SCARF cipher sets new standards in protecting sensitive data
A group of international researchers has achieved a breakthrough in computer security by developing a new and efficient cipher for cache randomization. The cipher, designed by …
Organizations want stronger AI regulation amid growing concerns
AI professionals are still facing some very real challenges in democratizing data, much less AI (much less Generative AI), across their organizations, according to Dataiku. …
Salesforce and Meta suffer phishing campaign that evades typical detection methods
The Guardio research team discovered an email phishing campaign exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Salesforce’s legitimate email services and SMTP servers. Phishing email …
Attackers can turn AWS SSM agents into remote access trojans
Mitiga researchers have documented a new post-exploitation technique attackers can use to gain persistent remote access to AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances (virtual …
Delivering privacy in a world of pervasive digital surveillance: Tor Project’s Executive Director speaks out
The overarching mission of the US-based non-profit organization the Tor Project is to advance human rights and make open-source, privacy preserving software available to …
From tech expertise to leadership: Unpacking the role of a CISO
In this Help Net Security interview, Attila Török, CISO at GoTo, discusses how to balance technical expertise and leadership and how he navigates the rapidly evolving …
67% of data breaches start with a single click
Technology is accelerating faster than it ever has before, giving IT and security teams more tools to fend off cybersecurity attacks from an increasingly diverse slate of bad …
Open-source penetration testing tool BloodHound CE released
SpecterOps released version 5.0 of BloodHound Community Edition (CE), a free and open-source penetration testing solution that maps attack paths in Microsoft Active Directory …
1 in 100 emails is malicious
BEC and phishing attacks soar by 20% and 41% respectively in H1 2023, according to Perception Point. Cyber attackers have continued to refine their methods, adopting more …
Android n-day bugs pose zero-day threat
In the Android ecosystem, n-day vulnerabilities are almost as dangerous as zero-days, according to Google’s review of zero-days exploited in the wild in 2022. N-days …
US government outlines National Cyber Workforce and Education Strategy
After the release of a National Cybersecurity Strategy and its implementation plan, the Biden-Harris Administration has unveiled the National Cyber Workforce and Education …
CyFox disclose Stremio vulnerability, developers don’t agree on findings
UPDATE: August 2, 10:21 AM PT The Stremio team published a blog post saying that they’ve received a report from CyFox, but that they did not consider it valid, so they …
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