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Hackers have released internal documents stolen from one of America’s largest IT services providers, which counts various US government agencies, including the Department of Defense, amongst its customers. Bloomberg reports that the leaked data, which belonged to Virginia-based Leidos Holdings, was seized by hackers during a previously-reported breach in 2022 of software-as-a-service firm Diligent. The…
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Searchable Encryption has long been a mystery. An oxymoron. An unattainable dream of cybersecurity professionals everywhere. Organizations know they must encrypt their most valuable, sensitive data to prevent data theft and breaches. They also understand that organizational data exists to be used. To be searched, viewed, and modified to keep businesses running. Unfortunately, our Network…
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Other vendors aren’t immune It would be naive to think of a world free of CrowdStrike-like scenarios, especially in the present day of interconnectivity and dependency. CrowdStrike, incidentally, happened to be the one with the slip-up but it could have been anyone, several believe. “It’s important to note that this is not a security failure,”…
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Ideally, such privileged access should be governed stringently, ensuring adequately tested, digitally signed software with limited privileges is used,” Varkey added. “It is also important for the OS vendor to be transparent to its partners on their potential vulnerabilities and risks, which could impact the stability of the Kernel.” However, the CrowdStrike incident, with its…
Read MoreNew Research in Detecting AI-Generated Videos The latest in what will be a continuing arms race between creating and detecting videos: The new tool the research project is unleashing on deepfakes, called “MISLnet”, evolved from years of data derived from detecting fake images and video with tools that spot changes made to digital video or…
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The guidelines outline voluntary practices developers can adopt while designing and building their model to protect it against being misused to cause deliberate harm to individuals, public safety, and national security. The draft offers seven key approaches for mitigating the risks that models will be misused, along with recommendations on how to implement them and…
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A threat actor known as Stargazer Goblin has set up a network of inauthentic GitHub accounts to fuel a Distribution-as-a-Service (DaaS) that propagates a variety of information-stealing malware and netting them $100,000 in illicit profits over the past year. The network, which comprises over 3,000 accounts on the cloud-based code hosting platform, spans thousands of…
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“Moving forward, this outage demonstrates that continuous preparation to fortify defenses is vital, especially before outages occur,” Christine Gadsby, CISO at Blackberry, opined. She continued, “Already understanding what areas are most vulnerable within a system prevents a panicked reaction when something looks amiss and makes it more difficult for hackers to wreak havoc. In a…
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Protecting the games The French government’s national cybersecurity agency, Agence national de la sécurité des systèmes d’information (ANSSI), is overseeing the monumental effort to keep the Paris Olympics cyber safe. Since mid-2023 it has held several awareness-raising seminars and crisis-planning exercises with multiple stakeholders across the government, security, and sports ecosystems. Eviden (a division of…
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The Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has named a new minister for home affairs and for cybersecurity. Tony Burke will take on the responsibility along with immigration and multicultural affairs; minister for the arts; leader of the House. The cabinet change announced on Sunday comes two years after Clare O’Neil was appointed and having cybersecurity as…
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