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As technology evolves, so do the security foundations that underpin the systems we rely on every day. One such foundational change is coming soon from Cisco Duo, the widely‑used multi‑factor authentication (MFA) platform that many organisations deploy to secure access to critical systems. Although this change isn’t a vulnerability in the traditional sense, it could impact the availability of Duo authentication services for outdated software and integrations.

The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) introduces a unified framework for managing ICT risk across the European financial sector, with key requirements, including penetration testing, coming into force in 2026. Its aim is to ensure that regulated organisations, and the critical third-party providers they rely on, can withstand, respond to and recover from operational disruptions. Within this context, operational resilience and robust ICT risk management become central to regulatory expectations.

In January 2026, a critical security vulnerability was disclosed in jsPDF, a popular JavaScript library used to generate PDF documents. The issue, tracked as CVE-2025-68428, affects server-side Node.js deployments of jsPDF prior to version 4.0.0 and has been assigned a CVSS score of 9.2. The vulnerability is a path traversal issue that can be abused to read arbitrary files from the local filesystem.

Cybersecurity risk is no longer an abstract concern relegated to IT teams, it is a material business risk that boards and senior leaders must actively manage.UK government research indicates that around 43% of businesses experienced a cyber security breach or attack in the past year, underlining how common these incidents have become across sector, from small business to large enterprises.

On December 12, 2025, the MongoDB Security Engineering team disclosed a high-severity vulnerability in MongoDB that allows unauthenticated memory disclosure. The issue is tracked as CVE-2025-14847 and has a CVSS score of 8.7 and was quickly nicknamed MongoBleed in the security community due to the way it exposes server memory.

Zero-day vulnerabilities often attract attention and concern because of their unpredictability. They are, by definition, weaknesses that are unknown to software vendors and therefore have no official fix at the point of discovery. When discovered and exploited by malicious actors, they allow attackers to bypass controls before organisations even realise there is a problem.

Cyber risk is often discussed in technical language, often in a way which is difficult to decipher the real business impact. CVSS scores, vulnerabilities, attack paths and threat actors all have their place but for many decision‑makers, this language doesn’t translate into real-world business outcomes. Small business leaders and non-technical executives need to understand what cyber risk means for revenue, reputation and operational continuity.

In December 2025, a critical remote code execution vulnerability was disclosed in DeepChat, an open-source desktop AI agent platform built using Electron. The issue, tracked as CVE-2025-67744, affects all DeepChat versions prior to 0.5.3 and carries a CVSS score of 9.6. The vulnerability arises from the interaction between two separate weaknesses. The first allows attacker-controlled JavaScript execution through unsafe rendering of Mermaid diagrams.

During our research into Microsoft 365 security, we discovered a flaw in Outlook on the web (OWA) that exposed information about users and their mailboxes. By manipulating certain request headers against the “/owa/service.svc” endpoint, an attacker could not only confirm whether a user account existed, but also determine if that account had a mailbox associated with it.

Incident response (IR) plans are a cornerstone of organisational resilience. Many businesses maintain policies, run tabletop exercises, and document procedures, but high-impact incidents still expose gaps in real-world response. Red team exercises provide a practical, objective-driven way to test incident response readiness.