Quantum risk is real now: How to navigate the evolving data harvesting threat
In an era where data security is paramount, the recent revelations about firmware backdoors implanted by Chinese government-backed hackers serve as a stark reminder of the …
Stronger ransomware protection finally pays off
60% of companies are ‘very’ to ‘extremely’ concerned about ransomware attacks, according to latest research from Hornetsecurity. Businesses acknowledge …
AI-enabled bots can solve CAPTCHAs faster than humans
Companies are losing revenue in the fight against malicious bot attacks, according to survey by Kasada. Despite spending millions of dollars on traditional bot management …
Microsoft Defender can automatically contain compromised user accounts
The “contain user” feature select Microsoft Defender for Endpoint customers have been trying out since November 2022 is now available to a wider pool of …
Sic Permission Slip on data brokers that use your data
Permission Slip, an iPhone and Android app developed by Consumer Reports, helps users ask companies and data brokers to stop sharing their personal data and/or delete it. The …
Keeping up with the demands of the cyber insurance market
Cyber insurance has been around longer than most of us think. When American International Group (AIG) launched the first cyber insurance policy in 1997, it stepped into …
Unmasking the limitations of yearly penetration tests
In this Help Net Security interview, Charles d’Hondt, Head of Operations, Ambionics Security, talks about the necessity of implementing continuous penetration testing …
Yeti: Open, distributed, threat intelligence repository
Yeti serves as a unified platform to consolidate observables, indicators of compromise, TTPs, and threat-related knowledge. It enhances observables automatically, such as …
As biohacking evolves, how vulnerable are we to cyber threats?
Can our bodies be hacked? The answer may be yes, in that anyone can implant a chip under the skin and these devices do not usually use secure technologies, according to …
Cybersecurity should be a business priority for CEOs
74% of CEOs are concerned about their organizations’ ability to avert or minimize damage to the business from a cyberattack – even though 96% of CEOs said that …
Critical Atlassian Confluence vulnerability exploited by state-backed threat actor
A critical flaw in Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Server (CVE-2023-22515) has been exploited by a state-backed threat actor, Microsoft’s threat analysts have …
Curl project squashes high-severity bug in omnipresent libcurl library (CVE-2023-38545)
Curl v8.4.0 is out, and fixes – among other things – a high-severity SOCKS5 heap buffer overflow vulnerability (CVE-2023-38545). Appropriate patches for some older …
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