LinkedIn says it is beefing up its security in an attempt to better protect its user base from fraudulent activity such as profiles that use AI-generated deepfake photos, and messages that may contain unwanted or harmful content. The new features, which are being rolled out globally over the next several weeks, have been previewed in a blog post by LinkedIn's Vice President of product management, Oscar Rodriguez.
Can you imagine a world without software? No, neither can I. The same goes for many other technology-based products, such as cell phones. Software is everywhere and it’s critical to businesses of all sizes. In this article, we discuss the software supply chain risk management process needed to protect your business from risks in the software supply chain and how that affects product development speed in what seems like an ever-changing market landscape.
Learning how attackers target weak domain account passwords is not enough for Active Directory security. Let’s look beyond domain accounts and understand the ways adversaries attack local accounts on Windows servers and desktops. For this post, we will focus on the most important local account: Administrator.
Global cybersecurity is becoming more reliant on using advanced, more complex safety mechanisms to resolve vulnerabilities. Governments and businesses worldwide struggle to safeguard their data and networks and prevent future crises. At the same time, cyber threats are becoming just as complex. With each new step in cybersecurity innovation, cyber threats also gain momentum, eventually posing major security challenges for governments.
In the early days of internet security, an access-centric security model made sense. Access lists on routers were complemented by firewalls and, later, intrusion detection systems. Given the processing capacity available at the time, this was absolutely adequate and appropriate for protecting a website, even with e-commerce. But that was the 1990s, and the internet has become so much more than websites with some shopping capabilities. Now, it’s the backbone of our society.
Following Trustwave SpiderLabs’ blog on social media-themed phishing on Facebook, comes another flavor of ‘infringement’ phishing. In this case, the targets, still under the umbrella of Meta, are Instagram users. This theme is not new, and we have seen it from time to time over the last year. It’s the same copyright infringement trickery again, but this time, the attackers gain more personal information from their victims and use evasion techniques to hide phishing URLs.
