Medusa: Its operations, the main factor driving its recent resurgence, which has led to warnings issued by global authorities, its targets and why it’s so dangerous. The post Medusa Ransomware: Inside the 2025 Resurgence of One of the Internet’s Most Aggressive Threats …
The UK’s phone theft crisis is a wake-up call for digital security
Phone theft is now commonplace in London. The Met Police recently revealed that it seizes 1,000 stolen phones weekly as it cracks down on organized criminal networks driving the £50 million trade. Nationally, cases have doubled to 83,900 annually. The…
The Secret CISO: Insights and Reflections from Cybersecurity Leaders
In this episode of Cybersecurity Today titled ‘The Secret CISO,’ host Jim Love, along with guests Octavia Howell, Daniel Pinsky, and John Pinard, delves into the personal and professional experiences of Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs). They share their…
Unlocking Near-Zero Downtime Patch Management With High Availability Clustering
Using high availability (HA) clustering to test patches and updates more easily and to apply them in production environments with near-zero application downtime. The post Unlocking Near-Zero Downtime Patch Management With High Availability Clustering appeared first on Security Boulevard. This…
The Urgent Need for Tokenizing Personally Identifiable Information
If we want privacy, trust and resilience in our digital infrastructure, tokenization is no longer optional. It’s essential. The post The Urgent Need for Tokenizing Personally Identifiable Information appeared first on Security Boulevard. This article has been indexed from Security…
When ransomware strikes, what’s your move?
Should we negotiate? Should we pay? These are the questions every organization faces when cybercriminals lock their data. By the time attackers have encrypted your systems, the focus shifts from prevention to response. It’s no longer about how it happened,…
Securing digital products under the Cyber Resilience Act
In this Help Net Security interview, Dr. Dag Flachet, co-founder at Codific, explains what the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) means for companies and how it compares to GDPR in terms of regulatory complexity and impact on organizations. He discusses the…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2025-04-18 06h : 1 posts
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Man Helped Individuals in China Get Jobs Involving Sensitive US Government Projects
Minh Phuong Ngoc Vong pleaded guilty to defrauding US companies of roughly $1 million in a fake IT worker scheme. The post Man Helped Individuals in China Get Jobs Involving Sensitive US Government Projects appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article…
CVE-2025-24054 Under Active Attack—Steals NTLM Credentials on File Download
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added a medium-severity security flaw impacting Microsoft Windows to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports of active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2025-24054…
Auslegungssache 132: KI-Verordnung und Datenschutz – ein schwieriges Verhältnis
Inwieweit sind KI-Verordnung und DSGVO in der Praxis vereinbar? In der neuen Folge des c’t-Datenschutz-Podcasts ist dazu Prof. Rolf Schwartmann zu Gast. Dieser Artikel wurde indexiert von heise security News Lesen Sie den originalen Artikel: Auslegungssache 132: KI-Verordnung und Datenschutz…
PoC Exploit Released for Erlang/OTP SSH Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
A critical remote code execution vulnerability in Erlang/OTP’s SSH implementation has security teams scrambling to patch affected systems after researchers confirmed the development of a proof-of-concept exploit. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-32433 and assigned the maximum possible CVSS score of…
17,000+ Fortinet Devices Compromised in Massive Hack via Symbolic Link Exploit
17,000+ Fortinet devices worldwide have been compromised in a sophisticated cyberattack that leverages a symbolic link persistence technique, according to new findings from Shadowserver. The number of affected devices has climbed from an initial report of 14,000 to 17,000, with…
Widely available AI tools signal new era of malicious bot activity
Rise in accessible AI tools significantly lowered the barrier to entry for cyber attackers, enabling them to create and deploy malicious bots at scale, according to Thales. Automated bot traffic surpassed human-generated traffic for the first time in a decade,…
New infosec products of the week: April 18, 2025
Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past week, featuring releases from Cato Networks, Cyware, Entrust, PlexTrac, and Seemplicity. PlexTrac for CTEM helps security teams centralize security data PlexTrac for CTEM enables both enterprises and Managed Security…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2025-04-18 03h : 3 posts
3 posts were published in the last hour 0:32 : The Future of SSL Certificate Management: Adapting to Shortened Renewal Periods 0:32 : Securing Cloud Data: A Relief for CFOs 0:32 : How to Ensure Security in Cloud Compliance
ISC Stormcast For Friday, April 18th, 2025 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9414, (Fri, Apr 18th)
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The Future of SSL Certificate Management: Adapting to Shortened Renewal Periods
The industry is evolving yet again. With the CA/Browser Forum’s recent decision to reduce the maximum SSL/TLS certificate lifecycle to 47 days by 2029, the way organizations manage their certificates is going to change significantly—and sooner than most realize. This…
Securing Cloud Data: A Relief for CFOs
Are Interactions in Your Digital Environment Truly Secure? Cybersecurity has grown beyond the protection of human accounts alone. Increasingly, the focus is on securing machine-based interactions, such as APIs and service accounts, that occur billions of times a day. Non-Human…
How to Ensure Security in Cloud Compliance
Why is Cloud Security of Paramount Importance? It’s a well-acknowledged fact, isn’t it, that our reliance on cloud services has significantly increased in the past few years? According to data from Dell Technologies, almost every organization, regardless of size and…
Google’s Gemini 2.5 Flash introduces ‘thinking budgets’ that cut AI costs by 600% when turned down
Google’s new Gemini 2.5 Flash AI model introduces adjustable “thinking budgets” that let businesses pay only for the reasoning power they need, balancing advanced capabilities with cost efficiency. This article has been indexed from Security News | VentureBeat Read the…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2025-04-18 00h : 4 posts
4 posts were published in the last hour 22:55 : IT Security News Daily Summary 2025-04-17 21:32 : Google Digital Ad Network Ruled Illegal Monopoly By Judge 21:32 : CISA Urges Action on Potential Oracle Cloud Credential Compromise 21:32 :…
ISACA and Chartered IIA pen open letter to UK Government urging swift audit reform to build digital resilience
ISACA and the Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors (Chartered IIA), have sent a letter to Rt Hon Jonathan Reynolds MP, Secretary of State for Business and Trade, stressing the urgent need for audit reform legislation to boost digital resilience. The…
Entrust Announces all-in-one Cryptographic Security Platform
Entrust has announced the Entrust Cryptographic Security Platform, for release in May. The platform is a unified, end-to-end cryptographic security management solution for keys, secrets, and certificates. Cyberattacks on data security and identity systems are exploding in scale and sophistication.…