Security Boulevard

JANUARY 17, 2024

Salt Security added a posture governance engine to its API security platform that defines and enforces implementation standards. The post Salt Security Adds Governance Engine to API Security Platform appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Through Education

APRIL 23, 2024

Unknowingly, you have just succumbed to a technique we in social engineering refer to as “ concession.” These are “risk-free” concessions. Now imagine how powerful this would be when leveraged maliciously by a professional social engineer! This is true for social engineering tactics as well, including concession.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 5, 2022

The post Attackers Work Hard to Engineer Trust; SharePoint, OneDrive Accounts at Risk appeared first on Security Boulevard. In the first report, Trend Micro said it blocked more than 33.6 million cloud-based email threats last year, including a 138% uptick in phishing emails (16.5 million in 2021).

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InfoWorld on Security

MARCH 25, 2024

The key benefits of platform engineering are increased developer productivity, better quality of software, reduced lead time for deployment, and more stable applications, according to Puppet by Perforce’s 2024 State of Devops Report: The Evolution of Platform Engineering.

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Anton on Security

AUGUST 31, 2022

Release Engineering, covered in Ch 8 of the SRE book (and related workbooks too ). Namely, people who hear about “release engineering” and say: my SOC neither releases nor engineers. In fact, back in 2016 we were creating a modern SOC model at Gartner and “detection engineering” was very much part of the SOC model.

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Tech Republic Security

OCTOBER 11, 2023

F5 says an artificial intelligence war could start between generative AI-toting bad actors and enterprises guarding data with AI. Australian IT teams will be caught in the crossfire.

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Penetration Testing

MAY 9, 2024

A severe remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability has been discovered in Genie, Netflix’s popular open-source job orchestration engine for big data processing. ... The post CVE-2024-4701 (CVSS 9.9): Major RCE Risk in Netflix’s Genie Platform appeared first on Penetration Testing.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 6, 2024

The centralized system helps organizations identify, track, and reduce risks, addressing the challenges of incomplete risk visibility and manual processes. The post Critical Risk Launches Critical Start Cyber Risk Register appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Ben joins us as Cyber Risk Engineering Director. The post Welcome Our Newest Axion Ben Lorentzen, Director of Cyber Risk Engineering appeared first on Axio. The post Welcome Our Newest Axion Ben Lorentzen, Director of Cyber Risk Engineering appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Through Education

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

At Social-Engineer LLC , we offer a service known as the Social Engineering Risk Assessment or SERA for short. At Social-Engineer , our SERA program also begins in a similar way. Our certified social engineers scour the internet in the same way an attacker would.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 12, 2024

The post Sisense Hacked: CISA Warns Customers at Risk appeared first on Security Boulevard. A hard-coded credential catastrophe: The analytics firm kept big companies’ secrets in an insecure AWS bucket. Government says victims include the “critical infrastructure sector.”

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The post Sonrai Risk Insights Engine: Instant & Actionable Security appeared first on Security Boulevard. The last thing your organization needs is a solution that is hard to use or just scratching the surface level problems instead of changing actual operational decisions.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 5, 2021

It was a master class in social engineering, one that put an organization’s security posture at risk. Social engineering attacks like phishing take advantage of an employee’s awareness of. The post Reaction to Social Engineering Indicative of Cybersecurity Culture appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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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. The post GKE Case Highlights Risks of Attackers Chaining Vulnerabilities appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 29, 2021

Over at Lawfare, Susan Landau has an excellent essay on the risks posed by software used to collect evidence (a Breathalyzer is probably the most obvious example). The software engineers proposed a three-part test.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 1, 2024

Department of the Treasury's Federal Insurance Office (FIO) announced a major new initiative this week to improve the insurance industry's capabilities around modeling and underwriting terrorism and catastrophic cyber risks.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 1, 2021

The company outsourced much of its software engineering to cheaper programmers overseas, even though that typically increases the risk of security vulnerabilities. In other words, the risk of a cyberattack can be transferred to the customers. SolarWinds certainly seems to have underspent on security.

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Duo's Security Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

But as it turns out, John was a victim of a phishing scam, a type of social engineering attack where the cybercriminal impersonated John’s IT department to gain his trust and trick him into revealing his login credentials. What is social engineering? This makes traditional phishing attacks in which bad actors steal passwords obsolete.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

Identity services provider Okta warned customers of social engineering attacks carried out by threat actors to obtain elevated administrator permissions. Okta is warning customers of social engineering attacks carried out in recent weeks by threat actors to obtain elevated administrator permissions.

