Perforce Software today published a survey of 250 IT professionals that finds the amount of sensitive data residing in non-production environments is rising as organizations embrace artificial intelligence (AI) and digital business transformation. The post Survey Surfaces Widespread Mishandling of…
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Multi-Domain vs Wildcard SSL Certificates: Differences & Uses
Digital certificates take many forms but they share the same primary goal: to authenticate a website or server’s identity. How this is accomplished will depend on the type of certificate and the level of authentication or protection needed. The post…
Overturning of Chevron Deference’s Impact on Cybersecurity Regulation
Season 3, Episode 12: Could the overturning of Chevron Deference impact cybersecurity and privacy regulations? The post Overturning of Chevron Deference’s Impact on Cybersecurity Regulation appeared first on Security Boulevard. This article has been indexed from Security Boulevard Read the…
Ubuntu Addresses Multiple OpenJDK 8 Vulnerabilities
Several vulnerabilities have recently been identified in OpenJDK 8, which could potentially lead to denial of service, information disclosure, arbitrary code execution, or even the bypassing of Java sandbox restrictions. In response, Canonical has released security fixes for multiple versions…
NEWS ANALYSIS Q&A: The early going of Generative AI and LLMs impacting cybersecurity
The art of detecting subtle anomalies, predicting emergent vulnerabilities and remediating novel cyber-attacks is becoming more refined, day by day. Related: GenAI’s impact on elections It turns out that the vast datasets churned out by cybersecurity toolsets happen to be…
Why a Savvy Security Strategy is Essential | Grip
Explore why having a savvy security strategy that includes comprehensive SaaS identity risk management is essential for any modern, SaaS-based enterprise. The post Why a Savvy Security Strategy is Essential | Grip appeared first on Security Boulevard. This article has…
USENIX Security ’23 – Side-Channel Attacks on Optane Persistent Memory
Authors/Presenters:Sihang Liu, University of Virginia; Suraaj Kanniwadi, Martin Schwarzl, Andreas Kogler, Daniel Gruss, Samira Khan Many thanks to USENIX for publishing their outstanding USENIX Security ’23 Presenter’s content, and the organizations strong commitment to Open Access. Originating from the conference’s…
What You Missed About the CrowdStrike Outage:: The Next Strike Might Be Linux Due to eBPF
The Other Crowdstrike Outage On July 19, 2024, a flawed update in CrowdStrike Falcon’s channel file 291 led to a logic error that caused Windows systems to crash, resulting in widespread BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) incidents. The impact was…
Crypto enthusiasts flood npm with more than 281,000 bogus packages overnight
Crypto enthusiasts have lately been flooding software registries like npm and PyPI with thousands of bogus packages that add no functional value and instead put a strain on the entire open source ecosystem. A single instance, recorded by Sonatype in…
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New AI technologies are advancing cyberattacks and wreaking havoc on traditional identity verification strategies. Hackers can now easily answer knowledge-based authentication (KBA) questions using stolen data or AI-generated responses. Even some biometric authentication tools can be fooled by deepfakes and…
Extortion Group Exploits Cloud Misconfigurations, Targets 110,000 Domains
An unknown threat group leveraged publicly exposed environment variables in organizations’ AWS accounts to exfiltrate sensitive data and demand ransoms in a wide-ranging extortion campaign that targeted 110,000 domains. The post Extortion Group Exploits Cloud Misconfigurations, Targets 110,000 Domains appeared…
Daniel Stori’s ‘The War For Port 80’
<a class=” sqs-block-image-link ” href=”https://turnoff.us/geek/apache-vs-nginx/” rel=”noopener” target=”_blank”> <img alt=”” height=”1035″ src=”https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5355d604e4b03c3e9896e131/4daa25c3-fc3c-49ac-bbfb-e622074e58cd/apache-vs-nginx.png?format=1000w” width=”640″ /> </a><figcaption class=”image-caption-wrapper”> via the inimitable Daniel Stori at Turnoff.US! Permalink The post Daniel Stori’s ‘The War For Port 80’ appeared first on Security Boulevard. This article has…
Mandatory MFA is Coming to Microsoft Azure
Microsoft is making MFA mandatory for signing into Azure accounts, the latest step in the IT vendor’s Secure Future Initiative that it expanded in May in the wake of two embarrassing breaches by Russian and Chinese threat groups. The post…
USENIX Security ’23 – Cipherfix: Mitigating Ciphertext Side-Channel Attacks in Software
Authors/Presenters:Jan Wichelmann, Anna Pätschke, Luca Wilke, Thomas Eisenbarth Many thanks to USENIX for publishing their outstanding USENIX Security ’23 Presenter’s content, and the organizations strong commitment to Open Access. Originating from the conference’s events situated at the Anaheim Marriott; and…
The Essential Guide to Evaluating Competitive Identity Verification Solutions
Amid customer and regulatory pressure and intensifying cyberattacks, organizations must ensure their identity verification strategies match up against AI-powered fraud techniques. The post The Essential Guide to Evaluating Competitive Identity Verification Solutions appeared first on Security Boulevard. This article has…
The Inefficiency of People-Search Removal Tools, Massive Data Breach Impacting U.S. Citizens
In episode 342, we discuss the effectiveness of people-search removal tools like DeleteMe and Reputation Defender, based on a study by Consumer Reports. We also cover how almost every American’s social security number has potentially been stolen by hackers and…
USENIX Security ’23 – NVLeak: Off-Chip Side-Channel Attacks via Non-Volatile Memory Systems
Authors/Presenters:Zixuan Wang, Mohammadkazem Taram, Daniel Moghimi, Steven Swanson, Dean Tullsen, Jishen Zhao Many thanks to USENIX for publishing their outstanding USENIX Security ’23 Presenter’s content, and the organizations strong commitment to Open Access. Originating from the conference’s events situated at…
CVE-2024-7646: Ingress-NGINX Annotation Validation Bypass – A Deep Dive
Introduction Attention: a new Kubernetes vulnerability was uncovered by André Storfjord Kristiansen (@dev-bio on GitHub) and it demands The post CVE-2024-7646: Ingress-NGINX Annotation Validation Bypass – A Deep Dive appeared first on ARMO. The post CVE-2024-7646: Ingress-NGINX Annotation Validation Bypass…
USENIX Security ’23 – PROVIDENCE: a Flexible Round-by-Round Risk-Limiting Audit
Authors/Presenters:Oliver Broadrick, Poorvi Vora, Filip Zagórski Many thanks to USENIX for publishing their outstanding USENIX Security ’23 Presenter’s content, and the organizations strong commitment to Open Access. Originating from the conference’s events situated at the Anaheim Marriott; and via the…
News alert: Implementing AI-powered ‘Cisco HyperShield’ requires proper cybersecurity training
Cary, NC, Aug. 16, 2024, CyberNewsWire — The imminent release of Cisco HyperShield this month marks a pivotal evolution in the cybersecurity landscape. As an “AI-native” security architecture, HyperShield promises to redefine traditional security protocols through its automated proactive cybersecurity…