Tag: software
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USENIX 2025: PEPR ’25 Using GenAI to Accelerate Privacy Implementations
Creators, Authors and Presenters: Rituraj Kirti, Software Engineer – Meta & Rajkishan Gunasekaran, Software Engineer – Meta Our thanks to USENIX for publishing their Presenter’s outstanding USENIX Enigma ’23 Conference content on the organization’s’ YouTube channel. Permalink First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/10/usenix-2025-pepr-25-using-genai-to-accelerate-privacy-implementations/
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Apple bumps RCE bug bounties to $2M to counter commercial spyware vendors
Higher difficulty means higher rewards: The culmination of that work is what Apple now calls Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE) and is a feature of its new A19 and A19 Pro chips found in its iPhone 17 and iPhone Air lineup. MIE is leveraged in iOS to protect the entire kernel and over 70 userland processes,…
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Hackers exploiting zero-day in Gladinet file sharing software
Threat actors are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2025-11371) in Gladinet CentreStack and Triofox products, which allows a local attacker to access system files without authentication. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-exploiting-zero-day-in-gladinet-file-sharing-software/
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Microsoft violated EU law in handling of kids’ data, Austrian privacy regulator finds
Austria’s data protection authority ruled that Microsoft illegally tracked students using its education software by failing to give them access to their data and using cookies without consent. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/microsoft-violated-eu-law-austria
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Microsoft Warns of ‘Payroll Pirates’ Hijacking HR SaaS Accounts to Steal Employee Salaries
A threat actor known as Storm-2657 has been observed hijacking employee accounts with the end goal of diverting salary payments to attacker-controlled accounts.”Storm-2657 is actively targeting a range of U.S.-based organizations, particularly employees in sectors like higher education, to gain access to third-party human resources (HR) software as a service (SaaS) platforms like Workday,” the…
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Open-source DFIR Velociraptor was abused in expanding ransomware efforts
Attribution and the ransomware cocktail: Talos links the campaign to Storm-2603, a suspected China-based threat actor, citing matching TTPs like the use of ‘cmd.exe’, disabling Defender protections, creating scheduled tasks, and manipulating Group Policy Objects. The use of multiple ransomware strains in a single operation Warlock, LockBit, and Babuk also bolstered confidence in this attribution.”Talos…
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Open-source DFIR Velociraptor was abused in expanding ransomware efforts
Attribution and the ransomware cocktail: Talos links the campaign to Storm-2603, a suspected China-based threat actor, citing matching TTPs like the use of ‘cmd.exe’, disabling Defender protections, creating scheduled tasks, and manipulating Group Policy Objects. The use of multiple ransomware strains in a single operation Warlock, LockBit, and Babuk also bolstered confidence in this attribution.”Talos…
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Agentforce im Privacy Center Salesforce Ivanti hat Connect Secure generalüberholt: Ivanti hat auf der it-sa die Version 25.X von Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) vorgestellt. Nach den Sicherheitsvorfällen zu Beginn des Jahres wurde die VPN-Software nun laut Hersteller nach dem Prinzip ‘Security by Design” neu entwickelt. Dazu gehören ein moderner Webserver und eine Web Application Firewall…
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Agentforce im Privacy Center Salesforce Ivanti hat Connect Secure generalüberholt: Ivanti hat auf der it-sa die Version 25.X von Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) vorgestellt. Nach den Sicherheitsvorfällen zu Beginn des Jahres wurde die VPN-Software nun laut Hersteller nach dem Prinzip ‘Security by Design” neu entwickelt. Dazu gehören ein moderner Webserver und eine Web Application Firewall…
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Agentforce im Privacy Center Salesforce Ivanti hat Connect Secure generalüberholt: Ivanti hat auf der it-sa die Version 25.X von Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) vorgestellt. Nach den Sicherheitsvorfällen zu Beginn des Jahres wurde die VPN-Software nun laut Hersteller nach dem Prinzip ‘Security by Design” neu entwickelt. Dazu gehören ein moderner Webserver und eine Web Application Firewall…
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Check Points CyberReport für September 2025 Leichter Rückgang in der DACH-Region
Check Point Research (CPR), die Sicherheitsforschungsabteilung von Check Point Software Technologies hat seinen Global-Cyber-Threats-Report für September 2025 veröffentlicht. Im vergangenen Monat waren Unternehmen im globalen Vergleich durchschnittlich 1900 Cyber-Angriffen pro Woche ausgesetzt. Das ist ein Rückgang um vier Prozent gegenüber dem Vormonat August, jedoch ein Anstieg von einem Prozent gegenüber dem Vorjahreszeitraum. In Deutschland ist…
