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DarkBit puts data from Israel’s Technion university on sale
PRIVACY PRIVACY DarkBit, the group that claimed responsibility for a ransomware attack on Israel’s Technion university, is making good on its threat to sell the university’s data if the ransom went unpaid. “The price of total bulk is 104 BTC (bitcoin) if anyone buys all of it at once,” said a message on DarkBit’s Telegram…
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ChatGPT Vulnerability May Have Exposed Users’ Payment Information
PRIVACY PRIVACY The breach was caused by a bug in an open-source library Read More
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API security: the new security battleground
PRIVACY PRIVACY The content of this post is solely the responsibility of the author. AT&T does not adopt or endorse any of the views, positions, or information provided by the author in this article. “While defenders pursue the most powerful and advanced solutions they can find, the enemy needs only a single user with a…
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Tech Industry Bids to Tackle Cyber-Mercenary Epidemic
PRIVACY PRIVACY New principles designed to disrupt and limit a rapidly growing market Read More
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Just 1% of Cloud Permissions Are Actively Used
PRIVACY PRIVACY Microsoft warns of “permissions gap” security threat Read More
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5 cyber threats retailers are facing — and how they’re fighting back
PRIVACY PRIVACY There are many reasons retailers are juicy targets for hackers. They earn and handle tremendous amounts of money, store millions of customer credit card numbers, and have frontline staff who may lack cybersecurity training. To save money, some retailers use older equipment that isn’t adequately updated, secured, or monitored to deal with cyberattacks.…
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AI-fueled search gives more power to the bad guys
PRIVACY PRIVACY Concerns about the reach of ChatGPT and how easier it may get for bad actors to find sensitive information have increased following Microsoft’s announcement of the integration of ChatGPT into Bing and the latest update of the technology, GPT-4. Within a month of the integration, Bing had crossed the 100 million daily user threshold.…
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Managing security in the cloud through Microsoft Intune
PRIVACY PRIVACY For many years, the Group Policy feature of Microsoft’s Windows has been the go-to solution for controlling workstations, providing deployment, and in general, making a network manageable by information professionals. It does, however, require a traditional domain with an Active Directory deployment — many users already have an Active Directory (AD) and will…
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Experts Warn of Self-Funding North Korean Group APT43
PRIVACY PRIVACY Mandiant says unit is focused on espionage and crypto theft Read More
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Legacy, password-based authentication systems are failing enterprise security, says study
PRIVACY PRIVACY Authentication-related attacks grew in 2022, taking advantage of outdated, password-based authentication systems, according to a study commissioned by HYPR, a passwordless multifactor authentication (MFA) provider based in the US. The study, conducted by independent technology market research firm Vanson Bourne, surveyed 1000 IT professionals from organizations around the world with more than 50…