Tag: business
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Security researchers find deep flaws in CVSS vulnerability scoring system
The industrywide method for assessing the severity of vulnerabilities in software and hardware needs to be revised because it provides potential misleading severity assessment, delegates at Black Hat Europe were told Thursday.The Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) makes use of various metrics to quantify vulnerability severity. A presentation at Black Hat by cybersecurity experts from…
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Cohesity CEO On Closing The Veritas Acquisition, Competing With Veeam, Rubrik, And More
Cohesity plans to take advantage of the new Veritas business it just purchased to out-innovate and out-grow what Poonen calls its “honorable competitors.” First seen on crn.com Jump to article: www.crn.com/news/storage/2024/cohesity-ceo-on-closing-the-veritas-acquisition-competing-with-veeam-rubrik-more
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PEC “invoice scam” Stealing time, money, and trust from businesses
PEC stands for “Posta Elettronica Certificata” – a type of legally binding “certified email” used in Italy. It’s also a hub of abuse targeting business owners. In this article, we share a real-life case of criminals stealing PEC credentials to send malicious emails, causing significant loss of time and money, and explore the risks of…
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How Much Will Cybercrime Cost Your E-Commerce Business This Season?
The 2024 holiday season has seen explosive growth in e-commerce, with transaction volumes more than doubling from 5.1 billion in 2023 to 10.4 billion this year. While this highlights the strength of online shopping, it also points to a parallel increase in malicious activity. Reports indicate that 34.62% of transactions in 2024 were flagged as……
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Notorious Nigerian cybercriminal tied to BEC scams extradited to U.S.
Abiola Kayode, a 37-year-old Nigerian national, has been extradited from Ghana to the United States to face charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Kayode, who was on the FBI’s Most Wanted cybercriminal list, is charged with participating in a business email compromise (BEC) scheme and romance fraud from January 2015 to September 2016, defrauding…
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We must adjust expectations for the CISO role
Cybersecurity has become one of the most high-stakes facets of business operations in the past few years. The chief information security officer (CISO) role, once a … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/12/12/ciso-role-expectations/
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Operation Digital Eye: Chinese APT Exploits Visual Studio Code Tunnels in High-Stakes Espionage Campaign
In a sophisticated cyberespionage campaign dubbed Operation Digital Eye, SentinelOne and Tinexta Cyber uncovered activities linked to a Chinese Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) group targeting large business-to-business IT service providers... First seen on securityonline.info Jump to article: securityonline.info/operation-digital-eye-chinese-apt-exploits-visual-studio-code-tunnels-in-high-stakes-espionage-campaign/
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Cardiac surgery device manufacturer falls prey to ransomware
Tags: attack, breach, business, cyber, cyberattack, cybercrime, data, group, hacker, healthcare, ransom, ransomware, service, supply-chainThe healthcare industry has been increasingly in the crosshairs of cyberattackers this year, with ransomware near the top of the sector’s biggest cyber threats. Hackers are attacking IT systems and personal data, among other things, with the aim of manipulation or theft. But it’s not just hospitals that are affected by cyberattacks; their suppliers are under attack as well.…
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Comcast Business To Acquire Nitel For Network-as-a-Service, Security Push
Comcast Business announced its planned acquisition of network-as-a-service vendor Nitel for undisclosed terms. First seen on crn.com Jump to article: www.crn.com/news/security/2024/comcast-business-to-acquire-nitel-for-network-as-a-service-security-push
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Unfinished business for Trump: Ending the Cyber Command and NSA ‘dual hat’
U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency are jointly led by a single four-star officer. Donald Trump made moves to end that arrangement in 2020, and sources say the idea is circulating again as the president-elect transitions into a new administration.]]> First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/cyber-command-nsa-dual-hat-trump
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GRC is a business enabler and now you can prove it
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/native/grc-is-a-business-enabler-and-now-you-can-prove-it
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Scam Kit Maker Rebuilding Business After Telegram Channel Shut Down
SpartanWarrioz, whose prolific phishing kit business took a hit when the group’s Telegram channel was shut down in November, is rebounding quickly, creating a new channel and courting former subscribers as it rebuilds its operations, Forta researchers say. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2024/12/scam-kit-maker-rebuilding-business-after-telegram-channel-shut-down/
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Cohesity completes its merger with Veritas; here’s how they’ll integrate
Data protection startup Cohesity completed its merger with Veritas’ enterprise data protection business, creating one entity with 12,000 customers that is valued at $7 billion. The deal was originally announced in February 2024. Cohesity valued Carlyle-owned Veritas’ data protection business at $3 billion at the time, according to CRN reporting. Cohesity declined to comment on…
