Category: HelpnetSecurity

The importance of a good API security strategy
21
Feb
2024

The importance of a good API security strategy

In 2024, API requests accounted for 57% of dynamic internet traffic around the globe, according to the Cloudflare 2024 API…

10 cybersecurity startups to watch in 2024
21
Feb
2024

10 cybersecurity startups to watch in 2024

At Help Net Security, we’ve been following the cybersecurity business landscape closely for the past 25 years. Through our Industry…

TruffleHog: Open-source solution for scanning secrets
21
Feb
2024

TruffleHog: Open-source solution for scanning secrets

TruffleHog is an open-source scanner that identifies and addresses exposed secrets throughout your entire technology stack. “TruffleHog was originally a…

Alleged Raccoon Infostealer operator extradited, verification site set up for victims
21
Feb
2024

Alleged Raccoon Infostealer operator extradited, verification site set up for victims

A Ukrainian national was extradited to the United States from the Netherlands after being indicted for crimes related to fraud,…

LockBit disrupted by international law enforcement task force
20
Feb
2024

LockBit disrupted by international law enforcement task force

On Monday afternoon, LockBit’s leak site has been taken over by a coalition of law enforcement agencies and is showing…

LockBit takedown: Infrastructure disrupted, criminals arrested, decryption keys recovered
20
Feb
2024

LockBit takedown: Infrastructure disrupted, criminals arrested, decryption keys recovered

In the wake of yesterday’s surprise law enforcement takeover of LockBit’s leak site, the UK National Crime Agency (NCA) and…

Clean links and sophisticated scams mark new era in email attacks
20
Feb
2024

Clean links and sophisticated scams mark new era in email attacks

Analysis of 7 billion emails shows clean links are duping users, malicious EML attachments increased 10-fold in Q4, and social…

36% of code generated by GitHub CoPilot contains security flaws
20
Feb
2024

36% of code generated by GitHub CoPilot contains security flaws

Security debt, defined as flaws that remain unfixed for longer than a year, exists in 42% of applications and 71%…

How to make sense of the new SEC cyber risk disclosure rules
20
Feb
2024

How to make sense of the new SEC cyber risk disclosure rules

SEC’s new cybersecurity risk management, strategy, governance, and incident disclosure rules, which require increased transparency around cybersecurity incidents, have been…

How decentralized identity is shaping the future of data protection
20
Feb
2024

How decentralized identity is shaping the future of data protection

In this Help Net Security interview, Patrick Harding, Chief Architect at Ping Identity, discusses the promises and implications of decentralized…

RCE vulnerabilities fixed in SolarWinds enterprise solutions
19
Feb
2024

RCE vulnerabilities fixed in SolarWinds enterprise solutions

SolarWinds has released updates for Access Rights Manager (ARM) and (Orion) Platform that fix vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to…

Inside the strategy of Salesforce's new Chief Trust Officer
19
Feb
2024

Inside the strategy of Salesforce’s new Chief Trust Officer

Recently, Salesforce named Brad Arkin, previously Chief Security & Trust Officer at Cisco, the company’s new Chief Trust Officer. This…