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Generated: 2025-10-29 08:00 PDT
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SANS ISC Diary (full) • 2025-10-29 07:55 • isc.sans.edu
How to collect memory-only filesystems on Linux systems
https://isc.sans.edu/diary.html?rss - Microsoft fixes 0x800F081F errors causing Windows update failures
BleepingComputer • 2025-10-29 07:32 • www.bleepingcomputer.com
Microsoft has resolved a known issue that caused Windows updates to fail, leading to 0x800F081F errors on Windows 11 24H2 systems. […]
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-fixes-0x800f081f-errors-causing-windows-update-failures/ - Visibility Gaps: Streamlining Patching and Vulnerability Remediation
BleepingComputer • 2025-10-29 07:02 • www.bleepingcomputer.com
Hidden visibility gaps can turn unpatched systems into open doors. Action1 gives IT teams unified visibility and automated control to detect, prioritize, and remediate vulnerabilities before attackers exploit them. […]
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/visibility-gaps-streamlining-patching-and-vulnerability-remediation/ - Discover Practical AI Tactics for GRC — Join the Free Expert Webinar
The Hacker News • 2025-10-29 04:58 • thehackernews.com
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC). It’s no longer a future concept—it’s here, and it’s already reshaping how teams operate.
AI’s capabilities are profound: it’s speeding up audits, flagging critical risks faster, and drastically cutting down on time-consuming manual work. This leads to greater efficiency, higher accuracy, and a more
https://thehackernews.com/2025/10/discover-practical-ai-tactics-for-grc.html - Preparing for the Digital Battlefield of 2026: Ghost Identities, Poisoned Accounts, & AI Agent Havoc
The Hacker News • 2025-10-29 04:55 • thehackernews.com
BeyondTrust’s annual cybersecurity predictions point to a year where old defenses will fail quietly, and new attack vectors will surge.
Introduction
The next major breach won’t be a phished password. It will be the result of a massive, unmanaged identity debt. This debt takes many forms: it’s the “ghost” identity from a 2015 breach lurking in your IAM, the privilege sprawl from thousands of new
https://thehackernews.com/2025/10/preparing-for-digital-battlefield-of.html - Russian Hackers Target Ukrainian Organizations Using Stealthy Living-Off-the-Land Tactics
The Hacker News • 2025-10-29 04:51 • thehackernews.com
Organizations in Ukraine have been targeted by threat actors of Russian origin with an aim to siphon sensitive data and maintain persistent access to compromised networks.
The activity, according to a new report from the Symantec and Carbon Black Threat Hunter Team, targeted a large business services organization for two months and a local government entity in the country for a week.
The attacks
https://thehackernews.com/2025/10/russian-hackers-target-ukrainian.html - Signal’s Post-Quantum Cryptographic Implementation
Schneier on Security • 2025-10-29 04:09 • www.schneier.comSignal has just rolled out its quantum-safe cryptographic implementation.
Ars Technica has a really good article with details:
Ultimately, the architects settled on a creative solution. Rather than bolt KEM onto the existing double ratchet, they allowed it to remain more or less the same as it had been. Then they used the new quantum-safe ratchet to implement a parallel secure messaging…
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/10/signals-post-quantum-cryptographic-implementation.html
Sources: BleepingComputer, The Hacker News, KrebsOnSecurity, SANS ISC, CISA.