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From LFI to RCE: Active Exploitation Detected in Gladinet and TrioFox Vulnerability
Tags: cve, cybersecurity, exploit, flaw, rce, remote-code-execution, software, vulnerability, zero-dayCybersecurity company Huntress said it has observed active in-the-wild exploitation of an unpatched security flaw impacting Gladinet CentreStack and TrioFox products.The zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-11371 (CVSS score: 6.1), is an unauthenticated local file inclusion bug that allows unintended disclosure of system files. It impacts all versions of the software prior to and First seen…
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The CIA triad is dead, stop using a Cold War relic to fight 21st century threats
Tags: ai, backup, breach, business, ceo, ciso, compliance, csf, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, deep-fake, firewall, framework, fraud, GDPR, governance, infrastructure, ISO-27001, nist, privacy, ransomware, regulation, resilience, sbom, software, supply-chain, technology, threat, zero-trustRansomware is not just an availability problem. Treating ransomware as a simple “availability” failure misses the point. Being “up” or “down” is irrelevant when your systems are locked and business halted. What matters is resilience: the engineered ability to absorb damage, fail gracefully, and restore from immutable backups. Availability is binary; resilience is survival. Without…
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October 2025 Patch Tuesday forecast: The end of a decade with Microsoft
A lot of classic software is reaching end-of-life (EOL) this month. Windows 10, Office 2016 and Exchange Server 2016 have survived after nearly a decade of service. Not far … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/10/10/october-2025-patch-tuesday-forecast/
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October 2025 Patch Tuesday forecast: The end of a decade with Microsoft
A lot of classic software is reaching end-of-life (EOL) this month. Windows 10, Office 2016 and Exchange Server 2016 have survived after nearly a decade of service. Not far … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/10/10/october-2025-patch-tuesday-forecast/
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October 2025 Patch Tuesday forecast: The end of a decade with Microsoft
A lot of classic software is reaching end-of-life (EOL) this month. Windows 10, Office 2016 and Exchange Server 2016 have survived after nearly a decade of service. Not far … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/10/10/october-2025-patch-tuesday-forecast/
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CL0P-Linked Hackers Breach Dozens of Organizations Through Oracle Software Flaw
Dozens of organizations may have been impacted following the zero-day exploitation of a security flaw in Oracle’s E-Business Suite (EBS) software since August 9, 2025, Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) and Mandiant said in a new report released Thursday.”We’re still assessing the scope of this incident, but we believe it affected dozens of organizations,” John…
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CL0P-Linked Hackers Breach Dozens of Organizations Through Oracle Software Flaw
Dozens of organizations may have been impacted following the zero-day exploitation of a security flaw in Oracle’s E-Business Suite (EBS) software since August 9, 2025, Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) and Mandiant said in a new report released Thursday.”We’re still assessing the scope of this incident, but we believe it affected dozens of organizations,” John…
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Disaster Recovery und Business Continuity effektiv planen
Tags: ai, api, backup, business, ciso, cloud, compliance, cyber, cyberattack, cyersecurity, gartner, Internet, mail, ransomware, resilience, risk, risk-management, saas, service, software, strategy, technology, tool, vulnerabilitySechs Schritte sollten CISOs für einen erfolgreichen Disaster-Recovery- und Business-Continuity-Plan beachten.Die Grundprinzipien der Disaster Recovery (DR) und der Business Continuity sind seit Jahrzehnten weitgehend unverändert:Risiken identifizieren,die Auswirkungen auf das Geschäft analysieren,Wiederanlaufzeiten (Recovery Time Objectives, RTOs) festlegen,einen Sicherungs- und Wiederherstellungsplan erstellen undregelmäßige Tests durchführen.In der Vergangenheit lagen die Daten auf Servern vor Ort, Cyberbedrohungen waren weniger…
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Microsoft Defender mistakenly flags SQL Server as endlife
Microsoft is working to resolve a known issue that causes its Defender for Endpoint enterprise endpoint security platform to incorrectly tag SQL Server software as end-of-life. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-defender-mistakenly-flags-sql-server-as-end-of-life/
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McKinsey wonders how to sell AI apps with no measurable benefits
Consultant says software vendors risk hiking prices without cutting costs or boosting productivity First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/10/09/mckinsey_ai_monetization/
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McKinsey wonders how to sell AI apps with no measurable benefits
