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- EdFinancial and the Oklahoma Student Loan Authority (OSLA) are notifying over 2.5 million loanees that their personal data was exposed in a data breach.
- The target of the breach was Nelnet Servicing, the Lincoln, Neb.-based servicing system and web portal provider for OSLA and EdFinancial, according to a breach disclosure letter.
- That exposed information included names, home addresses, email addresses, phone numbers and social security numbers for a total of 2,501,324 student loan account holders.
- “With recent news of student loan forgiveness, it’s reasonable to expect the occasion to be used by scammers as a gateway for criminal activity,” Bischoping said.
- Last week, the Biden administration announced a plan to cancel $10,000 of student loan debt for low- and middle-income loanees.
- Researchers uncover a watering hole attack likely carried out by APT TA423, which attempts to plant the ScanBox JavaScript-based reconnaissance tool.
- The threat actor, according to researchers, is believed to be the China-based APT TA423, also known as Red Ladon.
- In lieu of malware, attackers can use ScanBox in conjunction with watering hole attacks.
- Adversaries load the malicious JavaScript onto a compromised website where the ScanBox acts as a keylogger snagging all of a user’s typed activity on the infected watering hole website.
- This allows ScanBox to connect to a set of pre-configured targets,” researchers explain.
- The campaigns are tied to focused abuse of identity and access management firm Okta, which gained the threat actors the 0ktapus moniker, by researchers.
- “These users received text messages containing links to phishing sites that mimicked the Okta authentication page of their organization.”Impacted were 114 US-based firms, with additional victims of sprinkled across 68 additional countries.
- “The 0ktapus campaign has been incredibly successful, and the full scale of it may not be known for some time,” he said.
- What the 0ktapus Hackers WantedThe 0ktapus attackers are believed to have begun their campaign by targeting telecommunications companies in hopes of winning access to potential targets’ phone numbers.
- Those links led to webpages mimicking the Okta authentication page used by the target’s employer.
- Lockbit is by far this summer’s most prolific ransomware group, trailed by two offshoots of the Conti group.
- After a recent dip, ransomware attacks are back on the rise.
- With data gathered by “actively monitoring the leak sites used by each ransomware group and scraping victim details as they are released,” researchers have determined that Lockbit was by far the most prolific ransomware gang in July, behind 62 attacks.
- It may well be that the resurgence in ransomware attacks, and the rise of these two particular groups, are intimately connected.
- Why Ransomware Has BouncedResearchers from NCC Group counted 198 successful ransomware campaigns in July – up 47 percent from June.
- New research indicates that over 80,000 Hikvision surveillance cameras in the world today are vulnerable to an 11 month-old command injection flaw.
- Hikvision – short for Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology – is a Chinese state-owned manufacturer of video surveillance equipment.
- Last Fall, a command injection flaw in Hikvision cameras was revealed to the world as CVE-2021-36260.
- According to David Maynor, senior director of threat intelligence at Cybrary, Hikvision cameras have been vulnerable for many reasons, and for a while.
- Furthermore, IoT devices might not give users any indication that they’re unsecured or out of date.
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- porcorex/Getty ImagesWhen you replace your old but still functional Windows PC with a shiny new model, you have several options for that gently used device.
- With a desktop PC, that might be as easy as swapping out the system drive for a new one.
- The simplest wayFor laptops and desktops where you aren't replacing the system drive, the simplest route is to reset the PC, choosing the option to remove personal files and reinstall Windows.
- On a Windows 11 device, the Reset PC option is under Settings > System > Recovery.
- My favorite for this task is MiniTool Partition Wizard, which includes the Wipe Disk option in free and paid versions.
- National Security AgencySpearphishing attacks can target your phone to install malware, while zero-click exploits can infect your device without any interaction on your part.
- Power your phone off and then back on at least once a week.
- National Security AgencyThe NSA cited several other threats that can impact your mobile device in its report.
- Beyond adopting the NSA's suggestions, you can also turn to a dedicated app to help with your mobile security.
- Also: 7 password rules to live by in 2024, according to security experts"Threats to mobile devices are more prevalent and increasing in scope and complexity," the NSA said in its report.
- zf L/Getty ImagesAs the Internet Archive still struggles to recover from a devastating cyberattack last month -- there's good and bad news.
- "The Wayback Machine, Archive-It, scanning, and national library crawls have resumed, as well as email, blog, helpdesk, and social media communications," Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle said in a blog post on Friday.
