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Cyber (In)Security — Issue #206

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Australia’s Horizon Cyber Security Initiative: What it Means for Industry – by David Gaul

Australia’s Horizon Cyber Security Initiative: What it Means for Industry – by David Gaul

Few people ask about the implications of Australia’s cyber security reform on businesses – this paper addresses important aspects of the initiative.

Cyber Risk Is in the Boardroom. Are Boards Ready to Govern It? – By Sanchay Joshi

Cyber Risk Is in the Boardroom. Are Boards Ready to Govern It? – By Sanchay Joshi

Sanchay Joshi explores improved approaches for boards to ensure oversight of cybersecurity and resilience, and how this makes organisations stronger

Week 29 – Next Stop: SYSTEM

13 -19 July 2026 This week our CVE of the Week is CVE-2026-56164, a zero-day Elevation of Privilege vulnerability affecting Microsoft SharePoint Server that Microsoft confirmed is being actively exploited in the wild. SharePoint is a critical business platform used for document management, collaboration, and 

Week 28 – A perfect 10 in UniFi Connect

06 -12 July 2026 In this week’s CVE of the Week, we’re looking at CVE-2026-50746, a critical vulnerability affecting the Ubiquiti UniFi Connect Application, with a CVSS score of 10.0. The vulnerability is caused by Improper Access Control (CWE-284) and allows an attacker with network 

Week 27 – Impact Zone: RoguePlanet Crashes into Microsoft Defender

29 June – 05 July 2026 One of the most discussed security issues in weeks is CVE-2026-50656, also known as RoguePlanet, an Elevation of Privilege (EoP) vulnerability affecting the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine used by Microsoft Defender. It was eventually assigned a CVE ID, so 

Cyber (In)Securities – Issue 205

Cyber (In)Securities – Issue 205

You can download this edition by clicking the three dots icon on the far right and selecting Download PDF File. For the best reading experience, we recommend enlarging it by clicking the fullscreen icon, which is the third icon from the right. All article titles 

Please welcome our newest member from Bahrain, Kamran Israr Mirza (Kim)

Please welcome our newest member from Bahrain, Kamran Israr Mirza (Kim)

Kim is a senior cybersecurity and technology risk executive with 28+ years of experience leading security strategy, enterprise architecture, governance, and incident response across financial services, government, multinational enterprises, and telecom sectors. For the past 20 years, he has operated under the Central Bank of Bahrain’s regulatory frameworks, driving 

Week 26 – Today’s offer: SSRF with root access

22 – 28 June 2026 In this week’s CVE of The Week, we’ll be looking at a newly exploited, high-severity server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability, in Cisco Unified Communications Manager Server. Tracked as CVE-2026-20230 (CVSS score: 8.6), is a case of improper input validation for