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Chronon: Open-source data platform for AI/ML applications

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Chronon: Open-source data platform for AI/ML applications 2024-05-27 at 07:01 By Mirko Zorz Chronon is an open-source, end-to-end feature platform designed for machine learning (ML) teams to build, deploy, manage, and monitor data pipelines for machine learning. Chronon enables you to harness all the data within your organization, including batch tables, event streams, and services, […]

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Digital ID adoption: Implementation and security concerns

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Digital ID adoption: Implementation and security concerns 2024-05-27 at 06:31 By Help Net Security As digital transformation accelerates, understanding how businesses are preparing for and implementing digital ID technologies is crucial for staying ahead in security and efficiency, according to Regula. The role of digital identity in efficiency and services security Digital identity is considered

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Week in review: Google fixes yet another Chrome zero-day exploit, YouTube as a cybercrime channel

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Week in review: Google fixes yet another Chrome zero-day exploit, YouTube as a cybercrime channel 2024-05-26 at 11:01 By Help Net Security Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Google fixes yet another Chrome zero-day exploited in the wild (CVE-2024-5274) For the eighth time this year, Google

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US retailers under attack by gift card-thieving cyber gang

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US retailers under attack by gift card-thieving cyber gang 2024-05-24 at 14:01 By Zeljka Zorz Earlier this month, the FBI published a private industry notification about Storm-0539 (aka Atlas Lion), a Morocco-based cyber criminal group that specializes in compromising retailers and creating fraudulent gift cards. Microsoft then went more in-dept on the group’s tactics, techniques,

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Google fixes yet another Chrome zero-day exploited in the wild (CVE-2024-5274)

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Google fixes yet another Chrome zero-day exploited in the wild (CVE-2024-5274) 2024-05-24 at 10:46 By Zeljka Zorz For the eighth time this year, Google has released an emergency update for its Chrome browser that fixes a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2024-5274) with an in-the-wild exploit. About CVE-2024-5274 As per usual, Google keeps technical details of the vulnerability

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Product showcase: Alert – Data breach detector for your email, credit card, and ID

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Product showcase: Alert – Data breach detector for your email, credit card, and ID 2024-05-24 at 08:31 By Help Net Security Compared to the last quarter of 2023, data breaches rose from 81M to 435M in Q1 2024. That’s a 5-fold increase in just a few months. One of the most common ways data breaches

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Fail2Ban: Ban hosts that cause multiple authentication errors

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Fail2Ban: Ban hosts that cause multiple authentication errors 2024-05-24 at 08:02 By Mirko Zorz Fail2Ban is an open-source tool that monitors log files, such as /var/log/auth.log, and blocks IP addresses that exhibit repeated failed login attempts. It does this by updating system firewall rules to reject new connections from those IP addresses for a configurable

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Despite increased budgets, organizations struggle with compliance

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Despite increased budgets, organizations struggle with compliance 2024-05-24 at 07:31 By Help Net Security Only 40% of organizations feel fully prepared to meet the compliance demands of rising cybersecurity regulations, according to a new Swimlane report. Organizations still feel unprepared for new regulations despite 93% of organizations rethinking their strategies and 92% increasing budgets. In

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Worried about job security, cyber teams hide security incidents

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Worried about job security, cyber teams hide security incidents 2024-05-24 at 07:01 By Help Net Security The frequency and severity of cyberattacks are increasing—yet most businesses remain unprepared, according to VikingCloud. Between a growing talent shortage, alert fatigue, and new sophisticated attack methods, companies are more susceptible than ever. The research reveals that 40% of

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Effective GRC programs rely on team collaboration

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Effective GRC programs rely on team collaboration 2024-05-24 at 06:31 By Help Net Security One in three organizations are not currently able to proactively identify, assess, and mitigate risk with their GRC program, nor are they able to ensure compliance with regulations and frameworks – both key aspects of a mature, holistic GRC program, according

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New infosec products of the week: May 24, 2024

