Efficient communication is a cornerstone of business success. Internally, making sure your team communicates seamlessly helps you avoid friction losses, misunderstandings, delays, and overlaps. Externally, frustration-free customer communication is directly correlated to a positive customer experience and higher satisfaction. However, business communication channels are also a major target for cybercriminals. In recent years, especially since…

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Video Artificial intelligence is on everybody’s lips these days, but there are also many misconceptions about what AI actually is and isn’t. We unpack the basics and examine AI’s broader implications. 15 Feb 2024 Artificial intelligence (AI) is clearly the topic du jour as technologies that fall under the umbrella term of AI become increasingly…

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Friday Squid Blogging: Vegan Squid-Ink Pasta It uses black beans for color and seaweed for flavor. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here. Tags: squid Posted on February 16, 2024 at 5:04 PM •…

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Outlook’s behavior is different for various types of links. For example, for links that start with http:// or https://, the email client will send the link to the default browser installed on the operating system. However, if an email includes links for other protocol handlers, for example skype:, the email client will display a warning…

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“One of the things with batteries is they catch on fire,” Patrick Miller, CEO of Ampere Industrial Security, tells CSO. “So, if I had the ability to put the battery into a physical state or make it more prone to catch on fire, that’s a problem because in some cases, depending upon the size of…

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Feb 16, 2024NewsroomRansomware / Vulnerability The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added a now-patched security flaw impacting Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) software to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports that it’s being likely exploited in Akira ransomware attacks. The vulnerability in question is…

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Feb 16, 2024NewsroomEndpoint Security / Cryptocurrency Several companies operating in the cryptocurrency sector are the target of a newly discovered Apple macOS backdoor codenamed RustDoor. RustDoor was first documented by Bitdefender last week, describing it as a Rust-based malware capable of harvesting and uploading files, as well as gathering information about the infected machines. It’s…

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Feb 16, 2024NewsroomCyber Threat / Cloud Security A malicious Python script known as SNS Sender is being advertised as a way for threat actors to send bulk smishing messages by abusing Amazon Web Services (AWS) Simple Notification Service (SNS). The SMS phishing messages are designed to propagate malicious links that are designed to capture victims’…

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With breaches making the headlines on an almost weekly basis, the cybersecurity challenges we face are becoming visible not only to large enterprises, who have built security capabilities over the years, but also to small to medium businesses and the broader public. While this is creating greater awareness among smaller businesses of the need to…

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Tech giant Google launched the AI Cyber Defense Initiative to leverage Artificial Intelligence (AI) to boost cybersecurity and to reverse the “Defender’s Dilemma,” the company said in a blog post.    A key initiative in this is the open-sourcing of Magika, an AI-powered tool for file type identification to detect malware. It is already being…

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