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IdP-initiated SSO vs. SP-initiated SSO: Both differ from each other in terms of the login process, authentication flow, and use cases. Learn the key differences between the two.

In 2024, I published Feline Hackers Among Us? (A Deep Dive and Simulation of the Meow Attack), which explored the notorious Meow attack campaign that had plagued unsecured databases since 2020. That article focused on demonstrating the attack against a single MongoDB instance using a simple Python script. A proof-of-concept that illustrates how devastating misconfigurations can be.

If you've ever been involved in a major database migration, you know just how complex and honestly, nerve-wracking they can be. At Tines, we recently faced the challenge of migrating a customer's dedicated tenant by moving all the customer’s critical workloads running on Tines between two different AWS Regions. All while maintaining 100% system availability.

AI security agents are reshaping how organizations manage exposure. This blog explores where they deliver the most impact — from smarter prioritization to faster ownership mapping and assisted remediation — and how this shift moves security teams from automation to autonomy.

A Trusted Platform Module (TPM) is a microcontroller designed to increase the levels of protection for computers, smartphones, and other devices through built-in security support that offers the necessary cryptographic operations. TPMs are unlike other software-based security; they provide a hardware-bound security, thus, it becomes nearly impossible for the attacker to tamper with the protected keys and information stored within the TPM.

When Amazon Web Services’ US-East-1 region went down recently, a long list of global apps and services went with it. For most companies, that meant a few hours of frustration. For APRA-regulated financial institutions in Australia, an outage like that is something much more serious — a compliance and operational-resilience test under CPS 230, which is now in force as of July 2025.

Researchers at Appknox warn that malicious apps are impersonating popular AI tools like ChatGPT and DALL-E to trick users into installing malware on their mobile devices. Some of these apps simply collect user data to be sold to advertising services, while others act as full-fledged malware.

A phishing campaign is using invisible characters to evade security filters, according to Jan Kopriva at the SANS Internet Storm Center. The emails use soft hyphens to break up the subject line “Your Password is About to Expire” so the messages aren’t flagged as malicious. The email client doesn’t render the hyphens, however, so the user sees a normal sentence.

Most exposure reporting is still slow, error-prone, and disconnected from reality. Analysts spend hours collecting and formatting data using different tools that produce conflicting priorities. Reports are bloated with raw CVE lists that lack context and rarely connect to business impact. They are often delayed, arriving after the adversaries have moved. While teams struggle with outdated reports, adversaries are seeking new ways to gain initial access.