Proposed SEC Disclosure Rules Could Transform Cyber-Incident Response
It’s not too early for firms to start preparing for change.
Cyber NewsMechanisms of Authenticating to a Linux VM (EC2 Instance) on AWS
ACM.77 Considerations for how you access virtual machines in a cloud environment and the importance of non-repudiation This is a continuation of my series on Automating Cybersecurity Metrics. We want to test using Private Link with CloudFormation in the developer VPC we created earlier, but in order to do that we need to first deploy […]
Cyber NewsInserting a Backdoor into a Machine-Learning System
Interesting research: “ImpNet: Imperceptible and blackbox-undetectable backdoors in compiled neural networks, by Tim Clifford, Ilia Shumailov, Yiren Zhao, Ross Anderson, and Robert Mullins: Abstract: Early backdoor attacks against machine learning set off an arms race in attack and defence development. Defences have since appeared demonstrating some ability to detect backdoors in models or even remove […]
Cyber NewsData Transparency and its Impact on Customer Trust
How do organizations earn and build trust when it comes to the personal data that customers share with them? Customers certainly expect these organizations to comply with all privacy laws that are now in place in more than 130 countries. Customers also expect them not to sell personal data without consent and to try to […]
Cyber NewsResearchers Detail Critical RCE Flaw Reported in Popular vm2 JavaScript Sandbox
A now-patched security flaw in the vm2 JavaScript sandbox module could be abused by a remote adversary to break out of security barriers and perform arbitrary operations on the underlying machine. “A threat actor can bypass the sandbox protections to gain remote code execution rights on the host running the sandbox,” GitHub said in an advisory published […]
Cyber NewsThe Latest Funding News and What it Means for Cyber Security in 2023
The White House has recently announced a $1 billion cyber security grant program that is designed to help state and local governments improve their cyber defenses, especially about protecting critical infrastructure. The recent executive order stems from the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill that was signed almost a year ago. That bill allocated $1 billion for protecting critical infrastructure
Cyber NewsResearchers Warn of New Phishing-as-a-Service Being Used by Cyber Criminals
Cyber criminals are using a previously undocumented phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) toolkit called Caffeine to effectively scale up their attacks and distribute nefarious payloads. “This platform has an intuitive interface and comes at a relatively low cost while providing a multitude of features and tools to its criminal clients to orchestrate and automate core elements of their phishing
Cyber News#ISC2Congress: Cybersecurity Pros Must Prepare for Emerging Deepfake Threats
The security risks posed by deepfake technology are increasing
Cyber NewsHow legacy tech impedes zero trust and what to do about it
As organizations embrace the zero-trust security model, legacy tech has created some roadblocks. In fact, replacing or rebuilding existing legacy infrastructures is the biggest challenge to implementing zero trust, according to a recent study. General Dynamics’ 2022 Zero Trust Research Report surveyed 300 IT and program managers across US federal, civilian, and defense agencies, which […]
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