Navigating Vendor Speak: A Security Practitioner’s Guide to Seeing Through the Jargon

As a security industry, we need to focus our energies on those professionals among us who know how to walk the walk.

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Fortify AI Training Datasets From Malicious Poisoning

Just like you should check the quality of the ingredients before you make a meal, it’s critical to ensure the integrity of AI training data.

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Hackers Publish Fake Story About Ukrainians Attempting To Assassinate Slovak President

An unidentified attacker hacked a Czech news service’s website and published a fake story on Tuesday claiming that an assassination attempt had been made against the newly elected Slovak president Petr Pellegrini.

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Patch Now: CrushFTP Zero-Day Cloud Exploit Targets US Orgs

An exploit for the vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to escape a virtual file system sandbox to download system files and potentially achieve RCE.

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Tines Bags $50 Million Funding for Security Workflow Automation

Irish startup Tines raises $50 million in new venture capital funding as investors make big bets on automation and orchestration startups.

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U.S. Treasury Sanctions Iranian Firms and Individuals Tied to Cyber Attacks

The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Monday sanctioned two firms and four individuals for their involvement in malicious cyber activities on behalf of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Cyber Electronic Command (IRGC-CEC) from at least 2016 to April 2021.
This includes the front companies Mehrsam Andisheh Saz Nik (MASN) and Dadeh

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Researchers Detail Multistage Attack Hijacking Systems with SSLoad, Cobalt Strike

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an ongoing attack campaign that’s leveraging phishing emails to deliver malware called SSLoad.
The campaign, codenamed FROZEN#SHADOW by Securonix, also involves the deployment of Cobalt Strike and the ConnectWise ScreenConnect remote desktop software.
“SSLoad is designed to stealthily infiltrate systems, gather sensitive

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5 Best VPN Services (2024): For Routers, PC, iPhone, Android, and More

It won’t solve all of your privacy problems, but a virtual private network can make you a less tempting target for hackers.

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Major Security Flaws Expose Keystrokes of Over One Billion Chinese Keyboard App Users

The vulnerabilities could be exploited to “completely reveal the contents of users’ keystrokes in transit,” researchers Jeffrey Knockel, Mona Wang, and Zoë Reichert said.

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Report: Attacker Dwell Time Down, Ransomware up in 2023

According to a new report by Mandiant, which is based on Mandiant Consulting investigations during 2023, the global median dwell time for attackers fell to its lowest point since the company began tracking the metric in 2011.

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