Jul 18, 2024The Hacker NewsCybersecurity / Bot Attacks As the travel industry rebounds post-pandemic, it is increasingly targeted by automated threats, with the sector experiencing nearly 21% of all bot attack requests last year. That’s according to research from Imperva, a Thales company. In their 2024 Bad Bot Report, Imperva finds that bad bots accounted…
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Jul 18, 2024NewsroomOpen-Source / Cybercrime Unknown threat actors have been observed leveraging open-source tools as part of a suspected cyber espionage campaign targeting global government and private sector organizations. Recorded Future’s Insikt Group is tracking the activity under the temporary moniker TAG-100, noting that the adversary likely compromised organizations in at least ten countries across…
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Jul 18, 2024NewsroomCloud Security / Enterprise Security Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered security shortcomings in SAP AI Core cloud-based platform for creating and deploying predictive artificial intelligence (AI) workflows that could be exploited to get hold of access tokens and customer data. The five vulnerabilities have been collectively dubbed SAPwned by cloud security firm Wiz. “The…
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We’re now more than halfway through 2024, and it’s clear that the year is already shaping up to set new records for ransomware, with a wide range of high-profile organizations coming under attack. Therefore, it’s more important than ever for businesses to ensure they have the right tools in place to protect against these threats.…
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Tenable®, the Exposure Management company, today announced that it has launched a Public Sector Advisory Board (PSAB) for the U.S. market. Inaugural members include Rob Joyce, former Director of Cybersecurity at the National Security Agency (NSA) and Mark Weatherford, former first Deputy Under Secretary for Cybersecurity at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). They will…
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When users then click on the rewritten link, the server runs a check to see if the link points to a known phishing or malware website and based on the result, either blocks access to it or redirects the request to the final destination. The benefit is that if a website is flagged as malicious…
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Jul 18, 2024NewsroomArtificial Intelligence / Data Protection Meta has suspended the use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in Brazil after the country’s data protection authority issued a preliminary ban objecting to its new privacy policy. The development was first reported by news agency Reuters. The company said it has decided to suspend the tools while…
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Jul 18, 2024Newsroom Cisco has released patches to address a maximum-severity security flaw impacting Smart Software Manager On-Prem (Cisco SSM On-Prem) that could enable a remote, unauthenticated attacker to change the password of any users, including those belonging to administrative users. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-20419, carries a CVSS score of 10.0. “This vulnerability is…
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Limit access and federation between on-prem and cloud One should limit access and federation between on-premises and cloud assets where one can. Yes, we’ve built up reliance on this ability to share data and authentication between cloud assets and on-premises, but too often it’s also introducing weaknesses. A recent ProPublica article claims that a whistleblower…
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Social media fuels conspiracies galore after Donald Trump is shot at a rally, cryptocurrency websites are hijacked after a screw-up at Squarespace, and our guest takes a close look at bottoms on Instagram. All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley…
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