Cybersecurity
No, you’re not fired – but beware of job termination scams
Some employment scams take an unexpected turn as cybercriminals shift from “hiring” to “firing” staff 18 Feb 2025 • , 5 min. read Most of us are in a job or looking for one. Or both. That’s largely why employment and work-from-home scams are so popular among cybercriminals (and even some state-aligned threat actors). The…
PCI DSS 4.0 Mandates DMARC By 31st March 2025
The payment card industry has set a critical deadline for businesses handling cardholder data or processing payments- by March 31, 2025, DMARC implementation will be mandatory! This requirement highlights the importance of preventative measures against email fraud, domain spoofing, and phishing in the financial space. This is not an optional requirement as non-compliance may result…
How Phished Data Turns into Apple & Google Wallets – Krebs on Security
Carding — the underground business of stealing, selling and swiping stolen payment card data — has long been the dominion of Russia-based hackers. Happily, the broad deployment of more secure chip-based payment cards in the United States has weakened the carding market. But a flurry of innovation from cybercrime groups in China is breathing new…
Customer Identity & Access Management: Die besten CIAM-Tools
Wir haben die besten Lösungen in Sachen Customer Identity & Access Management für Sie zusammengestellt. Jackie Niam | shutterstock.com Customer Identity & Access Management (CIAM) bildet eine Unterkategorie von Identity & Access Management (IAM). CIAM wird dazu eingesetzt, die Authentifizierungs- und Autorisierungsprozesse von Applikationen zu managen, die öffentlich zugänglich sind, beziehungsweise von Kunden bedient werden….
What is the Nessus vulnerability scanning platform? | Definition from TechTarget
Nessus is a platform developed by Tenable that scans for security vulnerabilities in devices, applications, operating systems, cloud services and other network resources. Originally launched as an open source tool in 1998, its enterprise edition became a commercial product in 2005. Nessus is now available in two enterprise versions: Nessus Professional and Nessus Expert. Both…
10 Key SOC Challenges and How AI Addresses Them
SOC challenges like alert fatigue, skill shortages and slow response impact cybersecurity. AI-driven solutions enhance SOC efficiency, automation and threat detection. In the latest technological era, SOCs which stands for Security Operations Centers play a prominent role in organizational protection. It protects organizations from cyber-attacks and threats. However, there are a lot of issues happening…
How CISOs can balance security and business agility in the cloud – Help Net Security
In this Help Net Security interview, Natalia Belaya, CISO at Cloudera, discusses common misconceptions about cloud security, the balance between protection and business agility, and overlooked risks that CISOs should prioritize. Belaya also offers practical strategies for integrating cloud-native security solutions and mitigating misconfigurations at scale. What key security principles should enterprises follow when migrating…
February Patch Tuesday delivers 57 packages
Microsoft on Tuesday released 57 patches touching 13 product families. Two of the addressed issues are considered by Microsoft to be of Critical severity, and 13 have a CVSS base score of 8.0 or higher. Two, both affecting Windows, are under active exploit in the wild. At patch time, two of the addressed Windows issues…
Open Source AI Models: Big Risks for Malicious Code, Vulns
Attackers are finding more and more ways to post malicious projects to Hugging Face and other repositories for open source artificial intelligence (AI) models, while dodging the sites’ security checks. The escalating problem underscores the need for companies pursuing internal AI projects to have robust mechanisms to detect security flaws and malicious code within their…
How AI-driven identify fraud is causing havoc
Deepfake fraud, synthetic identities, and AI-powered scams make identity theft harder to detect and prevent – here’s how to fight back 11 Feb 2025 • , 4 min. read Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming our world in ways both expected and unforeseen. For consumers, the technology means more accurately personalized digital content, better healthcare diagnostics,…