Sebastian Raiffen

We're joined today by our in-house security and infrastructure specialist, Rupert Marais, to dissect a recent, turbulent event in the developer world. GitHub’s abrupt plan to charge for self-hosted runners—and its even more abrupt reversal—sent shockwaves through the community, igniting a crucial

The digital silence for many SoundCloud users recently was not a new avant-garde track but the jarring sound of a security crisis unfolding in real-time. For days, a growing chorus of frustrated users reported being locked out, met with cryptic "403 forbidden" errors, particularly when using VPNs.

A recently uncovered, maximum-severity zero-day vulnerability in Cisco's Secure Email Gateway is not just a theoretical risk; it is an active threat being exploited by state-sponsored actors, putting corporate networks in immediate and significant danger. A Critical Flaw Uncovered: The Threat to

A security update, designed to protect systems, inadvertently becoming the source of a major operational disruption is a scenario that keeps system administrators awake at night, and this is precisely what has occurred following the release of Microsoft's December 2025 security patches. The update

A security operations center attempting to defend a modern enterprise with only historical data is akin to a driver trying to navigate a high-speed collision course by looking exclusively in the rearview mirror. This backward-facing posture, common in many organizations, creates dangerous blind

With us today is Rupert Marais, our in-house security specialist, to break down the alarming discovery of remote control malware on a passenger ferry in France. This incident, which French officials suspect is part of a broader campaign of foreign interference, brings the abstract threat of cyber

A critical vulnerability with a perfect severity score is currently serving as an open invitation for cyber adversaries to dismantle the defenses of Linux systems and cloud infrastructures worldwide, triggering a global wave of sophisticated cyberattacks. This research summary provides a

A malicious advertisement rendering silently in the background of a smartphone application is all it takes for a sophisticated surveillance tool to seize complete control of the device, from its microphone and camera to its most sensitive encrypted messages. This is not a theoretical threat but the

A sophisticated cybercrime campaign recently came to light, revealing how a threat group methodically turned millions of trusted browser extensions into powerful spyware capable of infiltrating corporate SaaS environments. Operating for seven years under the radar, the actors behind the

For decades, the financial services industry has cultivated an image of impenetrable digital security, investing billions to construct virtual fortresses that seemingly stand impervious to the escalating threats of the digital age. Yet, as cybercriminals grow more sophisticated, they are no longer