Security Boulevard

MARCH 17, 2025

Thats exactly why we built BX5, our latest AI engine, and enhanced our GenAI cybersecurity assistant, BIXto bring clarity and speed back into your security operations. And today we are very Read More The post Fast Answers, Less Noise: Meet BX5, Our New AI Engine, and the Heavily Updated BIX appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Tech Republic Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Identity-based and social engineering attacks still take center stage, according to the CrowdStrike 2024 Global Threat Report.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2025

.” reads the report published by Mandiant“This specific technique is now tracked as CVE-2025-21590, as detailed in Juniper Networks security bulletin JSA93446.” ” The second flaw added to the KeV catalog is CVE-2025-24201.This

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 9, 2025

Microsoft Engineer's Transition to Cybersecurity Ankit Masrani, a 36-year-old software engineer, successfully transitioned into a cybersecurity role at Microsoft. With a background in IT and a Master's degree in computer science, Masrani secured an internship and later a full-time position at AWS, focusing on data and network security.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

SOAR uses the output of detection engines and investigations and recommends workflows or playbooks to build a response plan, saving time and effort. LW: To what extent is Cisco’s acquisition of Splunk just a microcosm of a wider shift of network security that’s taking place?

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IT Security Guru

JANUARY 9, 2025

With the continued evolution of these risks, IT leaders must adapt by implementing a multi-layered approach to security, staying one step ahead of attackers. Key elements in protecting against AI-driven threats include timely software updates, network security improvements and strong password policies.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 17, 2023

” “My reason for offering the service is to provide the ability to test network security measures before someone with malicious intent attacks said network and causes downtime,” he said. com,” Dobbs continued.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 17, 2024

Ezra Graziano, Director of Federal Accounts at Zimperium, emphasized the urgency for defense against such evolving social engineering tactics. Scams like this will continue with great frequency and success with the weaponization of AI-generated voice, video, and text," warned Patrick Harr, CEO of email security provider SlashNext.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 9, 2024

This case underscores the serious risk that social engineering and supply chain attacks pose to open-source projects. It emphasizes the importance of implementing stricter security measures, adopting a more vigilant approach to project management, and maintaining careful oversight in regard to projects’ contributors.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The good news is that security teams can learn to anticipate these events and know exactly what to do to stop or prevent them. Why network security matters Before zooming in on specific attack methods, it's important to understand what network security is and why it's a top priority.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 17, 2023

It’s Help|About Time: Chrome’s “V8” JavaScript engine has high-severity vuln. The post Drop Everything: Update Chrome NOW — 0-Day Exploit in Wild appeared first on Security Boulevard. Scrotes already exploiting it.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 27, 2022

Security solutions like runtime application protection provide the context, visibility and control to identify and block new zero-day attacks launched against your applications. About the essayist : Pravin Madhani, is co-founder and CEO of K2 Cyber Security. How ‘runtime’ works. Isn’t it time to cozy up to your applications?

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 28, 2022

Security must be ‘baked in’ rather than ‘brushed on’—and this current ethos has given rise to the DevSecOps movement where security plays a leading role in the DevOps process. Unified : Slicing cloud-native security across multiple point solutions leaves you with a partial view. Sivasankaran.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 5, 2024

From phishing schemes and ransomware attacks to social engineering and doxxing, high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs) face an ever-evolving array of cyber threats, and the risks of digital exposure are greater than ever.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2024

Nonprofits can bolster their network security by insisting on strong login credentials. Ransomware: This attack involves criminals holding a network and its precious data hostage until the enterprise pays the demanded amount. Strengthen authentication. Lack of proper staff training is the biggest culprit in this case.

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BH Consulting

APRIL 30, 2025

The original plan outlined 28 objectives aimed at enhancing security; five are almost complete and 11 have made significant progress. The report also details progress across six engineering pillars: protecting identities and secrets, tenant isolation, network security, engineering systems, threat detection, and incident response.

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Adam Shostack

JANUARY 2, 2025

[no description provided] There are two great blog posts at Securosis to kick off the new year: Tidal Forces: The Trends Tearing Apart Security As We Know It (Rich Mogull) Network Security in the Cloud Age: Everything Changes (Mike Rothman) Both are deep and important and worth pondering. It's worse than that.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Performing auditable security reviews on a scheduled basis can provide critical insights not just to improve network security but also to smooth digital convergence. It was a natural progression for MSSPs to advance from supplying endpoint protection and email security to a full portfolio of monitoring and management services.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 19, 2022

To get a full grasp on why Matter matters, I recently visited with Steve Hanna, distinguished engineer at Infineon Technologies , a global semiconductor manufacturer based in Neubiberg, Germany. Hardware manufacturers, Infineon among them, as well as security software developers, are already off and running.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 18, 2023

