What are AI Phishing Attacks? AI phishing attacks, also known as AI-powered phishing or AI-driven phishing, are sophisticated cyberattacks that leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms to craft and execute highly convincing phishing attempts. These attacks are designed to deceive individuals or employees into divulging sensitive information, such as login credentials, financial details, or personal data. How Do AI Phishing Attacks Work?
According to CSO the fines incurred for data breaches or non-compliance with security and privacy laws, for only a handful of companies, has cost $4.4 billion. The global average cost of a data breach in 2023 was $4.45 million, a 15% increase over 3 years (IBM). The challenge for organizations is how to safeguard sensitive information while adhering to the law, but without compromising innovation. Cyber threats loom large, affecting businesses in every industry.
Build secure cloud-native applications by avoiding the top five security pitfalls we lay out in our Secure Cloud-native Development Series. This blog is the fifth and final part of the series, and it will teach you to handle credentials and secrets management best practices for securing cloud-native applications. Every organization has their way of managing credentials. In the past, with legacy application architectures, this was a bit more manual and arduous.
As a senior consultant I deal with customers across numerous industries and maturity levels. I am often engaged in conducting risk assessments or gap analysis aligned with common frameworks such as the National Institute for Standards and Technology’s (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework (CSF). Most, if not all, the frameworks have a few controls that focus on the organization’s backup processes and disaster recovery plans.
In the dynamic landscape of modern web applications and organizations, access control is critical. Defining who can do what within your Cloudflare account ensures security and efficient workflow management.
Welcome to the 10th post in our weekly series on the new 2023 OWASP API Security Top-10 list, with a particular focus on security practitioners. This post will focus on API9:2023 Improper Inventory Management. In this series we are taking an in-depth look at each category – the details, the impact and what you can do about it.
On September 4, 2023, CERT-UA revealed a meticulously planned cyberattack targeting Ukraine's critical energy infrastructure. The attack's modus operandi was distinct; it utilized deceptive emails containing bait links, luring victims into downloading a seemingly innocuous ZIP archive. This archive, however, harbored malicious files designed to hijack the victim's computer, redirecting data flows and exfiltrating sensitive information using services like mockbin.org and mocky.io.
Software due diligence is an all-important aspect of any merger and acquisition (M&A) transaction, and in the tech M&A world, a target’s software assets are a significant part of the valuation. This due diligence process should identify a target company’s open source license obligations, application security and code quality risks, and the organization, processes, and practices that compose the software development life cycle.
Intel’s Trust Authority is a new service that provides remote verification of the trustworthiness of a compute asset, based on attestation (cryptographic verification) and policy (a legitimate workload). This is a significant development for confidential computing, as it provides a way for organizations to independently verify the security of their workloads. Noname Security is excited to be a partner in the Intel Trust Authority program.