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CISO
We must adjust expectations for the CISO role

Cybersecurity has become one of the most high-stakes facets of business operations in the past few years. The chief information security officer (CISO) role, once a …

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Only Cynet delivers 100% protection and detection visibility in the 2024 MITRE ATT&CK Evaluation

Across small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) and managed service providers (MSPs), the top priority for cybersecurity leaders is to keep IT environments up and running. To guard …

Ben de Bont
Shaping effective AI governance is about balancing innovation with humanity

In this Help Net Security interview, Ben de Bont, CISO at ServiceNow, discusses AI governance, focusing on how to foster innovation while ensuring responsible oversight. He …

Keycloak
Keycloak: Open-source identity and access management

Keycloak is an open-source project for identity and access management (IAM). It provides user federation, strong authentication, user management, authorization, and more. …

Microsoft NTLM
Microsoft enforces defenses preventing NTLM relay attacks

Since making Kerberos the default Windows authentication protocol in 2000, Microsoft has been working on eventually retiring NTLM, its less secure and obsolete counterpart. …

BadRAM
BadRAM: $10 hack unlocks AMD encrypted memory

Cybersecurity researchers have identified a vulnerability (CVE-2024-21944, aka BadRAM) affecting ADM processors that can be triggered by rogue memory modules to unlock the …

open source malware
Open source malware up 200% since 2023

Sonatype’s 2024 Open Source Malware Threat Report reveals that the number of malicious packages has surpassed 778,500 since tracking began in 2019. In 2024, researchers …

Allison Ritter
Why crisis simulations fail and how to fix them

In this Help Net Security interview, Allison Ritter, Head of Cyber Experiential Exercising at Cyberbit, shares her insights on the key differences between in-person and …

Containers
Containers have 600+ vulnerabilities on average

Containers are the fastest growing – and weakest cybersecurity link – in software supply chains, according to NetRise. Companies are struggling to get container …

Patch Tuesday
Microsoft fixes exploited zero-day (CVE-2024-49138)

On December 2024 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft resolved 71 vulnerabilities in a variety of its products, including a zero-day (CVE-2024-49138) that’s been exploited by …

China
US sanctions Chinese cybersecurity company for firewall compromise, ransomware attacks

The Department of the Treasury is sanctioning Chinese cybersecurity company Sichuan Silence, and one of its employees, Guan Tianfeng, for their roles in the April 2020 …

Cleo
Attackers actively exploiting flaw(s) in Cleo file transfer software (CVE-2024-50623)

Attackers are exploiting a vulnerability (CVE-2024-50623) in file transfer software by Cleo – LexiCo, VLTransfer, and Harmony – to gain access to …

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