- As a non-profit organization devoted to sharing valuable historical information, the Internet Archive has a limited budget.
- The chain of events started last month when two attacks hit the Internet Archive.
- "The stored data of the Internet Archive is safe and we are working on resuming services safely.
- Security researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered the database, which was not password protected or otherwise access controlled, and disclosed the finding to the UN, which secured the database.
- Such incidents are not uncommon, and many researchers regularly find and disclose examples of exposures to help organizations correct data management mistakes.
- The UN Women database is a prime example of a small error that could create additional risk for women, children, and LGBTQ people living in hostile situations worldwide.
- “They're doing great work and helping real people on the ground, but the cybersecurity aspect is still critical,” Fowler tells WIRED.
- “As per our incident response procedure, containment measures were rapidly put in place and investigative actions are being taken,” the spokesperson said of the database Fowler discovered.
- The members, identified by cartoon Shiba Inu avatars, mocked Russian government accounts and used meme warfare to disrupt Moscow’s propaganda over the invasion.
- Among the items funded by these shitposting cartoon dogs is a $250,000 marine drone dubbed “Raccoon’s Revenge” that the Ukrainian government says was used to take out a Russian warship.
- The group has also funded thousands of drones that have become an increasingly important weapon in pushing back Russian forces.
- “This is our only way to win, because the Russian army is bigger than us.
- It is very, very important,” Oleksandr Sokolenko, a commander of the drone unit in the 79th Air Assault Brigade, tells WIRED.
- A $2 million contract that United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement signed with Israeli commercial spyware vendor Paragon Solutions has been paused and placed under compliance review, WIRED has learned.
- The White House’s scrutiny of the contract marks the first test of the Biden administration’s executive order restricting the government’s use of spyware.
- A few days later, on October 8, HSI issued a stop-work order for the award “to review and verify compliance with Executive Order 14093,” a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson tells WIRED.
- The official requested anonymity to speak candidly about the White House’s review of the ICE contract.
- The outcome may be—based on the information and the facts that we have—that this particular vendor and tool does not spur a violation of the requirements in the executive order,” the senior official says.
- If Donald Trump wins the US presidential election in November, the guardrails could come off of artificial intelligence development, even as the dangers of defective AI models grow increasingly serious.
- The federal government has begun overseeing and advising AI companies under an executive order that President Joe Biden issued in October 2023.
- But Trump has vowed to repeal that order, with the Republican Party platform saying it “hinders AI innovation” and “imposes Radical Leftwing ideas” on AI development.
- Trump’s promise has thrilled critics of the executive order who see it as illegal, dangerous, and an impediment to America’s digital arms race with China.
- One provision requires owners of powerful AI models to report to the government about how they’re training the models and protecting them from tampering and theft, including by providing the results of “red-team tests” designed to find vulnerabilities in AI systems by simulating attacks.
- Analysts at the US Department of Homeland Security shared an internal report to local agencies in August, warning them about the economic risks of using Chinese utility storage batteries.
- It warns that the dependence on Chinese batteries could hurt developing a secure supply chain in the US.
- The report says it builds on previous documents that analyzed Chinese “state-supported firms’ use of noncompetitive tactics in the electric vehicle and battery supply chains.” DHS did not respond to a request for further comment.
- In an emailed statement, Fred Zhang, a CATL spokesperson, rejects the categorization that the firm has relied on state support to gain an edge.
- Following efforts to curb Chinese EV companies’ competitiveness, the US government is now also concerned about how domestic utility companies could become too dependent on Chinese batteries for energy storage.
- Cranium launched Detect AI, an AI discovery tool at scale.
- “With the launch of Detect AI, companies can truly embark on a discovery process at scale and meet current and future AI security compliance regulations and guidelines.”Cranium Detect AI deeply understands an enterprise-scale codebase, unlike standard code analysis tools.
- Now, enterprise customers are leveraging Cranium Detect AI to save countless hours early in the AI governance and security process.
- With Cranium Detect AI’s auto-generated AI inventory, Cranium expedites operational governance in large organizations upfront through its end-to-end AI security and trust solution.
- It gains visibility into its AI systems, identifies risks and vulnerabilities, and demonstrates internal and third-party compliance.
- SailPoint launched SailPoint Machine Identity Security, a new Identity Security Cloud product.
