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Identify the secrets that make your cloud environment more vulnerable to an attack

Oct 30, 2024 By Mallory Mooney In Datadog
Compromised secrets, such as leaked API and SSH keys, credentials, and session tokens, are the leading cause of cloud security incidents. While attackers can directly compromise secrets through methods like phishing, they can also gain control by finding and taking advantage of simple misconfigurations in your environment.
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fidelis security

Leading Reason for Data Loss: Social Engineering & Insider Threats

Oct 30, 2024 By Fidelis Security In Fidelis Security
When it comes to data loss, the biggest yet common dangers these days come from within the organization, and social engineering and insider threats are one of the main reasons. This shows that human mistakes are just as risky as external attacks. In this piece, you’ll see how social engineering and insider threats result in data loss. In addition to that, you’ll look at real examples to understand the seriousness of such threats and talk about steps companies can take to protect themselves.
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securitysenses

Best Practices for Protecting Drone Data in Commercial Applications

Oct 30, 2024 By SecuritySenses In SecuritySenses
Hey there, tech enthusiasts and masters of the skies! With the soaring ascent of drones in commercial applications, it's not just about nailing the perfect aerial shot anymore-it's also about locking down that precious data. Drones are busy bees, collecting loads of info that need protection just as much as any ground-based data trove. We've all heard the horror stories of data breaches resulting in hefty fines and reputational damage. That's why I'm here to guide you through the labyrinth of drone data security, helping your business keep its digital treasures under a virtual lock and key.
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securitysenses

The effectiveness of AiSDR: fast response, high conversion and customer engagement

Oct 30, 2024 By SecuritySenses In SecuritySenses
Today's businesses strive to continuously improve customer interactions to achieve higher conversion rates, faster response times, and expand their customer base. One of the leaders in applying artificial intelligence to sales and marketing is AiSDR. Their solutions automate key business processes, dramatically speeding up response times, improving sales efficiency, and reaching wider audiences. In this text, let's look at exactly how these factors impact the success of companies utilizing AiSDR solutions..
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CrowdStrike

CrowdStrike Research Challenges Containerized Application Predictability Assumptions

Oct 29, 2024 By Sergey Kozlov - Ryan Inghilterra - Ajit Dhumale In CrowdStrike
Cloud workloads — and containers in particular — are often seen as immutable entities with predictable behavior. But recent CrowdStrike research suggests that some cloud security solutions rely too much on this premise, leading to suboptimal detection outcomes. CrowdStrike observes billions of container events each day. The data we collect gives us insights into real-world cloud workload behavior, which challenges these assumptions.
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knowbe4

75% of Organizations Have Experienced a Deepfake-Related Attack

Oct 29, 2024 By Stu Sjouwerman In KnowBe4
As generative AI evolves and becomes a mainstream part of cyber attacks, new data reveals that deepfakes are leading the way. Deepfake technology has been around for a number of years, but the AI boom has sparked new attacks, campaigns, and players all trying to use the impersonation technology to rob victims of their credentials, personal details or money. We recently covered multiple deepfake campaigns all perpetrated by a single individual that reached a global level.
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cycognito

Emerging Threat: FortiJump (CVE-2024-47575)

Oct 29, 2024 By Emma Zaballos In CyCognito
CVE-2024-47575, also known as FortiJump, is a critical (9.8) missing authentication vulnerability affecting critical functions in FortiManager and FortiManager Cloud versions. Threat researcher Kevin Beaumont published a blog post on October 22nd, 2024 identifying this vulnerability as a zero day. This vulnerability is separate from CVE-2024-23113, which also affects FortiGate devices.
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knowbe4

Crooks are Sending Halloween-Themed Phishing Emails

Oct 29, 2024 By Stu Sjouwerman In KnowBe4
Halloween-themed spam and phishing emails have surged over the past two months, with a significant increase beginning in October, according to researchers at Bitdefender. “Bitdefender’s telemetry indicates a sharp rise in Halloween-themed spam throughout September and October,” the researchers write. “However, Halloween-themed spam rose 18% percentage points between 1-16 October 2024, compared to the entire month of September.
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cyberhaven

Don't be fooled: data security requires global data lineage, not "local lineage"

Oct 29, 2024 By Cameron Galbraith In Cyberhaven
Securing data today requires the context provided by data lineage: where data came from, who interacted with it over time, which systems have used it, and more. But buyer beware: many vendors now claim to offer “data lineage” that only provides a tiny fraction of the context of true, global data lineage.
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keeper

How To Stop Spam Emails

Oct 29, 2024 By Ashley D'Andrea In Keeper
To stop receiving most spam emails, you can report them, block spam email addresses, make a burner email account and remove third-party account access. Spam emails are unwanted messages sent to many people, usually to advertise an item or service. According to Statista, approximately 46% of email traffic as of December 2023 could be classified as spam.
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