Though there are organizations out there investigating how commercial spyware is misused to target journalists, human rights defenders and dissidents, the growing market related to the development and sale of this type of software and the exploits used to deploy…
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OneTrust launches Data Privacy Maturity Model
OneTrust introduced Data Privacy Maturity Model. The model provides privacy, security, marketing, and data teams with the resources to transform their privacy programs from tactical compliance initiatives that mitigate risk, to strategic customer trust imperatives that unlock the value of…
DynaRisk Cyber Intelligence Data Lake enhances the accuracy of data breach predictions
DynaRisk launched Cyber Intelligence Data Lake. This major feature upgrade propels the company’s capabilities in preventing and predicting hacker activity. DynaRisk’s Cyber Intelligence Data Lake is a leap forward in the cyber risk management landscape, offering next-generation intelligence quickly and…
Entrust in final talks to acquire Onfido
Entrust has entered into exclusive discussions to acquire Onfido. With this contemplated acquisition, Entrust would add a compliant AI/ML-based biometric and document IDV tech stack to its portfolio of identity solutions. Additionally, Entrust would have the opportunity to advance the…
Ivanti Connect Secure flaw massively exploited by attackers (CVE-2024-21893)
CVE-2024-21893, a server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability affecting Ivanti Connect Secure VPN gateways and Policy Secure (a network access control solution), is being exploited by attackers. About CVE-2024-21893 CVE-2024-21893 allows a attackers to bypass authentication requirements and access certain restricted…
On-premises JetBrains TeamCity servers vulnerable to auth bypass (CVE-2024-23917)
JetBrains has patched a critical authentication bypass vulnerability (CVE-2024-23917) affecting TeamCity On-Premises continuous integration and deployment servers. About CVE-2024-23917 CVE-2024-23917 could allow an unauthenticated threat actor with HTTP(S) access to a TeamCity server to bypass authentication controls and gain administrative…
Prowler: Open-source security tool for AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Azure
Prowler is an open-source security tool designed to assess, audit, and enhance the security of AWS, GCP, and Azure. It’s also equipped for incident response, continuous monitoring, hardening, and forensics preparation. Details The tool includes hundreds of controls that align…
Common cloud security mistakes and how to avoid them
According to recent surveys, 98% of organizations keep their financial, business, customer and/or employee information in the cloud but, at the same time, 95% of cloud security professionals are not sure their security protections and their team would manage to…
Demystifying SOC-as-a-Service (SOCaaS)
Threat actors aren’t looking for companies of specific sizes or industries, they are looking for opportunities. Given that many companies operate in the dark and overlook breaches until ransomware attacks occur, this makes the threat actors’ job easy. It also…
Enhancing adversary simulations: Learn the business to attack the business
In this Help Net Security interview, Jamieson O’Reilly, Founder of DVULN, discusses adversary simulations, shedding light on challenges rooted in human behavior, decision-making, and responses to evolving cyber threats. Unveiling the interplay between red and blue teams, O’Reilly talks about…
Whitepaper: Why Microsoft’s password protection is not enough
Microsoft’s Azure AD Password Protection, now rebranded as Microsoft Entra ID helps users create a password policy they hope will protect their systems from account takeover and other identity and access management issues. However, Entra ID has significant security gaps.…
Cybersecurity teams hesitate to use automation in TDIR workflows
Despite reported threat detection, investigation, and response (TDIR) improvements in security operations, more than half of organizations still experienced significant security incidents in the last year, according to Exabeam. North America experienced the highest rate of security incidents (66%), closely…
Adaptiva launches risk-based prioritization capability for OneSite Patch
Adaptiva announced the deployment of its new risk-based prioritization capability for OneSite Patch. The automated risk-based prioritization feature enables IT professionals to prioritize and patch vulnerabilities based on criticality and risk severity — and can do so with unmatched speed,…
Bitdefender Email Protection identifies potentially dangerous content in webmail
Bitdefender launched Email Protection, a new feature that scans and identifies potentially dangerous content such as phishing attempts and online scams, in webmail accessed from any device. Email Protection allows users to extend one of the world’s best endpoint protection…
SailPoint unveils two sets of new offerings to help companies grow their identity security program
SailPoint unveiled two sets of new offerings designed to give customers options as they build their identity program, while driving customer success throughout their identity journey. First, the company is extending the family of SailPoint Identity Security Cloud offerings with…
Cisco Motific reduces GenAI security, trust, and compliance risks
Cisco announced Motific, Cisco’s SaaS product that allows for trustworthy GenAI deployments in organizations. Born from Outshift, Cisco’s incubation business, Motific provides a central view across the entire GenAI journey, empowering central IT and security teams to rapidly deliver trustworthy…
Spoutible API exposed encrypted password reset tokens, 2FA secrets of users
A publicly exposed API of social media platform Spoutible may have allowed threat actors to scrape information that can be used to hijack user accounts. The problem with the Spoutible API Security consultant Troy Hunt has been tipped off about…
Delinea appoints Kate Reed as CMO
Delinea announced that Kate Reed has joined the company as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). With more than two decades of experience in technology and cybersecurity, Reed assumes leadership of all marketing functions and initiatives and will play a pivotal role…
OpenText Fortify Audit Assistant increases developer efficiency by reducing noise and false positives
OpenText announced the second generation of its advanced cybersecurity auditing technology. Today’s developers are dealing with more complexity and threats in multi-cloud environments. Security teams feel increasing pressure to tackle application security with more sophisticated tools and practices. Fortify Audit…
Akamai Content Protector detects and mitigates evasive scrapers
Akamai announced Content Protector, a product that stops scraping attacks without blocking the good traffic that companies need to enhance their business. Scraper bots are a critical and often productive part of the commerce ecosystem. These bots search for new…