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One of the hottest online trends is auction sites selling everything from toys to cars and items tucked away in a closet. Sites such as Facebook Marketplace, Craigslist, and Decluttr, provide a way for anyone to sell anything. eBay and Craigslist began the craze of selling unwanted household items back in 1995. These sites sought to bring together buyers and sellers in an open and honest marketplace. Both companies expanded rapidly beyond collectibles into any saleable item.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region, including countries such as Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia, is the fastest-growing digital market in the world. Mobile applications have become increasingly integrated into daily life in terms of financial transactions, eCommerce, healthcare avenues, and service deliveries. That being said, Southeast Asian countries are witnessing a high surge in cybersecurity attacks on mobile applications.

The software development landscape moves quickly. As organizations seek to innovate at increasing speed, developers find ways to develop and deploy digital apps faster. More than 500 million cloud-native digital apps and services are being deployed this year–the same number of apps developed over the last 40 years! Against this backdrop, ensuring software code security and quality has become more critical–and challenging.

Defense contractors and suppliers have anxiously been awaiting news on the roll-out date for CMMC 2.0. The DoD previously indicated it would publish a final or interim final rule in 2023 to formally implement the CMMC program and contractor compliance with its requirements. There is some indication that it will now be issued as a proposed rule in May of 2023.

Digital transformation isn’t only for the good guys. Adversaries are undergoing their own digital transformation to exploit modern IT infrastructures — a trend we’re seeing play out in real time as they increasingly adapt their knowledge and tradecraft to exploit cloud environments. According to the CrowdStrike 2023 Global Threat Report, observed cloud exploitation cases grew by 95% over the previous year.

Today we are very pleased to share that Netskope has once again been named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Security Service Edge (SSE). Gartner placed Netskope highest in ability to execute and furthest in vision. SSE successfully modernizes technology architecture by converging Web Proxy (SWG), ZTNA, CASB, and DLP into one, powerful, high-performing solution—effectively achieving business-level technology imperatives such as consolidation, efficiency, and optimization.

A little bit of background for those not familiar with chfn… “chfn (change finger) is used to change your finger information. This information is stored in the /etc/passwd file and is displayed by the finger program.

Anti-money laundering (AML) compliance in the mobile money industry has become increasingly important in 2023. With the rise of mobile money transactions, regulatory bodies are ramping up efforts to combat money laundering and terrorist financing. In this infographic, we explore the technology involved in AML screening, the importance of AML compliance in the industry, and best practices for financial institutions.

You keep your organization’s computers, devices and servers safe, but what about your employees’ devices? The security of their mobile phones, laptops, tablets and other devices is just as critical to your overall security posture. As company endpoints grow, so does their vulnerability. In fact, 66% of organizations are experiencing a growth in endpoint threats.

The Windows kernel driver is an interesting space that falls between persistence and privilege escalation. The origins of a vulnerable driver being used to elevate privileges may have begun in the gaming community as a way to hack or cheat in games, but also has potential beginnings with Stuxnet.