Spackle attack: Chinese company takes over widely used free web service—almost 400,000 websites at risk.

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On its 15th anniversary, the creators of FarmVille reflect on the compulsive cartoon farm sim that paved the way for a data-driven world

Facebook users of a certain age may remember a particularly forlorn farm animal popping up in their feeds during the platform’s heyday. The lonely cow would wander into FarmVille players’ pastures with its face twisted into a frown and its eyes shimmering with tears. “She feels very sad and needs a new home,” an accompanying caption read, asking you to adopt the cow or message your friends for help. Ignore the cow’s plea and it would presumably be left friendless and foodless. Message your friends about it, and you’d be accelerating the spread of one of the biggest online crazes of the 2010s.

Released 15 years ago, FarmVille was nothing short of a phenomenon. More than 18,000 players gave it a go on its first day, rising to 1 million by its fourth. At its peak in 2010, more than 80 million users logged in monthly to plant crops, tend animals and harvest goods for coins to spend on decorations. Celebrities professed their obsession, McDonald’s created a farm for a promotion, and long before artists released music on Fortnite, Lady Gaga debuted songs from her sophomore album through the cartoon farm sim. Not bad for a game that was stitched together in five weeks.

Digital signatures are ideal for addressing today’s challenges, providing the robust security, flexibility and scalability that organizations require for a wide range of use cases.

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As organizations look to improve their API security, two distinct approaches to API key verification have emerged — centralized and decentralized verification.

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VOC enables teams to address the vulnerabilities that present the greatest risk to their specific attack surface before they can be exploited.

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While compliance frameworks establish baseline requirements for data protection, they may not always align with the rapidly evolving threat landscape.

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IT managers and CSOs need to rethink their approach to cybersecurity and protect their organizations from this new breed of AI-powered attacks.

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A survey of 706 IT and security professionals finds half are not very confident that they can stop a damaging security incident in the next 12 months, with 30% admitting they are less prepared to detect threats and respond to incidents than they were a year ago.

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Man-in-the-middle attacks have increased in the age of digital connectivity and remote work, forcing companies to develop strategies to mitigate them.

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While it's unlikely that quantum computers are currently in the hands of cybercriminals or hostile nation-states, they will be.

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While SaaS apps enable better business operations, a secret threat is hiding in your SaaS stack: "Shadow IT.”

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With new frameworks for cyber metrics and reporting being implemented globally, regulators have effectively elevated risk to the same level of board awareness as financial risks.

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Qualys this week reported the discovery of a Remote Unauthenticated Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in OpenSSH servers (sshd) that could potentially impact more than 14 million Linux systems.

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Tim looks grim: 10 year old vulnerabilities in widely used dev tool include a CVSS 10.0 remote code execution bug.

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To bolster digital security and resilience across the semiconductor supply chain, a critical first step is that organizations across the supply chain must re-orient their cybersecurity strategies.

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Companies that implement a holistic Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) position themselves for game-changing advantages.

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Integrating mobile ID verification into digital payment systems marks a significant milestone in the evolution of digital commerce.

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Critical infrastructure and public sector organizations such as government and municipalities, manufacturing units, communication networks, transportation services, power and water treatment plants, et. al, have been battling a growing wave of breaches and cyberattacks.

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SolarWinds hackers strike again: Remote access service hacked—by APT29, says TeamViewer.

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The CocoaPods Vulnerabilities

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While AI helps automatically detect and respond to rapidly evolving threats, XAI helps security professionals understand how these decisions are being made.

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The Cyber Trust Mark is a labeling initiative for consumer IoT devices in the United States that builds on work undertaken by the FCC and NIST, establishing data privacy and cybersecurity standards for connected devices.

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As employers scramble to find or train security talent, organizations that ignore the inclusive approach may weaken their competitive posture in the battle for talent and overall security.

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Digital nomads go where the wind takes them around the globe, often working from coffee shops, co-working locations or public libraries. They rely on connecting to their work life via their mobile hotspot or public wi-fi connections.

