Tag: tool
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Fraud Watch: E-Skimmers and Scam E-Commerce Sites Still Bite
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in SecurityNewsCriminals Listed 269 Million Stolen Payment Card For Sale in 2024, Researchers Find. It’s an old story: Criminals rake in profits by using digital e-skimming software, running scam e-commerce sites and selling stolen payment card data. Unfortunately, it’s made continually new thanks to adaptability of cybercriminals, who keep their tool set relevant and ever more…
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Stratoshark: Wireshark for the cloud now available!
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in SecurityNewsStratoshark is an innovative open-source tool that brings Wireshark’s detailed network visibility to the cloud, providing users with a standardized approach to cloud … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/01/22/stratoshark-wireshark-cloud/
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How to Handle Secrets at the Command Line [cheat sheet included]
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in SecurityNewsDevelopers need to prevent credentials from being exposed while working on the command line. Learn how you might be at risk and what tools and methods to help you work more safely. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/01/how-to-handle-secrets-at-the-command-line-cheat-sheet-included/
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Graylark schließt öffentlichen Zugang zu KI-Tool für Geolokalisierung
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in SecurityNewsDas KI-Tool Geospy erkennt Orte auf Fotos. Bisher war es öffentlich zugänglich. Nachdem ein US-Medium berichtet hat, wurde der Zugang geschlossen. First seen on heise.de Jump to article: www.heise.de/news/Graylark-schliesst-oeffentlichen-Zugang-zu-KI-Tool-fuer-Geolokalisierung-10252109.html
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Spooks of the internet came alive this Halloween
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in SecurityNewsHalloween 2024 made history with a massive spike in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, with one particular assault reaching over 5 Terabits-per-second (Tbps) worth of phony traffic.In its quarterly analysis of DDoS attacks, Cloudflare reported a surge in hyper-volumetric attacks in the fourth quarter of 2024.”In the fourth quarter, over 420 of those attacks…
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Discover Hidden Browsing Threats: Free Risk Assessment for GenAI, Identity, Web, and SaaS Risks
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in SecurityNewsAs GenAI tools and SaaS platforms become a staple component in the employee toolkit, the risks associated with data exposure, identity vulnerabilities, and unmonitored browsing behavior have skyrocketed. Forward-thinking security teams are looking for security controls and strategies to address these risks, but they do not always know which risks to prioritize. In some cases,…
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Mitiga Banks $30M Series B to Expand Cloud and SaaS Security Platform
New York/Israel startup selling threat detection, investigation, and response tools raised $30 million in a Series B led by SYN Ventures. The post Mitiga Banks $30M Series B to Expand Cloud and SaaS Security Platform appeared first on SecurityWeek. First seen on securityweek.com Jump to article: www.securityweek.com/mitiga-banks30m-series-b-to-expand-cloud-and-saas-security-platform/
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Mitiga Brings In $30M for Cloud and SaaS Protection Growth
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in SecurityNewsSeries B Funding Round to Drive European Expansion, R&D and Automated Remediation. Mitiga, a cloud security firm, has secured $30M in Series B funding to expand its solutions for detecting and responding to threats in public cloud and SaaS environments. Funds will support European market entry and R&D into automated remediation tools, boosting security operations…
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Mitiga Banks$30M Series B to Expand Cloud and SaaS Security Platform
New York/Israel startup selling threat detection, investigation, and response tools banks $30 million in a Series B led by SYN Ventures. The post Mitiga Banks$30M Series B to Expand Cloud and SaaS Security Platform appeared first on SecurityWeek. First seen on securityweek.com Jump to article: www.securityweek.com/mitiga-banks30m-series-b-to-expand-cloud-and-saas-security-platform/
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UK Government Debuts AI Tools for Enhanced Public Services
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in SecurityNews‘Humphrey’ Meant so Streamline Civil Service Work Across Whitehall. The British government on Tuesday launched artificial intelligence-powered tools intended to help civil servants offer improved public service in a first step toward implementing a plan meant to transform the United Kingdom into a world AI leader. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/uk-government-debuts-ai-tools-for-enhanced-public-services-a-27344
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Three Keys to Modernizing Data Security: DSPM, AI, and Encryption
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Tags: access, ai, automation, best-practice, business, cloud, compliance, container, control, cyber, cybercrime, data, data-breach, detection, encryption, GDPR, incident response, infrastructure, privacy, regulation, risk, saas, security-incident, skills, software, strategy, threat, tool, vulnerabilityThree Keys to Modernizing Data Security: DSPM, AI, and Encryption andrew.gertz@t“¦ Tue, 01/21/2025 – 14:56 Organizations worldwide face a “perfect storm” of increasing and ever-evolving cyber threats. Internal and external factors are at play, elevating cyber risks and their consequences and mandating new approaches to safeguard data. A recent study based on responses from over…
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Echtzeit-Deepfakes werden das neue Phishing
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in SecurityNewsOhne Zweifel: Die künstliche Intelligenz wird auch das Jahr 2025 bestimmen, auch und insbesondere in der Cybersecurity. Eines der Felder, in der sie schon einige Zeit eingesetzt wird, sind mittels Midjourney und ähnlichen Tools erstellte Fake-Bilder. Ein echter Meilenstein war hier wohl das Bild vom Papst in der weißen Daunenjacke, das im März 2023 veröffentlicht…
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7 top cybersecurity projects for 2025
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in SecurityNews
