Category: AI in news
For decades, the financial sector and other industries have relied on an authentication mechanism dubbed “know your customer” (KYC), a process that confirms a person’s identity when opening account and then periodically confirming that identity overtime. KYC typically involves a potential customer providing a variety of documents to prove that they are who they claim…
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Feb 14, 2024NewsroomPatch Tuesday / Vulnerability Microsoft has released patches to address 73 security flaws spanning its software lineup as part of its Patch Tuesday updates for February 2024, including two zero-days that have come under active exploitation. Of the 73 vulnerabilities, 5 are rated Critical, 65 are rated Important, and three and rated Moderate…
Read MoreA Hacker’s Mind is Out in Paperback The paperback version of A Hacker’s Mind has just been published. It’s the same book, only a cheaper format. But—and this is the real reason I am posting this—Amazon has significantly discounted the hardcover to $15 to get rid of its stock. This is much cheaper than I…
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Days after Ivanti announced patches for a new vulnerability in its Connect Secure and Policy Secure products, proof-of-concept exploit code has already been published for the flaw and security companies are reporting exploitation attempts in the wild. This follows a difficult month for Ivanti customers who had to deploy emergency mitigations and patches for three…
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“Newer languages show up every few years and it definitely adds to the complexity,” Rajamani said. “For instance, Golang and Rust have become popular in the last two-three years. The tooling used for security reviews and finding application vulnerabilities isn’t always mature enough to support new languages and generally needs time to catch up.” Documentation is…
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Feb 13, 2024NewsroomCryptocurrency / Rootkit The Glupteba botnet has been found to incorporate a previously undocumented Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) bootkit feature, adding another layer of sophistication and stealth to the malware. “This bootkit can intervene and control the [operating system] boot process, enabling Glupteba to hide itself and create a stealthy persistence that…
Read MoreMolly White Reviews Blockchain Book Molly White—of “Web3 is Going Just Great” fame—reviews Chris Dixon’s blockchain solutions book: Read Write Own: In fact, throughout the entire book, Dixon fails to identify a single blockchain project that has successfully provided a non-speculative service at any kind of scale. The closest he ever comes is when he…
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Feb 13, 2024The Hacker NewsSaaS Security / Data Breach The Midnight Blizzard and Cloudflare-Atlassian cybersecurity incidents raised alarms about the vulnerabilities inherent in major SaaS platforms. These incidents illustrate the stakes involved in SaaS breaches — safeguarding the integrity of SaaS apps and their sensitive data is critical but is not easy. Common threat vectors…
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While the application of AI has picked up in cybersecurity, large-scale adoption still suffers from a lack of expertise, budget, and trust, according to a MixMode report. The report, commissioned through the Ponemon Institute, surveyed 641 IT and security practitioners in the US to understand the state of AI in cybersecurity and found the adoption…
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The runaway success of Kubernetes adoption by enterprise software developers has created motivation for attackers to target these installations with specifically designed exploits that leverage its popularity. Attackers have become better at hiding their malware, avoiding the almost trivial security controls, and using common techniques such as privilege escalation and lateral network movement to spread…
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