Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Secure Your World with Phishing Resistant Passkeys madhav Thu, 10/10/2024 - 05:12 As we celebrate Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2024 with the theme "Secure Our World," exploring innovative technologies is crucial to help us achieve this goal. One such advancement that's revolutionizing online security and user authentication is passkeys. Passkeys represent a significant leap forward in creating a safer digital landscape, aligning perfectly with the mission to secure our world.

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Forrester Analyst Allie Mellen on Misaligned Expectations and Future Trends Generative AI has shown some value in cybersecurity, but it hasn’t met early hopes for handling complex incident responses or providing precise recommendations. Analyst Allie Mellen discusses where AI fell short, why companies are deprioritizing it, and potential use cases in 2025.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Austin, TX, Oct. 10th, 2024, CyberNewswire — SpyCloud, the leader in Identity Threat Protection, announced that its SaaS Investigations solution has been enhanced with identity analytics that illuminate the scope of digital identities and accelerate successful outcomes of complex investigations from days or hours to minutes. SpyCloud Investigations is a powerful cybercrime and identity threat investigation solution used by analysts and investigators to discover and act on threats by naviga

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WIRED Threat Level

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The North Atlantic Fella Organization, which started as a way to fight Kremlin propaganda, has raised millions of dollars to send vital equipment directly to soldiers fighting Russia.

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Collaboration 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Have a question that requires a lot of text or numerical analysis? Consider running it by ChatGPT or another popular model -- the answer might surprise you.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Passwordless Authentication without Secrets! divya Fri, 10/11/2024 - 08:54 As user expectations for secure and seamless access continue to grow, the 2024 Thales Consumer Digital Trust Index (DTI) research revealed that 65% of users feel frustrated with frequent password resets. This highlights an increasing demand for advanced authentication methods like passkeys and multi-factor authentication (MFA), which provide robust security for most use cases.

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Understanding the Impact of Security on the Business Makes You More Effective With cybersecurity now embedded across all industries and functions, the importance of aligning security measures with business objectives has never been greater. Here’s why being business savvy is crucial in cybersecurity - and how you can cultivate it to become a more effective professional.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The German police have successfully deanonymized at least four Tor users. It appears they watch known Tor relays and known suspects, and use timing analysis to figure out who is using what relay. Tor has written about this. Hacker News thread.

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WIRED Threat Level

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Sophos went so far as to plant surveillance “implants” on its own devices to catch the hackers at work—and in doing so, revealed a glimpse into China's R&D pipeline of intrusion techniques.

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OCTOBER 25, 2024

Using AI, scammers are creating frustrating - and expensive - problems for makers. Here's how to spot AI-generated patterns - and why anyone who relies on downloaded instructions should pay attention.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2024

A high-severity flaw in the WordPress LiteSpeed Cache plugin could allow attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript code under certain conditions. A high-severity security flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-47374 (CVSS score 7.2), in the LiteSpeed Cache plugin for WordPress could allow attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript. The vulnerability is a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) issue impacting versions up to 6.5.0.2.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 15, 2024

American Water, one of the largest water utility providers in the United States, fell victim to a cyberattack that disrupted its billing systems, throwing light on the increasing vulnerability of critical infrastructure to such threats. While water services were not interrupted, the breach temporarily paused the company’s billing operations, causing customer concern.

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Russian SVR Targeting Government, Academia, Defense Organizations Globally A Russian-state hacking group is posing as Microsoft employees and sending malicious configuration files as email attachments to target organizations across the world. The campaign has the hallmarks of a Midnight Blizzard phishing campaign although its use of an RDP configuration file is novel.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Way back in 2018, people noticed that you could find secret military bases using data published by the Strava fitness app. Soldiers and other military personal were using them to track their runs, and you could look at the public data and find places where there should be no people running. Six years later, the problem remains. Le Monde has reported that the same Strava data can be used to track the movements of world leaders.

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WIRED Threat Level

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Bots that “remove clothes” from images have run rampant on the messaging app, allowing people to create nonconsensual deepfake images even as lawmakers and tech companies try to crack down.

