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CISOs looking for new IT hires already struggle with talent market shortages and bridging cybersecurity skills gaps. But now they face a growing challenge from an unexpected source: sanctions-busting North Korean software developers posing as potential hires. North Korea is actively infiltrating Western companies using skilled IT workers who use fake identities to pose as…

A phishing exercise conducted by the IT department of the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) has backfired, after causing unnecessary panic amongst students and staff. On the morning of Sunday August 18 2024, an email was sent out by the University’s IT team in what its Student Health Center described as an attempt to…

To deal with this issue, the OWASP Foundation was launched in 2001. “The initial goal of OWASP was to create a platform where security experts could share knowledge, tools, and best practices to improve web application security,” says Jim Mercer, program vice president, software development, DevOps, and DevSecOps at IDC. And as cyber practitioners scramble…

State-sponsored Chinese hackers exploited a zero-day vulnerability in Versa Director, a software platform for managing SD-WAN infrastructure used by internet service providers (ISPs) and managed service providers (MSPs). The group, known in the security industry as Volt Typhoon, has targeted US critical infrastructure organizations in the past. “Black Lotus Labs has observed the zero-day exploitation…

Under E2EE, decryption keys are stored only on devices, meaning that governments can’t eavesdrop on what is being said by demanding the keys from service providers. Not surprisingly, governments hate this, leading to the suggestion in countries such as the US and UK that the technology might be outlawed at some point. Ironically, Telegram doesn’t…

In episode 13 of “The AI Fix””, meat avatar Cluley learns that AI doesn’t pose an existential threat to humanity and tells meat avatar Stockley how cybersex is about to get very, very weird. Our hosts also learn that men lie on their dating profiles, hear ChatGPT steal somebody’s voice, and discover an AI that…

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has long been recognized for its role in detecting phishing attempts, but its capabilities extend far beyond that. With the rise of sophisticated cyber threats, AI has evolved to identify complex and subtle threats, predict attack patterns, and automate responses to emerging risks, significantly enhancing email security. AI is one of the…