Incident Response
Identity Recovery: Stunning Risk as Only 24% Test
Imagine your keys disappearing when you need them most — that’s the reality for most organizations, since only 24% test identity disaster recovery semiannually. Untested recovery plans turn breaches into long outages that disrupt schools, hospitals and cities, so rehearsing restores systems and public trust.
Fifth of Breaches: Stunning, Costly Two-Week Recoveries
Think a breach is fixed in hours? Absolute Security finds many organizations face a costly, disruptive two-week recovery after endpoint attacks — from discovery and containment to forensic rebuilds, lost productivity and lingering reputational damage.
KrebsOnSecurity.com: Exclusive Best Moments From 16 Years
Think a domain seizure ends the story? On its 16th anniversary, KrebsOnSecurity shows takedowns are just windows of opportunity — exposing the backups, mirror sites and credential mega-collections that let cybercrime regroup, and pushing for the sustained, intelligence-driven work that follows.
Help desk ignored script; techies find Stunning, Best fix
When a vendor told them to delete everything and start again, the in-house team ignored the help‑desk script and dug deeper—finding misconfigurations and corrupted components they could repair to restore service and preserve months of data and know‑how.
Help desk script error spurs Exclusive Effortless Fix
A routine help desk script error prompted a technician to recommend “delete everything and start over”—until a reader unearthed an exclusive, effortless fix that dodged hours of downtime. It’s proof that a little ingenuity beats the dreaded wipe-and-repeat every time.
University Exclusive: Stunning Critical Breach Raises Alarm
The University of Pennsylvania breach — an Oct. 31 email hack quickly followed by a second, distinct attack — is a wake-up call for campus cybersecurity: can institutions really absorb another strike? With student data, research and daily operations at stake, resilience and rapid response are now non-negotiable.
Logitech Breach Prompts Stunning Critical Security Response
The confirmed Logitech breach is a wake‑up call for anyone with vendor integrations. Security leaders recommend treating third‑party access as an attack vector — audit entitlements, tighten tokens and OAuth scopes, and boost detection to stop downstream damage.
Gainsight Cyber-Attack Exclusive: Critical Salesforce Hit
A Gainsight cyber attack has critically hit Salesforce—here’s what happened and the immediate steps you need to protect your data and your org.
Cyber Readiness: Stunning Gaps Despite Confident Response
Security teams say theyre ready to respond, but an Immersive report finds resilience and decision‑making flatlining — defenders are chasing noisy alerts instead of preventing attacks. That complacency is raising systemic risk to critical services and driving costs up, so urgent strategic change is needed.
On Hacking Back: Exclusive Risks and Best Practices
Thinking of hacking back after a breach is tempting — it promises swift justice, but also risks misattribution, collateral damage, and serious legal peril. This piece cuts through the rhetoric to explain the real dangers and practical best practices for anyone tempted to take the fight into their own hands.
Tata Consultancy Services Exclusive Denies Critical M&S Loss
Tata Consultancy Services says: follow the timeline — its service‑desk contract with Marks & Spencer ended before the cyber intrusion, so the two events shouldn’t be conflated. That timing could dramatically shift the legal, regulatory and reputational fallout.
Trump Stunning Workforce Cuts Worsen US Cyber Edge
A sobering new Cyberspace Solarium Commission report says Trump workforce cuts have hollowed out Americas cyber defenses just as adversaries step up probing. With fewer analysts at CISA and partners, threat detection and incident response are slowing—giving attackers more time to exploit gaps.
Jaguar Land Rover Stunning Cyber Meltdown Costly £2B Hit
The JLR cyber meltdown could cost about £1.9bn and ripple across more than 5,000 suppliers, dealers and service partners. As factories idle and warranties pile up, it’s a wake-up call that when digital systems fail, trust is the hardest thing to price.
Jaguar Land Rover Exclusive: Costly Cyber Meltdown Hits UK
Jaguar Land Rover is facing what’s being billed as the costliest cyberattack in UK history — a breach that halted production, locked dealers out of warranty and ERP systems, and rippled across 5,000+ suppliers with losses nearing £1.9bn.
Security Leaders Exclusive: Critical AA Subsidiary Hack
Envoy Air — a key American Airlines regional partner — confirmed a cyberattack that disrupted operations and forced a choice between quiet containment or full transparency with customers and regulators. That decision will shape trust, scrutiny, and the answers everyone wants: how did attackers get in, what was affected, and who’s at risk?
Unified View: Must-Have Best Defense in Crisis Response
Alerts aren’t the problem — it’s the chaos that follows. A single common operating picture, backed by clear authorities and rehearsed handoffs, turns noisy telemetry into fast, confident decisions before attackers can exploit the seams.
Unified View: Must-Have for Best Crisis Response
When crises cascade, alerts alone create noise — a Unified View gives teams one real-time picture so actions align, forensics stay intact, and damage is contained. Consolidated dashboards, clear escalation rights and joint drills turn fragmented responses into fast, coordinated action.
JLR Hack UK Exclusive: Devastating £1.9bn Hit
A late‑September cyber-attack on Jaguar Land Rover froze production, threatened jobs and forced ministers to underwrite up to £1.5bn — turning a corporate breach into an estimated £1.9bn crisis that asks: who ultimately pays?
Serious F5 Breach: Exclusive Devastating Impact Revealed
Our exclusive look at the F5 breach reveals the widespread fallout and practical steps you can take now to shore up your defenses.
Unified IT, Continuity & Security Make or Break Crisis Response
When an alarm sounds, fragmented teams and competing playbooks can turn a single incident into a drawn-out crisis — and with fast-moving adversaries and complex cloud and supply chains, partial visibility just won’t cut it. The solution isn’t only better tools; it’s aligning people, processes and decision authority with shared metrics and rehearsed runbooks so responses are fast, coordinated and accountable.
incident response Must-Have: Effortless Unified Guide
When alerts start piling up, the difference between chaos and control is a unified incident response that brings IT, security and continuity together. Treat incident response as an organization-wide capability—clear roles, shared visibility and practiced coordination turn noisy alerts into fast, confident action.
integrated incident response: Must-Have Best Practices
When alarms won’t stop, what counts is not the noise but how quickly your teams move from scattered alerts to coordinated action. Unifying IT, security and continuity — with shared telemetry, playbooks and rehearsed handoffs — speeds recovery, protects people and keeps trust intact.
58-hour delay: Stunning £14m fine exposes risky lapse
The ICO fined Capita £14m after a 58‑hour delay in reporting a 2023 breach that exposed 6.6 million records — a stark reminder that slow incident response can magnify harm and erode public trust.
cyber incidents Surge: Must-Have Defenses for Risky Times
Britain’s cyber agencies warn that although overall attack numbers stayed flat, high-severity incidents jumped about 50% in a year—fewer breaches are now causing far bigger damage. It’s a wake-up call for government, businesses and IT teams to harden defenses, rehearse responses and invest in resilience before the next catastrophic hit.