Tags: access, advisory, ai, backup, best-practice, breach, business, cio, ciso, cloud, compliance, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, detection, encryption, framework, google, governance, infrastructure, intelligence, law, mitigation, monitoring, network, resilience, risk, risk-management, service, strategy, technology, threat, tool, vulnerabilityAs 2025 dawns, CISOs face the grim reality that the battle against cyberattackers never ends. Strong and carefully planned cybersecurity projects are the best way to stay a step ahead of attackers and prevent them gaining the upper hand.”Urgency is the mantra for 2025,” says Greg Sullivan, founding partner of cybersecurity services firm CIOSO Global.…
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EU to take aim at healthcare cyber threat
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Tags: attack, cyber, cyberattack, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, extortion, healthcare, malicious, ransomware, service, threat, toolThe European Commission is presenting an action plan to strengthen cybersecurity in healthcare as one of its key priorities in the first 100 days of the commission’s new mandate.The healthcare sector has been under increasing pressure from cyberattacks in the past few years, with 309 cybersecurity incidents reported by member states in 2023. Ransomware tops…
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OpenVPN Easy-rsa Vulnerability Allows Attacker to Bruteforce Private CA key
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in SecurityNewsA significant security vulnerability, designated as CVE-2024-13454, has been discovered in the OpenVPN Easy-RSA tool, specifically affecting versions from 3.0.5 to 3.2.0 that utilize OpenSSL 3. This flaw pertains to the incorrect encryption of password-protected Certificate Authority (CA) private keys when using the easyrsa build-ca command. Instead of employing the secureaes-256-cbccipher as intended, Easy-RSA incorrectly defaults to…
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Ridding your network of NTLM
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Tags: attack, authentication, cloud, crowdstrike, cve, email, encryption, exploit, group, hacker, ibm, Internet, jobs, malicious, microsoft, network, ntlm, password, service, technology, tool, update, vulnerability, windowsMicrosoft has hinted at a possible end to NTLM a few times, but with quite a few Windows 95 or 98 in use that do not support the alternative, Kerberos, it won’t be an easy job to do. There is the option to disable NTLM when using Azure Active Directory but that may not always…
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PowerSchool Faces 23 Lawsuits Over Schools’ Mega Data Breach
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in SecurityNewsCustomers Question Why PowerSource Support Tool Had Direct Access to Their Systems. Educational software-maker PowerSchool faces over 20 lawsuits seeking class-action status, filed in the wake of a massive data breach involving current and former student and faculty data being held by an as-yet-unknown number of school districts across the U.S., Canada and Bermuda. First…
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Forward-Thinking Industry Leaders Sponsor Most Inspiring Women in Cyber Awards 2025
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in SecurityNewsEskenzi PR are proud to announce that KnowBe4, Mimecast, Varonis, Bridewell, Certes, and Pentest Tools have joined BT as sponsors for this year’s Most Inspiring Women in Cyber Awards. The 5th annual event, held at the iconic BT Tower on the 26th February 2025, aims to celebrate trailblazers from across the cybersecurity industry who are…
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âš¡ THN Weekly Recap: Top Cybersecurity Threats, Tools and Tips [20 January]
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in SecurityNewsAs the digital world becomes more complicated, the lines between national security and cybersecurity are starting to fade. Recent cyber sanctions and intelligence moves show a reality where malware and fake news are used as tools in global politics. Every cyberattack now seems to have deeper political consequences. Governments are facing new, unpredictable threats that…
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Pumakit Sophisticated Linux Rootkit That Persist Even After Reboots
Pumakit is a sophisticated rootkit that leverages system call interception to manipulate file and network activity. It ensures persistence through kernel-level embedding that allows for continued operation after reboots. By tampering with logs and employing anti-detection techniques that include disabling security tools, it hinders forensic investigations and maintains stealthy operations. This rootkit facilitates data exfiltration…
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How organizations can secure their AI code
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Tags: ai, application-security, awareness, backdoor, breach, business, chatgpt, ciso, compliance, control, credentials, crime, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, finance, github, healthcare, LLM, malicious, ml, open-source, organized, programming, risk, risk-management, software, startup, strategy, supply-chain, technology, tool, training, vulnerabilityIn 2023, the team at data extraction startup Reworkd was under tight deadlines. Investors pressured them to monetize the platform, and they needed to migrate everything from Next.js to Python/FastAPI. To speed things up, the team decided to turn to ChatGPT to do some of the work. The AI-generated code appeared to function, so they…
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Midsize firms universally behind in slog toward DORA compliance
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Tags: ai, business, ciso, compliance, cybersecurity, dora, finance, germany, insurance, intelligence, monitoring, resilience, risk, service, skills, technology, toolBeginning Friday, Jan. 17, all EU financial institutions are now required to operate in compliance with the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA). The EU directive aims to increase cybersecurity in the financial industry. However, studies show that many companies are still struggling with implementation.According to a November 2024 survey from metafinanz, the average level of…
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Direkt vor den Augen der Nutzer: Angreifer schmuggeln Malware in Bilder auf Website
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in SecurityNewsMalware-by-Numbers-Kits und GenAI machen Cyberkriminellen das Leben leichter als jemals zuvor. HP veröffentlicht seinen neuesten Threat Insights Report, der zeigt, wie Cyberkriminelle Malware-Kits und generative künstliche Intelligenz (GenAI) einsetzen, um effizientere Angriffe zu entwickeln [1]. Die neusten Tools reduzieren nicht nur den Zeitaufwand für die Erstellung von neuen Angriffskomponenten, sondern auch die erforderlichen Fähigkeiten…. First…
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Diese Security-Technologien haben ausgedient
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Tags: ai, authentication, bug-bounty, ciso, cloud, compliance, credentials, cyberattack, cyersecurity, firewall, gartner, Hardware, network, password, penetration-testing, risk, service, siem, strategy, tool, vpn, vulnerability, waf, zero-trust