Kubescape: the 1st open-source project to support VEX Generation
Guest post originally published on Kubescape’s blog by Oshrat Nir, Developer Advocate at ARMO and a Kubescape contributer.
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2024 IT Spending Surge: Surprising Insights from Piper Sandler's CIO Survey
Industry analysts Piper Sandler do a yearly 'Industry Note' where they survey CIOs about their next year budget expectations. For 2024 there is a noticeable improvement regarding enterprise IT spending. The header of their survey was: "2024 CIO Survey | Investments in Security, AI, and Cloud Driving IT Rebound". Here is the summary of the full report which is a good read and warmly recommended.
WSJ: "A Hidden Risk in the Municipal Bond Market: Hackers"
December 7, 2023 - The Wall Street Journal has an interesting perspective on K-12 Public schools suffering ransomware attacks. The number doubles between 2021 and 2022 to almost 2,000 a year. Here are a few paragraphs with a link to the full article: "Hacks are on the rise across all industries, but the public sector’s weak protections make it an increasingly attractive target for cybercriminals.
Deepfakes: The New Face of Fraud
Security analysts at identity vendor Sumsub are seeing a massive rise in the use of deepfake fraud in their Identity Fraud Report 2023. And one country may be to blame. While Sumsub’s focus is more around all forms of identity security, it's witnessing a significant increase in deepfakes, as deepfakes are a form of identity fraud. According to Sumsub, the top three fraud trends identified were: The approximate overall growth rate worldwide for the use of deepfakes is 10x.
Russian Hackers Indicted for Phishing Attacks Against U.S. and Allies
The US Justice Department has indicted two individuals for launching spear phishing attacks against the US, the UK, Ukraine and various NATO member countries on behalf of the Russian government. “The indictment…alleges the conspiracy targeted current and former employees of the U.S.
CVE-2023-36553: Critical OS Command Injection Vulnerability in FortiSIEM
On November 14, 2023, FortiGuard published an advisory disclosing that a critical command injection vulnerability (CVE-2023-36553) had been patched in the latest updates for FortiSIEM. The vulnerability was rated with a Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) score of 9.3, as it can be exploited remotely by an unauthenticated threat actor using crafted API requests to execute unauthorized commands. This vulnerability is caused by improper neutralization of special elements in FortiSIEM report server.
Monitor highly regulated workloads with Datadog's FIPS-enabled Agent
Protecting sensitive data from the threat of exposure is a non-negotiable business imperative for organizations, especially those in highly regulated sectors like government and healthcare. To help organizations keep their data secure, the National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST) developed a set of requirements for the hardware and software components responsible for data encryption.
Exposed Server Headers and Cybersecurity Risk
Your web server conveys a variety of information to the client when a visitor opens your website. They can access specific policies you've set and sometimes identify what kind of software you use to run your system. Sometimes, that's okay. Other times, the information exposed in your server header can lead directly to a malicious cyber attack.
How Self-Learning AI Has Helped CARIAD Build An Automotive Software Powerhouse
CARIAD has been building one unified software platform for all Volkswagen brands to provide them with reliable software and digital best practices. In recent years, CARIAD and the rest of the automotive software sector faced extensive industry regulation and an array of dangerous and costly vulnerabilities. By introducing feedback-based fuzzing, an advanced white-box testing method that uses self-learning AI to uncover deeply hidden bugs and security vulnerabilities, CARIAD was able to find and fix potentially dangerous issues early in the development process.
Friday Flows Episode 16: Monitor Intercom with Nightfall
Monitor Intercom (or any channel like Zendesk, Slack, email, etc.) to scan messages for data leak. This Tines story can help catch sensitive information and help you stay proactive by automatically creating a case for your team to manage.