Schneier on Security

APRIL 27, 2023

Stanford and Georgetown have a new report on the security risks of AI—particularly adversarial machine learning—based on a workshop they held on the topic. Many AI products are deployed without institutions fully understanding the security risks they pose.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2025

Companies face the risk of insider threats, worsened by remote work. The insider threat, or the risk that an employee could harm the company, is a growing concern. The insider threat, or the risk that an employee could harm the company, is a growing concern. North Korean hackers infiltrate firms via fake IT hires, stealing data.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 10, 2025

While WebDAV isn’t enabled by default in Windows, its presence in legacy or specialized systems still makes it a relevant target, said Seth Hoyt , senior security engineer at Automox. CVE-2025-33073 has a CVSS risk score of 8.8 (out “Exploitation relies on the user clicking a malicious link. .”

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 30, 2025

Its telemetry engine is helping early adopters shrink the blast radius of service account abuse and meet tighter requirements now being pushed by regulators and cyber insurers alike. At RSAC 2025, Eades unveiled Human Link Pro , a new product aimed at closing the loop between non-human and human credential risks.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Once again, this cloaked content is a complete diversion which will take detection engines for a ride. Do jokes trigger the same reaction in an AI engine as they would to a human? We dont just report on threatswe remove them Cybersecurity risks should never spread beyond a headline. It doesn’t seem like it… yet.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 8, 2025

The post Insecure Medical Devices Illumina DNA Sequencer Illuminates Risks appeared first on Security Boulevard. IEI-IEI, Oh: Running an obsolete OS, on obsolete hardware, configured with obsolete settings.

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SecureList

APRIL 16, 2025

Instead, they rely on the default severity in the rule, which is often set randomly or based on an engineer’s opinion without a clear process. Detection engineering program Before diving into the program-level approach, we will first present the detection engineering lifecycle that forms the foundation of the proposed program.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2023

Here’s what you should know about the risks, what aviation is doing to address those risks, and how to overcome them. It is difficult to deny that cyberthreats are a risk to planes. Risks delineated Still, there have been many other incidents since. Fortunately, there are ways to address the risks.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Businesses must adopt tools and automation capable of invoking immediate action, even at the risk of false positives. Raising security baselines across industries is essential, with risk mitigationnot acceptancebecoming the standard. Security teams will need to address the unique risks posed using LLMs in mission critical environments.

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Security Through Education

MARCH 3, 2025

When I first heard of social engineering, about 6 years ago, I couldnt define it clearly and concisely if you had offered me millions of dollars. ’ Lets re-visit what social engineering really means, how people use it, and how you can start protecting yourself from it. Either way, lets refresh and learn together!

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 13, 2025

Cybersecurity programs are operating inside organizations optimized for financial engineering and extracting shareholder value. Can you briefly explain what makes Strategic Performance Intelligence different from current governance, risk and compliance ( GRC ) or dashboard approaches? Its a structural one. Tout: Thank you.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

But amidst all these flashy, futuristic threats, the biggest cybersecurity risk remains the same as it's always beenhumans. The elephant in the (server) room We've all seen the headlines: AI is taking over, deepfakes are fooling the masses, quantum computing will break encryption! And I'm not talking about the shadowy hackers in hoodies.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 17, 2025

Related: A basis for AI optimism In a rare moment of public candor from a Big Tech executive, Russinovich warned that current AI architectures—particularly autoregressive transformers—have structural limitations we won’t engineer our way past. The company’s public-facing narrative leans heavily on innovation, not risk mitigation.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Unisys, for instance, was found to have framed cyber risks hypothetically even though its systems had already been breached, exfiltrating gigabytes of data. But the SEC’s latest actions underscore that failing to inform stakeholders about material risks and breaches is not an option. Want to stay out of trouble?

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 13, 2025

3, 2025, CyberNewswire– Arsen , the cybersecurity startup known for defending organizations against social engineering threats, has announced the release of its new Vishing Simulation module, a cutting-edge tool designed to train employees against one of the fastest-growing attack vectors: voice phishing (vishing). Paris, Jun.

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Penetration Testing

MAY 21, 2025

Cisco has published a security advisory for a high-severity vulnerability impacting its Identity Services Engine (ISE) product. Tracked The post RADIUS Risk: Unauthenticated Remote Attacker Can Crash Cisco ISE by Default appeared first on Daily CyberSecurity.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Shashanka Dr. Madhu Shashanka , Chief Data Scientist, Concentric AI Generative AI in 2025 will bring transformative opportunities but heightened cybersecurity risks, including data exposure, AI misuse, and novel threats like prompt injection attacks. Organizations face rising risks of AI-driven social engineering and personal device breaches.

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Jane Frankland

JUNE 8, 2025

However, the lines are blurring and if these executive roles don’t realign—clearly and deliberately—the result will be friction, inefficiency, and exposure to security and reputational risks that no organisation can afford. The CIO: At Risk of Being Sidelined Historically, the CIO oversaw enterprise-wide IT. Projects stall.

