Category: AI in news
Security Operations, Google’s platform for detecting, investigating, and responding to cybersecurity threats, will use AI to automate detections from threat discoveries. Google and Mandiant experts provide teams with curated detections that let them specify the type of threat detection they need for their environment. The company unveiled two new kinds of detections: cloud and emerging…
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Abacus Group, NexusTek, Astrica, Wipro, HP, Microsoft and Saviynt were among the tech companies making key executive hires and moves during April 2024. New CEOs at Abacus Group, NexusTek, Astrica and Wipro were some of the biggest executive moves last month. Anthony D’Ambrosi, formerly of ATSG; Hamilton Yu; Vicky Papa, formerly of NTT Data; and…
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The cybersecurity industry is facing a workforce gap. In fact, the gap between the number of skilled cybersecurity workers needed vs the amount available has grown 12.6% year over year worldwide. This is at a time when the number of threats security teams face continue to escalate in volume and sophistication, in many cases simply…
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The Zero Trust network access (ZTNA) approach replaces the perimeter defense model with a “least privilege” framework where users authenticate to access specific data and applications. Access Control, Enterprise Buyer’s Guides, Network Security, Zero Trust Source link lol
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May 06, 2024NewsroomVulnerability / Server Security More than 50% of the 90,310 hosts have been found exposing a Tinyproxy service on the internet that’s vulnerable to a critical unpatched security flaw in the HTTP/HTTPS proxy tool. The issue, tracked as CVE-2023-49606, carries a CVSS score of 9.8 out of a maximum of 10, per Cisco…
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Virtual private networking (VPN) companies market their services as a way to prevent anyone from snooping on your Internet usage. But new research suggests this is a dangerous assumption when connecting to a VPN via an untrusted network, because attackers on the same network could force a target’s traffic off of the protection provided by…
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The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has called for a ban on commonly used and easily guessable passwords, citing the alarming rise in cybercrime. The agency highlights the vulnerability of users who rely on weak passwords, making them prime targets for cybercriminals. The NCSC emphasizes that passwords like “123456,” “password,” and “qwerty” are frequently…
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May 06, 2024NewsroomNetwork Security / Malware The recently uncovered cyber espionage campaign targeting perimeter network devices from several vendors, including Cisco, may have been the work of China-linked actors, according to new findings from attack surface management firm Censys. Dubbed ArcaneDoor, the activity is said to have commenced around July 2023, with the first confirmed…
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Here’s the exact global cloud market share figures for AWS, Alibaba, Google Cloud, Microsoft and Salesforce for first quarter 2024 as the market increased to $76 billion. The three largest cloud companies on the planet—Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Google Cloud—continued to battle for global cloud market share leadership during the first quarter of 2024,…
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Russia was involved in a months-long cyber espionage campaign against Germany last year, which involved targeting politicians and the defense sector, German officials said, adding they have evidence the attacks were conducted by Russia-backed threat actor, Fancy Bear. Also tracked as APT28, Fancy Bear is a state-sponsored hacker group linked to the Russian GRU intelligence service…
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