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Breaches are up, budgets are too, so why isn’t healthcare safer?

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Breaches are up, budgets are too, so why isn’t healthcare safer? 2025-08-11 at 07:11 By Sinisa Markovic A new report from Resilience outlines a growing cyber crisis in the U.S. healthcare sector, where ransomware attacks, vendor compromise, and human error continue to cause widespread disruption. In 2023, breaches exposed 168 million records, and the first […]

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Week in review: SonicWall firewalls targeted in ransomware attacks, Black Hat USA 2025

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Week in review: SonicWall firewalls targeted in ransomware attacks, Black Hat USA 2025 2025-08-10 at 11:01 By Help Net Security Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Black Hat USA 2025 Black Hat USA 2025 took place at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas. Explore

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August 2025 Patch Tuesday forecast: Try, try, again

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August 2025 Patch Tuesday forecast: Try, try, again 2025-08-08 at 09:30 By Help Net Security July turned into a surprisingly busy month. It started slowly with a fairly ‘calm’ Patch Tuesday as I forecasted in my last blog. Although there were 130 new CVEs addressed across all the Microsoft releases, there was only one publicly

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Third-party partners or ticking time bombs?

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Third-party partners or ticking time bombs? 2025-08-08 at 08:46 By Help Net Security In this Help Net Security video, Ngaire Elizabeth Guzzetti, Technical Director Supply Chain at CyXcel, discusses why a third of U.S. organizations don’t trust third-party vendors to manage critical risks and what that means for supply chain security. She breaks down the

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From fake CAPTCHAs to RATs: Inside 2025’s cyber deception threat trends

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From fake CAPTCHAs to RATs: Inside 2025’s cyber deception threat trends 2025-08-08 at 08:07 By Sinisa Markovic Cybercriminals are getting better at lying. That’s the takeaway from a new LevelBlue report, which outlines how attackers are using social engineering and legitimate tools to quietly move through environments before they’re caught. Data showing at what stage

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Fraud controls don’t guarantee consumer trust

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Fraud controls don’t guarantee consumer trust 2025-08-08 at 07:31 By Help Net Security Over a third of companies say they are using AI, including generative AI, to fight fraud, according to Experian. As fraud threats become more complex, companies are accelerating their investments with over half adopting new analytics and building AI models to enhance

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New infosec products of the week: August 8, 2025

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New infosec products of the week: August 8, 2025 2025-08-08 at 07:02 By Anamarija Pogorelec Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past week, featuring releases from Black Kite, Descope, Elastic, ExtraHop, LastPass, and Riverbed. Elastic AI SOC Engine helps SOC teams expose hidden threats Elastic AI SOC Engine (EASE) is a

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What GPT‑5 means for IT teams, devs, and the future of AI at work

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What GPT‑5 means for IT teams, devs, and the future of AI at work 2025-08-07 at 20:58 By Sinisa Markovic OpenAI has released GPT‑5, the newest version of its large language model. It’s now available to developers and ChatGPT users, and it brings some real changes to how AI can be used in business and

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Microsoft urges admins to plug severe Exchange security hole (CVE-2025-53786)

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Microsoft urges admins to plug severe Exchange security hole (CVE-2025-53786) 2025-08-07 at 17:40 By Zeljka Zorz “In an Exchange hybrid deployment, an attacker who first gains administrative access to an on-premises Exchange server could potentially escalate privileges within the organization’s connected cloud environment without leaving easily detectable and auditable trace,” Microsoft has announced on Wednesday.

