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High-business-impact outages are incredibly expensive

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High-business-impact outages are incredibly expensive 05/10/2023 at 07:01 By Help Net Security In this Help Net Security video, Peter Pezaris, Chief Strategy and Design Officer at New Relic, discusses observability adoption and how full-stack observability leads to better service-level metrics, such as fewer, shorter outages and lower outage costs. 32% of respondents to a recent […]

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Backdoored Android phones, TVs used for ad fraud – and worse!

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Backdoored Android phones, TVs used for ad fraud – and worse! 04/10/2023 at 19:46 By Help Net Security A key monetization mechanism of a sophisticated series of cybercriminal operations involving backdoored off-brand mobile and CTV Android devices has been disrupted, Human Security has announced. The company’s Satori Threat Intelligence and Research Team observed more than

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Qualcomm patches 3 actively exploited zero-days

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Qualcomm patches 3 actively exploited zero-days 04/10/2023 at 16:46 By Helga Labus Qualcomm has fixed three actively exploited vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-33106, CVE-2023-33107, CVE-2023-33063) in its Adreno GPU and Compute DSP drivers. Vulnerabilities exploited in Qualcomm GPU and DSP drivers The US-based semiconductor company has been notified by Google Threat Analysis Group and Google Project Zero that

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Google unveils stricter anti-spam rules for bulk email senders

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Google unveils stricter anti-spam rules for bulk email senders 04/10/2023 at 13:17 By Helga Labus To keep Gmail users’ inboxes “safer and more spam-free”, Google is introducing new requirements for bulk senders (of commercial email). “Last year we started requiring that emails sent to a Gmail address must have some form of authentication. And we’ve

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Cybertech Europe 2023 video walkthrough

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Cybertech Europe 2023 video walkthrough 04/10/2023 at 12:31 By Help Net Security In this Help Net Security video, we take you inside Cybertech Europe 2023 at La Nuvola Convention Center in Rome. The video features the following vendors: Accenture, Armis, Atlantica, Cisco, Cloudflare, CyberArk, Cyber Guru, Cybergym, DGS, Forcepoint, IBM Security, KnowBe4, Lutech, ManageEngine, Netgroup,

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Making privacy sustainable: Incorporating privacy into the ESG agenda

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Making privacy sustainable: Incorporating privacy into the ESG agenda 04/10/2023 at 08:02 By Help Net Security Data breaches have been rising in frequency and magnitude over the last two decades. In fact, the Identity Theft Resource Centre (ITRC) found that between 2005 and 2020, data breach events in the US alone increased from 57 to

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Tackling cyber risks head-on using security questionnaires

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Tackling cyber risks head-on using security questionnaires 04/10/2023 at 07:33 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Gaspard de Lacroix-Vaubois, CEO at Skypher, talks about the implementation of security questionnaires and how they facilitate assessments and accountability across all participants in the technology supply chain, fostering trust and safeguarding sensitive data. Many organizations

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Understanding the layers of LLM security for business integration

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Understanding the layers of LLM security for business integration 04/10/2023 at 07:01 By Help Net Security In this Help Net Security video, Ivana Bartoletti, Global Privacy Officer at Wipro, discusses how organizations should deal with and deploy LLMs securely. Those who push the apocalypse scenario of monster machines taking over the world and destroying humans

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Zero-day in Arm GPU drivers exploited in targeted attacks (CVE-2023-4211)

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Zero-day in Arm GPU drivers exploited in targeted attacks (CVE-2023-4211) 03/10/2023 at 14:16 By Zeljka Zorz A vulnerability (CVE-2023-4211) in the kernel drivers for several Mali GPUs “may be under limited, targeted exploitation,” British semiconductor manufacturer Arm has confirmed on Monday, when it released drivers updated with patches. Arm’s Mali GPUs are used on a

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Evolving conversations: Cybersecurity as a business risk

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Evolving conversations: Cybersecurity as a business risk 03/10/2023 at 08:03 By Help Net Security Board members often lack technical expertise and may not fully grasp cyber risks. On the other hand, CISOs are more accustomed to interfacing with IT staff. This is understandable; the board is responsible for guiding high-level decision-making. They rarely become involved

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CISO’s compass: Mastering tech, inspiring teams, and confronting risk

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CISO’s compass: Mastering tech, inspiring teams, and confronting risk 03/10/2023 at 07:32 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Okey Obudulu, CISO at Skillsoft, talks about the increasing complexity of the CISO role and challenges they face. He discusses the business environment, tech innovation, the evolving regulatory landscape, limited resources, and budgets. Obudulu

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GenAI in software surges despite risks

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GenAI in software surges despite risks 03/10/2023 at 07:05 By Help Net Security In this Help Net Security video, Ilkka Turunen, Field CTO at Sonatype, discusses how generative AI influences and impacts software engineers’ work and the software development lifecycle. According to a recent Sonatype survey of 800 developers (DevOps) and application security (SecOps) leaders,

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Critical zero-days in Exim revealed, only 3 have been fixed

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Critical zero-days in Exim revealed, only 3 have been fixed 02/10/2023 at 17:03 By Zeljka Zorz Six zero-days in Exim, the most widely used mail transfer agent (MTA), have been revealed by Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) last Wednesday. Due to what seems to be insufficient information and poor communication, fixes for only three

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Critical vulnerability in WS_FTP Server exploited by attackers (CVE-2023-40044)

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Critical vulnerability in WS_FTP Server exploited by attackers (CVE-2023-40044) 02/10/2023 at 14:17 By Helga Labus Progress Software, the company behind the recently hacked MOVEit file-sharing tool, has recently fixed two critical vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-40044, CVE-2023-42657) in WS_FTP Server, another popular secure file transfer solution. Proof-of-concept code for CVE-2023-40044 has been available since Friday, and Rapid7 researchers

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Most dual ransomware attacks occur within 48 hours

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Most dual ransomware attacks occur within 48 hours 02/10/2023 at 12:16 By Helga Labus Since July 2023, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has noticed a new trend: dual ransomware attacks on the same victim, occurring in close proximity of one another. Dual ransomware attacks Dual ransomware attacks are when against the same victim occurr

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9 essential ransomware guides and checklists available for free

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9 essential ransomware guides and checklists available for free 02/10/2023 at 08:03 By Help Net Security According to Fortinet, ransomware activity has intensified, registering an increase of 13 times compared to the beginning of 2023 in terms of all malware detections. The rise of Ransomware-as-a-Service has primarily driven this surge in ransomware variations. According to

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Securing GitHub Actions for a safer DevOps pipeline

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Securing GitHub Actions for a safer DevOps pipeline 02/10/2023 at 07:32 By Mirko Zorz GitHub Actions provides a platform for continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD), enabling your build, test, and deployment process automation. It allows you to establish workflows that build and test each pull request in your repository and deploy approved pull requests

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Protecting against FraudGPT, ChatGPT’s evil twin

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Protecting against FraudGPT, ChatGPT’s evil twin 02/10/2023 at 07:01 By Help Net Security FraudGPT is the evil counterpart to ChatGPT. Criminals use it to target businesses with phishing emails and scams with speed and accuracy like never before. The AI can be prompted to create the most realistic phishing emails, perfected down to a business’

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Malicious ads creep into Bing Chat responses

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Malicious ads creep into Bing Chat responses 29/09/2023 at 16:46 By Helga Labus Users of Bing Chat, the GPT-4-powered search engine Microsoft introduced earlier this year, are being targeted with ads leading to malware. According to Malwarebytes researchers, searching for Advanced IP Scanner (network-scanning software) or MyCase (legal case management software) may result in an

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