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Better Together: Introducing Apono's Advanced PagerDuty Integration

At Apono, integrations are about creating seamless workflows, enhancing security, and providing exceptional experiences for engineering teams. We’re excited to announce our enhanced integration with PagerDuty because incident management and access control are truly better together.

The Cyberfraud Economy: 1 in 4 Consumers Tempted by 'Refund Hacks'

Retail fraud is becoming increasingly normalized in the US and UK as ‘refund hacks’ are promoted to consumers by organized crime gangs looking to recruit both knowing and unwitting digital mules. This positioning of fraudulent activity as a ‘refund hack’ deliberately hides its illegal nature. Combined with growing awareness of fraud techniques – both online and offline – it’s driving consumer acceptance of casual fraud. This is bad news for retailers.

Securing Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization with CyberArk: Identity Security for VMs and Containers

As organizations modernize IT infrastructure, many are adopting platforms like Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization to run both traditional virtual machines (VMs) and containerized workloads on a single, unified environment. This hybrid model enables greater flexibility and efficiency, but it also introduces significant security complexity. Managing privileged access across VMs, containers and the Red Hat OpenShift control plane requires a consistent, scalable and secure approach.

What Is Generative AI? Business Guide & Security Tips

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, generative AI has emerged as a transformative force. From automating workflows to enhancing creative processes, businesses across industries are leveraging this technology to stay competitive. However, with innovation comes risk. As generative AI becomes more accessible, cybercriminals are also finding ways to exploit it.

Sophisticated NPM Attack Leveraging Unicode Steganography and Google Calendar C2

Our security monitoring systems recently flagged a suspicious npm package, os-info-checker-es6, which represents a sophisticated and evolving threat within the npm ecosystem. What initially appeared as a simple OS information utility quickly unraveled into a sophisticated multi-stage malware attack. This campaign employs clever Unicode-based steganography to hide its initial malicious code and utilizes a Google Calendar event short link as a dynamic dropper for its final payload.

How Cyber Security Maturity Assessments Help Strengthen Business Defenses

In today's digitally-driven world, where data is currency and cyber threats evolve faster than ever, businesses of all sizes face increasing pressure to fortify their cybersecurity strategies. From ransomware to phishing attacks, the threat landscape is both complex and unforgiving. Organizations can no longer afford to be reactive about their security posture. Instead, they must take a proactive and strategic approach-and that's exactly where a cyber security maturity assessment becomes essential.

Stop Chasing Payments: Why Freelancers Need Automated Invoicing

Freelancing offers freedom, flexibility, and full control over your time - but when it comes to getting paid, that independence can come at a cost. If you've ever found yourself chasing down late payments or wondering which invoices are still outstanding, you're not alone. For growing creative businesses and solo professionals alike, payment delays aren't just inconvenient - they affect cash flow, strain client relationships, and take time away from doing real, billable work.

Don't Let Failures Break Your DORA Metrics: How Backups Safeguard DevOps Performance

If you are a part of the DevOps community, you may have heard of DORA metrics. These were introduced to allow organizations to track and measure performance, so that they can further improve their software delivery life cycles. Over the years, the DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) team proposed four metrics to drive the performance of SDLCs: These four key metrics shall never be disregarded. Remember – DORA metrics measure information regarding your development and operations processes.

From backlog to breakthrough: enhancing IT service delivery and support with automation

Scaling IT operations was never going to be easy. By 2025, it was fair to expect that technology would ease classic challenges like high workloads, rising operational costs, and end-user friction. Yet IT leaders still face mounting pressure across identity and access management (IAM), endpoint management, request fulfillment, and incident response. Today’s end users are more demanding. IT operations are more complex. And time is in short supply.

The First Domino: How Credential Theft Leads to Bigger Breaches

In 2024, we collected 2.9 billion unique sets of compromised credentials—a jump from the 2.2 billion collected in 2023. While this rise can be explained by advancement in Bitsight’s credential collection capabilities, we assess that the precise number of credentials shared on the underground has also risen, fueled by increased data breaches and the spike in stealer logs.