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Socket lands $4.6M to audit and catch malicious open source code

TechCrunch

Securing the software supply chain is admittedly somewhat of a dry topic, but knowing which components and code go into your everyday devices and appliances is a critical part of the software development process that billions of people rely on every day. That also means a reliance on trusting that the developers will always act in good faith.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: CISA Warns of Global Spear-Phishing Threat, While OWASP Releases AI Security Resources

Tenable

Meanwhile, cybercriminals have amplified their use of malware for fake software-update attacks. Those are three security measures cyber teams should proactively take in response to an ongoing and “large scale” email spear-phishing campaign targeting victims with malicious RDP files , according to the U.S.

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10 things to watch out for with open source gen AI

CIO

Enterprises are allowed to use the models commercially, and for developers to create and distribute additional work on top of the base Llama models, but they’re not allowed to use Llama outputs to improve other LLMs unless they are themselves Llama derivatives. Many model developers are talking about using curated data,” she says.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Five Eyes Rank 2023’s Most Frequently Exploited CVEs, While CSA Publishes Framework for AI System Audits

Tenable

Published this week, the advisory details the 47 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) that attackers most often exploited in 2023, along with their associated Common Weakness Enumerations (CWEs). The advisory also offers prevention and mitigation recommendations both to end-user organizations, and to software vendors and developers.

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Security by Default: The Crucial Complement to Secure by Design

Ivanti

This new reality is being answered with the software development concept called security by default, a necessary complement to the principles of Secure by Design set forth by the U.S. Secure by Design principles stress embedded security throughout software design and development. Gone are the days of lengthy disclosure windows.

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The Importance of Security and Compliance in Enterprise Applications

OTS Solutions

We will also discuss the negative impact of security and compliance breaches, the benefits of investing in secure and compliant enterprise applications, and how to integrate security and compliance into the development process. The success of this method depends on how weak or strong the password of the victim’s account is.

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The Top 5 Largest Scale Intrusions in 2023

Palo Alto Networks

This system is popular across highly regulated industries and government agencies, such as critical infrastructure providers, healthcare institutions and even government bodies. Our Incident Response (IR) and Managed Threat Hunting (MTH) teams observed ransomware groups exploiting Citrix Bleed.