TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

On a clear day, you can see forever : Frederic reports on LatticeFlow’s latest funding round, $12 million, that it will use to eliminate computer vision blind spots. Square peg, Southeast Asia–shaped hole : Square Peg Capital closes $550 million fund for Southeast Asia, Australia and Israel, Catherine reports. Startups and VC.

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Palo Alto Networks

JUNE 7, 2021

The Unit 42 cybersecurity consulting group published research on the first known malware targeting Windows containers, which was discovered by Unit 42 researcher Daniel Prizmant and named Siloscape. This then gives an attacker access to run any code, anywhere in the victim’s cluster. Diagram of Kubernetes cluster (source: Kubernetes).

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CIO

AUGUST 29, 2024

Text messages can be intercepted via malware such as SMS trojan , SIM swapping (an account breaching technique in which fraudsters pay wireless carrier employees to swap a customer’s SIM for one controlled by the threat actor), and OTP interception bots , which can access customers’ one-time-passwords.

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Tenable

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Meanwhile, the OpenSSF published 10 key principles for secure software development. Plus, malware used in fake browser-update attacks ballooned in Q3. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a clarion call for software makers to use so-called “memory safe” programming languages. And much more!

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CircleCI

AUGUST 4, 2022

This collection of agents and actors involved in the software development lifecycle (SDLC) is called the software supply chain. Because you are working with several moving parts — including open source material, APIs, and so on — it is crucial to know just how secure each component of your software supply chain is.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Why securing cloud workloads is an urgent matter In recent years, major cloud service providers encountered 6,000 malware samples actively communicating with them, underlining the magnitude of cloud security challenges. Due to the current economic circumstances security teams operate under budget constraints. 8 Complexity.

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CircleCI

JANUARY 13, 2023

This report will cover: What happened? All dates and times are reported in UTC, unless otherwise noted. This notification kicked off a deeper review by CircleCI’s security team with GitHub. The malware was not detected by our antivirus software. How do we know this attack vector is closed and it’s safe to build?

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CIO

JULY 17, 2023

According to the 2023 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), the majority of cyber attacks are led by organized criminals looking to disrupt business and steal data to sell. This can occur due to insecure configurations, inadequate access controls, or vulnerabilities in cloud storage or databases.

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Ivanti

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Employees rely on software to help them do their jobs more efficiently, save time and increase their productivity. But not all software is created equal, and not all apps are implemented securely. In deciding, the organization should consider several types of risk caused by leaky apps or other software.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2023

It’s Kyle again, Greg’s stand-in for Week in Review. (He’ll As first reported by MoneyControl , the new app, code named P92, will let users log in through their Instagram credentials. Malware hiding in the woodwork: The U.S. Malware hiding in the woodwork: The U.S. Happy Friday, folks.

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Palo Alto Networks

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Large-scale cyber intrusions increased during 2023, exploiting vulnerabilities in web applications and internet-facing software. The Unit 42 Incident Response Report analyzed thousands of incidents to learn what tools and vulnerabilities attackers are focusing on. What Powered Them?

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Aqua Security

JANUARY 11, 2023

Aqua’s 2021 Software Supply Chain Security Review notes that “attackers focused heavily on open source vulnerabilities and poisoning, code integrity issues, exploiting the software supply chain process and supplier trust to distribute malware or backdoors.”

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CIO

JUNE 6, 2023

People are looking to the AI chatbot to provide all sorts of assistance, from writing code to translating text, grading assignments or even writing songs. In another example , Samsung staff leveraged ChatGPT to fix errors in some source code but leaked confidential data, including notes from meetings and performance-related data.

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Tenable

AUGUST 2, 2024

IBM’s latest “Cost of a Data Breach Report” finds these data-theft incidents getting more expensive. Plus, the IT-ISAC says that ransomware attacks fell in Q2 due to law-enforcement disruptions of ransomware groups. When data is breached, business is disrupted,” the report reads. Business runs on data.

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xmatters

JULY 2, 2024

Malware Malware is malicious software designed to harm, exploit, or otherwise compromise a computer system or network. Examples include: A website becomes unreachable due to a flood of bogus requests. Examples include: A cyberattack on a software vendor causes delays in product updates.

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Tenable

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Google’s annual DevOps report finds that organizations with a low-blame, collaborative approach have stronger app dev security practices. . For the first time in eight years, the “Accelerate State of DevOps Report” from Google’s DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) team zooms in on software supply chain security.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2022

We’re back with another edition of Week in Review , the newsletter where we quickly recap the top stories to hit TechCrunch across the last seven days. Haje, with his rare overlapping perspective as a reporter AND pitch coach AND former director at a VC fund, breaks it all down as only he can. Hello hello! Want it in your inbox?

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Ivanti

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Legacy cybersecurity systems – many designed over a decade ago – fail to account for the new breed of attacker capabilities and vulnerabilities – nor for the reliance on human configuration that is the Achilles heel of so much software. Secure by Design principles stress embedded security throughout software design and development.

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CIO

JULY 25, 2024

Threats have evolved from malware and denial-of-service attacks in the early days of ecommerce bad actors, to ransomware attacks that threaten the ability of a business to operate. In another, “Over half of organizations report cybersecurity posture to the board of directors at least quarterly.” ( IDC Worldwide CEO Survey , February 2024).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2022

All this started just a week after she applied for a small loan of around $100 that she needed due to a severe financial crisis earlier this year. Some are reportedly even taking their lives due to the immense pressure they get from these loan apps’ unregulated agents.

