Tag: identity
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Windows tips for reducing the ransomware threat
Tags: access, attack, authentication, backup, breach, cloud, computer, control, credentials, government, identity, infrastructure, login, mfa, microsoft, monitoring, network, ntlm, passkey, privacy, ransomware, risk, service, threat, windowsSusan Bradley / CSOIdeally you should have no such protocols observed.
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News alert: SpyCloud’s AI-powered platform mimics veteran analysts, speeds threat detection
Austin, TX, Aug. 6, 2025, CyberNewswire: SpyCloud, the leader in identity threat protection, today announced a significant enhancement to its SaaS Investigations solution: the integration of advanced AI-powered insights that mirror the tradecraft of SpyCloud’s seasoned investigators. Building on… (more”¦) First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/08/news-alert-spyclouds-ai-powered-platform-mimics-veteran-analysts-speeds-threat-detection/
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News alert: SpyCloud’s AI-powered platform mimics veteran analysts, speeds threat detection
Austin, TX, Aug. 6, 2025, CyberNewswire: SpyCloud, the leader in identity threat protection, today announced a significant enhancement to its SaaS Investigations solution: the integration of advanced AI-powered insights that mirror the tradecraft of SpyCloud’s seasoned investigators. Building on… (more”¦) First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/08/news-alert-spyclouds-ai-powered-platform-mimics-veteran-analysts-speeds-threat-detection/
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Nigerian accused of hacking tax preparation businesses extradited to US
Prosecutors accuse Chukwuemeka Victor Amachukwu, who was arrested in France, of multiple fraud schemes, including tax refund fraud and identity theft. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/nigerian-extradited-charged-tax-refund-fraud/
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Researchers uncover RCE attack chains in popular enterprise credential vaults
Tags: access, api, attack, authentication, cloud, credentials, cve, encryption, exploit, flaw, identity, infrastructure, login, malicious, mfa, open-source, password, ransomware, rce, remote-code-execution, risk, service, software, vulnerabilityFrom identity forgery to full RCE: An AWS instance identity typically corresponds to a hostname. But the researchers explored how this could be abused within Conjur’s resource model, which uses three parameters: Account (Conjur account name), Kind (resource type, host, user, variable, policy, etc.), and Identifier (unique resource name). These parameters are also used in…
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Black Hat USA: Startup breaks secrets management tools
Researchers at Cyata, an agentic identity specialist that has just emerged from stealth, found 14 CVEs in the widely used CyberArk Conjur and HashiCorp Vault enterprise secrets management platforms First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366628475/Black-Hat-USA-Startup-breaks-secrets-management-tools
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What Identity Federation Means for Workloads in Cloud-Native Environments
7 min readManaging identity across cloud providers used to be a human problem think SSO portals and workforce identity sync. However, as infrastructure becomes more automated, the real fragmentation now resides between workloads: CI/CD pipelines authenticating to SaaS tools, containers accessing APIs, and jobs calling into services across clouds. Each environment has its identity system,…
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Act Now: $100M in FY25 Cyber Grants for SLTTs Available Before August 15
Tags: attack, breach, cisa, cloud, compliance, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, data, defense, governance, government, identity, incident response, infrastructure, iot, metric, network, ransomware, resilience, risk, service, technology, threat, tool, training, vulnerabilityWith over $100 million on the table in FY25 cybersecurity grants, state, local and tribal governments have until August 15, 2025 to apply to secure critical cyber funding to strengthen their defenses. On August 1st, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced the FY 2025 Notice…
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The AI Security Dilemma: Navigating the High-Stakes World of Cloud AI
Tags: access, ai, attack, cloud, container, control, credentials, cve, data, data-breach, flaw, google, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, least-privilege, microsoft, risk, service, software, tool, training, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementAI presents an incredible opportunity for organizations even as it expands the attack surface in new and complex ways. For security leaders, the goal isn’t to stop AI adoption but to enable it securely. Artificial Intelligence is no longer on the horizon; it’s here, and it’s being built and deployed in the cloud at a…
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Top use cases for private certificate authorities in public sector organizations
Tags: access, authentication, automation, compliance, control, crypto, cybersecurity, governance, identity, service, zero-trustPublic sector organizations face rising cybersecurity, compliance, and operational challenges, especially in complex hybrid environments. Private certificate authorities (CAs) offer enhanced control, automation, and security tailored to internal systems and Zero Trust frameworks. Unlike public CAs, private CAs allow agencies to manage internal identities, devices, and applications while meeting strict regulatory requirements. Key use cases…
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Mistaken Identity? AI Agent Oversight Key To Success
The AI agent revolution and its promise of unprecedented productivity gains could hit major roadblocks if cybersecurity concerns aren’t dealt with, experts and industry executives told CRN. First seen on crn.com Jump to article: www.crn.com/news/security/2025/mistaken-identity-ai-agent-oversight-key-to-success
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Companies House ID verification to start in November 2025
Companies House plans to start vetting director identities from the middle of November, but its reliance on the troubled One Login digital identity service may be cause for concern. First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366628365/Companies-House-ID-verification-to-start-in-November-2025
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The Promise and Pitfalls of Ephemeral Identities
Short-lived credentials reduce exposure but they aren’t secure by default. Here’s what ephemeral identity gets right, and where it can fail. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/08/the-promise-and-pitfalls-of-ephemeral-identities/
