Biometrics has been around for a long time but has only had limited adoption until recently. I was involved in some of the early commercial biometric devices way back in 2000; the company I was working for at the time investigated the possibility of using them, but back then the false positive rates on the devices we investigated were way too high – either people could not authenticate or it was authenticating the wrong people.
The rise of social media has no doubt been one of the major revolutions of the 21st century. It’s brought about a whole new way for people to connect and share information with others, regardless of their geographical locations. But along with these more noble intentions of social media, there will always be abuse of these platforms – and one of the big ones is the spread of disinformation.
First identified as active in November 2012, 'njRAT', also known as 'Bladabindi' or 'Njw0rm', is a well established and prevalent remote access trojan (RAT) threat that was initially created by a cybercriminal threat group known as 'Sparclyheason' and used to target victims located in the Middle East. Undoubtedly following the source code leak, reportedly in May 2013, njRAT has become widely available on the cybercriminal underground with numerous variants being released over the years.
Each year we anticipate new research from James Kettle at the annual Black Hat USA event and he’s become known for his web cache research. This year he announced Web Cache Entanglement – new techniques to exploit web cache poisoning. We’ve previously covered his work concerning web cache poisoning and HTTP request smuggling which is intriguing for any software engineer to know about. This article will briefly highlight the main points about Web Cache Entanglement.
This article contains useful tips to implement SOC 2 compliance for containers and Kubernetes. The Service Organization Controls (SOC) reports are the primary way that service organizations provide evidence of how effective their controls are for finance (SOC 1) or securing customer data (SOC 2, SOC 3). These reports are issued by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA).
Every organization is adopting the cloud, but there are some companies that are reaping a larger number of benefits from cloud transformation than others. Making an effort to adopt the cloud is simply not enough to realize the benefits. The organization that prepares for efficiently managing risk will be able to capture a larger percentage of the benefits than one that has not.
We just recently unveiled the industry’s first mobile endpoint detection and response (EDR) solution. This is an industry game changer as we are providing the same tools the Lookout security researchers use to hunt for novel threats to our customers to investigate cyberattacks. If you want to learn more about how we did it, I strongly encourage you to read our Chief Strategy Officer Aaron Cockerill’s blog on the announcement.
The worlds of information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) are colliding. In July 2019, Automation.com cited a survey finding where 82% of respondents told Forrester and Nozomi Networks that their organizations were in the early stages of an IT-OT convergence. Some said their organizations were embracing this meeting more fully. This finding begs several questions. Why are IT and OT converging?
Digital attackers are increasingly turning their attention to the cloud. According to the 2020 Trustwave Global Security Report, the volume of attacks targeting cloud services more than doubled 7% in 2018 to 20% a year later. This growth made cloud services the third most-targeted environment after corporate and e-commerce at 54% and 22%, respectively. These trends highlight the need for organizations to secure their cloud environments.
Nightfall Data Loss Prevention (DLP) is now available as a CircleCI orb. CircleCI orbs are reusable snippets of code that help automate repeated processes, speed up project setup, and make it easy to integrate with third-party tools. With the Nightfall DLP orb, you can scan for sensitive items and prevent developers from accidentally committing sensitive information. We’re excited to announce our launch with CircleCI and share what you can do with the Nightfall DLP orb.
