Wednesday, Jul 31st, 2024 Data breaches are a constant threat in today’s cybersecurity landscape, putting organizations’ sensitive information at risk. As businesses move to cloud-native environments, securing data becomes even more crucial. Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) is a proactive approach that helps organizations manage and protect their data assets.

AI has completely changed how we live, work and play. With its unparalleled efficiency, ongoing learning abilities and its detailed precision, it makes short work out of what used to be more complex and cumbersome tasks. Although AI systems are incredibly powerful and only growing in capacity and scale, they’re not without their challenges. Like other types of programs and infrastructures, AI is not immune to vulnerabilities and security issues.

In February 2023, LastPass, a leading password manager service, disclosed a security breach that reminded us just how severe SaaS breaches can be. The intrusion involved a targeted attack against a DevOps engineer accessing the corporate vault, underscoring the consequences of inadequate access controls and security practices.

Drawing on extensive proprietary research, Trustwave SpiderLabs believes the threat actors behind the Facebook malvertising infostealer SYS01 are the same group that developed the previously reported Rilide malware. Facebook Malvertising Epidemic – Unraveling a Persistent Threat: SYS01 – Part 2 lays out evidence tying the latest Rilide (V4) version to SYS01. The report noted the code from the two malware types overlaps in too many areas to be a simple coincidence.

Each July, my family and I take a road trip from Kentucky back to my hometown in northwestern Pennsylvania to spend time on Lake Erie. As tradition dictates, we stop along I-71 for coffee at a branch of a certain coffee shop, which also happens to be my former employer as a teen. (Let’s call it Siren Coffee.) This year, we sat waiting in the drive-thru for a drip coffee for a full 10 minutes.

Stay tuned for more Chrome extension updates coming later in August. We’ll be sure to keep you updated here.

Generative AI (GenAI) is a top priority for organizations looking to increase productivity and solve business problems faster. In cloud security, AI chatbots to aid security practitioners are becoming more common, but to date, most of these solutions offer only basic queries and summarization. Diverse cloud environments and evolving threats require more from an AI security analyst.