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Security Through Education

JANUARY 4, 2023

Social engineering has become a larger threat to the healthcare industry in recent years. Clearly, we need to take notice of how social engineering attacks are targeting our vital healthcare systems. So, what exactly is social engineering? What is Social Engineering? Why is the Healthcare Industry at Risk?

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Sonrai Risk Insights Engine empowers security teams to reduce impact of exploits. Sonrai Security releases Risk Insights Engine which lets developer and security teams control the chaos in both their organizations and their multicloud environments, minimizing lateral movement that leads to data theft.

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Lenny Zeltser

OCTOBER 5, 2023

As the CISO at a tech company, my responsibilities include empowering our software engineering teams to maintain a strong security posture of our products. While everyone agrees that security is important, the different incentives of security and engineering teams can make it harder to collaborate.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Social engineering techniques are becoming increasingly sophisticated and are exploiting multiple emerging means, such as deep fakes. The increasing use of videoconferencing platforms and the various forms of remote work also adopted in the post-emergency covid make interpersonal collaborations increasingly virtual.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 25, 2023

In what may come as a surprise, subscription-based face search engine PimEyes seems to have realized that their service can be used for nefarious purposes. Parents have used the search engine to find pictures of their children that they were unaware off, for example. Cybersecurity risks should never spread beyond a headline.

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Dark Reading

MAY 24, 2023

Security professionals warn that Google's new top-level domains,zip and.mov, pose social engineering risks while providing little reason for their existence.

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Trend Micro

JUNE 8, 2023

We look into BatCloak engine, its modular integration into modern malware, proliferation mechanisms, and interoperability implications as malicious actors take advantage of its fully undetectable (FUD) capabilities.

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Dark Reading

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Relying on passwords to secure user accounts is a gamble that never pays off.

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CSO Magazine

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Security engineering teams, on the other hand, are builders. Security engineering teams are typically made up of software and infrastructure engineers, architects, and product managers. As security engineering teams continue to grow in prominence, CISOs need to be intentional with their structure and development.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 11, 2024

The high-profile compromise of the XZ Utils open-source compression library , disclosed last week, highlights an under-reported threat: social engineering attacks that target open-source package maintainers and other developers to stage software supply chain attacks.

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Identity IQ

JUNE 20, 2023

What Are Social Engineering Scams? Thanks, Your CEO This common scenario is just one example of the many ways scammers may attempt to trick you through social engineering scams. Read on to learn how to recognize social engineering attacks, their consequences, and tactics to avoid falling for them. Hi, Please, can you help me?

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Despite years of cybersecurity advancements, most threat actors use social engineering and stolen credentials and just log in. The post In 2023, Cybercriminals Were Still Using Social Engineering to Steal Your Credentials appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Through Education

OCTOBER 17, 2023

It therefore goes without saying that it is highly effective when used in social engineering. Let’s take a closer look at social proof in social engineering. So rather than risk rejection, we will follow others even when we know they are wrong. The same principle applies in social engineering.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 18, 2023

Furthermore, BeVigil can also prove as a resourceful tool to identify security risks and existing bugs on an application. The post CloudSEK offers a search engine to detect malicious apps appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 13, 2023

London, July 13, 2023 — Beazley, the leading specialist insurer, today published its latest Risk & Resilience report: Spotlight on: Cyber & Technology Risks 2023. Yet, boardroom focus on cyber risk appears to be diminishing. trillion by 2025, a 300% increase since 2015 1.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 29, 2021

Social engineering is a common technique that cybercriminals use to lure their victims into a false sense of security. As social engineering tactics become more advanced, it’s important to know how to identify them in the context of cybersecurity. Social engineering in cybersecurity attacks.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 31, 2022

Release Engineering, covered in Ch 8 of the SRE book (and related workbooks too ). Namely, people who hear about “release engineering” and say: my SOC neither releases nor engineers. In fact, back in 2016 we were creating a modern SOC model at Gartner and “detection engineering” was very much part of the SOC model.

Engineering 98

Engineering Risk Government Network Security 98

Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2023

North Korea-linked APT Kimsuky has been linked to a social engineering campaign aimed at experts in North Korean affairs. SentinelLabs researchers uncovered a social engineering campaign by the North Korea-linked APT group Kimsuky that is targeting experts in North Korean affairs. ” concludes the report.

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