Weekly Cybersecurity Recap June 9

Data breaches are a serious risk that can lead to a substantial amount of lost information annually. This week financial, legal, health, and education sectors were all hit. Major health insurance providers like MCNA and Harvard Pilgrim were exposed, legal company Casepoint suffered substantial data losses, the University of Rochester was hit, and Capital One also suffered significant losses.

Fireblocks and MetaMask Institutional Integrate to Enhance DeFi Experience for Institutions

Today, Fireblocks integrates with Metamask Institutional to provide the best wallet security, portfolio management, and DeFi access for institutional investors and traders. Fireblocks users will now be able to access MMI’s extensive suite of portfolio management solutions and DeFi access to invest, trade, lend, and borrow on over 17,000 dApps. The integration will enable Fireblocks users to monitor and manage their DeFi portfolio from a single platform.

Don't Let Complicated RFP Problems Slow Down Your Business

Trustwave is one of the finest pure-play cybersecurity companies in the business, capable of helping clients from almost any industry remain safe from cyberattack, but one little-known, non-cybersecurity service we offer is helping our channel partners decipher and answer request for proposals (RFPs).

Snyk Partner Speaks series: True DevSecOps with Snyk and Dynatrace

The latest video in our Snyk Partner Speak Series showcases how Snyk and Dynatrace bring complementary capabilities to different parts of the DevSecOps lifecycle. Check it out and learn how the integration enables organizations to observe, investigate, fix, and govern with a single solution. The Snyk DevSecOps Lifecycle Coverage App is the newest milestone in the Snyk and Dynatrace strategic alliance.

Forbes Media Publishes Industry's First List of America's Most Cybersecure Companies

In a climate where companies largely gain attention only when something negative happens, it’s time to celebrate and recognize the companies who are best in class when it comes to cybersecurity. That’s why we applaud Forbes’ decision to produce the industry’s first list of America’s Most Cybersecure Companies. These companies illuminate how cybersecurity is being taken seriously as a core business issue.

ChatGPT and Software Supply Chain Risks

While some of the obvious misuse of ChatGPT in the world of cyber security was not unexpected – asking the artificial intelligence to write harder-to-detect malware and easier-to-convince phishing emails – a new threat has emerged that can leverage the very nature of the large language model. Ultimately, ChatGPT is a learning machine, and bases its answers on information it sources from the Internet.

Using social media as a tool to share knowledge on day-to-day Cybersecurity risks

When most people think about social media and cybersecurity, they typically think about hackers taking over Instagram accounts or Facebook Messenger scammers taking private information. It’s for good reason that this is top-of-mind. The Identity Theft Resource Center’s 2022 Consumer Impact Report revealed that social media account takeovers have grown by 1,000% in one year.

Case study: Calico enables zero-trust security and policy automation at scale in a multi-cluster environment for Box

Box is a content cloud that helps organizations securely manage their entire content lifecycle from anywhere in the world, powering over 67% of Fortune 500 businesses. As a cloud-first SaaS, the company provides customers with an all-in-one content solution within a highly secure infrastructure, where organizations can work on any content, from projects and contracts to Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP)-related content.

Offbeat Social Engineering Tricks in a Scammer's Handbook

Contrary to stereotype, today’s cyberattacks aren’t limited to complex tactics such as the use of zero-day exploits or polymorphic malware that flies under the radar of traditional defenses. Instead of going the extra mile to set such schemes in motion, most threat actors take a shortcut and piggyback the human factor.