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foresiet

IntelBroker alleges a breach of Space-Eyes, targeting data crucial to US national security

Apr 18, 2024 By Foresiet In Foresiet
A hacker known as "IntelBroker" has purportedly breached Space-Eyes, a geospatial intelligence firm, potentially exposing sensitive US national security data. Authorities are currently investigating the claim, recognizing the potential ramifications it could have on critical government operations.
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teramind

Malicious Insider Threats: How To Detect & Prevent Attacks

Apr 18, 2024 By Taran Soodan In Teramind
Data breaches and external threats are concerns for any security professional, but the most catastrophic security vulnerabilities often originate from malicious insider threats. This is not just an issue, it’s a pressing and immediate concern that demands our utmost attention. Here, we identify how to spot a malicious insider and provide proven strategies for preventing insider threats with technology-based solutions to protect your organization.
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teramind

CrowdStrike Falcon: Pros, Cons, Features & Alternatives

Apr 18, 2024 By Taran Soodan In Teramind
Data breaches, malware attacks, and insider threats pose constant risks to businesses of all sizes. To protect your valuable data and critical infrastructure, you need a robust endpoint security solution. CrowdStrike Falcon stands out in the market, offering unique features like next-generation antivirus (NGAV) and endpoint detection and response (EDR). Before deciding, it’s essential to grasp these distinctive strengths and weaknesses.
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jit

Unzipping the XZ Backdoor and Its Lessons for Open Source

Apr 18, 2024 By David Melamed In Jit
By now, you have probably heard about the recently discovered backdoor into versions 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 of the tarballs of the xz utilities, a popular compression/decompression library for xz files, which provides unauthorized remote access under certain conditions. This vulnerability was reported under CVE-2024-3094. Andres Freund, of Microsoft, who discovered the vulnerability, summarized it well.
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idstrong

What is Sensitive Data: How to Protect Important Personal Data

Apr 18, 2024 By Steven In IDStrong
Sensitive personal data is among the most valuable information attached to us; it’s so valuable that there are international regulations for its maintenance, storage, and management. It is data that contains essential details about us, like Social Security Numbers (SSNs), bank accounts, tax IDs, health insurance data, and all the other “unique-to-one” credentials.
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CalCom

The Successes and Failures of Audit Credential Validation

Apr 18, 2024 By Ben Balkin In CalCom
In any system, it’s important to know who is trying to gain access, whether successful or not. This is especially important when trying to keep something secure, like a network or confidential data. Ensure ‘Audit Credential Validation’ is set to ‘Success and Failure' keeps track of attempts to access a system, whether successful or not, using specific credentials, such as a username and password, and logs it.
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mend

What Makes Containers Vulnerable?

Apr 18, 2024 By AJ Starita In Mend
When looking for sensitive information and other valuable assets, attackers rarely access their target directly. Instead, they find vulnerabilities in other components and use them to weave through the system and escalate privileges where they can. Because containers add a layer of complexity to already large and complex applications, the attack surface is increased, giving threat actors more to work with.
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appsentinels

Deep dive on PCI DSS 4.0 API Security Requirements

Apr 18, 2024 By AppSentinels In AppSentinels
The Payment Card Industry Data Security Council created PCI DSS as the global standard for protecting payment data. The PCI DSS is the compliance stick to which entities that transmit, store, handle, or accept credit card data of any size must adhere. Recently, PCI DSS came up with version 4.0. In this blog, we delve deeper into the new version and explain why securing APIs is critical for PCI DSS compliance and how organizations can do so.
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securitysenses

Is decentralized Internet the future?

Apr 17, 2024 By SecuritySenses In SecuritySenses
The Internet has come a long way since its invention, and activities on the Internet have become an important part of our daily lives. However, the traditional approach to Internet hosting has remained centralized and the entire technology industry is concerned about the power of data concentrated in the hands of the leading tech companies, including Google, Amazon, Microsoft, etc. Therefore, in the last few years, the decentralization process has become a new trend offering improved security from cybercrimes, privacy, and availability of online services. So, is decentralized Internet the future?
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