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RedLine Malware Weaponizing Pirated Corporate Softwares To Steal Logins
Attackers are distributing a malicious .NET-based HPDxLIB activator disguised as a new version, which is signed with a self-signed certificate, and targets entrepreneurs automating business processes and aims to compromise their systems. They are distributing malicious activators on forums targeting business owners and accountants, deceptively promoting them as legitimate license bypass tools with update functionality…
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Hackers Weaponize Visual Studio Code Remote Tunnels for Cyber Espionage
A suspected China-nexus cyber espionage group has been attributed to an attacks targeting large business-to-business IT service providers in Southern Europe as part of a campaign codenamed Operation Digital Eye.The intrusions took place from late June to mid-July 2024, cybersecurity companies SentinelOne SentinelLabs and Tinexta Cyber said in a joint report shared with The Hacker…
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Top tips for CISOs running red teams
Red team is the de facto standard in offensive security testing when you want to know how all security investments, from technological controls to user training to response procedures, work together when subjected to a targeted attack. Unlike penetration testing, which aims to comprehensively assess a system, or purple team, which assesses detection and response…
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U.S. Subsidiary of a Japanese water Treatment Company Hit By Ransomware Attack
Kurita America Inc. (KAI), the North American subsidiary of Tokyo-based Kurita Water Industries Ltd., has confirmed it was the victim of a ransomware attack that compromised multiple servers and potentially leaked sensitive data. The attack was detected on Friday, November 29, 2024, and has raised concerns worldwide among customers and business partners. Incident Overview KAI’s security…
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How Secrets Security Boosts Business Value
Are You Maximizing Your Organization’s Cybersecurity? Cybersecurity is not only a means of information protection but also a valuable strategic asset that can drive business growth and stability. Central to achieving such a valuable level of security is managing Non-Human Identities (NHIs) and their corresponding secrets”, a technique known as Secrets Security Management. So, how…
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Bug bounty programs: Why companies need them now more than ever
Tags: attack, best-practice, bug-bounty, business, crypto, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, defense, exploit, finance, guide, hacker, hacking, jobs, malicious, ransom, strategy, threat, tool, update, vulnerability, zero-dayIn the fast-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, the need for proactive measures has become more pressing than ever.When I first entered the cybersecurity field, the primary threats were largely opportunistic hackers exploiting known vulnerabilities and multi-million-dollar ransoms were unheard of. Today, the stakes are significantly higher. According to Cybersecurity Ventures, cybercrime is expected to cost the…
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Winner’s Spotlight: Security Serious Unsung Heroes Awards 2024 Godmother of Security
This year’s Security Serious Unsung Heroes Awards uncovered and celebrated the individuals and teams that go above and beyond to make the UK a safer place to do business, as well as share and spread their expertise far and wide. The sponsors included KnowBe4, Check Point Software, ThinkCyber, The Zensory, Hornetsecurity and Pulse Conferences. Jessica…
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Interview mit HiScout Lässt sich GRC noch ohne ein ganzheitliches Tool umsetzen?
Das Management von Governance, Risk und Compliance, kurz GRC, wurde in der Vergangenheit oftmals separat betrachtet und noch viel eklatanter via Listen abgehakt. Netzpalaver sprach via Remote-Session mit Sascha Kreutziger, Leiter Business Development bei HiScout, wie sich die Unternehmens-Anforderungen an Business-Continuity und den Datenschutz, insbesondere über Abteilungen hinweg mit der effizient umsetzen […] First seen…
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XDR-Erweiterung von Bitdefender zum Schutz von Daten in Atlassian-Cloud-Applikationen
Bitdefender hat einen neuen Business-Applications-Sensor für seine Gravityzone-XDR-Plattform zur Cybersicherheit vorgestellt. Der Sensor schützt Unternehmensdaten, die in cloudbasierten Produktivitäts- und Kooperationsapplikationen gehostet und gespeichert sind. Er wird zunächst Atlassian-Cloud-Anwendungen wie Confluence, Jira und Bitbucket unterstützen und soll später weitere gängige Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)-Plattformen für Geschäftsabläufe beobachten. Der Business-Applications-Sensor erweitert die native XDR-Plattform von Bitdefender-Gravityzone-XDR. Gravityzone-XDR verfolgt…
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Seven Bolt-Ons to Make Your Entra ID More Secure for Critical Sessions
Identity security is all the rage right now, and rightfully so. Securing identities that access an organization’s resources is a sound security model.But IDs have their limits, and there are many use cases when a business should add other layers of security to a strong identity. And this is what we at SSH Communications Security…
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Digital Isle of Man: For all your connected tax haven needs?
Tags: businessFantasizing about leaving the mess at home behind? Pretty island packed with medieval ruins promotes itself as a venue for e-business First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2024/12/07/digital_isle_2024/