- SailPoint Machine Identity Security is a dedicated product built specifically for machine accounts such as service accounts and bots.
- Built on SailPoint Atlas, Machine Identity Security unifies the process of identity security for both machine and human identities, allowing enterprises to manage all identities in a more simplified, holistic manner.
- SailPoint Machine Identity Security strengthens an organization’s security posture by reducing the risk associated with orphaned and unmanaged machine identities.
- By enabling enterprises to manage machine identities with the same degree of visibility, governance and control as human identities, Machine Identity Security helps make the process of identity security simpler and more comprehensive.
- By ingesting Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) data – a list of all software components – the Kusari platform presents a timeline of the software to identify where impacts are likely to surface.
- Kusari helps organizations gain visibility into the following areas:Vulnerabilities: With Kusari’s timeline view, security teams can easily attribute the current vulnerability path so remediated vulnerabilities don’t get lost as new ones arise.
- Licensing: Every piece of open source software has unique licensing requirements.
- As more regulations arise, Kusari helps organizations prove that they understand what is happening in their software and that they are meeting regulatory requirements.
- The Kusari platform builds upon open source software Graph for Understanding Artifact Composition (GUAC), which Kusari co-created and contributed to the OpenSSF.
- As hybrid cloud-, AI-, and quantum-related risks upend the traditional data security paradigm, IBM is launching IBM Guardium Data Security Center – allowing organizations to protect data in any environment, throughout its full lifecycle, and with unified controls.
- IBM Guardium Data Security Center provides a common view of organizations’ data assets, empowering security teams to integrate workflows and address data monitoring and governance, data detection and response, data and AI security posture management, and cryptography management together in a single dashboard.
- IBM Guardium Data Security Center includes generative AI capabilities to help generate risk summaries and boost security professionals’ productivity.
- IBM Guardium AI Security manages security risk and data governance requirements for sensitive AI data and AI models.
- IBM Guardium AI Security integrates with IBM watsonx and other generative AI SaaS providers.
- cPacket Networks launched Packet Capture cStor 200S, the latest addition to its Packet Capture and analytics portfolio.
- While competitors struggle to operate at 100Gbps, the cStor 200S breaks through these limitations, setting a new bar for high-performance packet capture, ensuring every packet is captured, indexed, analyzed, and stored at line-rate.
- The cStor 200S expands cPacket’s robust Packet Capture and Analytics portfolio, which delivers high-performance solutions for both cloud and on-premises environments.
- With support now extending from 10Gbps to 200Gbps, the cStor 200S enables organizations to capture, analyze, and optimize network traffic at unprecedented speeds.
- The cStor 200S is currently deployed at customer sites and will be generally available later this year.
- Samsung zero-day flaw actively exploited in the wildPierluigi Paganini October 22, 2024 October 22, 2024Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) researchers warn of a Samsung zero-day vulnerability that is exploited in the wild.
- Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) warns of a Samsung zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-44068 (CVSS score of 8.1), which is exploited in the wild.
- The company did not confirm that the vulnerability is actively exploited in the wild.
- The fact that Google TAG discovered the flaw suggests that commercial spyware vendors may have used the exploit to target Samsung devices.
- The advisory published by Google Project Zero warns of the availability of a zero-day exploit that is part of an Eòlevation of Privilege chain.
- Experts warn of a new wave of Bumblebee malware attacksPierluigi Paganini October 22, 2024 October 22, 2024Experts warn of a new wave of attacks involving the Bumblebee malware, months after Europol’s ‘Operation Endgame‘ that disrupted its operations in May.
- The Bumblebee malware loader has resurfaced in new attacks, four months after Europol disrupted it during “Operation Endgame” in May.
- The malware is distributed through phishing messages using a malicious attachment or a link to the malicious archive containing Bumblebee.
- Netskope researchers detected new attacks involving the Bumblebee Loader, it is the first occurrence of a Bumblebee campaign they have seen since Operation Endgame.
- The Bumblebee malware uses known traits like an internal DLL name and exported functions.
- U.S. CISA adds ScienceLogic SL1 flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogPierluigi Paganini October 22, 2024 October 22, 2024U.S.
- Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds ScienceLogic SL1 flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.
- The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the ScienceLogic SL1 flaw CVE-2024-9537 (CVSS v4 score: 9.3) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog.
- ScienceLogic SL1 contains a vulnerability related to a third-party component.
