Month: May 2024
May 03, 2024NewsroomEmail Security / Malware The U.S. government on Thursday published a new cybersecurity advisory warning of North Korean threat actors’ attempts to send emails in a manner that makes them appear like they are from legitimate and trusted parties. The joint bulletin was published by the National Security Agency (NSA), the Federal Bureau…
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May 03, 2024NewsroomPasswordless / Encryption Google on Thursday announced that passkeys are being used by over 400 million Google accounts, authenticating users more than 1 billion times over the past two years. “Passkeys are easy to use and phishing resistant, only relying on a fingerprint, face scan or a pin making them 50% faster than…
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May 03, 2024NewsroomVulnerability / Software Security HPE Aruba Networking (formerly Aruba Networks) has released security updates to address critical flaws impacting ArubaOS that could result in remote code execution (RCE) on affected systems. Of the 10 security defects, four are rated critical in severity – CVE-2024-26304 (CVSS score: 9.8) – Unauthenticated Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in…
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LayerX, pioneer of the LayerX Browser Security platform, today announced $26 million in Series A funding led by Glilot+, the early-growth fund of Glilot Capital Partners, with participation from Dell Technologies Capital and other investors. Lior Litwak, Managing Partner at Glilot Capital and Head of Glilot+, and Yair Snir, Managing Partner at Dell Technologies Capital,…
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In Apple’s first-quarter earnings call, the chief executive of Apple says the company will make an announcement in the ‘weeks head’ and added that he expects generative AI capabilities to come to the ‘vast majority of our devices.’ Apple CEO Tim Cook said the company plans to share details “soon” about new generative AI capabilities…
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Onur Aksoy, the CEO of a group of companies controlling multiple online storefronts, was sentenced to six and a half years in prison for selling $100 million worth of counterfeit Cisco network equipment to government, health, education, and military organizations worldwide. The 40-year-old Florida man was arrested in Miami on June 29, 2022, and was…
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‘We want to take the fear of adopting AI because of data leakage and data governance, compliance, we want to take that out of the equation,’ Bradley Reynolds, SVP for artificial intelligence at Expedient, tells CRN. To stop the secret sauce from leaking, don’t bring the data to the GenAI model, bring the GenAI model…
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Bitwarden has just launched a new multi-factor authenticator app called Bitwarden Authenticator, which is available for iOS and Android devices. The app uses time-based one-time passwords (TOTPs) for accounts registered by scanning a QR code to provide users with an extra layer of security during authentication. “By leveraging widely adopted standards such as TOTP, Bitwarden…
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‘We talk internally a lot about being a $300 billion market cap company by the 2040s, and we don’t think that’s far-fetched,’ said John Street, Pax8 founder and former CEO. ‘We really are in good shape, the star of this show is the total addressable market.’ Scott Chasin taking over the helm as Pax8’s newest…
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CISA and the FBI urged software companies today to review their products and eliminate path traversal security vulnerabilities before shipping. Attackers can exploit path traversal vulnerabilities (also known as directory traversal) to create or overwrite critical files used to execute code or bypass security mechanisms like authentication. Such security flaws can also let threat actors…
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