We often hear of how we need to protect ourselves from online scams. Criminals seek our personal information in order to use it for multiple nefarious purposes. However, there is a population who, while not having a broad online presence, are equally vulnerable to identity theft. Children are particularly vulnerable to identity theft, as they often have clean credit histories and their personal information is not monitored as closely as adults.

The intersection of privilege escalation and identity is taking on new dimensions with the advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI). As AI becomes increasingly integrated into our lives, it both challenges and reinforces existing notions of privilege and identity. In this blog, we'll explore what privilege escalation means in the context of AI and how it influences our understanding of personal and societal identities.

As a CISO, securing web applications and ensuring their resilience against evolving cyber threats is a non-negotiable priority. Verizon’s Data Breach Investigations Report 2023 cites web applications as the top attack vector by a long shot (in both breaches and incidents). Here’s a simplified checklist for securing web applications that will help you improve your organization’s security posture and the integrity of your technology.

Trustwave has introduced a new solution allowing organizations using Microsoft Sentinel to obtain the highest return on investment possible while keeping their security level at peak performance and improving response times. Trustwave Managed SIEM for Microsoft Sentinel is a managed solution intended to maximize an organization’s Microsoft E5 investment, specifically firms without a robust cybersecurity team.

It is common knowledge that when it comes to cybersecurity, there is no one-size-fits all definition of risk, nor is there a place for static plans. New technologies are created, new vulnerabilities discovered, and more attackers appear on the horizon. Most recently the appearance of advanced language models such as ChatGPT have taken this concept and turned the dial up to eleven.

Cisco has released an advisory, acknowledging active exploitation of a previously unknown vulnerability, which is tracked as CVE-2023-20198, in the web UI feature of Cisco IOS XE Software when exposed to the internet or to untrusted networks. This vulnerability allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to create an account on an affected system with privilege level 15 access, which is the highest level of access.