Uber's Ex-CSO Gets Three Years' Probation Over 2016 Hack Cover Up
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Bug Bounty Programs Explained: Proactively Finding Bugs for Enhanced Security
The digital world is a lot like the Old West: lawless criminals are looking to take advantage of any bug, flaw or vulnerability to exploit. To combat the problems from these flaws, many organizations offer bounties to anyone who can find them before cybercriminals. Because bugs can be challenging to spot, bug bounty programs leverage ethical hackers' expertise to spot corporate software's flaws. Some of the largest corporations in the world, including Google, Microsoft, and the U.S.
What are honey pots? Hacker explains why honey pots are so effective at catching security breaches
Hacker Adriel Desautel explains why honey pots are such an effective tool to use against malicious threat actors. Adriel is a legendary personality in the security and hacking communities, today as the founder and CEO of Netraguard he, along with his team, conduct real world penetration tests on organizations of all sizes. This clip is part of an episode in The Security Repo Podcast where white hat hackers Noah Tongate and Adriel Desautel give real world advice on how to protect yourself against 'people like them'.
Fixing half a million security vulnerabilities
Hackathons are well known among software development teams for driving innovation and collaboration. So, what if we applied that model to cybersecurity to improve an organization’s application security posture? That would be a dream come true for any CISO and security practitioner — and is exactly what we set out to do at Snyk in February 2023. Check out some of the funniest moments from our panels.
Albertsons Grocery Chain Gets Hacked: Customer and Employee Data Exposed
Albertsons is a major grocery chain in the United States. The company is based in Boise, Idaho, and oversees a huge range of different grocery stores throughout the country. Stores like Star Market, Tom Thumb, Acme, Safeway, Vons, Balduccis, Food Lover's Market, Shaw's, Albertsons, and more.
Vastaamo's Former Boss Gets 3-Month Suspended Sentence Over The 2020 Hack
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Hackers Backdoor to Microsoft SQL Servers using Trigona ransomware
South Korean cyber security organisation AhnLab has identified a breach in Microsoft SQL servers allowing deployment of Trigona ransomware. The attacks were threat actors using brute-force or dictionary attacks with obtained or guessed credentials to infiltrate externally accessible MS-SQL servers.
Massive Investment Fraud Ring Stole Over Euro89M From Thousands of Victims
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CTI Roundup: Microsoft Warns About Mercury and DEV-1084 Attacks on Hybrid Environments
Microsoft’s security advisory on Mercury and DEV-1084 and a report linking Russian hackers to attacks against NATO and the EU.
[Head Start] Effective Methods How To Teach Social Engineering To An AI
Remember The Sims? Well Stanford created a small virtual world with 25 ChatGPT-powered "people". The simulation ran for 2 days and showed that AI-powered bots can interact in a very human-like way. They planned a party, coordinated the event, and attended the party within the sim. A summary of it can be found on the Cornell University website. That page also has a download link for a PDF of the entire paper (via Reddit).