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06/13/2024
Microsoft’s Brad Smith acknowledges past security failures, outlines new initiatives
Not everyone was as harsh on Microsoft’s previous mistakes. Jeff Williams, co-founder and chief technology officer at application security software platform provider Contrast Security Inc., noted that “while it’s pretty obvious in hindsight that they made a mistake, I think commentators are judging them without seeing the whole picture.”
“The unfortunate reality is that software is far more complex than most people understand,” he said. “A single application is built from dozens of source code repos, hundreds of open-source libraries, multiple application frameworks, server software and often multiple language platforms. And Microsoft has tens of thousands of applications, each of which has vulnerabilities reported all the time by tools, penetration testers, customers and more.”
05/31/2023
How audio deepfakes can trick employees into falling for a phish
They’re a “labor of love” requiring effort, but audio deepfakers have had success.
05/31/2023
NTT DATA case study | Contrast Security
Contrast Security, the code security platform built for developers and trusted by security, has successfully implemented Contrast Assess.
05/18/2023
NextGen Healthcare Data Breach Leaks 1 Million Patient Records, including Social Security Numbers
A data breach on the U.S. healthcare software giant NextGen Healthcare Inc. has exposed over 1 million patient records.
05/17/2023
BianLian Cybercrime Group Changes Up Extortion Methods, Warns CISA
CISA urges small and midsized organizations as well as critical infrastructure to implement mitigations immediately to shield themselves from further data exfiltration attacks.
05/17/2023
'Strictly limit' remote desktop – unless you like catching BianLian ransomware
Do it or don't. We're not cops. But the FBI are, and they have this to say.
05/16/2023
Toyota Left Data Breach Exposed for Ten Years, Admits Affecting 2 Million Customers
Toyota admitted that data linked to cloud-based connected services was left exposed for over ten years.
05/12/2023
Rayzone says "You can't escape your own echo." TechnologyOne suffers internal data breach
It’s well known that the advertising tech industry sells real-time user data to advertisers.
05/12/2023
Toyota Customer Data Leak For 10 Years
Toyota Motor Corporation on Friday found data from over 2.15 million customers.
05/10/2023
DOJ executes court-authorized disruption of Snake malware network controlled by Russia’s FSB
The U.S. Justice Department announced the completion of a court-authorized operation.
05/09/2023
Five Eyes countries disable Russia’s Snake malware network
Cybersecurity agencies from the Five Eyes intelligence co-operative.
05/09/2023
Hackers Are Using ChatGPT-Themed Lures to Spread Sophisticated Malware on Meta
Meta’s security team has warned that hackers are exploiting increased public interest in ChatGPT.