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SonicWall: Attackers did not exploit zero-day vulnerability to compromise Gen 7 firewalls

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SonicWall: Attackers did not exploit zero-day vulnerability to compromise Gen 7 firewalls 2025-08-07 at 14:34 By Zeljka Zorz Akira ransomware affiliates are not leveraging an unknown, zero-day vulnerability in SonicWall Gen 7 firewalls to breach corporate networks, the security vendor shared today. “Instead, there is a significant correlation with threat activity related to CVE-2024-40766, which

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Photos: Black Hat USA 2025

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Photos: Black Hat USA 2025 2025-08-07 at 11:38 By Help Net Security Here’s a look inside Black Hat USA 2025. The featured vendors are: Stellar Cyber, Vonahi Security, Gurucul, Check Point, HackerOne, EasyDMARC, Elastic, Google, Tines, Veracode, VioletX, Pentera, Keep Aware, Oleria, SpyCloud, Trend Micro and Picus Security. The post Photos: Black Hat USA 2025

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Beyond PQC: Building adaptive security programs for the unknown

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Beyond PQC: Building adaptive security programs for the unknown 2025-08-07 at 09:15 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Jordan Avnaim, CISO at Entrust, discusses how to communicate the quantum computing threat to executive teams using a risk-based approach. He explains why post-quantum cryptography (PQC) is an urgent and long-term priority. Avnaim also

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Cybercriminals are getting personal, and it’s working

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Cybercriminals are getting personal, and it’s working 2025-08-07 at 09:15 By Help Net Security Cybercriminals are deploying unidentifiable phishing kits (58% of phishing sites) to propagate malicious campaigns at scale, indicating a trend towards custom-made or obfuscated deployments, according to VIPRE Security. These phishing kits can’t easily be reverse-engineered, tracked, or caught. AI makes them

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AI can write your code, but nearly half of it may be insecure

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AI can write your code, but nearly half of it may be insecure 2025-08-07 at 09:15 By Help Net Security While GenAI excels at producing functional code, it introduces security vulnerabilities in 45 percent of cases, according to Veracode’s 2025 GenAI Code Security Report, which analyzed code produced by over 100 LLMs across 80 real-world

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Energy companies are blind to thousands of exposed services

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Energy companies are blind to thousands of exposed services 2025-08-07 at 07:02 By Anamarija Pogorelec Many of America’s largest energy providers are exposed to known and exploitable vulnerabilities, and most security teams may not even see them, according to a new report from SixMap. Researchers assessed the external attack surface of 21 major energy companies,

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Adobe patches critical Adobe Experience Manager Forms vulnerabilities with public PoC

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Adobe patches critical Adobe Experience Manager Forms vulnerabilities with public PoC 2025-08-06 at 16:33 By Zeljka Zorz Adobe has released an emergency security update for Adobe Experience Manager Forms on Java Enterprise Edition (JEE), which fix two critical vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-54253, CVE-2025-54254) with a publicly available proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit. Details about the flaws have been public

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Open-source server management platform Proxmox VE 9.0 released

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Open-source server management platform Proxmox VE 9.0 released 2025-08-06 at 16:17 By Help Net Security Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE) 9.0 introduces advancements in both storage and networking capabilities, addressing critical enterprise demands. A highlight is the long-awaited support for snapshots on thick-provisioned LVM shared storage, improving storage management capabilities especially for enterprise users with Fibre

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Trend Micro Apex One flaws exploted in the wild (CVE-2025-54948, CVE-2025-54987)

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Trend Micro Apex One flaws exploted in the wild (CVE-2025-54948, CVE-2025-54987) 2025-08-06 at 15:05 By Zeljka Zorz Unauthenticated command injection vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-54948, CVE-2025-54987) affecting the on-premise version of Trend Micro’s Apex One endpoint security platform are being probed by attackers, the company has warned on Wednesday. Unfortunately for those organizations that use it, a patch

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Cybersecurity and the development of software-defined vehicles

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Cybersecurity and the development of software-defined vehicles 2025-08-06 at 13:18 By Help Net Security In many automotive companies, the same systems-engineering teams are responsible for both safety and security. As a result, cybersecurity is treated as a subset of safety, undergirded by an implicit assumption: “If it’s safe, it must be secure.” But that’s not

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