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October 8, 2025
Hitting Home: From Sports Betting to Critical Enterprise — Recent Attacks Show No Target is Safe

A roundup across consumer apps, enterprise ERP, public safety vendors, and AI dev tools — and what CISOs should do next.

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October 8, 2025
Why Data Compliance Maturity is Your Biggest Threat in 2026

The mortgage industry’s biggest risk in 2026 won’t be interest rates or origination volume—it’ll be data compliance maturity.

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October 13, 2025
Why CISOs Must Heed Apple's $2M Bounty, Third-Party Leaks, and the MFA Failure in University Attacks

For the modern CISO, cybersecurity news isn't just about threats; it's about strategic risk assessment and resource allocation. This week's news underscores three critical areas requiring immediate attention: high-value vulnerability mitigation, aggressive third-party risk, and the dire consequences of poor MFA hygiene. .

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October 14, 2025
Beyond the Patch: Why the Cl0p, RMPocalypse, and Windows 10 EOS Crises Demand CISO Strategy Over Tactical Fixes

Today delivered a trifecta of crises proving that security debt, supply chain complexity, and zero-day urgency remain top threats to the enterprise. From massive data leaks targeting critical ERP systems to hardware-level flaws shattering confidential computing, CISOs must immediately shift resources to address systemic weaknesses highlighted by the recent headlines. .

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October 15, 2025
Patch Tuesday Mayhem: Zero-Days, Critical ICS Flaws, and Why Synced Passkeys are a Digital Shenanigan

Today, I unpack the massive October 2025 Patch Tuesday, covering exploited Windows zero-days, critical vulnerabilities in Adobe Connect and major ICS vendors like Red Lion, Siemens, and Rockwell. Plus, a deep dive into why enterprise organizations must ditch synced passkeys for device-bound credentials to prevent sophisticated authentication downgrade attacks. .

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October 16, 2025
Rootkits, State Spies, and the $14 Billion Bitcoin Bust

This week, we dive into Operation ZeroDisco, where threat actors deployed rootkits onto older Cisco routers by exploiting a recent zero-day. We also analyze the consequences of the Discord breach, F5's revelation of a nation-state attack that stole source code, and the massive crypto "pig butchering" scam that led to the seizure of over $14 billion in Bitcoin. .

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October 23, 2025
The CISO Life: Navigating Immediate Patch Urgency and the AI Code Judgment Deficit

Today we dive into critical updates for BIND against high-severity cache poisoning flaws, the zero-day exploitation of Lanscope Endpoint Manager that requires immediate federal attention, and the serious governance concerns raised by "vibe coding" and AI-generated code's lack of judgment. .

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October 27, 2025
The CISO Life: Securing AI Agents: The New Front Line for Cyber Risk

When we talk about the next frontier in cyber risk, it’s no longer just IoT, cloud, or identity. It’s the rise of agentic AI; autonomous software agents that think, act and in many cases, operate with minimal human oversight. And those agents bring a radically expanded attack surface. .

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November 03, 2025
The CISO Life: When Your AI Friend Becomes a Data Pirate: Lessons from the Claude Exfiltration Attack

In late October 2025, security researcher Johann Rehberger published a proof‑of‑concept demonstrating how the network‑enabled code interpreter and Files API in Anthropic’s Claude model could be abused to exfiltrate private data. .

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November 03, 2025
The CISO Life: Securing Agentic AI: Why the Next Cybersecurity Battleground Starts Now

A CISO’s perspective on securing agentic AI: understanding active AI agents, the new threats they introduce, and a six‑principle framework to enable innovation safely.

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