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Manage Open Source Risk With Improved Malware Detection

Malware targeting developers is a major concern that the industry is struggling to catch up with. We know open source software supply chain attacks are a problem with an estimated 700% increase in 2022. Gartner suggests that in the next two years ...

Synopsys Global Partner Program Receives CRN® 5-Star Rating for Second Consecutive Year

The Synopsys Global Partner Program has received the CRN® 5-star rating for the second year in a row. The post Synopsys Global Partner Program Receives CRN® 5-Star Rating for Second Consecutive Year appeared first on Security Boulevard.

SANS First Look Report: Self-Supervised Learning Cybersecurity Platform for Threat Detection

The SANS Institute recently released an analyst First Look Report on MixMode titled, “Self-Supervised Learning Cybersecurity Platform for Threat Detection.” Matt Bromiley, Senior Security Analyst at SANS and author of the report, explores the ...

GoAnywhere Zero-Day Attack Hits Major Orgs

Several major organizations are confirming impact from the latest zero-day exploits hitting Fortra's GoAnywhere software. The post GoAnywhere Zero-Day Attack Hits Major Orgs appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Pro-Russian Hacktivists: A Reaction to a Western Response to a Russian Aggression

Newton’s third law of motion states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. With a slight alteration, Newton's law can be applied to geopolitics: for every action, there will be a more extensive opposite reaction. ...

Australia Dismantles BEC Group That Laundered $1.7 Million

Law enforcement in Australia announce the arrest of four individuals accused of running business email compromise (BEC) schemes. The post Australia Dismantles BEC Group That Laundered $1.7 Million appeared first on SecurityWeek.

VS Code hack shows how supply chain attacks can extend to other software development tools

From an information security perspective, 2022 can be called “The Year of Software Supply Chain Attacks.” Malicious actors have shifted their focus to new landscapes. Ten or 20 years ago, malware was piled up and served through services ...

GitHub starts to make MFA mandatory | Authentication | Contrast Security

Last year, on May 4, 2022, GitHub laid down the authentication law: GitHub Chief Security Officer and SVP of Engineering Mike Hanley announced that by the end of 2023, all contributors to the GitHub.com code repository would be required to enable ...

USENIX Security ’22 – Antoon Purnal, Furkan Turan, Ingrid Verbauwhede – ‘Double Trouble: Combined Heterogeneous Attacks On Non-Inclusive Cache Hierarchies’

Our thanks to USENIX for publishing their Presenter’s outstanding USENIX Security ’22 Conference content on the organization’s’ YouTube channel. Permalink The post USENIX Security ’22 – Antoon Purnal, Furkan Turan, Ingrid ...

‘Grim’ Criminal Abuse of ChatGPT is Coming, Europol Warns    

Criminals are set to take advantage of artificial intelligence like ChatGPT to commit fraud and other cybercrimes, Europe's policing agency warned. The post ‘Grim’ Criminal Abuse of ChatGPT is Coming, Europol Warns     appeared ...

How OPA Helps Simplify Compliance and Create Custom Compliance Rules

Compliance with regulatory standards is essential for cloud environments, not only to meet legal requirements and to meet security and trust standards, but also to manage risk and data governance. All organizations operating in the cloud must ...

Webinar Tomorrow: Understanding Hidden Third-Party Identity Access Risks

Webinar on third-party identity access risks will discuss topics such as unauthorized access, data breaches, and the manipulation or theft of sensitive information The post Webinar Tomorrow: Understanding Hidden Third-Party Identity Access Risks ...

More Cloud Identities, More Problems

Reading Time: 4 minutes It’s no secret large enterprises are struggling to manage cloud identities. In fact, 84% of organizations faced an identity-related security breach in the past year, according to the 2022 Trends in Securing Digital ...

Zoom Taps Okta to Bring Zero-Trust Cybersecurity to Videoconferences

Okta and Zoom today announced an integration through which cybersecurity administrators will be able to centrally manage end-to-end encryption across the Zoom videoconferencing platform. The Okta Authentication for End-to-End Encryption (E2EE) ...

AI/ML’s Role in Software Supply Chain Security

Almost every company has felt the impact of a cybersecurity incident caused by a security breakdown in the software supply chain. According to a study by BlueVoyant, 98% of businesses were negatively affected by a supply chain-related breach, ...

An Approach to Resolving PKI Talent Scarcity

Every year, the Ponemon Institute surveys more than 2,500 IT leaders who are immersed in... The post An Approach to Resolving PKI Talent Scarcity appeared first on Entrust Blog. The post An Approach to Resolving PKI Talent Scarcity appeared first ...

The many faces of the IcedID attack kill chain

Executive Summary The Menlo Labs Team noticed some very interesting and seemingly overlapping IcedID campaigns over the past couple of months. IcedID is a modular trojan that made its appearance in 2017, and since then it’s proven itself to be ...

GitHub Rotates Publicly Exposed RSA SSH Private Key

GitHub replaced the RSA SSH private key used to secure Git operations for GitHub.com after it was exposed in a public GitHub repository. The post GitHub Rotates Publicly Exposed RSA SSH Private Key appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Federating Kubernetes Workloads with Cloud Identities

Your K8s workloads legitimately need access to sensitive cloud resources – federated identities let you grant it easily and securely The post Federating Kubernetes Workloads with Cloud Identities appeared first on Ermetic. The post Federating ...