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Rebecca Sutton
Rebecca Sutton
Rebecca is a dedicated cybersecurity writer who specialises in transforming complex technical concepts into clear, accessible content. With a strong background in IT and a passion for digital security, she produces insightful articles, guides, and thought-pieces that bridge the gap between technical experts and wider audiences.
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Penetration testing is a controlled attack on your own systems to find exploitable weaknesses before real attackers do. This guide covers how it differs from a vulnerability scan, the main …
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MIT’s Fractal OS found three previously unknown security behaviours in the Apple M1, including the first confirmed Phantom speculation on Apple Silicon. The findings say less about how dangerous the …
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The Gentlemen ransomware group has claimed 478 victims — including a UK business used to breach a client — by exploiting unpatched VPN appliances and spending weeks inside networks before …
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ShinyHunters exploited CVE-2026-35273 for nearly two weeks before Oracle published any advisory. The flaw is serious — but the disclosure gap is the structural failure that put 100 organisations at …
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Velvet Ant’s decade inside a target network reveals a gap that affects most security programmes: the tools used to report security health are not designed to detect a Linux PAM …
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CVE-2026-50751’s root cause — a gateway that let clients disable their own certificate verification — reflects a wider design failure. Here’s what it means for how organisations should think about …
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TLDR Anthropic released Claude Fable 5 on 9 June 2026. It is the first publicly available Mythos-class model. Queries touching cybersecurity, biology, chemistry or model distillation get rerouted to the …
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TLDR Symantec’s Threat Hunter Team has confirmed Fast16 malware was built to sabotage nuclear weapon simulations. The framework dates back to roughly 2005, around two years before Stuxnet was active. …
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TLDR In February 2026, hackers broke into a sensitive FBI surveillance network. The FBI wiretap breach targeted the Digital Collection System Network, which stores wiretap data, phone metadata, and personal …