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Adversarial ML Attack that Secretly Gives a Language Model a Point of View

Machine learning security is extraordinarily difficult because the attacks are so varied—and it seems that each new one is weirder than the next. Here’s the latest: a training-time attack that forces the model to exhibit a point of view: Spinning Language Models: Risks of Propaganda-As-A-Service and Countermeasures.” Abstract: We investigate a new threat to neural […]

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  • October 21, 2022

How can I help protect my company from phishing attacks?

I’m sure you’ve seen them — emails or messages that sound alarming and ask you to act quickly. We live in a digital world that produces hundreds of messages and alerts every day. It’s often hard to determine the validity of a suspicious message or phishing email. Whether you are an administrator, or an end-user, […]

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  • October 21, 2022

Ensuring Your CloudFormation Scripts Deploy Properly in Production

ACM.87 How one change can affect other working code, leading to unexpected disaster recovery and deployment failures This is a continuation of my series of posts on Automating Cybersecurity Metrics. I already fixed the error I’m going to write about here in a prior post. I ended up writing this post in the middle of […]

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  • October 19, 2022

RESTRICT: LOCKING THE FRONT DOOR (Pt. 3 of “Why Don’t You Go Dox Yourself?”)

In the first step of your doxxing research, we collected a list of our online footprint, digging out the most important accounts that you want to protect and obsolete or forgotten accounts you no longer use. Because the most recent and relevant data is likely to live in the accounts you use regularly, our next […]

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8 top multi-factor authentication products and how to choose an MFA solution

Today’s credential-based attacks are much more sophisticated. Whether it’s advanced phishing techniques, credential stuffing, or even credentials compromised through social engineering or breaches of a third-party service, credentials are easily the most vulnerable point in defending corporate systems. All these attacks key on traditional credentials, usernames and passwords, which are past their expiration date as […]

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  • October 19, 2022

Experts Warn of Stealthy PowerShell Backdoor Disguising as Windows Update

Details have emerged about a previously undocumented and fully undetectable (FUD) PowerShell backdoor that gains its stealth by disguising itself as part of a Windows update process. “The covert self-developed tool and the associated C2 commands seem to be the work of a sophisticated, unknown threat actor who has targeted approximately 100 victims,” Tomer Bar, […]

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Museum Security

Interesting interview: Banks don’t take millions of dollars and put them in plastic bags and hang them on the wall so everybody can walk right up to them. But we do basically the same thing in museums and hang the assets right out on the wall. So it’s our job, then, to either use technology […]

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#CyberMonth: ENISA Celebrates 10 Years of European Cybersecurity Month with New, Proactive Slogan

For this year’s edition, ENISA introduced a new slogan for the event, #Choose2BeSafeOnline

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Alarming attacks on Internet of Medical Things (IoMT)

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. The impact of ransomware attacks on healthcare is as alarming as it is under-addressed.  The United States healthcare system alone faces an annual burden of nearly $21 billion due to these attacks. It pays well over $100 million in ransoms, and is beginning to acknowledge the tragic realities of impacted […]

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