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8 free cybersecurity documentaries you can watch right now

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8 free cybersecurity documentaries you can watch right now 07/08/2023 at 08:05 By Help Net Security The line between physical and digital safety continues to blur, making cybersecurity a universal concern. The intricacies of cybersecurity can often feel esoteric, leaving many outside the industry feeling daunted. However, with increasing resources becoming available, getting a handle […]

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Zoom CISO Michael Adams discusses cybersecurity threats, solutions, and the future

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Zoom CISO Michael Adams discusses cybersecurity threats, solutions, and the future 07/08/2023 at 07:32 By Mirko Zorz In this exclusive Help Net Security interview, we delve into the world of cybersecurity with Michael Adams, the CISO at Zoom. Adams analyzes how organizations grapple with the effects of workforce shortages and remote work complications, offering insights

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Navigating the gray zone of ransomware payment practices

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Navigating the gray zone of ransomware payment practices 07/08/2023 at 06:33 By Help Net Security Ransomware remains a lucrative tool for cybercriminals as attackers continue to target a wide array of businesses. In response to this growing threat, an increasing number of organizations are compelled to meet ransom demands, perceiving it as their only viable

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Top 12 vulnerabilities routinely exploited in 2022

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Top 12 vulnerabilities routinely exploited in 2022 04/08/2023 at 16:31 By Helga Labus Cybersecurity agencies from member countries of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance have released a list of the top 12 vulnerabilities routinely exploited in 2022, plus 30 additional ones also “popular” with attackers. The top 12 “In 2022, malicious cyber actors exploited older

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Google makes removal of personal user info from Search easier

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Google makes removal of personal user info from Search easier 04/08/2023 at 13:17 By Helga Labus Google is making it easier for users to remove personal contact information and personal, non-consensual explicit imagery from Google search results. “Of course, removing content from Google Search does not remove it from the web or other search engines,

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August 2023 Patch Tuesday forecast: Software security improvements

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August 2023 Patch Tuesday forecast: Software security improvements 04/08/2023 at 12:17 By Help Net Security The continued onslaught of phishing attacks, ransomware deployment, and other exploitation is forcing the community to pay closer attention to early identification, as well as fast response, to vulnerabilities in their software. In July alone Microsoft addressed 84 CVEs in

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Multi-modal data protection with AI’s help

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Multi-modal data protection with AI’s help 04/08/2023 at 08:02 By Help Net Security Cybersecurity risk is distinct from other IT risk in that it has a thinking, adaptive, human opponent. IT generally must deal with first order chaos and risk much like hurricanes in meteorology or viruses in biology: complex and dangerous – but fundamentally

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The direct impact of cyberattacks on patient safety and care delivery

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The direct impact of cyberattacks on patient safety and care delivery 04/08/2023 at 07:02 By Help Net Security As the healthcare industry continues its rapid transformation through the adoption of digital technologies, it is also confronted with an ever-expanding range of cybersecurity threats. In this Help Net Security interview, Dr. Omar Sangurima, Principal Technical Program

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Russian APT phished government employees via Microsoft Teams

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Russian APT phished government employees via Microsoft Teams 03/08/2023 at 15:17 By Zeljka Zorz An APT group linked to Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service has hit employees of several dozen global organizations with phishing attacks via Microsoft Teams, says Microsoft. A social engineering attack to bypass MFA protection “To facilitate their attack, the actor uses Microsoft

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Ivanti discloses another vulnerability in MobileIron Core (CVE-2023-35082)

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Ivanti discloses another vulnerability in MobileIron Core (CVE-2023-35082) 03/08/2023 at 13:46 By Helga Labus Ivanti has disclosed a critical vulnerability (CVE-2023-35082) affecting old, out-of-support versions of MobileIron Core, an enterprise device solution that has since been rebranded to Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM). “The vulnerability was incidentally resolved in MobileIron Core 11.3 as part of

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Google’s AI Red Team: Advancing cybersecurity on the AI frontier

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Google’s AI Red Team: Advancing cybersecurity on the AI frontier 03/08/2023 at 08:02 By Help Net Security With the rise of ML, traditional red teams tasked with probing and exposing security vulnerabilities found themselves facing a new set of challenges that required a deep and comprehensive understanding of machine learning. Google’s recent announcement about the

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How local governments can combat cybercrime

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How local governments can combat cybercrime 03/08/2023 at 07:01 By Help Net Security Amid a recent uptick in cybercrime on local governments, cities have been left to recover for months after the initial attack. For example, leaders in Dallas, Texas are ready to spend months recovering from an attack that hindered the city’s 911 emergency

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Attackers can turn AWS SSM agents into remote access trojans

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Attackers can turn AWS SSM agents into remote access trojans 02/08/2023 at 16:02 By Zeljka Zorz Mitiga researchers have documented a new post-exploitation technique attackers can use to gain persistent remote access to AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances (virtual servers), as well as to non-EC2 machines (e.g., on-premises enterprise servers and virtual machines, and

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Delivering privacy in a world of pervasive digital surveillance: Tor Project’s Executive Director speaks out

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Delivering privacy in a world of pervasive digital surveillance: Tor Project’s Executive Director speaks out 02/08/2023 at 08:02 By Zeljka Zorz The overarching mission of the US-based non-profit organization the Tor Project is to advance human rights and make open-source, privacy preserving software available to people globally, so that they can browse the internet privately,

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From tech expertise to leadership: Unpacking the role of a CISO

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From tech expertise to leadership: Unpacking the role of a CISO 02/08/2023 at 07:34 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Attila Török, CISO at GoTo, discusses how to balance technical expertise and leadership and how he navigates the rapidly evolving technological landscape. We also delve into the key challenges faced in communicating

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Android n-day bugs pose zero-day threat

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Android n-day bugs pose zero-day threat 01/08/2023 at 14:17 By Helga Labus In the Android ecosystem, n-day vulnerabilities are almost as dangerous as zero-days, according to Google’s review of zero-days exploited in the wild in 2022. N-days functioning as zero-days Zero-days are software bugs that are unknown to the vendor but known to – and

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US government outlines National Cyber Workforce and Education Strategy

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US government outlines National Cyber Workforce and Education Strategy 01/08/2023 at 14:03 By Zeljka Zorz After the release of a National Cybersecurity Strategy and its implementation plan, the Biden-Harris Administration has unveiled the National Cyber Workforce and Education Strategy (NCWES), “aimed at addressing both immediate and long-term cyber workforce needs.” The National Cyber Workforce and

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Keeping the cloud secure with a mindset shift

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Keeping the cloud secure with a mindset shift 01/08/2023 at 08:02 By Help Net Security Gartner estimates that in 2023 worldwide end-user spending on public cloud services will grow by 21.7% and hit nearly $600 billion. Even as the economic downturn has most businesses looking for ways to tighten their belts, the cloud remains one

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Strategies for ensuring compliance and security in outdated healthcare IT systems

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Strategies for ensuring compliance and security in outdated healthcare IT systems 01/08/2023 at 07:02 By Help Net Security With the average price tag for a healthcare data breach at an all-time high, the overall financial damage to an organization is high regarding economic loss and reputation repair. According to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

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Ivanti fixes second zero-day exploited by attackers (CVE-2023-35081)

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Ivanti fixes second zero-day exploited by attackers (CVE-2023-35081) 31/07/2023 at 16:32 By Helga Labus Another actively exploited zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2023-35081) affecting Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) has been identified and fixed. The first zero-day spotted Last week, we reported on a remote unauthenticated API access vulnerability (CVE-2023-35078) affecting Ivanti EPMM having been exploited to target

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