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Microsoft, GitHub announce application security testing tools for Azure DevOps

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Microsoft, GitHub announce application security testing tools for Azure DevOps 24/05/2023 at 14:34 By Zeljka Zorz GitHub has announced that its application security testing tools are now more widely available for subscribers of Microsoft’s Azure DevOps Services. Enabling GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps (Source: Microsoft) What is GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps? GitHub […]

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Legitimate Android app transforms into data-snooping malware

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Legitimate Android app transforms into data-snooping malware 24/05/2023 at 11:16 By Help Net Security ESET researchers have discovered a trojanized Android app named iRecorder – Screen Recorder. It was available on Google Play as a legitimate app in September 2021, with malicious functionality most likely added in August 2022. During its existence, the app was

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Navigating the quantum leap in cybersecurity

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Navigating the quantum leap in cybersecurity 24/05/2023 at 07:17 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, we sit down with Dr. Atsushi Yamada, the newly appointed CEO of ISARA, a security solutions company specializing in creating quantum-safe cryptography. With over two decades of experience in cryptography and cybersecurity, Dr. Yamada discusses his vision

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6 ChatGPT risks for legal and compliance leaders

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6 ChatGPT risks for legal and compliance leaders 24/05/2023 at 06:12 By Help Net Security Legal and compliance leaders should address their organization’s exposure to six specific ChatGPT risks, and what guardrails to establish to ensure responsible enterprise use of generative AI tools, according to Gartner. “The output generated by ChatGPT and other large language

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Simple OSINT techniques to spot AI-fueled disinformation, fake reviews

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Simple OSINT techniques to spot AI-fueled disinformation, fake reviews 23/05/2023 at 12:20 By Helga Labus Error messages that ChatGPT and other AI language models generate can be used to uncover disinformation campaigns, hate speech and fake reviews via OSINT collection and analysis, says Nico Dekens, director of intelligence at ShadowDragon. AI-generated content found via Google

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Online scams target bargain-hunting holiday travelers

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Online scams target bargain-hunting holiday travelers 23/05/2023 at 06:01 By Help Net Security 30% of adults have fallen victim or know someone who has fallen victim to an online scam while trying to save money when booking travel, according to McAfee. 34% of those who had money stolen have lost over $1,000 before their trip

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Vulnerability in Zyxel firewalls may soon be widely exploited (CVE-2023-28771)

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Vulnerability in Zyxel firewalls may soon be widely exploited (CVE-2023-28771) 22/05/2023 at 14:05 By Zeljka Zorz A recently fixed command injection vulnerability (CVE-2023-28771) affecting a variety Zyxel firewalls may soon be exploited in the wild, Rapid7 researchers have warned, after publishing a technical analysis and a PoC script that triggers the vulnerability and achieves a

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Wireless Broadband Alliance CEO on key drivers for Wi-Fi adoption in enterprise networks

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Wireless Broadband Alliance CEO on key drivers for Wi-Fi adoption in enterprise networks 22/05/2023 at 07:47 By Mirko Zorz The demand for robust, reliable, and high-speed connectivity is increasing rapidly in the era of relentless digital transformation. This Help Net Security interview with Tiago Rodrigues, CEO at Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA), delves into the future

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Malicious links and misaddressed emails slip past security controls

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Malicious links and misaddressed emails slip past security controls 22/05/2023 at 06:33 By Help Net Security The majority of organizations use six or more communication tools, across channels, with email remaining the channel seen as the most vulnerable to attacks (38%), according to Armorblox. Respondents mentioned multi-channel attacks are gaining momentum and frequency. More than

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What flying a plane can teach you about cybersecurity

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What flying a plane can teach you about cybersecurity 22/05/2023 at 06:12 By Help Net Security Before taking on the role as GM of IAI’s cyber division, Esti Peshin was a member of Israel’s parliament, wielding both legislation and regulation to strengthen the country’s renowned high-tech ecosystem. Despite her commitments, Esti shared with the Left

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Week in review: KeePass vulnerability, Apple fixes exploited WebKit 0-days

