Imagine a world where IoT devices not only collect and transmit data, but also analyse, interpret, and make decisions autonomously. This is the power of integrating artificial intelligence in IoT (AI with the Internet of Things). The combination of these two disruptive technologies has the potential to revolutionize industries, businesses, and economies.
Manual code reviews provide a lot of value but are slow, error-prone, and don't scale. Automated testing can take a lot of pressure off review teams.
On June 20, 2023, Descope published research detailing how a combination of a flaw in Azure Active Directory and poorly integrated third-party applications — dubbed “nOAuth” — could lead to full account takeover. nOAuth is the latest in a large number of vulnerabilities and architectural weaknesses in Microsoft software and systems like Active Directory that can be exploited and put organizations at risk.
XDR and MDR are cybersecurity solutions to enhance an organization's threat identification and response capabilities. While both solutions target the same objective, they employ different approaches. MDR strengthens an organization's internal security team with external expertise, whereas XDR streamlines security architecture through a centralized dashboard and automation of tedious tasks.
A federal grand jury has indicted a former employee of a contractor operating a California town's wastewater treatment facility, alleging that he remotely turned off critical systems and could have endangered public health and safety. 53-year-old Rambler Gallor of Tracy, California, held a full-time position at a Massachusetts company that was contracted by the town of Discovery Bay to operate its water treatment plant.
Imagine you've just deployed a working Teleport cluster and you're making changes to the Role Based Access Controls (RBAC) roles, fine-tuning all of your resource permissions, and making sure every role is following the principle of least privilege. You go for a week-long vacation, do some fishing and completely relax. Getting back you find that the DevOps intern you just hired made a bunch of changes to the roles screwing everything up.
The concept of Offensive Security is often misunderstood by clients who often confuse it with penetration testing, but these two solutions, while both vital, are in fact quite different. Offensive Security is a popular industry umbrella term for all things pertaining to an organization's strategy surrounding cybersecurity, whereas penetration testing is more singular involving security teams attempting to break into a client’s systems.
A new scam aimed at stealing your credit card and banking information has reared its’ ugly head as a completely legitimate ad that is likely to be clicked based on the corresponding search term. If you type in “USPS Tracking” in Google, you probably want to enter a U.S. Postal Service tracking number so you can see where your package is, right? So, if you saw the following result, would you give it a second thought? Source: Malwarebytes.
The quantity of emails involved in scams and cyber attacks continues to grow as credential theft and response-based phishing persist as top attack variants. The ripple effect from cybercrime-as-a-service launching a few years back has reached critical mass, where we’re seeing significant increases in the percentage of emails that are either clearly determined to be malicious (7.7%) as well as those suspicious enough that users are recommended to not engage with (15.9%).
