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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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Budget constraints threaten cybersecurity in government bodies

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Budget constraints threaten cybersecurity in government bodies 07/08/2023 at 07:02 By Help Net Security Government organizations are attractive targets for threat actors whose motivations may be geopolitical, financial, or disruption, according to BlackBerry. Because threat actors may include private individuals, small groups, or state-sponsored APT groups (which use APT tactics), government organizations must defend against

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Week in review: AWS SSM agents as RATs, Patch Tuesday forecast

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Week in review: AWS SSM agents as RATs, Patch Tuesday forecast 06/08/2023 at 11:02 By Help Net Security Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Open-source penetration testing tool BloodHound CE released SpecterOps released version 5.0 of BloodHound Community Edition (CE), a free and open-source penetration testing

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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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New infosec products of the week: August 4, 2023

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New infosec products of the week: August 4, 2023 04/08/2023 at 07:32 By Help Net Security Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past week, featuring releases from Forescout, Menlo Security, Qualys, Sonar, SpecterOps, Synopsys, Traceable AI, and Lineaje. Open-source penetration testing tool BloodHound CE released SpecterOps released version 5.0 of BloodHound

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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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VPNs remain a risky gamble for remote access

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VPNs remain a risky gamble for remote access 04/08/2023 at 06:33 By Help Net Security Organizations are expressing deep concerns about their network security due to the risks from VPNs, according to a new Zscaler report. The report stresses the need for organizations to reevaluate their security posture and migrate to a zero-trust architecture due

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IaaS networking services revenue to hit $19.4 billion in 2023

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IaaS networking services revenue to hit $19.4 billion in 2023 04/08/2023 at 06:02 By Help Net Security The importance of networking to and within cloud environments has grown significantly for enterprise customers as more and more applications, workloads, and data are moved to the cloud, according to IDC. IDC estimates that worldwide revenue for public

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Onyxia’s CPM platform enables CISOs to optimize their security programs

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Onyxia’s CPM platform enables CISOs to optimize their security programs 03/08/2023 at 15:32 By Industry News Onyxia unveiled a AI-powered Cybersecurity Performance Management (CPM) platform, a vital management platform for security leaders to better measure the performance of their cybersecurity programs and reduce risk. By having real-time Cybersecurity Performance Indicator (CPI) metrics and actionable security

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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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7 fake cryptocurrency investment apps discovered in Google Play, Apple App Store

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7 fake cryptocurrency investment apps discovered in Google Play, Apple App Store 03/08/2023 at 09:47 By Help Net Security Sophos released new findings on CryptoRom scams—a subset of pig butchering schemes designed to trick users of dating apps into making fake cryptocurrency investments. Since May, Sophos X-Ops has observed CryptoRom fraudsters refining their techniques, including

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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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Assess multi-cloud security with the open-source CNAPPgoat project

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Assess multi-cloud security with the open-source CNAPPgoat project 03/08/2023 at 07:31 By Help Net Security Ermetic released CNAPPgoat, an open-source project that allows organizations to test their cloud security skills, processes, tools, and posture in interactive sandbox environments that are easy to deploy and destroy. It is available on GitHub. CNAPPgoat supports AWS, Azure (Microsoft

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SCARF cipher sets new standards in protecting sensitive data

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SCARF cipher sets new standards in protecting sensitive data 03/08/2023 at 06:31 By Help Net Security A group of international researchers has achieved a breakthrough in computer security by developing a new and highly efficient cipher for cache randomization. The innovative cipher, designed by Assistant Professor Rei Ueno from the Research Institute of Electrical Communication

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Organizations want stronger AI regulation amid growing concerns

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Organizations want stronger AI regulation amid growing concerns 03/08/2023 at 06:01 By Help Net Security AI professionals are still facing some very real challenges in democratizing data, much less AI (much less Generative AI), across their organizations, according to Dataiku. While the global survey of 400 respondents revealed broad enthusiasm and action around Generative AI,

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Salesforce and Meta suffer phishing campaign that evades typical detection methods

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Salesforce and Meta suffer phishing campaign that evades typical detection methods 02/08/2023 at 17:18 By Help Net Security The Guardio research team discovered an email phishing campaign exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Salesforce’s legitimate email services and SMTP servers. Phishing email sample as was sent from the “@salesforce.com” email address The vulnerability allowed threat actors

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