Legacy authentication leads to growing consumer frustration
Despite widespread usage of passwords lingering on, consumers want to use stronger, more user-friendly alternatives, according to FIDO Alliance. Entering a password manually without any…
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The real impact of the cybersecurity poverty line on small organizations
The financial constraints many smaller organizations face often cast shadows on their ability to fortify defenses. In this Help Net Security interview, Brent Deterding, CISO…
GenAI investments surge, anticipated to hit $143 billion by 2027
Enterprises will invest nearly $16 billion worldwide on GenAI solutions in 2023, according to IDC. This spending, which includes GenAI software and related infrastructure hardware…
AuditBoard unveils AI and analytics capabilities to help teams automate critical workflows
AuditBoard revealed powerful new capabilities purpose-built to enable teams to automate critical workflows, surface key strategic insights, and stay on top of proliferating risks. These…
Google Play Protect takes on malicious apps with code-level scanning
Google is enhancing Google Play Protect’s real-time scanning to include code-level scanning, to keep Android devices safe from malicious and unwanted apps, especially those downloaded…
Google ads for KeePass, Notepad++ lead to malware
Users using Google to search for and download the KeePass password manager and the Notepad++ text editor may have inadvertently gotten saddled with malware, says…
2024 cybersecurity predictions: GenAI edition
Unless you have lived under a rock for the past year, you know that generative artificial intelligence applications, such as ChatGPT, have penetrated many aspects…
The must-knows about low-code/no-code platforms
The era of AI has proven that machine learning technologies have a unique and effective capability to streamline processes that alter the ways we live…
Reinforcing cybersecurity: The network’s role to prevent, detect, and respond to attacks
It’s always DNS. That’s what the famous internet meme popular among sysadmins says anyway. It’s funny because while clearly, every network issue doesn’t resolve to…
Cyber resilience starts in the C-suite
In many cases, senior executives/line-of-business leaders are minimally engaged in their company’s cyber preparedness initiatives — only 33% of CEOs or managing directors and 21%…
Business resilience becomes primary force behind cybersecurity investments
Over 80% of northern European organizations emphasize that the need to ensure business resilience is the top driver for their cybersecurity investments, according to Nixu.…
State-sponsored APTs are leveraging WinRAR bug
A number of government-backed APTs are exploiting CVE-2023-38831, a file extension spoofing vulnerability in WinRAR, a widely used file archiver utility for Windows. CVE-2023-38831 has…