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Identity & Access
The identity security company beat quarterly expectations and raised its outlook as enterprises face growing pressure to secure AI agents and other non-human identities.
Identity & Access
Organizations must distinguish identity verification, authentication and threat detection, or risk successfully authenticating the attackers they are trying to stop.
Identity & Access
When Android users get a call from a non-contact, they will see more information about the caller, including their country.
Identity & Access
Palo Alto Networks researchers have demonstrated attacks against Google’s synced passkey implementation.
Application Security
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel this week proposed updated policies around telecom providers’ reporting of data breaches.
Application Security
Apple has released an iOS security update with a fix for a persistent denial-of-service flaw in the HomeKit software framework but only after an...
Application Security
Mozilla has released Firefox 96 with patches for 18 security vulnerabilities affecting its flagship web browser and the Thunderbird mail program.Of the newly patched...
Application Security
Microsoft’s first batch of patches for 2022 is a big one: 97 documented security flaws in the Windows ecosystem, some serious enough to cause...
Application Security
Celebrated cryptographer Moxie Marlinspike is stepping down as chief executive at Signal, temporarily turning the reins of the popular encrypted messaging platform to WhatsApp...
Application Security
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is calling out for-profit companies leeching on open-source code, warning that “only a tiny percentage” of downstream vendors are...
Application Security
Threat hunters in the U.K.’s National Health Service have raised an alarm for an unknown threat actor hitting vulnerable VMWare Horizon servers with exploits...
Identity & Access
iProov, a provider of online biometric face authentication, announced on Thursday that it has received a $70 million growth investment from Sumeru Equity Partners.
Application Security
The aggressive Zloader banking malware campaign is exploiting Microsoft’s digital signature verification method to inject code into a signed system DLL, according to researchers...
Application Security
VMware this week shipped security updates for its Workstation, Fusion and ESXi product lines, warning that a heap-overflow vulnerability could expose users to code...
Application Security
With eyes firmly set on the booming attack surface management space, threat intel powerhouse Recorded Future is shelling out $65 million to purchase SecurityTrails,...
Application Security
Enterprise anti-bot and fraud detection startup HUMAN Security has closed a new $100 million funding round and announced plans to expand into new product...
Application Security
Google has expanded its push into the lucrative cybersecurity business with a new deal to acquire Siemplify, a late-state Israeli startup selling SOAR (security...
Application Security
Hospitality chain McMenamins has confirmed that employee information dating back to January 1998 was compromised in a recent data extortion ransomware attack.
Application Security
Anti-malware giant CrowdStrike says it is using telemetry from Intel processors to help detect and thwart sophisticated software exploits that bypass traditional OS-based defenses.
Cloud Security
If not addressed in design and deployment, the risks with microservices can multiply since any application could be composed of hundreds of microservices
Application Security
Users of the popular LastPass password manager are being targeted in so-called “credential stuffing” attacks that use email addresses and passwords obtained from third-party...
Application Security
Security researchers at Check Point are publicly documenting the Equation Group APT's DoubleFeature, a component of DanderSpritz post-exploitation framework.
Application Security
A large-scale, long-term phishing experiment conducted in a 56,000-employee organization has come to a startling conclusion: Those simulated phishing tests commonly seen in corporate...
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For twenty-five years, "data" in security meant logs and events. But logs are a lossy representation of reality.
(Danelle Au)
Organizations must distinguish identity verification, authentication and threat detection, or risk successfully authenticating the attackers they are trying to stop.
(Torsten George)
Silent patches can become exploit intelligence for attackers while leaving defenders without the context needed to prioritize risk.
(Tod Beardsley)
The skills that get a CISO hired are rarely the skills they are judged on later. Most security leaders are stuck in that gap. Closing it is the real job.
(Sravish Sridhar)
As AI dramatically shortens the time from vulnerability disclosure to exploitation, enterprises must look beyond patching to reduce application risk.
(Joshua Goldfarb)