Accenture and Workday are expanding their partnership to help organizations reinvent their finance functions to be more agile, data-driven and customer-centric. The companies are collaborating to develop a suite of data-led, composable finance solutions that can be configured and reconfigured…
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How Chinese hackers got their hands on Microsoft’s token signing key
The mystery of how Chinese hackers managed to steal a crucial signing key that allowed them to breach Microsoft 365’s email service and access accounts of employees of 25 government agencies has been explained: they found it somewhere where it…
Pynt introduces API security platform and raises $6 million
Pynt released its autopilot platform for API security used by developers and security experts, as well as $6 million in Seed funding led by Joule Ventures with the participation of Dallas VC and Honeystone VC. The use of APIs is…
MacOS malware has a new trick up its sleeve
A newer version of the Atomic Stealer macOS malware has a new trick that allows it to bypass the operating system’s Gatekeeper, Malwarebytes researchers have discovered. Mac malware delivered through Google ads The malware, which was first advertised in April…
Tenable to acquire Ermetic for $240 million in cash and $25 million in restricted stock and RSUs
Tenable Holdings has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Ermetic. Tenable intends to integrate Ermetic’s capabilities into its Tenable One Exposure Management Platform to deliver contextual risk visibility, prioritization, and remediation across infrastructure and identities, both on-premise and in the…
SafeBase acquires Stacksi to automate responses to security questionnaires
SafeBase announced that it is acquiring Stacksi, the A.I.-powered security questionnaire automation platform. The acquisition advances the two companies’ shared vision to eliminate the time-consuming, cumbersome task of responding to security questionnaires in the B2B buying process. With a SafeBase…
3 ways to strike the right balance with generative AI
To find the sweet spot where innovation doesn’t mean sacrificing your security posture, organizations should consider the following three best practices when leveraging AI. Implement role-based access control In the context of generative AI, having properly defined user roles to…
LibreOffice: Stability, security, and continued development
LibreOffice, the most widely used open-source office productivity suite, has plenty to recommend it: it’s feature-rich, user-friendly, well-documented, reliable, has an active community of developers working on improving it, and it’s free. The suite includes Writer (word processor), Calc (a…
Shifting left and right, innovating product security
In this Help Net Security interview, Slava Bronfman, CEO at Cybellum, discusses approaches for achieving product security throughout a device’s entire lifecycle, fostering collaboration across business units and product lines, ensuring transparency and security in the supply chain, and meeting…
How cybercriminals use look-alike domains to impersonate brands
Cybercriminals create hundreds of thousands of counterfeit domains that mimic well-known brands for financial gain. These fake domains serve multiple malicious purposes, such as sending phishing emails, hosting fraudulent websites, rerouting web traffic, and distributing malware. In this Help Net…
Baseline standards for BYOD access requirements
49% of enterprises across Europe currently have no formal Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) policy in place, meaning they have no visibility into or control over if and how employees are connecting personal devices to corporate resources, according to a Jamf survey. With…
Cybersecurity pros battle discontent amid skills shortage
The cybersecurity skills crisis continues in a multi-year freefall that has impacted 71% of organizations and left two-thirds of cybersecurity professionals stating that the job has become more difficult over the past two years—while 60% of organizations continue to deflect…
Insight Managed Cloud Services streamline cloud management
Insight Enterprises has expanded its services portfolio with a new global managed cloud offering to simplify how enterprises scale their cloud use. Insight Managed Cloud Services enable a fully managed experience that lifts the burden of cloud management from IT…
Old vulnerabilities are still a big problem
A recently flagged phishing campaign aimed at delivering the Agent Tesla RAT to unsuspecting users takes advantage of old vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office that allow remote code execution. “Despite fixes for CVE-2017-11882/CVE-2018-0802 being released by Microsoft in November, 2017 and…
Netskope acquires Kadiska for enhanced network and app performance monitoring
Netskope has acquired Kadiska. The news follows the announcement last week of enhancements to Netskope’s Digital Experience Management (DEM) capabilities with the introduction of Netskope Proactive DEM (P-DEM), and cements Netskope’s advances in the ability to monitor and proactively remediate…
D2iQ DKP 2.6 improves Kubernetes management capabilities
D2iQ announced the newest updates to its multi-cluster Kubernetes management platform, D2iQ Kubernetes Platform (DKP). DKP 2.6 features the new DKP AI Navigator, an AI assistant that enables enterprise organizations to overcome the skills gap, one of the biggest challenges…
CyberSaint launches Remediation Suite to optimize resource allocation and decision-making
CyberSaint has launched the Remediation Suite within the CyberStrong platform. With the Remediation Suite, CISOs and cyber risk professionals gain access to a toolkit to efficiently prioritize, quantify, track and communicate remediation efforts across controls and risks, leading to optimized…
Cybercriminals target MS SQL servers to deliver ransomware
A cyberattack campaign is targeting exposed Microsoft SQL (MS SQL) databases, aiming to deliver ransomware and Cobalt Strike payloads. The attack campaign The attackers target exposed MS SQL servers by brute-forcing access credentials. After having successfully authenticated, they start enumerating…
TXOne Networks Edge V2 isolates security breaches
TXOne Networks announced the second generation of its Edge engine for eliminating the spread of operational technology (OT) network infections and safeguarding reliable operations. Edge V2 delivers automatic rule generation, enabling effortless network segmentation in complex, large-scale OT environments. Our…
Fasoo collaborates with Egnyte to simplify data governance
Fasoo and Egnyte announced a partnership that will allow organizations to encrypt any Egnyte-managed file and inject Egnyte permissions directly into the protected file, ensuring that governance is maintained wherever the file goes. Colter Carambio, EVP and CRO at Fasoo,…