THE DAILY PRAETORIAN: Cybersecurity Trends – 10/27/25

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“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”

-Aristotle

Does the US military need a Cyber Force?
The U.S. military’s fragmented cyber structure—where each service runs its own networks, training and terminology while Cyber Command’s 6,000‑person Cyber Mission Force struggles to integrate disparate teams—has spurred calls for a dedicated seventh branch, a “Cyber Force,” that would centralize recruitment, training, equipment and operational doctrine to match the unified approach of Special Operations Command; proponents argue a lean 10,000‑member service could curb talent loss, streamline offensive and defensive capabilities, and offset the strategic costs of cyber defeats, while critics caution about bureaucratic hurdles, potential duplication and the need for a more incremental reform of Cyber Command’s training oversight. Click here to read more.

Apple, Asus, and Lenovo sales soar thanks to Windows 10 sunset
The end‑of‑support for Windows 10 on October 14 2025 has sparked a wave of PC replacements, driving global shipments up more than 8 % in Q3 2025, with Lenovo leading the market (up 17.4 %), Apple gaining 14.9 % thanks to new MacBooks, and Asus posting a 14.1 % rise and the strongest quarter‑over‑quarter growth at 22.5 %; HP and Dell followed suit with modest gains and a slight dip respectively, while the top five vendors now control roughly three‑quarters of the market and are poised for further expansion as AI‑enabled devices powered by next‑gen processors take off after 2026. Click here to read more.

Ex-Hamas Wife Whose Father Helped Create the Terrorist Group Meets Jesus in a Miraculous Dream
Former Hamas member Juman Al Qawasmi, whose father helped found the militant group, recounts a dramatic spiritual conversion after witnessing Hamas’s brutality in Gaza and praying for truth; she describes growing up indoctrinated to hate Jews and Christians, experiencing violence within the organization, and eventually receiving a vivid dream in which Jesus addressed her in Arabic, assuring her as “my daughter, don’t be afraid,” leading her to abandon Islam and embrace Christianity—a testimony featured by CBN. Click here to read more.

Year-Old WordPress Plugin Flaws Exploited to Hack Websites
Critical‑severity flaws in the WordPress Gutenberg‑related plugins GutenKit (pre‑2.1.1, CVE‑2024‑9234) and Hunk Companion (pre‑1.8.4/1.8.5, CVEs 2024‑9707 and 2024‑11972) have been weaponized in a new campaign that began on Oct 8, with Defiant reporting roughly nine million exploit attempts blocked over two weeks; the vulnerabilities let unauthenticated attackers upload malicious ZIP files masquerading as plugins, gain admin access, alter file permissions, exfiltrate data, and deploy backdoors for persistent remote code execution, despite patches being available for over a year, prompting site owners to update immediately and check Defiant’s IOC list. Click here to read more.

Rubio says ‘all mediators agree’ Israel’s Gaza strike on PIJ terrorist was justified self-defense
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio affirmed that Israel’s recent airstrike on a Palestinian Islamic Jihad operative in central Gaza does not violate the cease‑fire agreement, noting that all mediators concur the cease‑fire does not strip Israel of its right to self‑defense and emphasizing the importance of recovering the remains of the 13 hostages still held in Gaza; Rubio made the remarks while traveling with President Donald Trump aboard Air Force One. Click here to read more.