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Collaboration 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Fishing is one of my favorite ways to decompress and take in the beauty of the world around me. Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses helped me capture that without diminishing the experience at all - unlike some other gadgets I've tried.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Over 4,000 unpatched Adobe Commerce and Magento stores have been compromised by exploiting critical vulnerability CVE-2024-34102. Sansec researchers reported that multiple threat actors have exploited a critical Adobe Commerce vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-34102 (aka CosmicSting, CVSS score of 9.8), to compromise more than 4,000 e-stores over the past three months.

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Speaker: Anindo Banerjea, CTO at Civio & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

When developing a Gen AI application, one of the most significant challenges is improving accuracy. This can be especially difficult when working with a large data corpus, and as the complexity of the task increases. The number of use cases/corner cases that the system is expected to handle essentially explodes. 💥 Anindo Banerjea is here to showcase his significant experience building AI/ML SaaS applications as he walks us through the current problems his company, Civio, is solving.

eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Technologies that were figments of the imagination a dozen years ago, if they were conceived of at all, quickly become mainstream — think generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) or blockchain. As they do, they create more security vulnerabilities and inherent business, changing the nature of cybersecurity careers. According to research by IBM Corp. and the Ponemon Institute, the average security breach cost reached $4.88 million in 2024 — 10% more than the previous year and the highest averag

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Many Charging Cable Interfaces Have Exposed SSH and HTTP Ports, Researchers Warn Researchers demonstrated that multiple brands of EV charging stations have vulnerabilities due to manufacturers often leaving open and unsecured SSH and HTTP ports. The risks of these vulnerabilities range from an expanded attack surface to a launching pad for assaults on the power grid.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The headline is pretty scary: “ China’s Quantum Computer Scientists Crack Military-Grade Encryption.” No, it’s not true. This debunking saved me the trouble of writing one. It all seems to have come from this news article , which wasn’t bad but was taken widely out of proportion.

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Jamf

OCTOBER 3, 2024

In the ever-evolving realm of cybersecurity, staying ahead of malicious threats is essential. At Jamf, we are committed to proactively identifying and mitigating risks to iOS devices. Learn how in our latest post.

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Speaker: Aindra Misra, Senior Manager, Product Management (Data, ML, and Cloud Infrastructure) at BILL

Join us for an insightful webinar that explores the critical intersection of data privacy and AI governance. In today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape, building robust governance frameworks is essential to fostering innovation while staying compliant with regulations. Our expert speaker, Aindra Misra, will guide you through best practices for ensuring data protection while leveraging AI capabilities.

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Collaboration 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2024

If you're looking for a small form-factor PC that doesn't skimp on performance, the Herk Orion might be just what you need.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The latest FakeCall malware version for Android intercepts outgoing bank calls, redirecting them to attackers to steal sensitive info and bank funds. Zimperium researchers spotted a new version of the FakeCall malware for Android that hijacks outgoing victims’ calls and redirects them to the attacker’s phone number. The malware allows operators to steal bank users’ sensitive information and money from their bank accounts.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The reliance on virtual meetings has skyrocketed after the pandemic, making platforms like Google Meet and Zoom integral to our daily personal and professional communication. However, this surge in usage has also opened the door to a growing array of cybersecurity threats. One of the most concerning tactics currently on the rise is the ClickFix campaign — a sophisticated phishing scheme targeting unsuspecting Google Meet users.

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Scaling Business Often a Challenge in the Country, Experts Told Lawmakers Dependence on foreign capital in the United Kingdom for investments into artificial intelligence will stymie British technological progress, a parliamentary committee heard Tuesday.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Excellent read. One example: Consider the case of basic public key cryptography, in which a person’s public and private key are created together in a single operation. These two keys are entangled, not with quantum physics, but with math. When I create a virtual machine server in the Amazon cloud, I am prompted for an RSA public key that will be used to control access to the machine.

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KnowBe4

OCTOBER 19, 2024

KnowBe4 was asked what changes were made in the hiring process after the North Korean (DPRK) fake IT worker discovery. Here is the summary and we strongly suggest you talk this over with your own HR department and make these same changes or similar process updates. If you are new to this story, here is the original post.

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Collaboration 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Fishing is one of my favorite ways to decompress and take in the beauty of the world around me. Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses helped me capture that without diminishing the experience at all - unlike some other gadgets I've tried.

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