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Duo's Security Blog

MAY 28, 2025

AI significantly exacerbates the situation by amplifying the scale, speed and sophistication of account takeover attacks, enabling automated and highly adaptive social engineering techniques. Seamless Help Desk Verification: A new tech partnership enabling identity verification for help desks, safeguarding against social engineering attacks.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

This is primarily because AR is still relatively new and a rapidly evolving technology, which ultimately means that it is bound to bring about unprecedented opportunities, challenges, and even risks to cybersecurity. Are there any security risks involved? Are there any applications of augmented reality in cybersecurity?

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 10, 2025

When effort is misapplied to low-risk areas, higher-risk areas are left exposed. Risk management is a zero-sum game where every dollar, hour, or tool directed to one area means less for another. The Missing Piece: Threat Agents Most cybersecurity risk assessments focus on vulnerabilities, assets, controls, and potential impacts.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 11, 2025

Related: Getting the most from cyber insurance At RSAC 2025, I met with ESET Chief Security Evangelist Tony Anscombe to trace a quiet but growing convergence: endpoint defense, cyber insurance, and monoculture risk are no longer separate concerns. They’re overlapping — and reshaping how security programs are evaluated. Cyber insurers want it.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 9, 2025

Additionally, a distributed workforce, ranging from remote maintenance technicians to cabin crews, multiplies entry points for social-engineering tactics like phishing. Aircraft themselves are nodes on data networks, constantly transmitting telemetry, engine performance metrics, and passenger connectivity data.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Protecting Retailers Against Cyber Risks on Black Friday and Cyber Monday josh.pearson@t… Tue, 11/26/2024 - 08:01 As Black Friday and Cyber Monday loom, the stakes for retailers extend far beyond enticing deals and record sales. trillion, the risk of a data breach extends beyond immediate financial losses. trillion and $5.28

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 5, 2025

This year's findings highlight major detection coverage gaps and systemic detection engineering challenges that impact the effectiveness of enterprise SIEMs in detection and responding to adversary activity. What's clear is that the traditional approach to detection engineering is broken. Here are key takeaways from the report.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 15, 2023

Shodan.io , the search engine made for finding Internet of Things devices, reports that there are currently more than a half-million vulnerable Fortinet devices reachable via the public Internet.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 9, 2025

In this post, Tenable security engineers Arnie Cabral and Jason Schavel share how you can use risk-based metrics. We’re information security engineers at Tenable. It's about understanding business risk and prioritizing actions that reduce the potential for attack.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

The fraudsters also made sure that their fake product listings contained metadata that put them near the top of search engine rankings for those items. SEO poisoning is a technique employed by cybercriminals to manipulate search engine results, making harmful websites or advertisements appear at the top of search results.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Technical details One of the vulnerabilities was reported to Google by Apple Security Engineering and Architecture (SEAR), which reported the issue on October 23, 2024. We don’t just report on threats—we remove them Cybersecurity risks should never spread beyond a headline. It could be used for potential data theft or system crashes.

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Adam Shostack

JANUARY 2, 2025

A less busy month in appsec, AI, and regulation, but still interesting stories Im going to kick off with two interesting engineering stories. First, the Washington Post reports on how Officials studied Baltimore bridge risks but didnt prepare for ship strike that discusses the challenges of securing bridges against modern cargo ships.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2025

Guidebooks are also available to instruct on how to exploit the information obtained, in order to more effectively target victims through social engineering and doxxing campaigns. The lack of a robust verification process, combined with the trust placed in authorities, increases the risk to users’ digital security and privacy.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 19, 2025

The sheet warns that AI systems—including machine learning models and inference engines—create new avenues for exploitation. The document highlights risks such as data poisoning, model inversion, and membership inference attacks. The document highlights risks such as data poisoning, model inversion, and membership inference attacks.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 5, 2023

Now engineers and designers are rationalizing the way they go about building new models, taking advantage of much more powerful hardware to consolidate all those discrete functions into a small number of domain controllers. The behavior of new cars is increasingly defined by software, too. They’re highly secure.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 5, 2025

He told me he takes his responsibility to vet every GenAI output vigorously especially when deploying it to come up with information relayed back to customers with engineering backgrounds. His bottom line: prompt engineering is now a frontline skill. So he validates, revises and retrains constantly. The payoff?

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2024

It is generalized and entry-level, but it demonstrates a core level of competency that can be a building block of almost any career in cybersecurity, whether in administration, engineering, or development. It’s obviously a step to penetration testing, but it’s also helpful for architect, engineer, and analyst jobs.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 21, 2025

Check out key findings and insights from the Tenable Cloud AI Risk Report 2025. 1 - Tenable: Orgs using AI in the cloud face thorny cyber risks Using AI tools in cloud environments? 1 - Tenable: Orgs using AI in the cloud face thorny cyber risks Using AI tools in cloud environments?

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 25, 2024

In response, a multibillion-dollar industry—search-engine optimization, or SEO—has emerged to cater to Google’s shifting preferences, strategizing new ways for websites to rank higher on search-results pages and thus attain more traffic and lucrative ad impressions. It is too late to stop the emergence of AI.

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