The integration of AI into cybersecurity has evolved significantly. Initially, AI assistants primarily supported threat research and rapid intelligence processing,...
Cyber Security
Cyber criminals, state-sponsored hackers and even the occasional disgruntled employee are constantly looking to gain unauthorized access for a variety of purposes: theft of money, cyber espionage, personal information for sale or for use in scams, and damage to critical infrastructure for just a few of the most common.
So how does an organization mitigate an entire world full of continual cyber attacks? Just as buildings have a number of necessary elements of physical security: access control, cameras, alarms and so on; there are similar key elements of cyber security that are absolutely vital for just about any modern business.
It starts with identifying and closing the most common doors that attackers use. For example, phishing attacks on employees are far and away the most common initial point of entry. The breach of even a low-level employee account can quickly turn into an escalation in access privileges and the ability to reach sensitive information. This is also true of smart devices, which are generally more poorly secured than computers and phones.
MFA can be circumvented by modern identity attack techniques. Thwarting cyber attackers starts by understanding the techniques they rely on to bypass MFA protected users, and responding with a holistic, well-rounded identity security strategy that can fill these gaps.
The SITA incident is a very significant supply chain attack, with a number of major airlines reporting that their frequent flyer programs were compromised as a result of the breach.
There’s an on-going battle between competing priorities being waged every day in enterprises globally, and it’s been going on for decades. Cyber security teams are concerned with unpatched vulnerabilities and the breaches they risk, while IT professionals are driven by operational availability, the lack of which jeopardizes the business’ ability to operate.
Scattered Spider didn’t need zero-days, malware, or a government’s budget to bring a Fortune 500 company to its knees. They didn’t even need to break in. They just logged in.
Global cyber war no longer seems impossible with state-sponsored cyber attacks mounting around the world and possibility of China, Iran and Russian uniting to go against U.S. in the cyber domain.
Can facial recognition technology still be used as a reliable safety and security tool with more people wearing face masks to protect themselves in COVID-19 pandemic?
The new GoldPickaxe evolution of the GoldDigger trojan malware takes things a step further, retaining the prior functionality but adding the ability to capture facial data for the purpose of creating a deepfake to defeat biometric logins.
The USPTO says that an API vulnerability was present between February 2020 and March 2023, causing a data leak of about 61,000 private residential addresses attached to patent filings.
About 50% of those who had information stolen say they were victimized more than once. And the number of people that lost at least $10,000 to personal data theft jumped from 9% of respondents to 30% in 2021.