- “ScienceLogic SL1 (formerly EM7) is affected by an unspecified vulnerability involving an unspecified third-party component packaged with SL1.
- “According to Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 22-01: Reducing the Significant Risk of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities, FCEB agencies have to address the identified vulnerabilities by the due date to protect their networks against attacks exploiting the flaws in the catalog.
- VMware failed to fully address vCenter Server RCE flaw CVE-2024-38812Pierluigi Paganini October 22, 2024 October 22, 2024VMware addressed a remote code execution flaw, demonstrated in a Chinese hacking contest, for the second time in two months.
- VMware failed to fully address a remote code execution flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-38812 (CVSS score: 9.8), in its vCenter Server platform.
- vCenter Server is a critical component in VMware virtualization and cloud computing software suite.
- “VMware by Broadcom has determined that the vCenter patches released on September 17, 2024 did not completely address CVE-2024-38812.” reads the updated advisory.
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- Cisco states that data published on cybercrime forum was taken from public-facing DevHub environmentPierluigi Paganini October 21, 2024 October 21, 2024Cisco confirms that data published by IntelBroker on a cybercrime forum was taken from the company DevHub environment.
- Cisco confirms that the data posted by the notorious threat actor IntelBroker on a cybercrime forum was stolen from its DevHub environment.
- “Cisco is investigating reports that an unauthorized actor is alleging to have gained access to certain Cisco data and data of our customers.” reads the Reports of Security Incident published by the company.
- To date, our investigation has found no evidence of our systems being impacted.”Cisco states that the attackers obtained the data from a public-facing DevHub environment.
- Out of an abundance of caution, we have disabled public access to the site while we continue the investigation.
- This time period, from election day through the electoral certification process, represents a “window of vulnerability” that intelligence officials expect Russian propaganda networks to pounce on.
- Kremlin-aligned influence actors have repeatedly amplified those claims this year, both through inorganic networks online and at times by laundering pro-Russia narratives through popular American conservative influencers.
- In 2020, U.S. officials revealed that actors tied to the Iranian government were behind a website that made death threats toward federal, state and local election officials.
- Intelligence officials appeared to back up the Clemson researchers’ claims, telling reporters that Moscow not only boosted the rumors around Walz online, but also created fake content to reinforce their credibility.
- Another official said analysts used a mix of proprietary and commercial software tools to analyze the video for signs of manipulation.
- “The incoming administration has a unique opportunity — and a solemn responsibility — to chart a new course in our nation’s cybersecurity journey,” the report says.
- Establishing security standards for operational technology and information technology systems in each sector.
- Giving more authority to the State Department’s Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy to be the focal point of cyber diplomacy work.
- Creating a national K-12 cybersecurity curriculum and expanding programs that award scholarships in exchange for a tenure of government service.
- “With the release of this important report, we are offering the next administration a set of soundpolicy recommendations to further improve national security in the face of growing cybersecurity threats,” said Frank Cilluffo, director of the McCrary Institute.
- The Securities and Exchange Commission said it has reached a settlement with four companies for making materially misleading statements about the impact of the 2020 SolarWinds Orion software breach on their business.
- “Here, the SEC’s orders find that these companies provided misleading disclosures about the incidents at issue, leaving investors in the dark about the true scope of the incidents.”As part of the agreement, the companies have agreed to pay fines without acknowledging wrongdoing.
- The threat actors also repeatedly connected to their network and transferred more than 33 gigabytes of data.
- U.S. officials and private threat intelligence firms attribute the SolarWinds Orion compromise to the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) as part of a long-term espionage campaign.
- AdvertisementAt least nine federal agencies are known to have been breached in the campaign, along with nearly 100 private-sector organizations.
- Ransomware attacks on the health care sector are rising and putting lives at risk, led by Iranian hackers, Microsoft said in a report Tuesday.
- The report, which draws on both internal company data and external data, points to a 300% increase in ransomware attacks on the health sector since 2015, and an increase in stroke and cardiac arrest cases at hospitals receiving patients from nearby facilities paralyzed by such attacks.
- It all amounts to a dangerous trend from conditions during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, when some ransomware groups pledged to avoid attacking the health care sector.
- “That [pledge has] been shoved off the table, unfortunately, and we are seeing a broader targeting of everything that has to do with health care, from hospital systems to clinics to doctors’ offices — really, anything where patient care can be impacted,” Sherrod DeGrippo, director of threat intelligence strategy at Microsoft, told CyberScoop.
