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OSTIF selected CVE-2025-31484 from 7ASecurity’s conda-forge audit as its 2025 Bug of the Year, recognizing Szymon Grzybowski’s high-impact supply-chain finding.

A clear, practical walkthrough of the 7ASecurity audit process: threat-model driven scoping, a dedicated communication channel with interim findings, and free fix verification—so issues are fixed, not just reported.

OWASP Executive Director Andrew van der Stock interviews 7ASecurity CEO Abraham Aranguren on what “quality pentesting” really means: threat-model driven scoping, researcher-led testing, interim findings, and free fix verification.

In case you missed it, I put together a blog post last week on the OWASP AppSec EU Security Conference in Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland with slides, pictures and experience Feedback and/or contributions to make this better are appreciated and welcome Highlighted quotes of the week: "I would recommend to store at least half a …

Category Index Hacking Incidents / Cybercrime Unpatched Vulnerabilities Software Updates Business Case for Security Web Technologies Network Security Cloud Security Crytography Privacy Security FAIL General Outrageous Funny / Hilarious Hacking Incidents / Cybercrime Document claims LulzSec has obtained 2011 UK Census records  [www.v3.co.uk] Infamous hacking group LulzSec is claiming to have obtained the entire 2011 …

Smile! it's Friday! 🙂 In case you missed it I put together a blog post last week regarding my personal experience on the CISSP certification process, etc: CISSP exam, materials, preparation and experience Feedback and/or contributions to make this better are appreciated and welcome Highlighted quotes of the week: "A pen test should be a …

Category Index Hacking Incidents / Cybercrime Unpatched vulnerabilities Software Updates Business Case for Security Web Technologies Network Security Forensics / Reverse Engineering Cryptography Wireless Security Mobile Security Cloud Security Privacy / Censorship Security FAIL Off Topic Funny Hacking Incidents / Cybercrime Incident Analysis: Million Dollars Lost In A Minute  [carnal0wnage.attackresearch.com] Dudes, I and two other …

Thanks to Tadek and Shaun for contributing to this security bulletin NOTE: I am still trying to catch up, some news items are a bit dated but worth mentioning, I tried to put newer items at the top of each section so that if you see something dated you already saw you can skip the …

Category Index Hacking Incidents / Cybercrime Unpatched vulnerabilities Software Updates Business Case for Security Web Technologies Network Security Database Security Mobile Security Cloud Security Privacy / Censorship General Security FAIL Funny Hacking Incidents / Cybercrime Bank of America data leak destroys trust  [www.latimes.com] The far-reaching fraud serves as a cautionary tale for all consumers who …

Feedback and/or contributions to make this better are appreciated and welcome For those interested, there was also a technical article posted over the weekend: SSH Service: How to set it up in Backtrack without getting pwned Remember, sometimes the funny section has some food for thought 🙂 Highlighted quotes of the week: '"You have won …