Tag: cybersecurity
Cyber (In)Security – Issue #208
The fortnightly newsletter of the Cybersecurity Advisors Network (CyAN) — Issue #208, 17 August 2026. This issue leads with crypto custody governance and our autumn mentorship intake, plus two serious CVEs, the latest from our members, and a spotlight on OSINT. In this issue Are …
Cyber (In)Security – Issue #207
The fortnightly newsletter of the Cybersecurity Advisors Network (CyAN) — Issue #207, 4 August 2026. This issue leads with governance and civil-society resilience, plus the latest from our members and partners. Downloadable full PDF at the bottom of this post. In this issue Are you …
Week 30 – A PDF Extension with a WhatsApp Obsession
20 -26 July 2026 In this week’s CVE of the Week, we’re examining a recently patched vulnerability chain in the Adobe Acrobat PDF Chrome extension, which is used by more than 314 million users worldwide. Tracked as CVE-2026-48294 (CVSS score: 8.2) and dubbed HermeticReader by …
Trust & Safety Festival Sydney 2026 (8 & 9 Oct)
📅 Thu, 8 Oct, 8am – Fri, 9 Oct, 5pm AEDT 📍 Pullman Sydney Hyde Park, Darlinghurst NSW, Australia Trust & Safety Festival Sydney 2026 brings together the people shaping safer, more accountable and more trustworthy digital systems. CyAN is proud to be a key …
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 …