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SHARED INTEL: How attacks on web, mobile apps are being fueled by rising API vulnerabilities

The Last Watchdog

It’s the glue holding digital transformation together. Related: A primer on ‘credential stuffing’ APIs are the conduits for moving data to-and-fro in our digitally transformed world. APIs are literally everywhere in the digital landscape, and more are being created every minute. We spoke at RSA 2020.

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LW ROUNDTABLE — How 2024’s cyber threats will transform the security landscape in 2025

The Last Watchdog

Deepfake scams will escalate, with threat actors using AI to create convincing impersonations of executives, risking personal and corporate brands. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. Acohido Pulitzer Prize-winning business journalist Byron V.

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RSAC insights: How IABs — initial access brokers — help sustain, accelerate the ransomware plague

The Last Watchdog

Related: How cybercriminals leverage digital transformation. They’ve even got an escrow system to assure that one criminal is not scamming the other criminals.”. Understanding digital assets. This is the flip side of digital transformation. Things are steadily moving in that direction.

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Protecting Retailers Against Cyber Risks on Black Friday and Cyber Monday

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

By using AI to compose phishing messages, bad actors can avoid many of the telltale signs that indicate a scam, such as spelling and grammar errors and awkward phrasing. This is the digital equivalent of an Account Takeover (ATO) attack, a growing menace in the cyber landscape. What's more alarming is the scale of this threat.

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Solid Data Security: The Foundation of a Safe Digital World

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

The modern internet's interconnected nature also threatens data security. According to Imperva’s State of API Security in 2024 report, APIs—the rules allowing software applications to communicate with each other—now account for a staggering 71% of internet traffic. The result?

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NEW TECH: Cequence Security launches platform to shield apps, APIs from malicious botnets

The Last Watchdog

The attackers have a vast, pliable attack surface to bombard: essentially all of the externally-facing web apps, mobile apps and API services that organizations are increasingly embracing, in order to stay in step with digital transformation. Related: The ‘Golden Age’ of cyber espionage is upon us.

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SHARED INTEL: Here’s why CEOs who’ve quit Tweeting are very smart to do so

The Last Watchdog

As part of the rush to leverage the Internet cloud to transact with remote workers, third-partner suppliers and customers, companies opened up endless fresh attack vectors. This pilfered data, in turn, has been channeled into all manner of business scams , consumer fraud, election tampering and cyber espionage. I’ll keep watch.

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