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πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ Why Every Business Should Prioritize Confidential Computing πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ

Confidential computing safeguards data in use, making it a crucial component of cloud security.

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🦿 The 5 Best Free Endpoint Protection Platforms for 2024 🦿

Discover our top picks for reputable free endpoint protection platforms and compare their features, pros and cons in this indepth guide.

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🧠 Cost of data breaches: The business case for security AI and automation 🧠

As Yogi Berra said, Its dj vu all over again. If the idea of the global average costs of data breaches rising year over year feels like more of the same, thats because it is. Data protection solutions get better, but so do threat actors. The other broken record is the underuse or misuse of The post Cost of data breaches The business case for security AI and automation appeared first on Security Intelligence.

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πŸ–‹οΈ CTEM in the Spotlight: How Gartner's New Categories Help to Manage Exposures πŸ–‹οΈ

Want to know whats the latest and greatest in SecOps for 2024? Gartners recently released Hype Cycle for Security Operations report takes important steps to organize and mature the domain of Continuous Threat Exposure Management, aka CTEM. Three categories within this domain are included in this years report Threat Exposure Management, Exposure Assessment Platforms EAP, and Adversarial.

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πŸ“” FBI Flawed Data Handling Raises Security Concerns πŸ“”

A US Justice Department watchdog has found significant weaknesses in the FBIs physical and online media storage and disposal processes.

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πŸ“” Suspected Cyber-Attack Causes Travel Chaos at Seattle Airport πŸ“”

The Port of Seattle revealed system outages at the citys airport may have been caused by a cyberattack, affecting early Labor Day travel.

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πŸ–‹οΈ Chinese Volt Typhoon Exploits Versa Director Flaw, Targets U.S. and Global IT Sectors πŸ–‹οΈ

The Chinanexus cyber espionage group tracked as Volt Typhoon has been attributed with moderate confidence to the zeroday exploitation of a recently disclosed highseverity security flaw impacting Versa Director. The attacks targeted four U.S. victims and one nonU.S. victim in the Internet service provider ISP, managed service provider MSP and information technology IT sectors as early.

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πŸ¦… High-Risk CVE-2024-7965 Vulnerability in Chrome’s V8 Engine Requires Quick Fix πŸ¦…

Key Takeaways CISA has included a type of confusion vulnerability affecting Google Chrome and potentially other Chromiumbased browsers in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities KEV catalog, highlighting its seriousness and potential for exploitation. CVE20247965 affects Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine, allowing attackers to exploit heap corruption through specially crafted HTML pages. Its high CVSS score of 8.8 indicates a severe threat to system confidentiality and integrity. Google has acknowledged that CVE20247965 is actively being exploited. A critical patch has been released in Chrome versions 128.0.6613.84 for Linux and 128.0.6613.84.85 for Windows and Mac. Due to the active exploitation of this vulnerability, it is crucial for all users to update their browsers immediat...

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β™ŸοΈ New 0-Day Attacks Linked to China’s β€˜Volt Typhoon’ β™ŸοΈ

Malicious hackers are exploiting a zeroday vulnerability in Versa Director, a software product used by many Internet and IT service providers. Researchers believe the activity is linked to Volt Typhoon, a Chinese cyber espionage group focused on infiltrating critical U.S. networks and laying the groundwork for the ability to disrupt communications between the United States and Asia during any future armed conflict with China.

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πŸ“” MOVEit Hack Exposed Personal Data of Half Million TDECU Users πŸ“”

The Texas Dow Employees Credit Union told the Maine Attorney General the MOVEit data breach compromised information of over 500,000 members.

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πŸ¦… Cloud Storage Bucket Security: PII Leak Brings Renewed Focus to Storage Bucket Access Controls πŸ¦…

Key Takeaways News of a Google Cloud Storage bucket data leak has once again drawn public attention to the risks of misconfigured cloud storage buckets, one of the most common cloud security issues and causes of data leaks. Alices Table, a former contestant on ABCs Shark Tank, inadvertently leaked the personally identifiable information PII of more than 83,000 customers from a misconfigured Google Cloud Storage bucket. The leak underscores the importance of cloud storage bucket access controls as well as regularly auditing permissions and monitoring for data leaks. Cloud storage bucket leaks are very common Cyble Odin is presently detecting more than 500,000 such exposures between AWS and Google Cloud Storage. We look at best practices for cloud storage bucket access con...

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πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ PoC Exploit for Zero-Click Vulnerability Made Available to the Masses πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ

The exploit can be accessed on GitHub and makes it easier for the flaw to be exploited by threat actors.

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πŸ“” Microsoft 365 Copilot Vulnerability Exposes User Data Risks πŸ“”

The flaw in Microsoft 365 Copilot allowed data theft using ASCII smuggling and prompt injection.

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πŸ–‹οΈ macOS Version of HZ RAT Backdoor Targets Chinese Messaging App Users πŸ–‹οΈ

Users of Chinese instant messaging apps like DingTalk and WeChat are the target of an Apple macOS version of a backdoor named HZ RAT. The artifacts "almost exactly replicate the functionality of the Windows version of the backdoor and differ only in the payload, which is received in the form of shell scripts from the attackers' server," Kaspersky researcher Sergey Puzan said. HZ RAT was first.

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πŸ“’ Nozomi Networks unveils new Mandiant-powered security tools πŸ“’

The Nozomi TI Expansion Pack provides customers with access to both Nozomi and Mandiant threat intelligence capabilities.

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πŸ“’ Volt Typhoon is wreaking havoc again – this time on US internet providers πŸ“’

Chinese statebacked hackers are thought to be actively exploiting a zeroday in SDWAN software to infect corporate networks at US internet providers.

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πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ Hitachi Energy Vulnerabilities Plague SCADA Power Systems πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ

The company has assessed four of the five disclosed vulnerabilities as being of high to critical severity.

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πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ Manufacturing Sector Under Fire From Microsoft Credential Thieves πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ

The emails impersonate wellknown companies in the industry, fooling the victim into thinking they are communicating with a legitimate entity.

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πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ Why LLMs Are Just the Tip of the AI Security Iceberg πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ

With the right processes and tools, organizations can implement advanced AI security frameworks that make hidden risks visible, enabling security teams to track and address them before impact.

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πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ Hundreds of LLM Servers Expose Corporate, Health & Other Online Data πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ

LLM automation tools and vector databases can be rife with sensitive data and vulnerable to pilfering.

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πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ Zimbabwe Trains Government Officials in Cybersecurity Skills πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ

African nation's proactive approach to cybersecurity comes amid a rise in painful cyberattacks, including the breach of a major bank.

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