This Windows 11 (24H2) hardening guide delivers 20 Group Policy settings you can deploy today. You’ll protect credentials, block ransomware, enforce SMB signing, harden RDP, and tighten audit logging with version-specific notes and quick tests. Roll out in phases, validate with gpresult, and keep exceptions minimal and time-boxed.
API rate limiting protects capacity and user experience. This guide shows how to ship it correctly on NGINX: define limit_req zones, tune burst/nodelay, add per-IP and per-token limits, return proper 429s with Retry-After, and combine limit_conn for connection abuse. You’ll get production-ready snippets and a safe rollout plan.
Rhadamanthys suffered a coordinated disruption as “customers” lost access to panels and servers. With certificate-only logins and Tor sites offline, credential theft pipelines broke. Use the lull to rotate passwords, revoke tokens, scrub loaders, and harden identity before operators relaunch under a new brand.
Envoy Air confirmed it was targeted in a Clop-linked campaign exploiting vulnerabilities in Oracle E-Business Suite. While the airline asserts no passenger data was affected, business records may have been stolen. This write-up breaks down the tactics, likely exploited CVEs, impacts, and what organizations must do next.
Gemini’s Deep Research now taps Gmail, Drive, and Chat when users allow it. Because the agent can fuse internal messages and files with web context, output quality rises along with privacy risk. This guide shows how to roll out safely: set consent norms, restrict high-risk teams, validate audit coverage, and keep DLP and labels active so Deep Research never reads more than policy permits.
Passkeys let your WordPress users sign in with device biometrics or hardware keys no passwords and far less phishing. This no-coding 2025 guide shows trusted plugins, exact setup steps, enrollment tips, and rollout strategy so you can enable passwordless login quickly without breaking wp-login, WooCommerce, or your admin workflows.
ConnectWise has patched two critical vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-11492 & CVE-2025-11493) in its Automate platform that allowed adversary-in-the-middle attacks on software updates. MSPs and on-prem deployments must upgrade immediately to prevent malicious update injection and integrity bypass.
Sixty-four South Koreans were repatriated from Cambodia and are now under investigation for alleged involvement in large-scale online scam networks. Their return follows a scandal involving a student’s death, prompting Seoul to launch a crackdown on illicit recruitment and fraud operations.
A former general manager at a top-tier cyber-weapons developer faces criminal charges after allegedly stealing eight trade secrets between 2022 and 2025 and selling them to a Russian buyer. The case underscores serious risks to national security, supply-chain oversight, and insider threat policies across the defense-cyber industry.
Capita’s £14 million penalty for its 2023 data breach affecting 6.6 million people shows how detection without swift response leads to disaster. This in-depth breakdown explores the incident, lessons for CISOs, and the rising cost of regulatory failures.