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On the Future of Cybersecurity in Hybrid Cloud Environments

Data Breach Today

An Interview with Gigamon's Chief Security Officer, Chaim Mazal Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) face unprecedented challenges in their efforts to protect their organizations against a rising tide of increasingly sophisticated cyberthreats.

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PHP addressed critical RCE flaw potentially impacting millions of servers

Security Affairs

A new PHP for Windows remote code execution (RCE) flaw affects version 5.x and earlier versions, potentially impacting millions of servers worldwide. Researchers at cybersecurity firm DEVCORE discovered a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability , tracked as CVE-2024-4577, in the PHP programming language. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit the flaw to take full control of affected servers.

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Patch Tuesday, June 2024 “Recall” Edition

Krebs on Security

Microsoft today released updates to fix more than 50 security vulnerabilities in Windows and related software, a relatively light Patch Tuesday this month for Windows users. The software giant also responded to a torrent of negative feedback on a new feature of Redmond’s flagship operating system that constantly takes screenshots of whatever users are doing on their computers, saying the feature would no longer be enabled by default.

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RSAC Fireside Chat: Jscrambler levels-up JavaScript security, slows GenAI-fueled privacy loss

The Last Watchdog

Could we be on the verge of Privacy Destruction 2.0, thanks to GenAI? Related: Next-level browser security That’s a question that spilled out of a thought-provoking conversation I had with Pedro Fortuna , co-founder and CTO of Jscrambler , at RSAC 2024. Jscrambler provides granular visibility and monitoring of JavaScript coding thus enabling companies to set and enforce security rules and privacy policies.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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Breach Roundup: US Federal Cyber Incidents Go Up

Data Breach Today

Also: Ukraine Arrests Alleged Ransomware Developer; Patches Galore; and Burnout This week, feds counted cyber incidents; Ukraine made arrest; BlackBasta seemed to exploit flaw; 51 flaws in Patch Tuesday; SolarWinds, JetBrains patched flaws; Alan Turning Institute debunked paper on AI; Santander wants password changes; Christie's spoke of data breach and cyber pros face burnout.

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Medical-Targeted Ransomware Is Breaking Records After Change Healthcare’s $22M Payout

WIRED Threat Level

Cybersecurity firm Recorded Future counted 44 health-care-related incidents in the month after Change Healthcare’s payment came to light—the most it’s ever seen in a single month.

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The best security keys of 2024: Expert tested

Collaboration 2.0

We tested the best security keys that combine safety and convenience to keep your online accounts safe from hackers and phishing attacks.

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Microsoft Now Promises Extra Security for AI-Driven Recall

Data Breach Today

Concerns Remain Over Screenshot-Capture Feature and Microsoft's Security Practices How in the world has Microsoft's leadership managed to get the debut of its forthcoming Recall feature for Windows so wrong on the security and privacy fronts? In the face of serious concerns, Redmond has belatedly promised multiple enhancements, but serious questions remain unanswered.

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Japanese video-sharing platform Niconico was victim of a cyber attack

Security Affairs

The Japanese video-sharing platform, Niconico, was forced to suspend its services following a cybersecurity incident. The Japanese video-sharing platform, Niconico, temporarily suspended its services following a large-scale cyberattack on June 8, 2024. “Due to the effects of a large-scale cyber attack, Niconico has been unavailable since early morning on June 8th” reads the incident notice published by the company. “We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience. ” In respo

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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Ransomware Is ‘More Brutal’ Than Ever in 2024

WIRED Threat Level

As the fight against ransomware slogs on, security experts warn of a potential escalation to “real-world violence.” But recent police crackdowns are successfully disrupting the cybercriminal ecosystem.

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The best AirTag wallets of 2024: Expert tested

Collaboration 2.0

Lose your wallet often? ZDNET went hands-on with the best Apple AirTag wallets and accessories to help you keep track of your cards and cash.

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London Hospitals Seek Biologics Backup After Ransomware Hit

Data Breach Today

Urgent Appeal Issued for O Type Blood; Attack Disrupts Patient Blood Type Matching The ransomware attack on a U.K. pathology services vendor has disrupted multiple London hospitals' ability to match patients' blood with available stocks. Lacking an IT system-level plan B, officials are resorting to a biologics backup by urging O type blood donors to come forward.

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New York Times source code compromised via exposed GitHub token

Security Affairs

The source code and data of The New York Times leaked on the 4chan was stolen from the company’s GitHub repositories in January 2024. This week, VX-Underground first noticed that the internal data of The New York Times was leaked on 4chan by an anonymous user. The mysterious user leaked 270GB of data and claimed that the American newspaper has over 5,000 source code repositories, with less than 30 being encrypted.

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Zero Trust Mandate: The Realities, Requirements and Roadmap

The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.

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Apple Is Coming for Your Password Manager

WIRED Threat Level

Plus: A media executive is charged in an alleged money-laundering scheme, a ransomware attack disrupts care at London hospitals, and Google’s former CEO has a secretive drone project up his sleeve.

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Can someone tell if I block their number?

Collaboration 2.0

If you have to block someone else's number, you may have wondered what happens next. We'll walk you through the ways that someone may be able to tell if their number has been blocked.

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Hackers Claim They Breached Telecom Firm in Singapore

Data Breach Today

Threat Actor GhostR Says It Stole 34 GB of Data A financially motivated hacker claims to have stolen over 34 gigabytes of data belonging to Singapore-based Telecom company Absolute Telecom. The hacker dubbed GhostR claims to have access to the company's data including corporate accounting, credit cards and customer information.

