IT Governance

JULY 27, 2023

Fraudsters have countless tricks up their sleeves to bypass security measures and access sensitive information. The same principle, believe it or not, applies in a cyber security context. More specifically, the fraudster is trying to gain physical access to a secure part of the premises so that they can steal confidential information.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 6, 2022

Related: Why security teams ought to embrace complexity. As RSA Conference 2022 gets underway today in San Francisco, advanced systems to help companies comprehensively inventory their cyber assets for enhanced visibility to improve asset and cloud configurations and close security gaps will be in the spotlight. Smart questions.

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IBM Big Data Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Examples of AI bias in the real world show us that when discriminatory data and algorithms are baked into AI models, the models deploy biases at scale and amplify the resulting negative effects. ” Examples of AI bias from real life provide organizations with useful insights on how to identify and address bias.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 21, 2024

One promising example of the latter comes from messaging security vendor IRONSCALES. One huge lesson gleaned is that the vendors who are integrating GenAI/LLM technology into their security tools have a huge advantage over threat actors: superior intelligence. “We LW provides consulting services to the vendors we cover.)

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Last March, just two weeks after GPT-4 was released , researchers at Microsoft quietly announced a plan to compile millions of APIs—tools that can do everything from ordering a pizza to solving physics equations to controlling the TV in your living room—into a compendium that would be made accessible to large language models (LLMs).

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 15, 2022

Vulnerability assessment tools usually scan applications for known vulnerabilities. Some of the tools we’ll see in this top 10 list are bundled in Kali Linux , a super-charged security distribution that can run both pentests and vulnerability tests. Also see our guides to: Breach and attack simulation tools.

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OpenText Information Management

MARCH 16, 2022

In the Modern Workplace, seamless integration between the tools your employees use most is vital. Microsoft Teams, for example, has become indispensable at many organizations to keep work moving wherever it … The post Secure and streamline collaboration by integrating with popular tools appeared first on OpenText Blogs.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 13, 2023

A simple test you can practice consists of uploading the original and the packed version of a malware sample to your favorite platform — for example, VirusTotal. The packed version is usually caught significantly fewer times compared to the original version of the malware, and many antivirus tools may simply miss the packed version.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Container security is the combination of cybersecurity tools, strategies, and best practices that are used to protect container ecosystems and the applications and other components they house. Examples of container networking and virtualization tools include VMWare NSX and HAProxy.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The goal is to assess a network’s security to improve it and thus prevent exploits by real threat actors by fixing vulnerabilities. When shopping for a penetration testing tool, be aware that you will likely need several components to perform a complete penetration test. 10 Top Open Source Penetration Testing Tools.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 4, 2023

The Security Challenges of Generative AI Tools: Can a Loose Prompt Sink Your Ship? Fast forward to 2023, and this adage finds new meaning in the context of generative AI tools, like OpenAI ChatGPT, Google Bard, and Microsoft Copilot. What are generative AI tools? These AI tools are based on Large Language Models (LLM).

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Workforce management software ( WFM ) is an essential tool companies across industries can use to organize their workforce, track employee work and performance, forecast labor demand, and create schedules for employees. Related: Turning workers into security security sensors. No industry is immune, not even security vendors.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2023

China-linked APT41 group used the open-source red teaming tool GC2 in an attack against a Taiwanese media organization. Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) team reported that the China-linked APT41 group used the open-source red teaming tool Google Command and Control ( GC2 ) in an attack against an unnamed Taiwanese media organization.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 12, 2023

Information privacy and information security are two different things. Related: Tapping hidden pools of security talent Information privacy is the ability to control who (or what) can view or access information that is collected about you or your customers.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 30, 2023

Two venture investors have launched an index to track the most popular open source security projects. Chenxi Wang of Rain Capital and Andrew Smyth of Atlantic Bridge unveiled the Open Source Security Index last month. Cloud computing is now mainstream with security operations, such as Cilium, Trivy, Calico, and Sysdig.

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OpenText Information Management

JUNE 21, 2023

Consider, for example, cybersecurity professionals. Simple and effective security … The post OpenText Cybersecurity 2023 Global Managed Security Survey: Tool Consolidation is More Than a Trend, it’s a Demand appeared first on OpenText Blogs. With more than 700,000 unfilled cybersecurity positions in the U.S.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 30, 2023

Nearly half of EDR tools and organizations are vulnerable to Clop ransomware gang tactics, according to tests by a cybersecurity company. Endpoint Security: Install and update antivirus software on all hosts. To identify suspicious activity and malware traversal, use network monitoring tools.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Takuya Yoshida from Toyota’s InfoTechnology Center and his colleague Tsuyoshi Toyama are members of a Toyota team that developed the new tool, called PASTA (Portable Automotive Security Testbed). The post Toyota presented PASTA (Portable Automotive Security Testbed) Car-Hacking Tool appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2021

The MASQ tool could be used by attackers to emulate device fingerprints thus allowing them to bypass fraud protection controls. Such activity is not limited to just payments – bad actors are also abusing social media and e-mail accounts using such tools. The tool is available for $130 and each new device fingerprint starts from $1.