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Top IAM Platforms for Secure Access – MojoAuth
Explore the top IAM platforms with MojoAuth. Ensure secure access and protect your enterprise with advanced identity and access management solutions. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/08/top-iam-platforms-for-secure-access-mojoauth/
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Hacker extradited to US for stealing $3.3 million from taxpayers
Nigerian national Chukwuemeka Victor Amachukwu has been extradited from France to the U.S. to face charges of hacking, fraud, and identity theft for suspected spearphishing attacks on U.S. tax preparation businesses. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hacker-extradited-to-us-for-stealing-33-million-from-taxpayers/
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US Authorities Extradite Nigerian Man Accused of Hacking and Fraud
A Nigerian man accused of hacking, fraud and identity theft has been extradited from France to the US to face charges First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/us-authorities-extradite-nigerian/
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5 hard truths of a career in cybersecurity, and how to navigate them
Tags: access, ai, application-security, attack, awareness, best-practice, breach, business, cio, ciso, conference, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data-breach, finance, firewall, framework, gartner, identity, ISO-27001, jobs, mitigation, network, regulation, risk, risk-assessment, risk-management, skills, strategy, technology, threat, training, wafCybersecurity teams protect systems but neglect people: After all the effort it takes to break into cybersecurity, professionals often end up on teams that don’t feel welcoming or supportive.Jinan Budge, a research director at Forrester who focuses on enabling CISOs and other technical leaders, believes the way most cybersecurity career paths are structured plays a…
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Top cybersecurity M&A deals for 2025
Tags: 5G, access, ai, api, apple, application-security, attack, automation, awareness, banking, breach, business, ceo, cisco, cloud, compliance, control, crowdstrike, cyber, cybersecurity, data, ddos, defense, detection, edr, email, endpoint, finance, firewall, gitlab, government, group, ibm, identity, incident response, infrastructure, intelligence, leak, microsoft, mitigation, network, password, programming, risk, risk-management, saas, service, software, sophos, strategy, supply-chain, technology, threat, tool, training, vulnerability, waf, zero-trustPalo Alto Networks to buy CyberArk for $25B as identity security takes center stage July 30, 2025: Palo Alto Networks is making what could be its biggest bet yet by agreeing to buy Israeli identity security company CyberArk for around $25 billion. “We envision Identity Security becoming the next major pillar of our multi-platform strategy, complementing our leadership…
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Identity Security: The New Perimeter for Cloud Security Companies Using CNAPP
In a cloud-native world, your network is no longer your perimeter; identity is. Every user, workload and service account is an entry point. And every entry point has permissions. The problem? Most of those permissions are excessive, unnecessary or never revoked. In fact, according to Tenable research, more than 90% of cloud identities use…
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OAuth-Apps für M365-Phishing missbraucht
Gefälschte OAuth-Apps eröffnen Angreifern neue Wege, um Microsoft-Konten zu kapern.Bedrohungsakteure haben einen neuen, smarten Weg aufgetan, Microsoft-365-Konten zu kompromittieren. Wie Proofpoint herausgefunden hat, erstellen sie dazu zunehmend gefälschte OAuth-Anwendungen, die vertrauenswürdige Brands wie SharePoint und DocuSign imitieren. Die “Originale” dieser Apps nutzen die Identity-Plattform von Microsoft (Azure AD / Entra ID), um auf Daten aus…
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The surprising truth about identity security confidence
Tags: identityOrganizations most confident in their identity security are often the least prepared, according to a new report from BeyondID. The study reveals a troubling gap between what … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/08/04/ciso-identity-security-confidence-gap/
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Ninety laptops, millions of dollars: US woman jailed over North Korea remote-work scam
Christine Chapman apologizes for role in identity fraud that amassed millions to allegedly aid nuclear weapons programIn March 2020, about the time the Covid pandemic started, Christina Chapman, a woman who lived in Arizona and Minnesota, received a message on LinkedIn asking her to “be the US face” of a company and help overseas IT…
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Black Hat 2025: Latest news and insights
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, ciso, cloud, conference, crowdstrike, cvss, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, email, exploit, finance, firmware, flaw, group, hacker, hacking, identity, Internet, LLM, malicious, malware, reverse-engineering, sap, service, threat, tool, training, update, usa, vulnerability, windowsBlack Hat USAAugust 2-7, 2025Las Vegas, NVBlack Hat USA 2025 returns to the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas on August 2-7. The annual event is a perennial magnet for cybersecurity professionals, researchers, vendors and othersThe week kicks off on August 2 with four days of cybersecurity training courses. The courses cover a range…
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Securing agentic identities focus of Palo Alto’s CyberArk buy
Palo Alto Networks is entering the identity security space with a multibillion-dollar acquisition, and plans to address growing concerns around protecting identities associated with AI agents First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366628304/Securing-agentic-identities-focus-of-Palo-Altos-CyberArk-buy
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How bright are AI agents? Not very, recent reports suggest
CSOs should ‘skip the fluff’: Meghu’s advice to CSOs: Stop reading the marketing and betting too much of your business on AI/LLM technology as it exists today. Start small and always have a human operator to guide it.”If you skip the fluff and get to the practical application, we have a new technology that could…
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Another Telephone Phish
A person called me on the phone a few moments ago claiming to be from US Bank. He said there was some fraud detected on my account: someone created a new checking account with my identity information. “So, you have my identity information?” I asked. “Yes,” he replied. “Can you prove who you say you……