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Global roaming fraud losses to surpass $8 billion by 2028

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Global roaming fraud losses to surpass $8 billion by 2028 04/09/2023 at 06:31 By Help Net Security Losses from global roaming fraud are anticipated to exceed $8 billion by 2028; driven by the increase in bilateral roaming agreements for data-intensive use cases over 5G networks, according to Juniper Research. In turn, it predicts fraudulent data […]

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Infosec products of the month: August 2023

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Infosec products of the month: August 2023 04/09/2023 at 06:02 By Help Net Security Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past month, featuring releases from: Action1, Adaptive Shield, Bitdefender, Bitwarden, Forescout, ImmuniWeb, Kingston Digital, LastPass, Lineaje, LOKKER, Menlo Security, MongoDB, Netskope, NetSPI, OffSec, Qualys, SentinelOne, Solvo, SonarSource, SpecterOps, Synopsys, ThreatConnect, Traceable

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Championing cybersecurity regulatory affairs with Nidhi Gani

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Championing cybersecurity regulatory affairs with Nidhi Gani 03/09/2023 at 13:02 By Help Net Security Nidhi Gani is a seasoned regulatory affairs professional with over a decade of experience in cybersecurity, medical devices, and digital health. She’s worked with devices ranging from heart and lung machines to rehabilitation devices. Nidhi works at Embecta as a Regulatory

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Week in review: 11 search engines for cybersecurity research, PoC for RCE in Juniper firewall released

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Week in review: 11 search engines for cybersecurity research, PoC for RCE in Juniper firewall released 03/09/2023 at 11:05 By Help Net Security Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Adapting authentication to a cloud-centric landscape In this Help Net Security interview, Florian Forster, CEO at Zitadel,

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New infosec products of the week: September 1, 2023

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New infosec products of the week: September 1, 2023 01/09/2023 at 07:32 By Help Net Security Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past week, featuring releases from Ciphertex Data Security, ComplyCube, Fortinet, and MixMode. Ciphertex strengthens data security with SecureNAS CX-160KSSD-X The SecureNAS CX-160KSSD-X storage unit is powered by an Intel

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Cybercriminals use research contests to create new attack methods

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Cybercriminals use research contests to create new attack methods 01/09/2023 at 07:17 By Help Net Security Adversary-sponsored research contests on cybercriminal forums focus on new methods of attack and evasion, according to Sophos. The contests mirror legitimate security conference ‘Call For Papers’ and provide the winners considerable financial rewards and recognition from peers and also

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Understand the fine print of your cyber insurance policies

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Understand the fine print of your cyber insurance policies 01/09/2023 at 06:32 By Help Net Security A significant gap is emerging between insurance providers, as organizations skip the fine print and seek affordable and comprehensive coverage, potentially putting them in a tough place when they need to use this safety net, according to a Delinea

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Exploring the traits of effective chief audit executives

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Exploring the traits of effective chief audit executives 01/09/2023 at 06:03 By Help Net Security Chief audit executives (CAEs) have identified risk orientation, stakeholder management, and team leadership as the top three characteristics of the most effective individuals, according to Gartner. In April 2023, Gartner surveyed 114 CAEs across 180 areas to identify the most

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Cisco VPNs with no MFA enabled hit by ransomware groups

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Cisco VPNs with no MFA enabled hit by ransomware groups 31/08/2023 at 14:46 By Zeljka Zorz Since March 2023 (and possibly even earlier), affiliates of the Akira and LockBit ransomware operators have been breaching organizations via Cisco ASA SSL VPN appliances. “In some cases, adversaries have conducted credential stuffing attacks that leveraged weak or default

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Apple offers security researchers specialized iPhones to tinker with

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Apple offers security researchers specialized iPhones to tinker with 31/08/2023 at 13:05 By Helga Labus Apple is inviting security researchers to apply for the Apple Security Research Device Program (SRDP) again, to discover vulnerabilities and earn bug bounties. Apple started the Apple SRDP in 2019. In the intervening years, participating researchers have identified 130 security-critical

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Trojanized Signal, Telegram apps found on Google Play, Samsung Galaxy Store

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Trojanized Signal, Telegram apps found on Google Play, Samsung Galaxy Store 31/08/2023 at 12:18 By Help Net Security ESET researchers have identified two active campaigns targeting Android users, where the threat actors behind the tools for Telegram and Signal are attributed to the China-aligned APT group GREF. Most likely active since July 2020 and since

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The power of passive OS fingerprinting for accurate IoT device identification

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The power of passive OS fingerprinting for accurate IoT device identification 31/08/2023 at 07:31 By Help Net Security The number of IoT devices in enterprise networks and across the internet is projected to reach 29 billion by the year 2030. This exponential growth has inadvertently increased the attack surface. Each interconnected device can potentially create

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What does optimal software security analysis look like?

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What does optimal software security analysis look like? 31/08/2023 at 07:01 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Kevin Valk, co-CEO at Codean, discusses the consequences of relying solely on automated tools for software security. He explains how these tools can complement human knowledge to enhance software security analysis and emphasizes the need

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The secret habits of top-performing CISOs

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The secret habits of top-performing CISOs 31/08/2023 at 06:02 By Help Net Security 69% of top-performing CISOs dedicate recurring time on their calendars for personal professional development, according to Gartner. This is compared with just 36% of bottom-performing CISOs who do so. “As the CISO role continues to rapidly evolve, it becomes even more critical

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A Fake Signal App Was Planted On Google Play By China-Linked Hackers

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A Fake Signal App Was Planted On Google Play By China-Linked Hackers 30/08/2023 at 17:02 By Thomas Brewster, Forbes Staff Hackers who previously targeted Uyghurs evaded Google Play security checks to push a fake Signal app for Android. It uses a never previously-documented method to spy on the encrypted comms tool. This article is an

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VMware fixes critical vulnerability in Aria Operations for Networks (CVE-2023-34039)

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VMware fixes critical vulnerability in Aria Operations for Networks (CVE-2023-34039) 30/08/2023 at 14:01 By Helga Labus VMware has patched one critical (CVE-2023-34039) and one high-severity vulnerability (CVE-2023-20890) in Aria Operations for Networks, its popular enterprise network monitoring tool. About the vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-34039, CVE-2023-20890) CVE-2023-34039 is a network bypass vulnerability arising as a result of a

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Meter collaborates with Cloudflare to launch DNS Security

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Meter collaborates with Cloudflare to launch DNS Security 30/08/2023 at 13:02 By Industry News Meter announced DNS Security, built in partnership with Cloudflare. Meter DNS Security is now widely available for all Meter Network customers, expanding Meter’s existing NaaS offering and saving teams both time and money, while also improving overall network performance and security,

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Google launches tool to identify AI-generated images

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Google launches tool to identify AI-generated images 30/08/2023 at 12:46 By Helga Labus Google is launching a beta version of SynthID, a tool that identifies and watermarks AI-generated images. The tool will initially be available to a limited number of customers that use Imagen, Google’s cloud-based AI model for generating images from text. Google SynthID

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