Category: HelpnetSecurity

Tax-related scams escalate as filing deadline approaches
12
Mar
2024

Tax-related scams escalate as filing deadline approaches

As the April 15, 2024 tax filing deadline approaches in the US, some old and some new tax-related scams targeting…

Image-based phishing tactics evolve - Help Net Security
12
Mar
2024

Image-based phishing tactics evolve – Help Net Security

While 70% of organizations feel their current security stacks are effective against image-based and QR code phishing attacks, 76% were…

Microsoft: Russian hackers accessed internal systems, code repositories
11
Mar
2024

Microsoft: Russian hackers accessed internal systems, code repositories

Midnight Blizzard (aka APT29), a group of Russian hackers tied to the country’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), has leveraged information…

CloudGrappler: Open-source tool detects activity in cloud environments
11
Mar
2024

CloudGrappler: Open-source tool detects activity in cloud environments

CloudGrappler is an open-source tool designed to assist security teams in identifying threat actors within their AWS and Azure environments….

10 free cybersecurity guides you might have missed
11
Mar
2024

10 free cybersecurity guides you might have missed

This collection of free cybersecurity guides covers a broad range of topics, from resources for developing cybersecurity programs to specific…

Transitioning to memory-safe languages: Challenges and considerations
11
Mar
2024

Transitioning to memory-safe languages: Challenges and considerations

In this Help Net Security interview, Omkhar Arasaratnam, General Manager at the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF), discusses the evolution…

Advanced AI, analytics, and automation are vital to tackle tech stack complexity
11
Mar
2024

Advanced AI, analytics, and automation are vital to tackle tech stack complexity

97% of technology leaders find traditional AIOps models are unable to tackle the data overload, according to Dynatrace. Organizations are…

Week in review: Attackers use phishing emails to steal NTLM hashes, Patch Tuesday forecast
10
Mar
2024

Week in review: Attackers use phishing emails to steal NTLM hashes, Patch Tuesday forecast

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: What organizations need to know…

Cisco patches Secure Client VPN flaw that could reveal authentication tokens (CVE-2024-20337)
08
Mar
2024

Cisco patches Secure Client VPN flaw that could reveal authentication tokens (CVE-2024-20337)

Cisco has fixed two high-severity vulnerabilities affecting its Cisco Secure Client enterprise VPN and endpoint security solution, one of which…

How new and old security threats keep persisting
08
Mar
2024

How new and old security threats keep persisting

Security leaders recognize that the pattern of buying new tech and the frantic state of find-fix vulnerability management is not…

March 2024 Patch Tuesday forecast: A popular framework updated
08
Mar
2024

March 2024 Patch Tuesday forecast: A popular framework updated

We’re almost at our third Patch Tuesday and wrapping up the first quarter 2024. Time flies by! Microsoft is starting…

Immediate AI risks and tomorrow's dangers
08
Mar
2024

Immediate AI risks and tomorrow’s dangers

“At the most basic level, AI has given malicious attackers superpowers,” Mackenzie Jackson, developer and security advocate at GitGuardian, told…