Data Breaches

BigID is adding a feature that lets end users of its data intelligence platform manually adjust classification models, in an effort to make those more precise without the need for advanced coding knowledge. The company announced today that the new feature, called classifier tuning, would allow users to adjust machine learning models in real time, leading to improved accuracy in the classification of machine-discovered data. BigID said that the idea is to help businesses, which…

Announced in June 2022, the Cybercrime Atlas is an initiative from the World Economic Forum (WEF) to map activities of cybercriminals and create a database that can be used by law enforcement across the world to disrupt the cyber-criminal ecosystem. Cybercrime Atlas officially launched in February 2023 in a partnership between WEF and Banco Santander, Fortinet, Microsoft, and PayPal. Cybercrime Atlas was conceptualized by WEF’s Partnership against Cybercrime, which includes more than 40 public and…

Researchers warn that the UEFI firmware in many motherboards made by PC hardware manufacturer Gigabyte injects executable code inside the Windows kernel in an unsafe way that can be abused by attackers to compromise systems. Sophisticated APT groups are abusing similar implementations in the wild. “While our ongoing investigation has not confirmed exploitation by a specific threat actor, an active widespread backdoor that is difficult to remove poses a supply chain risk for organizations with…

Improperly deactivated and unmaintained Salesforce sites are vulnerable to threat actors who can gain access to sensitive business data and personally identifiable information (PII) by simply changing the host header. That’s according to new research from Varonis Threat Labs, which explores the threats posed by Salesforce “ghost sites” that are no longer needed, set aside, but not deactivated. These sites are typically not maintained or tested against vulnerabilities, while admins fail to update security measures…

Cybersecurity vendors Trellix and Netskope have announced new support for Amazon Security Lake from AWS, which became generally available on May 30. Trellix customers can now integrate their security data lake into the Trellix XDR security operations platform to enhance detection and response capabilities for their AWS environments. Meanwhile, Netskope customers can export logs from the Netskope Intelligent Security Service Edge (SSE) platform to Amazon Security Lake to improve visibility and threat remediation. AWS launched…

Barracuda has patched a zero-day vulnerability that had been exploited since October to backdoor customers’ Email Security Gateway (ESG) appliances with custom malware and steal data, the company said on Tuesday.  “On May 19, 2023, Barracuda Networks identified a remote command injection vulnerability (CVE-2023-2868) present in the Barracuda Email Security Gateway (appliance form factor only) versions 5.1.3.001-9.2.0.006,” the company said, adding that the vulnerability stemmed from incomplete input validation of user-supplied .tar files as it…

At the very heart of enterprise security is the tension between convenience and safety. The business longs for the ease of users, in competition with the demands of security. Authentication is a main theater for this tension, directly impacting the onboarding and login experience. Federated identity is at the forefront in addressing this tension, affording a good user experience without sacrificing security. Federated identity management (FIM) makes it possible to share a single digital identity…

Phishing was the most common type of identity-related incident in 2022, according to a study by Identity Defined Security Alliance (IDSA), a nonprofit identity and security intelligence firm. The study, commissioned through Dimensional Research, also revealed that the top phishes among the incidents included email phishing, spear phishing, and vishing/smishing incidents. “With a spike in digital identities comes an increase in cyberattacks targeting them. By far the most significant reason behind this was employees unknowingly…