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LW ROUNDTABLE — How 2024’s cyber threats will transform the security landscape in 2025

The Last Watchdog

Williams Brandon Williams , CTO, Conversant Group Predictions for 2025 point to attack speeds increasing by up to 100X, necessitating faster detection and response times. Salzman Shirley Slazman , CEO, SeeMetrics In 2025, organizations will recognize that adding more tools doesnt equate to better security.

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Patch Tuesday, April 2025 Edition

Krebs on Security

The zero-day flaw already seeing exploitation is CVE-2025-29824 , a local elevation of privilege bug in the Windows Common Log File System (CLFS) driver. “For the past two years, elevation of privilege flaws have led the pack and, so far in 2025, account for over half of all zero-days exploited,” Narang wrote.

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Microsoft: 6 Zero-Days in March 2025 Patch Tuesday

Krebs on Security

Two of the zero-day flaws include CVE-2025-24991 and CVE-2025-24993 , both vulnerabilities in NTFS , the default file system for Windows and Windows Server. CVE-2025-24993 would lead to the possibility of local code execution, while CVE-2025-24991 could cause NTFS to disclose portions of memory. and Server 2012 R2. .

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, February 2025 Edition

Krebs on Security

All supported Windows operating systems will receive an update this month for a buffer overflow vulnerability that carries the catchy name CVE-2025-21418. “At this time, it is unclear if CVE-2025-21418 was also exploited by Lazarus Group.” which fixes a zero day vulnerability (CVE-2025-24200) that is showing up in attacks.

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News alert: RSAC 2025 ramps up – watch Byron Acohido on Bospar’s Politely Pushy podcast

The Last Watchdog

Acohido joins DigiCerts Christina Knittel and ConnectSafely.orgs Larry Magid for a spirited roundtable on how to get the most out of RSAC 2025. This conversation kicks off Last Watchdogs pre-show coverage of RSAC 2025. Follow along as the road to RSAC 2025 continues. First episodes go live the week of April 21.

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LW ROUNDTABLE:  Predictive analytics, full-stack visualization to solidify cyber defenses in 2025

The Last Watchdog

Shashanka Dr. Madhu Shashanka , Chief Data Scientist, Concentric AI Generative AI in 2025 will bring transformative opportunities but heightened cybersecurity risks, including data exposure, AI misuse, and novel threats like prompt injection attacks. Real-time defense and a robust security mindset are crucial to staying resilient.

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Appsec Roundup - March 2025

Adam Shostack

Appsec The International Obfuscated C Code Contest has announced The 40th anniversary of the IOCCC, IOCCC28, (are) open for submissions from 2025-03-05 23:19:17.131107 UTC to 2025-06-05 04:03:02.010099 UTC. Shostack + Associates updates Were sponsoring the Threat Modeling Connect #hackathon , going on now.

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