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New infosec products of the week: May 24, 2024 2024-05-24 at 06:01 By Help Net Security Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past week, featuring releases from CyberArk, OneTrust, PlexTrac, and Strike Graph. CyberArk CORA AI accelerates identity threat detection CyberArk announced CyberArk CORA AI, a new set of AI-powered capabilities

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Compromised recording software was served from vendor’s official site, threat researchers say

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Compromised recording software was served from vendor’s official site, threat researchers say 2024-05-23 at 18:01 By Zeljka Zorz Legitimate recording software JAVS Viewer has been saddled with loader malware and has been served from the developer’s site since at least April 2, a threat researcher has warned last month. After analyzing a flagged installer detected

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GitHub fixes maximum severity Enterprise Server auth bypass bug (CVE-2024-4985)

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GitHub fixes maximum severity Enterprise Server auth bypass bug (CVE-2024-4985) 2024-05-23 at 13:16 By Zeljka Zorz A critical, 10-out-of-10 vulnerability (CVE-2024-4985) allowing unrestricted access to vulnerable GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES) instances has been fixed by Microsoft-owned GitHub. Fortunately, there is a catch that may narrow down the pool of potential victims: instances are vulnerable to

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HHS pledges $50M for autonomous vulnerability management solution for hospitals

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HHS pledges $50M for autonomous vulnerability management solution for hospitals 2024-05-23 at 10:18 By Zeljka Zorz As organizations in the healthcare sector continue to be a prime target for ransomware gangs and CISA warns about a vulnerability (CVE-2023-43208) in a healthcare-specific platform being leveraged by attackers, the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) has

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CISOs pursuing AI readiness should start by updating the org’s email security policy

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CISOs pursuing AI readiness should start by updating the org’s email security policy 2024-05-23 at 08:03 By Anamarija Pogorelec Over the past few years, traditional phishing messages — with their pervasive linguistic errors, thinly-veiled malicious payloads, and often outlandish pretexts — have been on the decline. Easily detected by most of today’s standard email security

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Strategies for transitioning to a SASE architecture

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Strategies for transitioning to a SASE architecture 2024-05-23 at 07:33 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security, Prakash Mana, CEO at Cloudbrink, discusses the primary challenges companies face when transitioning to a SASE architecture and how to overcome them. What are companies’ primary challenges when transitioning to a SASE architecture, and how can they

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Ransomware fallout: 94% experience downtime, 40% face work stoppage

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Ransomware fallout: 94% experience downtime, 40% face work stoppage 2024-05-23 at 07:01 By Help Net Security Within the last 12 months, 48% of organizations identified evidence of a successful breach within their environment, according to Arctic Wolf. To fully understand the gravity of this statistic, it is important to understand that, although 48% of these

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Machine identities lack essential security controls, pose major threat

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Machine identities lack essential security controls, pose major threat 2024-05-23 at 06:01 By Help Net Security Siloed approaches to securing human and machine identities are driving identity-based attacks across enterprises and their ecosystems, according to CyberArk. The CyberArk 2024 Identity Security Threat Landscape Report was conducted across private and public sector organizations of 500 employees

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Windows’ new Recall feature: A privacy and security nightmare?

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Windows’ new Recall feature: A privacy and security nightmare? 2024-05-22 at 15:32 By Zeljka Zorz Microsoft has announced the Copilot+ line of Windows 11-powered PCs that, among other things, will have Recall, a feature that takes screenshots every few seconds, encrypts them, saves them, and leverages AI to allow users to search through them for

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Veeam fixes auth bypass flaw in Backup Enterprise Manager (CVE-2024-29849)

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Veeam fixes auth bypass flaw in Backup Enterprise Manager (CVE-2024-29849) 2024-05-22 at 11:46 By Zeljka Zorz Veeam has patched four vulnerabilities in Backup Enterprise Manager (VBEM), one of which (CVE-2024-29849) may allow attackers to bypass authentication and log in to its web interface as any user. With no user interaction required for remote exploitation and

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