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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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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 -
One in ten GenAI prompts puts sensitive data at risk
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in SecurityNewsDespite their potential, many organizations hesitate to fully adopt GenAI tools due to concerns about sensitive data being inadvertently shared and possibly used to train … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/01/20/genai-prompts-risk/
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Building Security in Maturity Model ein Leitfaden für mehr Softwaresicherheit
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Tags: toolUnabhängig davon, welches Geschäftsmodell einem Unternehmen zugrunde liegt, heutzutage ist es zwangsläufig ein Softwareunternehmen auch dann, wenn es selbst keine Softwarelösungen anbietet. Das Building Security in Maturity Model (BSIMM) ist dabei mehr als ein Tool, es ist auch eine Gemeinschaft von Unternehmen, die auf dasselbe Ziel hinarbeiten [1]. BSIMM, der jährlich erscheinende Bericht… First seen on…
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A Brief Guide for Dealing with ‘Humanless SOC’ Idiots
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in SecurityNewsimage by Meta.AI lampooning humanless SOC My former “colleagues” have written several serious pieces of research about why a SOC without humans will never happen (“Predict 2025: There Will Never Be an Autonomous SOC”, “The “Autonomous SOC” Is A Pipe Dream”, “Stop Trying To Take Humans Out Of Security Operations”). But I wanted to write…
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US hits back against China’s Salt Typhoon group
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Tags: attack, backdoor, china, cisa, ciso, communications, computer, control, crypto, cve, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, defense, detection, disinformation, espionage, exploit, finance, government, group, infosec, infrastructure, intelligence, ivanti, law, malicious, mandiant, microsoft, network, north-korea, office, tactics, technology, theft, threat, tool, vpn, vulnerabilityThe US is hitting back against the threat group, dubbed Salt Typhoon by Microsoft, which is allegedly behind recent cyber attacks against American telecommunications providers, as part of a wider campaign against Chinese-based hacking.On Friday the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said it is sanctioning Sichuan Juxinhe Network Technology, a…
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Cisco’s homegrown AI to help enterprises navigate AI adoption
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in SecurityNewsAs the world rushes to integrate AI into all aspects of enterprise applications, there’s a pressing need to secure data-absorbing AI systems from malicious interferences.To achieve that, Cisco has announced Cisco AI Defense, a solution designed to address the risks introduced by the development, deployment, and usage of AI.According to Tom Gillis, SVP and GM…
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Google Cloud Researchers Uncover Flaws in Rsync File Synchronization Tool
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in SecurityNewsAs many as six security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the popular Rsync file-synchronizing tool for Unix systems, some of which could be exploited to execute arbitrary code on a client.”Attackers can take control of a malicious server and read/write arbitrary files of any connected client,” the CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC) said in an advisory.…
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Stop wasting money on ineffective threat intelligence: 5 mistakes to avoid
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Tags: business, ciso, compliance, cyber, cybersecurity, data, detection, edr, finance, group, incident response, infrastructure, intelligence, jobs, malware, monitoring, risk, risk-management, siem, soc, strategy, tactics, technology, threat, tool, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementStrong capabilities in cyber threat intelligence (CTI) can help take a cybersecurity program to the next level on many different fronts. When organizations choose quality sources of threat intelligence that are relevant to their technology environments and their business context, these external sources can not only power swifter threat detection but also help leaders better…
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Amplified by AI Tools, API Attacks Hit 55% of IT Teams
Kong’s API Security Perspectives Report Says Many Teams Unprepared for AI Threats. Despite 92% of companies securing their APIs, 40% of leaders doubt whether their investments are adequate against AI-driven threats, said Kong’s API Security Perspectives Report. Only 13% of organizations in the U.S. and 4% in the U.K. admit to taking no specific measures…
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Beware cybersecurity tech that’s past its prime, 5 areas to check or retire
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Tags: access, advisory, ai, antivirus, attack, authentication, breach, bug-bounty, ciso, cloud, control, credentials, cyberattack, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, defense, detection, encryption, endpoint, firewall, Hardware, network, password, penetration-testing, risk, router, siem, software, strategy, switch, threat, tool, vpn, vulnerability, waf, zero-trustCybersecurity leaders can choose from an ever-expanding list of digital tools to help them ward off attacks and, based on market projections, they’re implementing plenty of those options.Gartner predicts a 15% increase in cybersecurity spending for 2025, with global expenditures expected to reach $212 billion in the upcoming year. The research and consulting firm says…
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2025 Prediction 2: The Rise Of AI-Generated Deepfake Attacks Will Escalate In 2025 And Will Continue To Target High-Profile Individuals
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in SecurityNewsOn January 7, we published a press release to share our five predictions for cybersecurity in 2025. Over the next few weeks, we’ll publish a blog series that provides additional commentary on each prediction. This is the second blog in the series. Check out the first one here. Prediction Key Takeaways: AI-powered tools like deepfakes……
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Grip vs SSPM: What’s the Difference? – Grip Security
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in SecurityNewsDiscover how Grip complements SSPM tools by uncovering shadow SaaS, and addressing identity risks, providing comprehensive SaaS security for your organization. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/01/grip-vs-sspm-whats-the-difference-grip-security/
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KnowBe4 warnt vor neuer Angriffskampagne gegen YouTube-Influencer
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in SecurityNewsDie Cyberkriminellen setzen Multi-Parser-Tools ein, um potenzielle Opfer auf YouTube zu identifizieren, deren Daten zu extrahieren und E-Mail-Adressen zu sammeln. First seen on infopoint-security.de Jump to article: www.infopoint-security.de/knowbe4-warnt-vor-neuer-angriffskampagne-gegen-youtube-influencer/a39444/
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Microsoft sues overseas threat actor group over abuse of OpenAI service
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in SecurityNewsMicrosoft has filed suit against 10 unnamed people (“Does”), who are apparently operating overseas, for misuse of its Azure OpenAI platform, asking the Eastern District of Virginia federal court for damages and injunctive relief.The suit was filed in late December but was not made public until last Friday, when the initial sealed filings were revealed.…