- Iranian gangs appear to be targeting health care organizations the most, Microsoft data suggests.
- The Justice Department has formally proposed new regulations that would prevent or restrict the selling and transferring of Americans’ sensitive personal data to adversarial countries.
- Companies collect and sell this data to larger data brokers, who compile granular profiles of consumers that can be sold to the highest bidder.
- Data brokerage, as well as transferring bulk human genomic data or biospecimens to any listed countries, would be barred under the rule.
- Each category of data covered under the rule is subject to different thresholds depending on the sensitivity of the data.
- On a call with reporters, senior DOJ officials said the department received 67 comments on the advanced proposed rule and heard feedback from over 100 companies, industry groups and other stakeholders.
- Cloud-based cyber-attacks saw a marked increase in 2024, with threat actors adopting new tactics to exploit cloud resources at an unprecedented scale, according to Sysdig Threat Research Team’s (TRT) latest report.
- Beyond LLMjacking, which was observed by the firm to target large language models (LLMs), attackers in 2024 weaponized open-source tools and escalated their use of automation, causing financial damage and increasing the attack surface for cloud-hosted enterprises.
- “The stolen enterprise access in the first LLMjacking attack was a local Anthropic Claude 2. x model that could cost victims up to $46,000 per day in consumption costs.
- Weaponized Open-Source Tools Increase Cloud Attack ScaleNotable among the new attacks is the use of SSH-Snake, an open-source tool originally developed for penetration testing.
- Crystalray victims, many of them cloud service users, faced severe security breaches and credential loss, further compounded by the growing number of cloud vulnerabilities.
- The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged four current and former public technology companies with making materially misleading disclosures regarding cybersecurity risks and intrusions relating to the SolarWinds supply chain attack in 2020.
- All four companies have agreed to pay civil penalties to settle the charges:Unisys will pay a $4m civil penalty.
- Avaya will pay a $1m civil penalty.
- The firm stated that a threat actor had accessed a “limited number of the company’s email messages” when it knew the threat actor had also accessed at least 145 files in its cloud file sharing environment.
- The company minimized the attack by failing to disclose the nature of the code the threat actor exfiltrated and the quantity of encrypted credentials the threat actor accessed.
- Nearly 75% of US Senate campaign websites lack Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC) protections, leaving them vulnerable to cyber-attacks, a new report by Red Sift has revealed.
- More recently, Iran has emerged as a significant threat, focusing on disrupting US election processes through cyber-attacks rather than directly influencing voters.
- These threats can slow campaign operations, create disinformation or leak confidential information, all of which can have a devastating impact during critical election periods.
- With increased attention on election security, adopting DMARC reflects a campaign's commitment to protecting democratic processes and preserving public trust.
- The report calls for immediate action to prioritize DMARC implementation across US Senate and presidential campaigns.
- Transak, a fiat-to-crypto payment gateway provider, has reported a security incident which has impacted 92,554 of its users.
- The attacker was then able to gain access to user information stores within the vendor’s dashboard.
- Transak said personal information including names, dates of births, user selfies, and passport and other ID documents were accessed.
- The affected users make up 1.4% of Transak’s base.
- “We deeply empathize with how frustrating and disappointing this must be for the affected users.
- Meta has announced it is deploying facial recognition technology to detect celeb-bait ad scams and recover compromised accounts.
- The firm said it has vetted this use of facial recognition technology through a privacy and risk review process.
- Now, the company will use facial recognition technology to analyze those ads its systems suspect of being a celeb-bait scam.
- This will work by comparing the faces in the advert to the public figure’s Facebook and Instagram profile pictures.
- Meta said this testing demonstrated facial recognition is able to increase the speed and efficacy with which it can detect and enforce against this type of scam.
- An advisory from the CISA, FBI, NSA, their and international partners has been released, warning that Iranian cyber actors are targeting critical infrastructure entities via brute force.
- While the CISA alert specifically mentions critical infrastructure as the target of these malicious actors, this diligence is important to prevent access to your work and personal accounts.”Threat actors leveraging lateral movementWhile the warning discusses Iranian cyber actors, it is important to keep in mind that these cyber actors are not the only nation-state actors utilizing lateral movement.
