Impact of AI on User Consent and Data Collection

AI convenience rides on a river of data: text, clicks, images, voices, locations, and metadata you didn’t know existed. The core question is not whether AI uses data but how it collects it, what it infers, and whether people truly agree to that. In other words, the impact of AI on user consent and data collection is not academic. It decides whether your product earns trust or burns it.

Autumn 2025 Product Updates: What's New at Astra Security

Security reviews are changing. More buyers want live, verifiable proof of your security posture and not a static PDF that changes by dawn. Astra Trust Center helps teams answer due diligence questions upfront, cutting back-and-forth questionnaires and keeping deals moving. At the same time, attackers aren’t getting more creative, just more effective. The 2025 Verizon DBIR found that 88% of Basic Web Application Attacks involved stolen credentials.

Intel Chat: Kansas City National Security Campus breach, COLDRIVER, KEV catalog & AWS outage [260]

In this episode of The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, we discuss some intel being shared in the LimaCharlie community. Newer article link. Support our show by sharing your favorite episodes with a friend, subscribe, give us a rating or leave a comment on your podcast platform. This podcast is brought to you by LimaCharlie, maker of the SecOps Cloud Platform, infrastructure for SecOps where everything is built API first. Scale with confidence as your business grows.

LDAP Nightmare - Windows LDAP Denial of Service Vulnerability

In this technical webinar, SafeBreach security experts explore recent LDAP vulnerabilities, focusing on CVE-2024-49113 — a critical flaw capable of crashing unpatched Windows Servers. The team breaks down: This session emphasizes the importance of proactive patching, continuous validation, and understanding the underlying mechanics of directory services to strengthen enterprise resilience.