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The 7 Best Encryption Software Choices in 2025
This is a comprehensive list of the best encryption software and tools, covering their features, pricing and more. Use this guide to determine your best fit. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/encryption-software/
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Are Free Tools Enough for NHI Security?
Can Free Tools Adequately Shield NHI Security? Cybersecurity, a vital concern, necessitates robust measures to protect our data, systems, and networks. This need is particularly pressing in Non-Human Identities (NHIs): machine identities used in cybersecurity, which are created by pairing a Secret, an encrypted password, token, or key that provides a unique identifier, with the……
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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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Why Legal Woes Continue to Mount Over Health Data Trackers
The use on online tracking tools on the health-related websites and apps of HIPAA and non-HIPAA regulated entities continues to be a lightning rod due to a long list of ongoing data privacy, regulatory and legal concerns, said partner and attorney Elizabeth Hodge of the law firm Akerman. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article:…
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AI Agents Can Hack Smart Contracts on Autopilot
AI Tools Can Steal Crypto Autonomously, Even From Audited Code. Armed with just a smart contract address, researchers developed an autonomous artificial intelligence tool that can scan for vulnerabilities, write working exploits in the Solidity blockchain programming language and siphon funds. It behaves more like a human hacker, said its co-creator. First seen on govinfosecurity.com…
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CISA Releases Free Thorium Malware Analysis Tool
Thorium enhances cybersecurity teams’ defense capabilities by seamlessly integrating commercial, open-source, and custom tools used to analyze malware. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cybersecurity-operations/cisa-releases-free-thorium-malware-analysis-tool
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Illumina Fined $9.8M for Cybersecurity Flaws in Genomic Tools Sold to U.S. Agencies
Illumina Inc., a leading genomic sequencing company, has agreed to pay $9.8 million to settle federal allegations that it knowingly sold cybersecurity-vulnerable genomic sequencing systems to government agencies while misrepresenting their security standards. The settlement resolves claims spanning over seven years of alleged violations that put sensitive genetic information at risk across multiple federal departments.…
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You Are What You Eat: Why Your AI Security Tools Are Only as Strong as the Data You Feed Them
Just as triathletes know that peak performance requires more than expensive gear, cybersecurity teams are discovering that AI success depends less on the tools they deploy and more on the data that powers themThe junk food problem in cybersecurityImagine a triathlete who spares no expense on equipment—carbon fiber bikes, hydrodynamic wetsuits, precision GPS watches—but fuels…
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Wie EDR EDR aushebelt
Tags: access, cisco, crowdstrike, cyberattack, detection, edr, endpoint, firewall, monitoring, software, tool, vulnerabilityLegitime Security-Tools gegeneinander auszuspielen, eröffnet Cyberkriminellen diverse Vorteile.Cybersicherheitsforscher haben einen unheilvollen neuen Angriffsvektor entdeckt. Dabei könnten Angreifer kostenlose Testversionen von Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)-Software dazu missbrauchen, vorhandene Sicherheits-Tools zu deaktivieren. Die Researcher Ezra Woods und Mike Manrod haben das Phänomen entdeckt und dokumentiert, das sie als “EDR-on-EDR Violence” bezeichnen. Ihre Erkenntnisse haben die Sicherheitsexperten…
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CISA released Thorium platform to support malware and forensic analysis
CISA releases Thorium, an open-source tool for malware and forensic analysis, now available to analysts in government, public, and private sectors. CISA has released Thorium, a new open-source platform designed to support malware and forensic analysis. The platform was designed in collaboration with Sandia National Laboratories, the US Agency presented it as a scalable, open-source platform…
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Summer: Why cybersecurity must be strengthened as vacations abound
Tags: access, ai, attack, authentication, automation, awareness, backup, control, corporate, credentials, cybersecurity, data, detection, email, encryption, exploit, infrastructure, malicious, mfa, monitoring, network, office, password, resilience, risk, theft, threat, tool, training, update, usa, vpn, wifiGuillermo Fernandez, Sales Engineer for Southern Europe at WatchGuard Technologies. WatchGuard Technologies.Another important point is that, during the summer, attackers know that many IT and cybersecurity teams are operating with more limited resources or with staff on vacation. “They take advantage of this to launch phishing campaigns and other targeted attacks, aware that attention and vigilance often…
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8 Best wordpress security plugins in 2025
Protect your site with the best WordPress Security plugin of 2025. Block threats, scan for malware, and secure logins with top-rated tools First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/07/8-best-wordpress-security-plugins-in-2025/
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CISA Releases Thorium: Open-Source Malware and Forensics Tool Now Public
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has made a significant contribution to the cybersecurity community by publicly releasing Thorium, a powerful open-source platform designed to revolutionize malware analysis and digital forensics operations. This announcement marks a major milestone in democratizing advanced cybersecurity tools for organizations worldwide. Partnership with Sandia National Laboratories CISA, in partnership…
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SentinelLabs uncovers China’s hidden cyber-espionage arsenal
