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Don’t gamble with your identity verification practices

CIO

I also emphasized that companies need to urgently review their employee access protocol, writing that companies must “ make it a point to do continuous employee training to help your teams avoid being duped by phishing and malware tactics.” According to reports, MGM and Caesars were both customers of identity management company Okta.

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How to manage cloud exploitation at the edge

CIO

Common cloud exploitation outcomes Unauthorized Access: Attackers may attempt to gain unauthorized access to cloud accounts, systems, or data by exploiting weak or stolen credentials, misconfigurations, or vulnerabilities in the cloud environment. What can businesses do? Second, cyber criminals are well-organized and act fast.

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How developers can prevent bad actors

Lacework

The cloud is a game-changer for both developers and attackers because of the countless new opportunities it presents. To ensure businesses are prepared to protect their systems from these threats, it’s essential to understand the motives of bad actors. Why opportunities for hackers are at an all-time high.

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Cloudy with a chance of threats: Advice for mitigating the top cyber threats of 2024

Lacework

Developers are building systems and applications faster than ever, but this creates more risks and vulnerabilities for hackers to exploit. By integrating risk and threat insights, teams can prioritize the actions that matter most, like fixing critical vulnerabilities and stopping the most dangerous threat actors. Malware (e.g.,

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AI's Offensive & Defensive Impacts

Palo Alto Networks

AI language models can study a target's entire email history and communication patterns to then craft perfectly authentic-sounding phishing messages. We're trying to actually create malware using LLMs and then feeding it and throwing it at our products to see how well they do," he notes about the proactive defense work of Palo Alto Networks.

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Protecting Client Data with AWS: Ensuring Trust in the Digital Age

Mentormate

Data breaches, malware, ransomware, data loss, and misconfigurations are just a few dangers lurking in the cloud. Unauthorized access and insider threats pose significant risks, as do malware infections and ransomware attacks. Secure APIs with strong authentication and authorization using AWS API Gateway and AWS WAF.

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The Importance of Security and Compliance in Enterprise Applications

OTS Solutions

We will also discuss the negative impact of security and compliance breaches, the benefits of investing in secure and compliant enterprise applications, and how to integrate security and compliance into the development process. The success of this method depends on how weak or strong the password of the victim’s account is.