Cybersecurity
The urgent reality of machine identity security in 2025
The importance of machine identity security has reached a critical juncture in 2025. With machine identities now far outnumbering human ones, securing these digital credentials has become a top cybersecurity priority for enterprises. However, as the CyberArk 2025 State of Machine Identity Security Report shows, many of the 1,200 security leaders in organizations we surveyed—across the U.S., U.K., Australia,…
Security could be the use case AI PCs need | TechTarget
In an era where interest in AI PCs is soaring and injecting life into what was a stagnant endpoint device market, the enthusiasm has been met with a lack of clearly defined use cases. The early use cases touted by hardware and software vendors often revolved around unified communications and collaboration. While that’s a…
How to recognize and prevent deepfake scams – Help Net Security
Deepfakes are a type of synthetic media created using AI and machine learning. In simple terms, they produce videos, images, audio, or text that look and sound real, even though the events depicted never actually happened. These altered clips spread across social media, messaging apps, and video-sharing platforms, blurring the line between reality and fiction….
Stealing user credentials with evilginx
Evilginx, a tool based on the legitimate (and widely used) open-source nginx web server, can be used to steal usernames, passwords, and session tokens, allowing an attacker to potentially bypass multifactor authentication (MFA). In this post, we’ll demonstrate how evilginx works and what information it is able to acquire; we also have advice for detecting…
RomCom exploits Firefox and Windows zero days in the wild
ESET researchers discovered a previously unknown vulnerability in Mozilla products, exploited in the wild by Russia-aligned group RomCom. This is at least the second time that RomCom has been caught exploiting a significant zero-day vulnerability in the wild, after the abuse of CVE-2023-36884 via Microsoft Word in June 2023. This critical vulnerability, assigned CVE-2024-9680 with…
Product Walkthrough: How Datto BCDR Delivers Unstoppable Business Continuity
Long gone are the days when a simple backup in a data center was enough to keep a business secure. While backups store information, they do not guarantee business continuity during a crisis. With IT disasters far too common and downtime burning through budgets, modern IT environments require solutions that go beyond storage and enable…
When Getting Phished Puts You in Mortal Danger – Krebs on Security
Many successful phishing attacks result in a financial loss or malware infection. But falling for some phishing scams, like those currently targeting Russians searching online for organizations that are fighting the Kremlin war machine, can cost you your freedom or your life. The real website of the Ukrainian paramilitary group “Freedom of Russia” legion. The…
Die 10 häufigsten IT-Sicherheitsfehler
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Making a case for the cybersecurity data fabric | TechTarget
Information, data and context are the weapons that cybersecurity teams use to battle adversaries daily. Yet, using cybersecurity data in the modern enterprise has become increasingly difficult. The data is often scattered among dozens of point technologies, fragmented with use-case-specific interfaces, and siloed between IT, security and application teams with little capability to support…
CloudSEK Disputes Oracle Over Data Breach Denial with New Evidence
Oracle is caught up in a cybersecurity mess right now, with claims about a massive data breach affecting its cloud infrastructure. Last week, Hackread.com published an article based on the findings of cybersecurity firm CloudSEK revealing that a threat actor had stolen 6 million records from Oracle Cloud. The hacker, identified as “rose87168“, claimed to…