Data Breaches

The January patching window for your firm has probably come and gone. But has it? While January included a huge release of patches, several releases in other months have provided more than one headache for the patch management community. These are the patches and updates you need to evaluate if you haven’t already done so. BitLocker Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability In January, additional information came out about CVE-2022-41099, the BitLocker Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability. If…

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The growth of the internet of things (IoT) and connected devices are the biggest contributing factors to organizations’ expanding attack surfaces. That’s according to a new report from Cisco AppDynamics, which revealed that 89% of global IT professionals believe their organization has experienced an expansion in its attack surface over the last two years. The Shift to a Security Approach for the Full Application Stack report surveyed 1,150 IT professionals in organizations across a range…

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Guardz, a Tel Aviv-based startup promising a broad range of out-of-the-box cybersecurity solutions for small and medium-size businesses (SMBs), has announced both a successful $10 million round of seed funding and the broad availability of its flagship product. The premise of the company’s main offering is tight API integration with Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace. Guardz automatically enrolls all user accounts upon activation, and monitors risk posture, performs threat detection on all monitored accounts and…

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Open-source based data governance and security SaaS provider Privacera on Tuesday said that it was integrating with Dremio’s open lakehouse to aid enterprise customers with data governance and data security. A data lakehouse is a data architecture that offers both storage and analytics capabilities, in contrast to data lakes, which store data in native format, and data warehouses, which store structured data (often in SQL format). The native integration between Privacera and Dremio, which comes…

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Identity verification firm Trulioo on Tuesday launched a new global identity platform for “person” and “business” verification. Trulioo so far sold multiple identity products, each operating in their own silos. Their products and services range from person and business verification, to no-code workflow building, low-code integrations, and anti-fraud measures. The new platform combines all these solutions into a single contract for clients who can use the platform to access information matching, identity document verification, proof of…

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Researchers from cybersecurity firm Proofpoint claim to have discovered a new threat campaign involving malicious third-party OAuth apps that are used to infiltrate organizations’ cloud environments. According to a blog on the company’s website, threat actors satisfied Microsoft’s requirements for third-party OAuth apps by abusing the Microsoft “verified publisher” status, employing brand abuse, app impersonation and other social engineering tactics to lure users into authorizing malicious apps. The potential impacts of the campaign, which Proofpoint…

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Cybercrime is a growing scourge that transcends borders, spreading across the boundaries of virtually all the world’s nearly 200 nation-states. From ransomware attacks to rampant cryptocurrency theft, criminal exploitation of borderless digital systems threatens global economic security and the political welfare of all countries. Now, the United Nations has a major initiative to develop a new and more inclusive approach to addressing cybercrime. This revised global approach could spark new laws worldwide to battle cybercrime…

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The security poverty line broadly defines a divide between the organizations that have the means and resources to achieve and maintain mature security postures to protect data, and those that do not. It was first coined by cybersecurity expert Wendy Nather in 2011, and the concept is just as relevant today as it was then (if not more so). It has widely become the benchmark for acceptable cybersecurity, often associated with factors such as company…

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According to the most recent research report from ESG and the Information System Security Association International (ISSA), 57% of organizations claim that they’ve been impacted by the global cybersecurity skills shortage, while 44% of organizations believe the skills shortage has gotten worse over the past few years. The result? Increasing workloads on existing cybersecurity staff, job requisitions open for weeks or months, and high burnout rates and attrition for cybersecurity professionals. (ESG and ISSA will update…

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