lessons from a global payments outage
In digital commerce, payment reliability is a baseline expectation. The rise of instant payments highlights the stakes: global instant payment transaction volume reached 195 billion in 2022, with projections to…
In digital commerce, payment reliability is a baseline expectation. The rise of instant payments highlights the stakes: global instant payment transaction volume reached 195 billion in 2022, with projections to…
Cybersecurity has always involved elements of uncertainty. Every day, security teams are asked to make decisions with incomplete information, while attackers rely on defenders not being able to see the…
This article describes the simplest way to enable MACSec using preconfigured static key-string. The example was tried on Catalyst 3850 and should work on other switches too. There is another…
CVE Title CVE-2026-12480 Arbitrary HDF5 File Read via Virtual Dataset Bypass in keras-team/keras CVE-2026-14461 Out-of-bound read in mtr CVE-2026-33842 Windows File Explorer Information Disclosure Vulnerability CVE-2026-34328 Windows Audio Service Information…
Executive Summary Cato CTRL has discovered a vishing-based delivery technique used against an Italy-based consumer services company associated with PhantomBackdoor, a multi-stage WebSocket-based backdoor previously reported in a Ukraine-focused spear…
As businesses navigate the digital age, hybrid cloud adoption has surged. To harness their full potential, organizations must master the art of hybrid cloud management, enabling effective management of complex…
A lesson we’ve learned in experimentation at Datadog is how easy it is to fall into interpretative pitfalls even when following rigorous conventions. For example, consider an experimentation program that…
CVE-2026-50656: Windows Defender Patch Introduces Disk Exhaustion Vulnerability A recent patch for the Windows Defender zero-day vulnerability, RoguePlanet (CVE-2026-50656), which previously allowed remote administrative control of Windows 10 and 11,…
The Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) is one of the core protocols of standards-based internetworking methods in the Internet and other packet-switched networks. IPv4 is still the most widely deployed…
When the finance close slows down and the CFO’s office is asking why reports aren’t running, the first call usually doesn’t go to the DBA. It goes to the application…