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Week in review: KeePass vulnerability, Apple fixes exploited WebKit 0-days 21/05/2023 at 11:01 By Help Net Security Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Apple fixes WebKit 0-days under attack (CVE-2023-28204, CVE-2023-32373, CVE-2023-32409) Apple has released security updates for iOS and iPadOS, macOS, tvOS and watchOS, delivering

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Apple fixes WebKit 0-days under attack (CVE-2023-28204, CVE-2023-32373, CVE-2023-32409)

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Apple fixes WebKit 0-days under attack (CVE-2023-28204, CVE-2023-32373, CVE-2023-32409) 19/05/2023 at 14:19 By Zeljka Zorz Apple has released security updates for iOS and iPadOS, macOS, tvOS and watchOS, delivering fixes for many vulnerabilities but, most importantly, for CVE-2023-32409, a WebKit 0-day that “may have been actively exploited.” The notes accompanying the updates also revealed that

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DarkBERT could help automate dark web mining for cyber threat intelligence

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DarkBERT could help automate dark web mining for cyber threat intelligence 19/05/2023 at 13:05 By Helga Labus Researchers have developed DarkBERT, a language model pretrained on dark web data, to help cybersecurity pros extract cyber threat intelligence (CTI) from the Internet’s virtual underbelly. DarkBERT pretraining process and evaluated use case scenarios (Source: KAIST/S2W) DarkBERT: A

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New infosec products of the week: May 19, 2023

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New infosec products of the week: May 19, 2023 19/05/2023 at 07:30 By Help Net Security Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past week, featuring releases from Bitwarden, Cloudflare, ComplyAdvantage, Enzoic, Neurotechnology, Nozomi Networks, and Satori. ComplyAdvantage Fraud Detection identifies and prevents transaction fraud Fraud Detection uses AI and machine learning

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Inadequate tools leave AppSec fighting an uphill battle for cloud security

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Inadequate tools leave AppSec fighting an uphill battle for cloud security 19/05/2023 at 06:32 By Help Net Security AppSec teams are stuck in a catch-up cycle, unable to keep up with the increasingly rapid, agile dev pace, and playing security defense via an endless and unproductive vulnerability chase, according to Backslash Security. Costly ‘defensive tax’

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Europe: The DDoS battlefield

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Europe: The DDoS battlefield 19/05/2023 at 06:07 By Help Net Security DDoS attacks appear to reflect major geo-political challenges and social tensions and have become an increasingly significant part in the hybrid warfare arsenal, according to Arelion. As the Ukrainian authorities sought a safe harbour for digital state registries and databases, Arelion saw the distribution

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Cisco fixes critical flaws in Small Business Series Switches

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Cisco fixes critical flaws in Small Business Series Switches 18/05/2023 at 12:50 By Helga Labus Nine vulnerabilities – 4 of them critical – have been found in a variety of Cisco Small Business Series Switches. PoC exploit code is available (but not public), and there is no indication that they are being exploited in the

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Enhancing open source security: Insights from the OpenSSF on addressing key challenges

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Enhancing open source security: Insights from the OpenSSF on addressing key challenges 18/05/2023 at 08:00 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, we meet a prominent industry leader. Brian Behlendorf, CTO at the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF), shares insights on the influence of his experiences with the White House CTO office, World

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Identity crimes: Too many victims, limited resources

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Identity crimes: Too many victims, limited resources 18/05/2023 at 08:00 By Help Net Security The Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) has documented incidents of identity theft reported during 2022 and the first quarter of 2023, highlighting the use of strategies by criminals to convince people to willingly share protected information. The number of reported identity

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Organizations’ cyber resilience efforts fail to keep up with evolving threats

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Organizations’ cyber resilience efforts fail to keep up with evolving threats 18/05/2023 at 08:00 By Help Net Security A steady increase in cyberattacks and evolving threat landscape are resulting in more organizations turning their attention to building long-term cyber resilience; however, many of these programs are falling short and fail to prove teams’ real-world cyber

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