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CISA adds Arm Mali GPU Kernel Driver, PHP bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

Security Affairs

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Mali GPU Kernel Driver, PHP bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the following vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. CVE-2024-4610 ARM Mali GPU Kernel Driver Use-After-Free Vulnerability CVE-2024-4577 PHP-CGI OS Command Injection Vulnerability The vulnerability CVE-2024-4610 is a use-after-free issue issue that

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Prevent Data Breaches With Zero-Trust Enterprise Password Management

Keeper Security is transforming cybersecurity for people and organizations around the world. Keeper’s affordable and easy-to-use solutions are built on a foundation of zero-trust and zero-knowledge security to protect every user on every device. Our next-generation privileged access management solution deploys in minutes and seamlessly integrates with any tech stack to prevent breaches, reduce help desk costs and ensure compliance.

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RSAC Fireside Chat: What it will take to achieve Digital Trust in our hyper-connected future

The Last Watchdog

Confidence in the privacy and security of hyper-connected digital services is an obvious must have. Related: NIST’s quantum-resistant crypto Yet, Digital Trust today is not anywhere near the level it needs to be. At RSAC 2024 I had a wide-ranging conversation with DigiCert CEO Amit Sinha all about why Digital Trust has proven to be so elusive.

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LLMs Acting Deceptively

Schneier on Security

New research: “ Deception abilities emerged in large language models “: Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are currently at the forefront of intertwining AI systems with human communication and everyday life. Thus, aligning them with human values is of great importance. However, given the steady increase in reasoning abilities, future LLMs are under suspicion of becoming able to deceive human operators and utilizing this ability to bypass monitoring efforts.

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Learning From Others' Gaps in the Wake of Major Attacks

Data Breach Today

It's critical for CISOs to study what went wrong in major ransomware IT disruptions and breaches hitting the healthcare sector and to look closely within their own organizations for similar gaps or vulnerabilities, said Michael Prakhye, CISO of Adventist HealthCare.

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Arm zero-day in Mali GPU Drivers actively exploited in the wild

Security Affairs

Semiconductor and software design company Arm warns of an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability in Mali GPU Kernel Driver. Arm is warning of an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-4610, in Mali GPU Kernel Driver. The vulnerability is a use-after-free issue issue that impacts Bifrost GPU Kernel Driver (all versions from r34p0 to r40p0) and Valhall GPU Kernel Driver (all versions from r34p0 to r40p0). “A local non-privileged user can make improper GPU memory pr

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The GTM Intelligence Era: ZoomInfo 2025 Customer Impact Report

ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!

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News Alert: Criminal IP unveils innovative fraud detection data products on Snowflake Marketplace

The Last Watchdog

Torrance, Calif., June 10, 2024, CyberNewsWire — AI SPERA, a leader in Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) solutions, announced that it has started selling its paid threat detection data from its CTI search engine ‘ Criminal IP ‘ on the Snowflake Marketplace. Criminal IP is committed to offering advanced cybersecurity solutions through Snowflake, the leading cloud-based data warehousing platform.

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AI and the Indian Election

Schneier on Security

As India concluded the world’s largest election on June 5, 2024, with over 640 million votes counted, observers could assess how the various parties and factions used artificial intelligence technologies—and what lessons that holds for the rest of the world. The campaigns made extensive use of AI, including deepfake impersonations of candidates, celebrities and dead politicians.

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China Using Hacking Competitions to Develop Domestic Talent

Data Breach Today

Government Nurtures Homegrown Talent and Hack-for-Hire Ecosystem, Research Finds China boasts many of the world's most talented zero-day vulnerability researchers as well as a strict cybersecurity law compelling individuals to assist the state, and the government doesn't appear to shy away from using both those facts to its advantage, a new research study finds.

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Expert released PoC exploit code for Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager flaw CVE-2024-29849. Patch it now!

Security Affairs

A proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code for a Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager authentication bypass flaw CVE-2024-29849 is publicly available. Researcher Sina Kheirkha analyzed the Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager authentication bypass flaw CVE-2024-29849 and a proof of concept exploit for this issue. The flaw CVE-2024-29849 is a critical vulnerability (CVSS score: 9.8) in Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager that could allow attackers to bypass authentication.

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Optimizing The Modern Developer Experience with Coder

Many software teams have migrated their testing and production workloads to the cloud, yet development environments often remain tied to outdated local setups, limiting efficiency and growth. This is where Coder comes in. In our 101 Coder webinar, you’ll explore how cloud-based development environments can unlock new levels of productivity. Discover how to transition from local setups to a secure, cloud-powered ecosystem with ease.

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RSAC Fireside Chat: VISO TRUST replaces questionaires with AI analysis to advance ‘TPRM’

The Last Watchdog

Taking stock of exposures arising from the data-handling practices of third-party suppliers was never simple. Related: Europe requires corporate sustainability In a hyper-connected, widely-distributed operating environment the challenge has become daunting. At RSAC 2024 , I visited with Paul Valente , co-founder and CEO of VISO TRUST. We had a wide-ranging discussion about the limitations of traditional third-party risk management ( TPRM ), which uses extensive questionnaires—and the honor syste

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Phishing Campaign Targets Job Seekers With WARMCOOKIE Backdoor

KnowBe4

A phishing campaign is impersonating recruiting firms to target job seekers with a new strain of malware, according to researchers at Elastic Security.

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Critical PHP Vulnerability Threatens Windows Servers

Data Breach Today

Remote Code Execution Exploit Found; Patch Now Available A critical remote code execution vulnerability in PHP for Windows, affecting all releases since version 5.x, requires immediate action from server administrators. The flaw enables attackers to execute arbitrary code on remote PHP servers through an argument injection attack.

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