Consultant says software vendors risk hiking prices without cutting costs or boosting productivity First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/10/09/mckinsey_ai_monetization/
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Salesforce Rebuffs ShinyHunters Extortionists’ Ransom Demand
Criminals Behind Salesloft Breach Continue to Target Salesforce-Using Customers. Customer relationship management software giant Salesforce has directly notified customers that it won’t be complying with ransom demands issued by the data-stealing crime group ShinyHunters, which continues to pressure Salesforce-using customers who fell victim to the Salesloft breach. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/salesforce-rebuffs-shinyhunters-extortionists-ransom-demand-a-29689
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Threat Actors Exploit DFIR Tool Velociraptor in Ransomware Attacks
Tags: access, attack, cisco, cyber, exploit, incident response, open-source, ransomware, software, threat, toolCisco Talos has confirmed that ransomware operators are now leveraging Velociraptor, an open-source digital forensics and incident response (DFIR) tool, to gain stealthy, persistent access and deploy multiple ransomware variants against enterprise environments. This marks the first definitive linkage between Velociraptor and ransomware operations, underscoring a shift in how threat actors incorporate legitimate security software…
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SaaS Breaches Start with Tokens – What Security Teams Must Watch
Token theft is a leading cause of SaaS breaches. Discover why OAuth and API tokens are often overlooked and how security teams can strengthen token hygiene to prevent attacks.Most companies in 2025 rely on a whole range of software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications to run their operations. However, the security of these applications depends on small pieces…
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Your cyber risk problem isn’t tech, it’s architecture
Tags: ai, attack, awareness, best-practice, business, ciso, cloud, compliance, container, control, csf, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, defense, finance, framework, GDPR, governance, grc, group, intelligence, Internet, ISO-27001, mitre, nist, PCI, phishing, privacy, ransomware, regulation, risk, risk-assessment, risk-management, software, strategy, threat, training, update, vulnerabilityIf the company already has a mature risk culture: The implementation of a cybersecurity management project becomes more flexible. Since my goal is to share the mechanics to achieve success in a cybersecurity program, I emphasize below some components of this ‘recipe’ to consider: Understand the dynamics and scope of the business, mapping stakeholders, processes…
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Your cyber risk problem isn’t tech, it’s architecture
Tags: ai, attack, awareness, best-practice, business, ciso, cloud, compliance, container, control, csf, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, defense, finance, framework, GDPR, governance, grc, group, intelligence, Internet, ISO-27001, mitre, nist, PCI, phishing, privacy, ransomware, regulation, risk, risk-assessment, risk-management, software, strategy, threat, training, update, vulnerabilityIf the company already has a mature risk culture: The implementation of a cybersecurity management project becomes more flexible. Since my goal is to share the mechanics to achieve success in a cybersecurity program, I emphasize below some components of this ‘recipe’ to consider: Understand the dynamics and scope of the business, mapping stakeholders, processes…
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Bots Are Evolving: Here’s How to Stop AI-Powered Automation Before It Stops You
Tags: access, ai, api, application-security, attack, authentication, automation, awareness, breach, cloud, compliance, container, control, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, encryption, exploit, intelligence, Internet, login, malicious, mobile, monitoring, network, scam, skills, software, strategy, tactics, technology, threat, toolBots Are Evolving: Here’s How to Stop AI-Powered Automation Before It Stops You madhav Thu, 10/09/2025 – 04:34 More than half of all internet traffic is now automated. Bots don’t just scrape data or hoard inventory anymore. They mimic humans so convincingly that even seasoned security teams struggle to spot them. With the help of…
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Bots Are Evolving: Here’s How to Stop AI-Powered Automation Before It Stops You
Tags: access, ai, api, application-security, attack, authentication, automation, awareness, breach, cloud, compliance, container, control, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, encryption, exploit, intelligence, Internet, login, malicious, mobile, monitoring, network, scam, skills, software, strategy, tactics, technology, threat, toolBots Are Evolving: Here’s How to Stop AI-Powered Automation Before It Stops You madhav Thu, 10/09/2025 – 04:34 More than half of all internet traffic is now automated. Bots don’t just scrape data or hoard inventory anymore. They mimic humans so convincingly that even seasoned security teams struggle to spot them. With the help of…