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WIRED Threat Level

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Experts are finding thousands of examples of AI-created content every week that could allow terrorist groups and other violent extremists to bypass automated detection systems.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 8, 2023

Therefore, the security of APIs is crucial to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of sensitive information and to protect against potential threats such as data breaches, unauthorized access, and malicious attacks. So, how can you ensure your API security is effective and enable your digital transformation?

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2022

Regulatory compliance and data privacy issues have long been an IT security nightmare. GDPR (among other legal requirements in the EU and elsewhere) can expose multinational organizations to hefty financial penalties, additional rules for disclosing data breaches, and increased scrutiny of the adequacy of their data security.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2020

. “Sandboxie has long been a favorite sandbox-based isolation tool since its original release over fifteen years ago. The Sandboxie tool has been built on many years of highly-skilled developer work and is an example of how to integrate with Windows at a very low level.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 24, 2022

PowerShell is one of the most common tools used by hackers in “living off the land” attacks, when malicious actors use an organization’s own tools against itself. PowerShell is a command line tool and associated scripting language built on the.NET framework. See the Top Active Directory Security Tools.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 12, 2021

Enterprises actually have access to plenty of robust security technology, as well as proven tactics and procedures, to detect and defuse even leading-edge, multi-layered attacks. From the tools side of the equation, technology innovation certainly has never been lacking. Innovation evolution. Incremental gains are being made.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 30, 2024

Cloud security management is the process of safeguarding cloud data and operations from attacks and vulnerabilities through a set of cloud strategies, tools, and practices. The cloud security manager and the IT team are generally responsible for managing cloud security.

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Dark Reading

MARCH 15, 2019

Security hardware doesn't have to be expensive or complex to do the job. Here are seven examples of low-cost hardware that could fill a need in your security operations.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 25, 2022

Intrusion detection system (IDS) and intrusion prevention system (IPS) technologies – often combined as intrusion detection and prevention (IDPS) – have been in use for decades, yet they remain important cybersecurity tools even in the face of today’s rapidly changing cyber threats and complex IT environments. IDS vs. IPS.

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The Security Ledger

MARCH 27, 2024

In this episode of The Security Ledger Podcast (#257) Paul speaks with Dennis Kengo Oka, a senior principal automotive security strategist at the firm Synopsys about the growing cyber risks to automobiles as connected vehicle features proliferate in the absence of strong cybersecurity protections. Read the whole entry. »

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 16, 2023

Enterprise Secrets Management Explained: Best Practices, Challenges, and Tool Selection madhav Thu, 08/17/2023 - 06:28 Whether hosted in the cloud or on-premises, modern applications and integrations have accelerated the need for digital secrets. In that sense, the most well-known example of a secret is a password.

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 11, 2021

For Example, Both Backdoors Use Same 'Sleeping' Algorithm The "Sunburst" backdoor deployed in the breach of SolarWinds' Orion network monitoring tool uses some of the same code found in the "Kazuar" backdoor, which security researchers have previously tied to Russian hackers, the security firm Kaspersky reports.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2021

Wintriage is a live response tool that extracts Windows artifacts, it allows to extract the most artifacts as possible, but in a selective way. Those tools are great, but the extracted info is not always enough. So, in 2019 I decided to start writing my own tool. Wintriage is a live response tool that extracts Windows artifacts.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 18, 2022

That means, for example, the new Ducky can run a test to see if it’s plugged into a Windows or Mac machine and conditionally execute code appropriate to each one or disable itself if it has been connected to the wrong target. While previous versions were mostly limited to writing keystroke sequences, DuckyScript 3.0

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 8, 2022

Add in an increasing focus on data becoming a crucial enterprise asset—as well as the introduction of countless database and analytical tools, digital twins, artificial intelligence, and machine learning—and we are dealing with unprecedented technical complexities and risk. Access security challenges. Leveraging digital twins.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 10, 2022

For instance, if I were signing up at example.com, I might give my email address as krebsonsecurity+example@gmail.com. Then, I simply go back to my inbox and create a corresponding folder called “Example,” along with a new filter that sends any email addressed to that alias to the Example folder.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2021

The popular jailbreaking tool called “unc0ver” now supports iOS 14.3 Pwn20wnd, the author of the jailbreaking tool “ unc0ver ,” has updated their software to support iOS 14.3 Yet another example that attackers have an edge on iOS vs. defenders. SecurityAffairs – hacking, jailbreaking tool).

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

Cybersecurity can be difficult to implement, and to make matters worse, the security professionals needed to do it right are in short supply. Managed IT security service providers (MSSPs) make life easier for organizations by providing outsourced expertise and tools at a fraction of the cost, time, and trouble of doing it yourself.

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