Month: July 2025

Are You Ready for Cyber Essentials?

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IASME’s Cyber Essentials Readiness Tool and how it helps you prepare for certification Cyber Essentials is a UK government-backed certification scheme that helps organisations protect themselves from around 80% of common cyber threats. It’s widely recognised as a minimum standard for cyber security assurance and is often required in public-sector procurement contracts. The certification process is managed by IASME (the IASME Consortium), which licenses certification bodies – such as IT Governance Ltd – to carry out Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus certifications. What is the Cyber Essentials Readiness Tool? The Cyber Essentials Readiness Tool, developed by IASME on behalf

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Broadcom patches critical VMware flaws exploited at Pwn2Own Berlin 2025

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VMware patched flaws disclosed during the Pwn2Own Berlin 2025 hacking contest, where researchers earned $340,000 for exploiting them. Broadcom four vulnerabilities in VMware products demonstrated at Pwn2Own Berlin 2025. White hat hackers earned over $340,000 for VMware exploits, including $150,000 awarded to STARLabs SG for using an integer overflow flaw to compromise VMware ESXi. Below […]

Cloud Storage Guide For Businesses and Individuals

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Here is the cloud storage guide for businesses and individuals. In today’s data-driven world, organizations and individuals alike are generating and consuming vast amounts of information. Traditional storage methods, such as external hard drives and physical servers, are becoming increasingly inadequate to handle the growing volume and complexity of data. Cloud storage has emerged as … Read more

Poor Passwords Tattle on AI Hiring Bot Maker Paradox.ai

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Security researchers recently revealed that the personal information of millions of people who applied for jobs at McDonald’s was exposed after they guessed the password (“123456”) for the fast food chain’s account at Paradox.ai, a company that makes artificial intelligence based hiring chatbots used by many Fortune 500 companies. Paradox.ai said the security oversight was an isolated incident that did not affect its other customers, but recent security breaches involving its employees in Vietnam tell a more nuanced story.

From Cloudflare Bypass to Credit Card Theft

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Introduction On July 6, 2025, a suspicious Python package called ‘cloudscrapersafe’ was uploaded to the Python Package Index (PyPI). Marketed as a utility to evade Cloudflare’s anti-bot protections, this package was a modified version of a widely used ‘cloudscraper’ library, which is used to automate access to websites protected by Cloudflare’s IUAM (I’m Under Attack […]

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