- Furthermore, the advisory provides details regarding indicators of compromise (IOCs) and tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) deployed by Iranian cyber actors to help organizations identify the threat group’s methods.
- “Cybercriminals are increasingly sophisticated in their efforts to exploit vulnerabilities and sell access to compromised networks, putting critical infrastructure at risk.
- This continuous monitoring and refinement process allows for stronger protection of sensitive data and critical infrastructure.”
- This method targets Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) based AI systems and allows the manipulation of AI systems.
- NHIs now outnumber human identities in most organizations, and securing these non-human accounts is vital, especially in AI-heavy architectures like Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems.
- “To successfully integrate AI-enabled security tools and automation, organizations should start by evaluating the effectiveness of these tools in their specific contexts.
- AI systems see and parse everything, even data that humans might overlook, which makes the threat even more problematic.
- “This is a reminder that the rush to implementing AI systems is far outpacing our ability to grasp much less mitigate the risks.”
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- According to the report, 34% of CIOs ranked securing the network as their number one priority, while 22% of respondents ranked integrating networking and security as their second biggest priority.
- Fifty-seven percent ranked protecting the network against potential threats as one of their top three challenges.
- Fifty-five percent of respondents said built-in security was one of their top three requirements when selecting a networking vendor.
- During AI implementation, 49% of respondents encountered network bandwidth challenges and 30% said they lacked proper guidance and training for employees.
- Thirty-two percent of respondents said they had not yet seen significant ROI from AI investments nor efficiency improvements post-implementation.
- These vulnerabilities are:Microsoft Windows Kernel TOCTOU Race Condition Vulnerability (CVE-2024-30088) Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free Vulnerability (CVE-2024-9680) SolarWinds Web Help Desk Hardcoded Credential Vulnerability (CVE-2024-28987)These are frequent attack vectors for malicious actors and are a particular threat to the federal enterprise.
- The SolarWinds Web Help Desk Hardcoded Credential Vulnerability could permit an unauthenticated users to remotely access internal functionality and alter information.
- “Hardcoded credentials are especially dangerous because they are often difficult for users to detect or modify.
- Weinberg stattes, “This SolarWinds Web Help Desk vulnerability is a perfect storm of security risks.
- Here’s why:“First, help desk systems are treasure troves of sensitive information.
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- As a CISO, making cyber resilience part of daily vocabulary is critical to leveling the playing field.
- So the question becomes, have security leaders prepared their cyber resilience toolkit?
- The yin and yang of cyber resilienceThere are two complementary sides to the cyber resilience toolkit.
- Here is some important guidance when creating a cyber resilience toolkit.
- cyber resilience program updates a standard part of their quarterly review and board discussions.
- Professionals across industries are exploring generative AI for various tasks — including creating information security training materials — but will it truly be effective?
- To address these questions, researchers gave the same assignment to three groups: security experts with ISC2 certifications, self-identified prompt engineering experts, and individuals with both qualifications.
- Would prompts created by security experts or prompt engineering professionals prove more effective?
- Callahan noted that it seemed odd for people trained by security experts to feel they were better at prompt engineering.
- There weren’t enough people available in the university community who self-identified as prompt engineering experts to populate a control category to further split the groups.
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- There has been plenty of hype around secure access service edge.
- Certainly, SASE combines the cloud-delivered security services of SSE with the networking capabilities of the SD-WAN.
- As well as enhancing traditional SD-WAN capabilities, SASE adds centrally controlled, Internet-based networks with built-in networking and security-processing capabilities that are fully integrated with all the different SSE elements.
- Those functions remain critical to extending connectivity beyond an organization’s internal network for secure network access by its remote users.
- The latest tools include features such as dynamic path selection, self-healing wide-area networking capabilities, and a more consistent application and user experience.
- Nation-state attackers look for ‘target-rich, cyber-poor’ victimsPerlroth presented a timeline of nation-state attacks she covered throughout her journalism career, from 2011 to 2021.
- Attacks on this new frontier could take the form of deepfakes of targeting CEOs or nation-state attacks on critical infrastructure.
- On the other hand, there have been significant cyber attacks around Ukraine, including DDoS attacks and the interruption of commercial ViaSat service just before the war began.
- Cyber professionals know how to persuade the C-suite on security matters for the well-being of the entire organization.
- However, cybersecurity professionals must strike a balance between maintaining confidence in existing systems and explaining that threats, including nation-state threats, are real.
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