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AI promises considerable benefits however there’s still a lot of confusion surrounding the topic, particularly around the terms generative AI and predictive AI.

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A threat group dubbed Unfurling Hemlock infects targeted campaign with a single compressed file that, once executed, launches a 'cluster bomb' of as many as 10 pieces of malware that include loaders, stealers, and backdoors.

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Chinese fast-fashion-cum-junk retailer “is a data-theft business.”

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Microsoft details Skeleton Key, a new jailbreak technique in which a threat actor can convince an AI model to ignore its built-in safeguards and respond to requests for harmful, illegal, or offensive requests that might otherwise have been refused.

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Navigating the landscape of customer interactions is a delicate balancing act that requires constant calibration between security and operability (or usability, if speaking from a customer’s perspective).

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Let’s examine why so many applications remain vulnerable despite high-severity warnings and how to minimize the threat to your organization.

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The rate of cyberattacks is rising as the threat level continues to evolve, according to BlackBerry Limited’s latest Global Threat Intelligence Report.

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Researchers have identified three distinct nation-state campaigns leveraging advanced highly evasive and adaptive threat (HEAT) tactics.

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Cloud security has become a major focus for organizations worldwide as they battle with a growing number of data breaches and application sprawl that makes defense more complicated.

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Most organizations are uncertain about the effectiveness of their cybersecurity investments, despite increasing budgets and rampant cyber incidents, according to Optiv’s 2024 Threat and Risk Management Report.

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On Wednesday, the Supreme Court tossed out claims that the Biden administration coerced social media platforms into censoring users by removing COVID-19 and election-related content.

Complaints alleging that high-ranking government officials were censoring conservatives had previously convinced a lower court to order an injunction limiting the Biden administration's contacts with platforms. But now that injunction has been overturned, re-opening lines of communication just ahead of the 2024 elections—when officials will once again be closely monitoring the spread of misinformation online targeted at voters.

In a 6–3 vote, the majority ruled that none of the plaintiffs suing—including five social media users and Republican attorneys general in Louisiana and Missouri—had standing. They had alleged that the government had "pressured the platforms to censor their speech in violation of the First Amendment," demanding an injunction to stop any future censorship.

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Threat actors can cover up their espionage activity by deploying ransomware or simply get some financial gain in the process.

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30,000 websites at risk: Check yours ASAP! (800 Million Ostriches Can’t Be Wrong.)

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A report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) highlighted an urgent need to address critical cybersecurity challenges facing the nation.

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In the first quarter of 2024, nearly half of all security incidents our team responded to involved multi-factor authentication (MFA) issues, according to the latest Cisco Talos report.

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Red Teaming security assessments aim to demonstrate to clients how attackers in the real world might link together various exploits and attack methods to reach their objectives.

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By introducing a mobile device management (MDM) platform into the existing infrastructure, administrators gain the ability to restrict sideloading on managed devices.

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The LockBit ransomware group is claiming that it hacked into systems at the U.S. Federal Reserve and stole 33TB of data that it will begin leaking as early as Tuesday if the institution doesn’t pay the unspecified ransom. The notorious cybercriminals announced the attack on its dark web leak site on June 23, giving the..

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Security analysts at Google are developing a framework that they hope will enable large language models (LLMs) to eventually be able to run automated vulnerability research, particularly analyses of malware variants. The analysts with Google’s Project Zero – a group founded a decade ago whose job it is to find zero-day vulnerabilities – have been..

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Copying users’ files and deleting some? Even a cartoon hound knows this isn’t fine.

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Multiple bad actors are using the Rafel RAT malware in about 120 campaigns aimed at compromising Android devices and launching a broad array of attacks that range from stealing data and deleting files to espionage and ransomware. Rafel RAT is an open-source remote administration tool that is spread through phishing campaigns aimed at convincing targets..

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