Brief #117: Cisco CVSS 10.0 RCE Flaw, ChatGPT Prompt Hijacking, Security Budgets Drop

Happy Sunday!

Security budgets hitting a five-year low while threats keep escalating feels like trying to fill a bucket with a bigger hole in the bottom each year.

In this week's brief:

• Cisco patches a maximum severity vulnerability that lets attackers execute remote code on firewall management systems
• New "Man-in-the-Prompt" attacks turn your favorite AI tools into potential data theft machines
• Python skills now showing up in half of all cybersecurity job postings - time to dust off those coding tutorials

Let's dive in.