Category: HelpnetSecurity

06
Oct
2023

Poor cybersecurity habits are common among younger employees

One in three employees believe their actions do not impact their organization’s security, according to Ivanti. Unsafe cybersecurity habits among…

05
Oct
2023

Eyes everywhere: How to safely navigate the IoT video revolution

Cameras are coming to a connected device near you. Cheap image sensors from old mobile phones are flooding the market…

05
Oct
2023

LLMs lower the barrier for entry into cybercrime

Cybercriminals employ evolving attack methodologies designed to breach traditional perimeter security, including secure email gateways, according to Egress. “Without a…

05
Oct
2023

The root cause of open-source risk

2023 saw twice as many software supply chain attacks as 2019-2022 combined. Sonatype logged 245,032 malicious packages in 2023. One…

05
Oct
2023

Soft skills continue to challenge the cybersecurity sector

New cybersecurity findings pinpoint areas where cybersecurity experts are lacking, with interpersonal skills, cloud computing, and security measures standing out…

04
Oct
2023

Backdoored Android phones, TVs used for ad fraud – and worse!

A key monetization mechanism of a sophisticated series of cybercriminal operations involving backdoored off-brand mobile and CTV Android devices has…

04
Oct
2023

Qualcomm patches 3 actively exploited zero-days

Qualcomm has fixed three actively exploited vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-33106, CVE-2023-33107, CVE-2023-33063) in its Adreno GPU and Compute DSP drivers. Vulnerabilities exploited…

04
Oct
2023

Cloaked’s privacy app and web-based platform put people in control of their personal data

Cloaked has launched its privacy app and web-based platform that gives people control of their personal data by creating unlimited,…

04
Oct
2023

Google unveils stricter anti-spam rules for bulk email senders

To keep Gmail users’ inboxes “safer and more spam-free”, Google is introducing new requirements for bulk senders (of commercial email)….

04
Oct
2023

Amazon: AWS root accounts must have MFA enabled

Amazon wants to make it more difficult for attackers to compromise Amazon Web Services (AWS) root accounts, by requiring those…

04
Oct
2023

Factors leading to organizations losing control over IT and security environments

Companies are challenged with the growing need to connect everything in their business while maintaining control over their security, productivity,…

04
Oct
2023

Making privacy sustainable: Incorporating privacy into the ESG agenda

Data breaches have been rising in frequency and magnitude over the last two decades. In fact, the Identity Theft Resource…