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Identity Thieves Bypassed Experian Security to View Credit Reports

Krebs on Security

Identity thieves have been exploiting a glaring security weakness in the website of Experian , one of the big three consumer credit reporting bureaus. All that was needed was the person’s name, address, birthday and Social Security number. states to place a security freeze on their credit files.

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RSAC insights: Security Compass leverages automation to weave security deeper into SecOps

The Last Watchdog

In this heady environment, the idea of attempting to infuse a dollop of security into new software products — from inception — seems almost quaint. History of product security. As a nod to security, nominal static analysis and maybe a bit of penetration testing gets done just prior to meeting a tight deployment deadline.

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GUEST ESSAY: Marshaling automated cybersecurity tools to defend automated attacks

The Last Watchdog

For example, researchers at Group-IB uncovered a targeted worldwide scam campaign using over 121 popular brands as bait in over 90 countries, including the US, Canada, South Korea and Italy. For instance, taking inventory of a company’s assets, while necessary, can quickly become monotonous for security team members. Humans needed.

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Ivanti Policy Secure: NAC Product Review

eSecurity Planet

As a spinoff of the network infrastructure leader, Juniper Networks, Ivanti’s Policy Secure provides effective network access control built on a foundation of deep understanding of networks. To compare Ivanti Policy Secure against their competition, see the complete list of top network access control (NAC) solutions. Who Is Ivanti?

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The risk of pasting confidential company data into ChatGPT

Security Affairs

ChatGPT uses this data to build its knowledge base, but it publicly shares information built on it. This percentage could rapidly increase in the next months with the integration of the technology in multiple services, for example through the use of ChatGPT API. They reported that 5.6%

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How to Use MITRE ATT&CK to Understand Attacker Behavior

eSecurity Planet

MITRE ATT&CK (“miter attack”) is an up-to-date and widely-used knowledge base that focuses on how attackers think and operate. It’s based on practical use cases, so companies can better evaluate security issues and get examples of common tactics and techniques used by threat actors.

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Spotlight: Your IoT Risk Is Bigger Than You Think. (And What To Do About It.)

The Security Ledger

In this Spotlight edition of the podcast, we’re joined by Curtis Simpson, the Chief Information Security Officer at Armis. In this Spotlight edition of the podcast, we’re joined by Curtis Simpson, the Chief Information Security Officer at Armis. Curtis Simpson is the Chief Information Security Officer at Armis.

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