Tag: business
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M&S systems remain offline days after cyber incident
M&S is still unable to provide contactless payment or click-and-collect services amid a cyber attack that it says has forced it to move a number of processes offline to safeguard its customers, staff and business First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366622924/MS-systems-remain-offline-days-after-cyber-incident
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Verizon DBIR Report: Small Businesses Identified as Key Targets in Ransomware Attacks
Tags: attack, breach, business, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, exploit, ransomware, security-incident, vulnerabilityVerizon Business’s 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), released on April 24, 2025, paints a stark picture of the cybersecurity landscape, drawing from an analysis of over 22,000 security incidents, including 12,195 confirmed data breaches. The report identifies credential abuse (22%) and exploitation of vulnerabilities (20%) as the predominant initial attack vectors, with a 34%…
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Gmail’s New Encrypted Messages Feature Opens a Door for Scams
Google is rolling out an end-to-end encrypted email feature for business customers, but it could spawn phishing attacks, particularly in non-Gmail inboxes. First seen on wired.com Jump to article: www.wired.com/story/gmail-end-to-end-encryption-scams/
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10 key questions security leaders must ask at RSA 2025
Tags: access, ai, api, application-security, authentication, automation, business, cisa, ciso, cloud, conference, control, corporate, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, edr, endpoint, fido, finance, gartner, google, government, healthcare, infrastructure, microsoft, mitigation, mitre, monitoring, mssp, network, nist, passkey, password, phone, programming, resilience, risk, risk-management, service, software, strategy, switch, threat, tool, training, vulnerability, zero-trustIs agentic AI more myth than reality?: Building on 2024’s AI enthusiasm, this year will be all about agentic AI, defined as “a type of AI that enables software systems to act autonomously, making decisions and taking actions based on goals, with minimal human intervention,” according to AI itself (source: Google Gemini). We’ll see lots…
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Erodiert die Security-Reputation der USA?
Tags: business, ceo, china, cisa, ciso, cybersecurity, cyersecurity, endpoint, exploit, germany, governance, government, intelligence, iran, kaspersky, north-korea, service, strategy, threat, usaTrump stiftet Verunsicherung auch wenn’s um Cybersicherheit geht.Nachdem US-Präsident Donald Trump nun auch Cybersicherheitsunternehmen per Executive Order für abweichende politische Positionen abstraft, befürchten nicht wenige Branchenexperten, dass US-Sicherheitsunternehmen künftig ähnlich in Verruf geraten könnten wie ihre russischen und chinesischen Konkurrenten. Die zentralen Fragen sind dabei:Können sich CISOs beziehungsweise ihre Unternehmen künftig noch auf US-amerikanische Bedrohungsinformationen…
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When AI moves beyond human oversight: The cybersecurity risks of self-sustaining systems
Tags: access, ai, attack, authentication, automation, breach, business, control, credentials, crowdstrike, cybersecurity, data, detection, email, exploit, firewall, fraud, government, identity, infection, login, malware, mfa, monitoring, network, phishing, risk, software, technology, threat, update, vulnerabilityautopoiesis, allows AI systems to adapt dynamically to their environments, making them more efficient but also far less predictable.For cybersecurity teams, this presents a fundamental challenge: how do you secure a system that continuously alters itself? Traditional security models assume that threats originate externally, bad actors exploiting vulnerabilities in otherwise stable systems. But with AI capable…
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Will politicization of security clearances make US cybersecurity firms radioactive?
Tags: access, business, ceo, cisa, cisco, ciso, credentials, crowdstrike, cybersecurity, disinformation, election, government, infrastructure, intelligence, law, microsoft, network, office, risk, spyware, strategy, threatWhat brought this on: This is mostly a reaction to a White House order on Wednesday that tied security clearances to supporting political concepts. The order chastised Chris Krebs, the former head of Trump’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). “Krebs’ misconduct involved the censorship of disfavored speech implicating the 2020 election and COVID-19 pandemic. CISA, under…
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ISACA and Chartered IIA pen open letter to UK Government urging swift audit reform to build digital resilience
ISACA and the Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors (Chartered IIA), have sent a letter to Rt Hon Jonathan Reynolds MP, Secretary of State for Business and Trade, stressing the urgent need for audit reform legislation to boost digital resilience. The letter underlines strong stakeholder support for the Audit Reform and Corporate Governance Bill promised in…
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43% of Top 100 Enterprise Mobile Apps Expose Sensitive Data to Hackers
A comprehensive study by zLabs, the research team at Zimperium, has found that over 43% of the top 100 mobile applications used in business environments contain severe vulnerabilities that expose sensitive data to potential hackers. This finding underscores the urgent need for enterprises to reassess their app vetting processes and enhance security measures to protect…
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Ahold Delhaize confirms data theft after INC ransomware claims attack
Food retail giant Ahold Delhaize confirms that data was stolen from its U.S. business systems during a November 2024 cyberattack. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ahold-delhaize-confirms-data-theft-after-inc-ransomware-claims-attack/
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Intel Sells 51% Stake in Altera to Silver Lake in $8.75 Billion Deal
Intel Corporation has announced the divestiture of a 51% stake in its Altera division to Silver Lake, valuing the programmable logic company at $8.75 billion. This transaction marks a significant shift in Intel’s focus, enabling the tech giant to streamline its business while retaining a 49% interest in Altera, ensuring continued participation in its growth…
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Checkliste für den Business Continuity Plan