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Tenable

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Check out why ChatGPT’s code analysis skills left Carnegie Mellon researchers unimpressed. Meanwhile, CISA and OpenSSF shine a spotlight on the security of software package repositories. 1 - ChatGPT’s code analysis skills? Not great Thinking of using ChatGPT to detect flaws in your code? Review ChatGPT 3.5’s

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CIO

MARCH 9, 2023

According to a PwC report , one in three consumers (32%) say they will walk away from a brand they love after just one bad experience. There needs to be strong alignment amongst all the stakeholders ranging from the software developer, the product manager, line of business all the way to the quality engineer.

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CIO

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Both United Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines saw service outages in 2023 resulting from wonky software upgrades, and Southwest ended the previous year with a Christmas travel meltdown blamed on outdated systems. Honestly, it’s a wonder the system works at all. Probably the worst IT airline disaster of 2023 came on the government side, however.

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Tenable

MARCH 3, 2023

1 - Don’t use ChatGPT for any critical cybersecurity work yet Despite exciting tests of ChatGPT for tasks such as finding coding errors and software vulnerabilities, the chatbot’s performance can be very hit-or-miss and its use as a cybersecurity assistant should be – at minimum – manually and carefully reviewed.

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Tenable

MARCH 3, 2023

Toward the end of 2022, the Royal ransomware group surged to the top of the monthly charts to overtake LockBit in November 2022, likely due to a sharp rise in attacks against organizations ahead of the holidays. Royal uses Cobalt Strike and malware such as Ursnif/Gozi to exfiltrate data.

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Tenable

DECEMBER 29, 2023

In an example which highlights the risks to operational uptime posed by third-party software, a ransomware attack against DNV’s ShipManager software reportedly disrupted operations for 70 of the company’s clients, and is said to have affected as many as 1,000 vessels. And we were pleased to see industry analysts taking note.

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Tenable

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Get the latest on the anniversary of the Log4j crisis; OWASP’s top CI/CD risks; a surge of infostealer malware; the fund transfer fraud — business email compromise connection; and more! . 3 - Attackers boost use of infostealer malware. Infostealers Malware Advertisements and Pricing from July to October 2022.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

OpenAI has also released Canvas , an interactive tool for writing code and text with GPT-4o. to 72B parameters, is getting impressive reviews. It will become increasingly necessary as software incorporates AI and IT teams need to become specialists in AI infrastructure. Feel free to join the experiment. But table tennis?

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Tenable

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

According to multiple reports, Volt Typhoon operates by pre-positioning themselves, actively working to maintain persistence in anticipation of conducting future attacks targeting U.S Additionally, this group works using hands-on-keyboard attacks, rather than relying on automated malware scripts. and beyond.

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Palo Alto Networks

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Large-scale cyber intrusions increased during 2023, exploiting vulnerabilities in web applications and internet-facing software. The Unit 42 Incident Response Report analyzed thousands of incidents to learn what tools and vulnerabilities attackers are focusing on. What Powered Them?

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OTS Solutions

JUNE 21, 2023

Enterprise applications are software solutions created for large organizations to handle their business processes and workflows. Common vulnerabilities in enterprise applications may include unauthorized access, data leaks, malware infections, phishing attacks, or compliance violations.

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Tenable

OCTOBER 22, 2024

CVE-2010-2568: Windows Shell Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Remote Code Execution Exploited Zero-Day Local Stuxnet High 2010 Why it’s significant: Regarded as one of the most sophisticated cyberespionage tools ever created, Stuxnet was designed to target SCADA systems in industrial environments to reportedly sabotage Iran's nuclear program.

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Perficient

JANUARY 27, 2023

DevSecOps is an approach to software development that emphasizes security as a critical aspect of the development process. It is a combination of development (Dev), security (Sec), and operations (Ops) practices that work together to build, test, and deploy secure software.

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Kaseya

APRIL 15, 2020

Just like the coronavirus spreads from person to person, cybersecurity malware too can spread rapidly from computer to computer and network to network. Cloud Jacking is likely to emerge as one of the most prominent cybersecurity threats in 2020 due to the increasing reliance of businesses on cloud computing. Mobile Malware.

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Tenable

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Report finds that many critical infrastructure networks can be breached using simple attacks. That’s according to “ CISA Analysis: Fiscal Year 2023 Risk and Vulnerability Assessments, ” a report about the risk and vulnerability assessments (RVAs) conducted by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2022

That’s not cold brew : Trust Haje to get on his somewhat-caffeinated soapbox in his short review of Spinn, “the $1,000 coffee maker for people who are too lazy to learn about coffee.”. I’ll have one of those : Anita reports that crypto startup Blockdaemon is continuing its acquisition spree, this time picking up Sepior.

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Tenable

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The operation deleted the botnet’s malware from the hundreds of infected routers and disrupted the botnet’s communications, the DOJ said in the statement “ U.S. At 23 of the top 24 computer science programs cybersecurity is treated at best as an elective, instead of as critical knowledge that every software developer should have. “It

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