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Netizen: Monday Security Brief (12/22/2025)

Posted on 22 Dec 2025

Today’s Topics: Cisco AsyncOS Zero-Day Actively Exploited in Targeted Email Gateway Intrusions Cisco has issued an urgent warning regarding an actively exploited, maximum-severity zero-day vulnerability affecting Cisco AsyncOS software used by Cisco Secure Email Gateway (SEG) and Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager appliances. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-20393 with a CVSS score of 10.0, […] ...

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Security-as-a-Service and the Problem of Fragmented Tooling

Posted on 18 Dec 2025

Security teams often begin with a simple set of tools that match the size of their environment. Over time, though, new cloud platforms, business applications, and compliance obligations introduce more alerts, more data, and more risks. Each new challenge tends to bring another vendor product into the stack. Before long, the security program is made […] ...

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Why CBP Is Treating Quantum Threats as a Present-Day National Security Risk

Posted on 17 Dec 2025

U.S. Customs and Border Protection is moving into a decisive phase of its quantum preparedness program as it approaches 2026. Senior leadership has framed this effort as a necessary response to long-term cryptographic risk rather than a speculative research exercise. The focus centers on protecting sensitive government data against future cryptanalytic breakthroughs tied to large-scale […] ...

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What Is a Rootkit?

Posted on 16 Dec 2025

A rootkit is a class of post-exploitation malware built to preserve long-term, privileged access to a compromised system while actively concealing its presence. Unlike most malware families that prioritize immediate payload execution or data theft, a rootkit exists to subvert visibility itself. It alters how an operating system reports processes, files, memory, network activity, and […] ...

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Netizen: Monday Security Brief (12/15/2025)

Posted on 15 Dec 2025

Today’s Topics: Featured Browser Extensions Caught Harvesting AI Chat Data at Scale A Chrome browser extension promoted as a trusted, “Featured” tool has been caught quietly collecting AI chat conversations at massive scale, raising serious questions about extension marketplace oversight and user consent in AI-heavy workflows. Urban VPN Proxy, a Chrome extension with roughly six […] ...

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