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Code doesn’t write itself and software doesn’t secure itself, as much as the race is on to make that happen. At the beginning and end of everything in software is people and, importantly, people interacting with each other. Having great tools doesn’t matter if no one uses them, and having great policies doesn’t matter if no one enforces them.

It’s always great news when we hear about a customer’s delight when using Aikido Security. But, we don’t want to keep all the good stuff to ourselves! Let’s focus on Loctax, the first-ever collaborative tax governance platform for global in-house tax teams. Loctax delivers its tax services to companies such as Wise, PedidosYa, Iba, Luxottica, and Trainline.

This spring, Australian authorities were able to arrest a cybercrime syndicate that had conducted BEC attacks on at least 15 individuals and organizations with stolen profits totaling $1.7 million (USD). If those numbers seem shocking, they’re part of a growing upward trend of BEC attacks that shows no sign of slowing down.

If the holiday classic “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” was remade in 2023, the mean green guy might be played by an Internet bot. Sure, these bots may not come down your chimney and steal a tree or holiday dinner, but threat actors have designed them to help ruin retailer and consumer holiday shopping experiences. Trustwave SpiderLabs exposed how the two primary bot variants, Grinchbots and Freebie Bots, operate in the team's recent report.

One in two sites on AppTrana WAAP have faced a DDoS attack in the last 90 days. Most of those attacks were thwarted using a combination of machine learning on user behaviour and granular rate limits at URI, IP, and Geo levels. For SOC teams who don’t have an advanced behavioural DDoS mitigation tool like AppTrana at their disposal, this blog covers basic mitigation measures that can thwart the most simple and medium-severity DDoS attacks.