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Phishing emails are a tremendous threat and one of the most common vehicles cyber criminals use to trick employees and succeed in their attacks. Cybercriminals are on a mission to gain access to sensitive information, such as login credentials, business information, customer data, or financial data. Despite the best efforts by IT departments and security professionals to put the proper filters in place, cybercriminals still often find a way to get into employee inboxes with their phishing schemes.

McPherson Hospital is a large-scale health facility in McPherson, Kansas. The hospital employs more than 225 people and offers walk-in care, emergency care, primary care services, and a range of specialty health services. This large facility generates approximately $7 million in revenue annually. It was hit by a data breach recently, risking the information of patients significantly.

Kubescape is an open-source, CNCF sandbox, end-to-end Kubernetes security tool designed to assess the security posture of Kubernetes clusters created by ARMO. It helps identify security risks and misconfigurations that could potentially be exploited by attackers, and provides automatic assistance to remediate them. Kubescape was launched less than two years ago, in August 2021, and already has more than 8.3K stars on GitHub, and over 100 open-source contributors.

Red Teaming will always have similar concepts and strategies, but no Red Team endeavour is the same, and the meaning may change from one organization to another. Simply stated, Red Teaming is acting as an adversary within your own network to achieve a scenario or objective that a potential attacker can leverage or has value. A true Red Team objective should not be to achieve the goals as quickly as possible. A Red Team operation requires a dedicated team, the right tools, and patience.

Akira is a new family of ransomware, first used in cybercrime attacks in March 2023.

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I often see “EDR” used as a synonym for “industry-leading endpoint security solution.” There are times when this is accurate, but there are also times when I believe that this generalization stymies discourse around current capability gaps in the endpoint security ecosystem. In this blog post, I want to share my personal taxonomy for endpoint security products — albeit one that perhaps confusingly reuses existing terminology.

Ignoring the little stuff is never a good idea. Anyone who has pretended that the small noise their car engine is making is unimportant, only to later find themselves stuck on the side of the road with a dead motor will understand this statement. The same holds true when it comes to dealing with minor vulnerabilities in a web application. Several small issues that alone do not amount to much, can in fact prove dangerous, if not fatal, when strung together by a threat actor.

Co-authored by Carmine Clementelli and Jason Clark In recent times, the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has revolutionized the way more and more corporate users interact with their daily work. Generative AI-based SaaS applications like ChatGPT have offered countless opportunities to organizations and their employees to improve business productivity, ease numerous tasks, enhance services, and assist in streamlining operations.

In this post we will explore Linux Crypto API for user applications and try to understand its pros and cons. The Linux Kernel Crypto API was introduced in October 2002. It was initially designed to satisfy internal needs, mostly for IPsec. However, in addition to the kernel itself, user space applications can benefit from it.