Experts are worried that ChatGPT’s ability to source recent data about an organization could make social engineering and phishing attacks more effective than ever. The post When ChatGPT Goes Phishing appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2024

The vulnerability CVE-2024-3159 is an out of bounds memory access in V8 JavaScript engine. The flaw was demonstrated by Edouard Bochin (@le_douds) and Tao Yan (@Ga1ois) of Palo Alto Networks during the Pwn2Own 2024 on March 22, 2024. The exploitation can lead to the disclosure of sensitive information or a crash.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 30, 2024

As RSAC 2024 gets ready to open next week, the practicality of embedding advanced security tools in company-sanctioned web browsers is in the spotlight. I had a wide-ranging discussion about this with Uy Huynh, vice president of solutions engineering at Island , a leading supplier of enterprise browsers.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

As a leading supplier of advanced security information and event management ( SIEM ) technology, Splunk happens to find itself in the thick of a tectonic shift. Network security is getting reconstituted. A new tier of overlapping, interoperable, highly automated security platforms is rapidly taking shape.

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Adam Shostack

JANUARY 2, 2025

[no description provided] The Application Security Engineer role is in demand nowadays. Most of the offers are about one person, one unicorn that does all those wonderful things to ensure that the organization is making secure software. This is yet another large body of knowledge where only a fraction overlap with security.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 8, 2024

A beleaguered health care industry that already is a top target of cybercriminals is under attack again, with bad actors recently using social engineering techniques in calls to IT helpdesks to gain access into the systems of targeted organizations.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 17, 2023

It also, most importantly, causes the network/security engineer back into the performance vs security dilemma. One which puts the network/security engineer back in the driver’s seat. Start with the Cloud Giants as a massive network underlay. You are the enterprise engineer on the front lines.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 17, 2024

The OpenJS Foundation, which oversees multiple JavaScript projects, thwarted a takeover attempt of at least one project that has echoes of the dangerous backdoor found in versions of the XZ Utils data compression library that failed only because a Microsoft engineer incidentally discovered it.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Network security Furthermore, Internet of Things (IoT) VR applications , particularly those enhanced by AI, are more resource-intensive. The high bandwidth and low-latency connections of these systems can strain traditional network resources, and as such, security may often not be up to scratch.

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Cisco Security

JUNE 13, 2022

This article is part of a series in which we will explore several features, principles, and the building blocks of a security detection engine within an extended detection and response (XDR) solution. We would need to be smart enough to spot or reverse-engineer what algorithm the machine was following on said data.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 27, 2023

In this blog post, we will explore both the advantages and dangers of AI in cybersecurity, including examples of how cybercriminals could use AI to improve social engineering attacks and how cybersecurity companies can use AI to better protect users.

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Cisco Security

MAY 11, 2022

Here are some highlights you won’t want to miss: Ben Greenbaum , Product manager of Cisco SecureX with over 20 years of experience in SecOps products talks about new threat detection and response use cases in his session ‘Take your EDR to XDR and beyond, with SecureX and Cisco Secure Endpoint- TECSEC-2486’. Time (EST). 9:30 AM.

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IT Security Guru

MARCH 26, 2025

I recall my first job as a Chocolate Engineer in the mid 90s where I was wowed by robotic packaging systems and couldnt even imagine then how we now apply robots to achieve huge efficiency and quality advances across our industries today. Quantum computing skills will also be crucial in the next decade, both defensively and in application.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

The engineers who design and program them come from over a hundred countries. The world uses one network, and there can only be one answer: Either everyone gets to spy, or no one gets to spy. And as these systems become more critical to national security, a network secure from all eavesdroppers becomes more important.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 11, 2024

The post Threat Groups Rush to Exploit JetBrains’ TeamCity CI/CD Security Flaws appeared first on Security Boulevard. Those reports followed.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 2, 2024

Palo Alto Network’s cybersecurity recently outlined two vulnerabilities it found in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) that, individually, don’t represent much of a threat.

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Responsible Cyber

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

The incident revealed that the company’s network security protocols were inadequate, allowing cybercriminals to infiltrate their systems through compromised vendor credentials. As a direct outcome, organizations utilizing this payment processor faced severe reputational damage, and many customers reported fraudulent transactions.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 4, 2022

These criminal rings swiftly reverse engineered Microsoft’s patch and then hustled to compromise as many unpatched Exchange Servers as they could reach. For its part, Juniper Networks considers greater API visibility and improved real-time management of APIs to be integral strands of its larger Connected Security strategy.

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