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Don’t gamble with your identity verification practices

CIO

Earlier this year, I wrote about the importance of organizations reviewing their password management strategies. Caesars noted in a filing that an “unauthorized actor” had stolen data in a social engineering attack targeting an outsourced IT support vendor, according to an InfoSecurity report.

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Guarding the gates: a look at critical infrastructure security in 2023

CIO

Uncovering the domestic and foreign threats to critical infrastructure Critical infrastructure refers to the physical and virtual systems and assets so vital to our society that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on security, national economic stability, public health, or safety.

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Microsoft’s May 2024 Patch Tuesday Addresses 59 CVEs (CVE-2024-30051, CVE-2024-30040)

Tenable

A local attacker with a presence on a vulnerable system could exploit this vulnerability to gain SYSTEM privileges. Researchers at Kaspersky have linked this zero-day vulnerability to QakBot and other malware. Once exploited, an attacker could execute code on the target system. It was assigned a CVSSv3 score of 8.8

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How to manage cloud exploitation at the edge

CIO

Companies that have embraced the cloud need to understand the Shared Responsibility Model: a security and compliance framework that explains what shared infrastructure and systems the cloud provider is responsible for maintaining and how a customer is responsible for operating systems, data, and applications utilizing the cloud.

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AI's Offensive & Defensive Impacts

Palo Alto Networks

The Phishing Threat Becomes Much Stronger In the near-term of the next 6-12 months, Sikorski believes the top way AI will be leveraged offensively is for supercharging social engineering attacks, like phishing and business email compromise (BEC). I think we'll even see attacks going after training data poisoning.

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The Importance of Security and Compliance in Enterprise Applications

OTS Solutions

Enterprise applications are software solutions created for large organizations to handle their business processes and workflows. Common vulnerabilities in enterprise applications may include unauthorized access, data leaks, malware infections, phishing attacks, or compliance violations.

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How to Protect.NET Web Applications From Viruses and Zero-Day Threats

Dzone - DevOps

Once the malicious content has been uploaded, it can filter its way into your systems, including cloud storage or databases, and can eventually get executed. While anti-virus software can provide protection against viruses and malware, this, unfortunately, leaves an opening for these custom threats.