If a scammer has your phone number, you should lock your SIM card, secure your online accounts with strong passwords and block spam calls from your phone. With your phone number, scammers can do several things, including target you with phishing attacks, spam calls, spoofing attacks and SIM swapping. These kinds of cyber attacks can lead to your personal information being compromised and even your identity being stolen.

As API usage grows, so do the complexities of securing them. At Salt Security, we're constantly striving to stay ahead of the curve and bring you the best-in-class solutions for API traffic analysis. With that mission in mind, we are thrilled to announce the release of Salt Sensor 3.0.0, packed with exciting new features to enhance your ability to capture and analyze API traffic.

Human nature tells us that we’ll go for the low-hanging fruit before climbing a tree. Since threat actors are (after all) human, the same applies to them. Since databases are particularly vulnerable to many lower-level attacks, they are constantly at high risk. From misconfiguration to credential theft, these repositories of sensitive information can be preyed upon by even the most nascent cybercriminals.

Making a product and website accessible means making a site or app as usable as possible for everyone, regardless of their physical or cognitive disabilities.

As of Monday, September 16th, Opti9 Technologies is proud to have achieved the AWS Resilience Competency, specialized in Resilience Recovery, recognizing our expertise in helping customers enhance the availability and reliability of their critical cloud workloads. As an AWS Resilience Competency Partner, our services are rigorously validated by AWS to ensure we meet the highest standards as an AWS Services Partner, and uphold the established expertise.

MEOW ransomware is a significant cyber threat known for its disruptive activities. Unlike the infamous Conti ransomware, MEOW is a modified version that retains many of Conti’s core functionalities and encryption techniques.

Corporate boards are tasked with ensuring that sensitive information—ranging from intellectual property (IP) and end-user information to sales statistics—is handled securely. As data becomes an ever-more valuable asset, so too do the risks associated with mismanagement.

What are some of the growing cybersecurity risks in the modern software development landscape that keep CISOs busy? Developers and security teams face an ever-increasing array of threats, from sophisticated open source and vendor-controlled supply chain attacks to vulnerabilities introduced by AI-generated code like prompt injection and poor code security by GitHub Copilot.

Yesterday, Elastic Security Labs released the 2024 Elastic Global Threat Report, a comprehensive look at more than 1 billion data points from Elastic’s unique telemetry. The report provides insights into the methods, techniques, and trends of threat actors from the perspective of defenders — giving crucial insights for security teams to prioritize and improve their security posture.

North Korea uses remote IT roles to infiltrate global organizations, threat actors exploit third-party infrastructure to deliver spam, and a new report sheds light on political deepfakes.