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February 2024

Annual Ransomware Payments Surpass $1 Billion

For the first time, analysis of ransomware payments made in a single year tops $1,000,000,000. This signals a massive return to more frequent, sophisticated, and successful attacks. Each year, blockchain analysis company, Chainalysis, reports on ransomware payments based on the payments made to digital wallets known to belong to cybercriminals and cybercriminal gangs.

Azure Security Best Practices & Cloud Security Checklist for Secure Cloud Storage

Over 1 billion entrepreneurs are using Microsoft Azure worldwide, and the number is constantly increasing. However, significant power or advantage comes with great responsibility, especially when it comes to protecting sensitive information stored in the cloud. As technologies evolve, so do the threats to data security. Cybercriminals constantly refine their tactics, making it imperative for businesses to fortify their defenses. So, how to combat with such activities? This blog will help!

NIST Supply Chain Security Guidance for CI/CD Environments

A CI/CD environment provides a foundation for the software delivery process by giving the ability to be deployed more quickly and without interruption. This notion, which is being automated and integrated, focuses on the CI/CD process. CI or continuous integration methodology, in other words, includes developers committing small changes to their code which gets authenticated, built, tested, and merged together to a common code repository, occurring on a constant basis.

Top 5 Scam Techniques: What You Need to Know

Scammers are increasingly resourceful when coming up with scam techniques. But they often rely on long-standing persuasion techniques for the scam to work. So, you may hear about a new scam that uses a novel narrative, but there is a good chance that the scam relies on proven scam techniques once the narrative is stripped away. These scam techniques often exploit our characteristics and heuristics, or things that make us human and fallible.

Improving OT Security in Industrial Processes

Have you ever considered that even before you enjoy the first sip of your favorite morning beverage, you have probably interacted with at least half of the 16 critical infrastructure sectors that keep a nation running? In one way or another, the simple act of brewing a cup of tea would probably not be possible without interacting with water, energy, manufacturing, food and agriculture, waste, transportation, and financial sectors.

How REI built a DevSecOps culture and how Snyk helped

A few years ago, REI embarked on its digital transformation and cloud migration journey, moving on-prem development environments to AWS. But, as REI’s development teams began this transition, their security counterparts noticed that application security just wasn’t keeping up. As a result, REI began another journey: identifying the right security tooling and cultural shifts for AppSec success.

Data Scientists Targeted by Malicious Hugging Face ML Models with Silent Backdoor

In the realm of AI collaboration, Hugging Face reigns supreme. But could it be the target of model-based attacks? Recent JFrog findings suggest a concerning possibility, prompting a closer look at the platform’s security and signaling a new era of caution in AI research. The discussion on AI Machine Language (ML) models security is still not widespread enough, and this blog post aims to broaden the conversation around the topic.

LlamaParse and LlamaCloud - This Week in AI

The realm of artificial intelligence (AI) unfolds like a captivating story, constantly introducing groundbreaking tools and methods that redefine possibilities. Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), a technology that empowers applications to glean relevant information from vast datasets and utilize it for various tasks, is a prime example of this advancement.