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Businesses are realizing the value of bot management tools as part of their application security strategy, with the control set expected to mature towards mainstream adoption in less than two years. This is according to the latest Hype Cycle™ for Application Security by Gartner®, released this month.

As one of the pioneering WAF products, Akamai remains a crucial player in the modern WAAP landscape. Akamai was among the earliest CDNs introduced and continues to dominate content delivery. Its excellence is further validated by being rated a Leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Cloud Web Application and API Protection in 2022.

In the realm of cybersecurity, the RockYou.txt wordlist has become a household name. It’s a tool used by security professionals to test the strength of network security. However, like many tools in the digital world, it can also be misused by malicious actors. In this blog post, we’ll delve into the history of RockYou.txt, its uses and how to protect your organization from potential threats associated with it.

July was one of the hottest months in recent memory, and cybercriminals did their part to keep the heat cranked up for organizations around the globe. As organizations continued sorting through the wreckage of the massive MoveIT incident, new and ongoing threats continued to arrive from every corner. July’s notable breaches include attacks on healthcare providers, emergency services, government agencies, and free speech.

Since Nightfall’s inception in 2018, we’ve made it our mission to equip companies with the tools that they need to encourage safe employee innovation. Today, we’re happy to announce that we’ve expanded Nightfall’s capabilities to protect sensitive data across generative AI (GenAI) tools and the cloud. Our latest product suite, Nightfall for GenAI, consists of three products: Nightfall for ChatGPT, Nightfall for SaaS, and Nightfall for LLMs.

Since the widespread launch of GPT-3.5 in November of last year, we’ve seen a meteoric rise in generative AI (GenAI) tools, along with an onslaught of security concerns from both countries and companies around the globe. Tech leaders like Apple have warned employees against using ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot, while other major players like Samsung have even go so far as to completely ban GenAI tools. Why are companies taking such drastic measures to prevent data leaks to LLMs, you may ask?

Learn how to better protect your organization from attacks by looking at how attackers compromised a Microsoft signing key. Secure your keys and actively monitor code and logs.

There is a welter of websites that are not indexed by search engines on the dark web, making it an ideal space to exchange all kinds of illegal content or products. This dark part of the web actually represents just 0.1% of the deep web. So how come something so small can be so dangerous for organizations and users?

The role of the CISO is expanding alongside the growing adoption of digital technologies, which has resulted in a faster and more interconnected workforce. The dynamic and evolving nature of cyber threats is posing challenges for security teams in terms of visibility and expertise required to defend against them.

Each week we look at the data losses, hacker attacks, and the state of security in the United States and around the world. This week things seem to be particularly bleak. We always expect to see some breaches in major companies, but this week we learned about widespread employee credential losses in countless corporations throughout the United States and the world.