How to optimize your bug bounty programs
In this Help Net Security interview, Roy Davis, Manager – Vulnerability Management & Bug Bounty at Zoom, discusses the role bug bounty programs play in identifying security vulnerabilities and facilitating collaboration with researchers. He off.....»»
Week in review: Palo Alto firewalls mitigation ineffective, PuTTY client vulnerable to key recovery attack
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Palo Alto firewalls: Public exploits, rising attacks, ineffective mitigation While it initially seemed that protecting Palo Alto Network firewalls f.....»»
Ransomware in Q1 2024: Frequency, size of payments trending downwards, SMBs beware!
More organizations hit by ransomware gangs are starting to realize that it doesn’t pay to pay up: “In Q1 2024, the proportion of victims that chose to pay touched a new record low of 28%,” ransomware incident response firm Coveware.....»»
AuditBoard expands executive team to support the next phase of growth
AuditBoard announced it has brought on public SaaS company veteran Jeff Harper as Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) to help scale the organization and infrastructure, continue to attract and retain exceptional talent, and steward AuditBoard’s aw.....»»
LastPass users targeted by vishing attackers
The CryptoChameleon phishing kit is being leveraged by vishing attackers looking to trick LastPass users into sharing their master password. “Initially, we learned of a new parked domain (help-lastpass[.]com) and immediately marked the website.....»»
New infosec products of the week: April 19, 2024
Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past week, featuring releases from IDnow, Immuta, Privacera, Redgate, ShadowDragon, and Tanium. ShadowDragon Horizon enhancements help users conduct investigations from any device Horizon is a.....»»
51% of enterprises experienced a breach despite large security stacks
Threat actors are continuing to successfully breach across the entire attack surface and the stakes are only getting higher: 93% of enterprises who admitted a breach reported unplanned downtime, data exposure, or financial loss as a result, according.....»»
The key pillars of domain security
From branded emails and marketing campaigns to critical protocols, internal portals, and internet traffic, domains are central to digital enterprise operations. They are constantly created for new assets and initiatives. In this Help Net Security vid.....»»
Protobom: Open-source software supply chain tool
Protobom is an open-source software supply chain tool that enables all organizations, including system administrators and software development communities, to read and generate Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs), file data, and translate this data ac.....»»
Gurucul federated search provides insights into data that is not centralized
Gurucul announced enhancements to its federated search capabilities. Gurucul federated search empowers users to run queries from a single console across any data source, including data lakes, cloud object storage, databases, identity systems, threat.....»»
Ivanti patches critical Avalanche flaw exploitable via a simple message (CVE-2024-29204)
The newest version of Ivanti Avalanche – the company’s enterprise mobile device management (MDM) solution – carries fixes for 27 vulnerabilities, two of which (CVE-2024-29204, CVE-2024-24996) are critical and may allow a remote unau.....»»
SAS unveils products and services to help customers embrace AI
SAS is launching new AI products and services to improve AI governance and support model trust and transparency. Model cards and new AI Governance Advisory services will help organizations navigate the turbulent AI landscape, mitigating risk and help.....»»
Redgate Monitor Enterprise prevents unauthorized access to sensitive information
Redgate has launched an enterprise version of its popular database monitoring tool, providing a range of new features to address the challenges of scale and complexity faced by larger organizations. Redgate Monitor Enterprise offers advanced capabili.....»»
Immuta launches Domains policy enforcement to improve security and governance for data owners
Immuta launched Domains policy enforcement, a new capability in the Immuta Data Security Platform that provides additional controls for data owners to implement a data mesh architecture with domain-specific data access policies. Centralizing data acc.....»»
Authorities take down LabHost, phishing-as-a-service platform
Law enforcement from 19 countries severely disrupted one of the world’s largest phishing-as-a-service platform, known as LabHost. This year-long operation, coordinated at the international level by Europol, resulted in the compromise of LabHost’s.....»»
Who owns customer identity?
When I’m talking with prospective clients, I like to ask: which department owns customer identity? Everyone immediately looks towards a different team. While every team touches customer identity at some point, the teams that own it differ from orga.....»»
Cheap ransomware for sale on dark web marketplaces is changing the way hackers operate
Since June 2023, Sophos X-Ops has discovered 19 junk gun ransomware variants — cheap, independently produced, and crudely constructed — on the dark web. The developers of these junk gun variants are attempting to disrupt the traditional affiliate.....»»
Bots dominate internet activity, account for nearly half of all traffic
49.6% of all internet traffic came from bots in 2023, a 2% increase over the previous year, and the highest level Imperva has reported since it began monitoring automated traffic in 2013. For the fifth consecutive year, the proportion of web traffic.....»»
Enterprises face significant losses from mobile fraud
A recent Enea survey highlights a worrying trend in enterprise security: Following ChatGPT’s launch, 76% of businesses are inadequately protected against rising AI-driven vishing and smishing threats. In this Help Net Security video, John Hughe.....»»
92% of enterprises unprepared for AI security challenges
Most industries continue to run almost two or more months behind in patching software vulnerabilities, endpoints remain vulnerable to threats, and most enterprise PCs must be replaced to support AI-based technologies, according to the Absolute Securi.....»»