CSOonline that the most important pieces of new information gleaned from the findings are that “China’s contracting ecosystem forces many companies and individuals to collaborate on intrusions. This means many China-based Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) may actually contain many different companies with many different clients.”The nation’s diverse private sector offensive ecosystem, he said, “supports a…
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Sensitive data in text embeddings is recoverable
We ran an experiment using Morris et. al’s Vec2Text model, to demonstrate the privacy risk of text embeddings with sensitive data. As we’ll show, a large percentage of sensitive data can be recovered from just their text embeddings, posing a significant privacy risk and demonstrating the need to use a tool like Tonic Textual to…
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Attackers wrap phishing links through URL scanning services to bypass detection
urldefense.proofpoint.com and url.emailprotection.link (Intermedia).”Link wrapping is designed by vendors like Proofpoint to protect users by routing all clicked URLs through a scanning service, allowing them to block known malicious destinations at the moment of click,” Cloudflare researchers wrote in their report on the attacks. “While this is effective against known threats, attacks can still succeed…
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External Attack Surface Management: The Complete Guide
With cloud services, remote work, and digital transformation accelerating the expansion of attack surfaces, relying on traditional security tools alone is no longer enough. External attack surface management (EASM) gives… First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/07/external-attack-surface-management-the-complete-guide/
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Threat Actors Use Malicious RMM Tools for Stealthy Initial Access to Organizations
A small increase in targeted cyberattacks that make use of Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) capabilities that are embedded in PDF documents has been seen by WithSecure. These campaigns primarily focus on organizations in France and Luxembourg, employing socially engineered emails to deliver innocuous PDFs containing hyperlinks to legitimate RMM installers. This method effectively circumvents…
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Seeing Your APIs Through an Attacker’s Eyes: Introducing Salt Surface
Tags: api, attack, backdoor, breach, cloud, data-breach, endpoint, firewall, Internet, monitoring, risk, tool, vulnerability, wafYour API attack surface is larger and more exposed than you realize. In today’s complex, cloud-native environment, APIs are deployed at an astonishing rate. While this rapid pace fuels innovation, it also creates a significant visibility gap. The APIs you are aware of and manage are only the tip of the iceberg. Your actual risk…
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Best Tools to Automate and Monitor Your DMARC Implementation
Originally published at Best Tools to Automate and Monitor Your DMARC Implementation by Gabriel Ouzounian. Phishing, spoofing, and brand impersonation are still among … First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/07/best-tools-to-automate-and-monitor-your-dmarc-implementation/
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CISA unveils free Thorium malware analysis platform
The goal of Thorium is to enable cyber defenders to bring automation to their existing analysis through simple tool integration and event-driven triggers, CISA said, adding that it is built to support cybersecurity teams across mission functions. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/cisa-unveils-free-malware-analysis-tool
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North Korean hackers target open-source repositories in new espionage campaign
In its latest operation, Lazarus took advantage of major gaps in the open-source software supply chain, like developers depending on unvetted packages and the lack of oversight for popular tools that are often maintained by just one or two people. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/north-korean-hackers-targeting-open-source-repositories
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Silk Typhoon spun a web of patents for offensive cyber tools, report says
US court docs reveal that infamous Chinese snoops filed IP papers like tax returns First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/07/31/silk_typhoon_attack_patents/
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Silver Fox Hackers Exploit Weaponized Google Translate Tools to Deliver Windows Malware
The Knownsec 404 Advanced Threat Intelligence Team has lately discovered increased activity from the Silver Fox cybercrime gang, which has been using fake versions of popular programs as weapons to spread malware in a complex cyber threat landscape. Tracing back to 2024, these attacks often masquerade as legitimate Google Translate interfaces, employing deceptive JavaScript redirects…
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CISA Unveils Eviction Strategies Tool to Aid Incident Response
CISA has launched a new tool to streamline cyber incident response and aid in adversary eviction First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/cisa-eviction-strategies-tool/
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Low-Code Tools in Microsoft Azure Allowed Unprivileged Access
Using the API Connections for Azure Logic Apps, a security researcher found unauthenticated users could access sensitive data of other customers. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/low-code-tools-azure-allowed-unprivileged-access
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Browser Extensions Can Exploit ChatGPT, Gemini in ‘Man in the Prompt’ Attack
Man in the Prompt attack shows how browser extensions can exploit ChatGPT, Gemini and other AI tools to steal data or inject hidden prompts. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/browser-extensions-exploit-chatgpt-gemini-man-in-the-prompt/
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Chinese Silk Typhoon Hackers File Over 10 Patents for Advanced Intrusive Hacking Tools
A SentinelLABS investigation has revealed that businesses linked to the Chinese advanced persistent threat (APT) group Hafnium, also known as Silk Typhoon, have submitted more than ten patents for highly intrusive forensics and data exfiltration methods. These patents, registered by firms named in recent U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) indictments, detail offensive capabilities, including encrypted…