Angesichts der steigenden Cyberrisiken und dem zunehmenden Einsatz von KI bei Attacken, sollte die Gewährleistung der Geschäftskontinuität für jeden IT-Experten in Unternehmen Priorität haben. Eine unabhängige globale Forschungsstudie von Arcserve zeigt, dass 80 Prozent der befragten Unternehmen von Ransomware betroffen sind und dass sich fast jeder Dritte (30 Prozent) nach einem erfolgreichen Ransomware-Angriff nicht erholen……
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Latest Mustang Panda Arsenal: PAKLOG, CorKLOG, and SplatCloak – P2
This is Part 2 of our two-part technical analysis on Mustang Panda’s new tools. For details on ToneShell and StarProxy, go to Part 1.IntroductionIn addition to the new ToneShell variants and StarProxy, Zscaler ThreatLabz discovered two new keyloggers used by Mustang Panda that we have named PAKLOG and CorKLOG as well as an EDR evasion…
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Oracle April 2025 Critical Patch Update Addresses 171 CVEs
Oracle addresses 171 CVEs in its second quarterly update of 2025 with 378 patches, including 40 critical updates. Background On April 15, Oracle released its Critical Patch Update (CPU) for April 2025, the second quarterly update of the year. This CPU contains fixes for 171 unique CVEs in 378 security updates across 32 Oracle product…
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Government contractor Conduent disclosed a data breach
The business services provider Conduent told the SEC a January cyberattack exposed personal data, including names and Social Security numbers. The business services provider Conduent revealed that personal information, including names and Social Security numbers, was stolen in a January cyberattack. In January, Conduent confirmed a cyberattack caused service disruptions after agencies in multiple US…
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10 Best Email Security Solutions in 2025
Email security solutions are critical for protecting organizations from the growing sophistication of cyber threats targeting email communication. As email remains a primary channel for business communication, it is also the most exploited vector for attacks such as phishing, malware distribution, and business email compromise (BEC). Implementing robust email security measures ensures the confidentiality, integrity,…
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The most dangerous time for enterprise security? One month after an acquisition
Fear of upgrading or purchasing any new security tech. Managers are hesitant to invest because they don’t know what the new parent company will decide, and they don’t want to waste money.Talented security people leave, along with the best people in every business unit. They are worried about being laid off, so they take whatever…
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Introducing Wyo Support ADAMnetworks LTP
Tags: attack, best-practice, business, compliance, cyber, cybersecurity, data, email, endpoint, finance, GDPR, government, guide, healthcare, infrastructure, insurance, law, linkedin, PCI, phishing, radius, ransomware, regulation, service, skills, strategy, technology, threat, tool, training, update, zero-trustADAMnetworks is excited to announce Wyo Support to the family of Licensed Technology Partners. “After working with the various systems and technologies, there are few that compare with the protection that ADAMnetworks provides. It reduces the attack surface from the broad side of a barn down to the size of a keyhole. No other technology…
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Gartner’s 12 Emerging Tech Disruptors Why ‘Technology Leaders Must Take Action Now’
A Gartner distinguished VP analyst offers TechRepublic readers advice about which early-stage technologies that will define the future of business systems to prioritize. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/news-gartner-early-stage-technologies/
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15 Timeless Truths of SaaS Business in the Age of AI
The world is changing fast, AI is reshaping what’s possible in software. Tools are evolving, business models are shifting, and the speed of iteration…Read More First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: https://securityboulevard.com/2025/04/15-timeless-truths-of-saas-business-in-the-age-of-ai/
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RansomHouse ransomware: what you need to know
RansomHouse is a cybercrime operation that follows a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) business model, where affiliates (who do not require technical skills of their own) use the ransomware operator’s infrastructure to extort money from victims. First seen on fortra.com Jump to article: www.fortra.com/blog/ransomhouse-ransomware-what-you-need-know
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6 KI-basierende Business-Cases entlang des Produktlebenszyklus
Künstliche Intelligenz transformiert zunehmend Unternehmensprozesse und eröffnet neue Möglichkeiten der Wertschöpfung. Dabei ist es entscheidend, KI-Technologien gezielt und praxisorientiert einzusetzen. Verschiedene KI-Ansätze von analytischen und prädiktiven Methoden bis hin zu den neuen generativen KI-Modellen (GenAI) bieten unterschiedliche Vorteile für spezifische Anwendungsfälle. GenAI bietet insbesondere für die Prozessautomatisierung großes Potenzial. Im Rahmen des neuen […] First…
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Conduent Says Names, Social Security Numbers Stolen in Cyberattack
The business services provider confirms personal information such as names and Social Security numbers was stolen in a January cyberattack. The post Conduent Says Names, Social Security Numbers Stolen in Cyberattack appeared first on SecurityWeek. First seen on securityweek.com Jump to article: www.securityweek.com/conduent-says-names-social-security-numbers-stolen-in-cyberattack/
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Are We Prioritizing the Wrong Security Metrics?
True security isn’t about meeting deadlines, it’s about mitigating risk in a way that aligns with business objectives while protecting against real-world threats. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/are-we-prioritizing-wrong-security-metrics
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Top Four Considerations for Zero Trust in Critical Infrastructure
Tags: access, ai, attack, authentication, automation, best-practice, breach, business, cctv, ceo, cloud, communications, compliance, corporate, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, email, encryption, exploit, finance, group, hacker, healthcare, identity, infrastructure, iot, law, malicious, mfa, nis-2, privacy, regulation, risk, saas, service, software, strategy, threat, tool, vulnerability, zero-trustTop Four Considerations for Zero Trust in Critical Infrastructure madhav Tue, 04/15/2025 – 06:43 TL;DR Increased efficiency = increased risk. Critical infrastructure organizations are using nearly 100 SaaS apps on average and 60% of their most sensitive data is stored in the cloud. Threat actors aren’t naive to this, leading to a whopping 93% of…