Cyber Security Headlines Week in Review: AI powered cyberattacks, Chinese time hacked, the 72 hour workweek
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Oct 24, 2025 David Cross, CISO at Atlassian, and Montez Fitzpatrick, CISO at Navvis, dive into the pressing challenges facing cybersecurity today. They discuss the implications of CISA staff reductions on small and medium enterprises, urging for community support. The duo analyze a DNS race condition that caused an AWS outage, highlighting resilience lessons. They also explore the geopolitical ramifications of China's claims about hacking, and tackle the potential burnout from a 72-hour workweek culture in tech. Lastly, they underline the importance of asset inventory following recent F5 breaches.
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Cloud Failures Ripple Widely
- The AWS East-1 DNS race condition showed large cloud provider failures ripple across many services.
- Organizations must evaluate resilience and not assume any single provider is infallible, says Montez Fitzpatrick and David Cross.
Design For Provider Diversification
- Diversify critical dependencies and plan resilience rather than relying on one provider.
- Treat major cloud services as critical components and design alternatives, recommends Montez Fitzpatrick.
Time Services As Geopolitical Targets
- Accusations of state-sponsored hacks against time services reveal cyber operations are part of geopolitical toolkits.
- Such capabilities illustrate risks to critical national systems and mutual espionage, per discussion.