SOC 2 Compliance in the Quantum Computing Age In an era where technology evolves faster than ever before, cybersecurity has become a paramount concern for businesses and organizations. The digital landscape is constantly shifting, and with the emergence of quantum computing, a new era of challenges and opportunities is on the horizon. SOC 2 compliance, […]
SOC 2 ComplianceSEC Compliance: Protecting Stakeholders in a Decentralized Finance Age The world of finance is undergoing a seismic shift. Traditional financial institutions are facing stiff competition from a rising tide of decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms, blockchain technology, and cryptocurrencies. This rapidly evolving landscape offers exciting opportunities for innovation and financial inclusion, but it also raises critical […]
SEC ComplianceRethinking PCI DSS Compliance for Cryptocurrency Transactions The world of finance is undergoing a seismic shift with the rise of cryptocurrencies. These digital assets, powered by blockchain technology, offer a new way to store and transfer value, challenging traditional financial systems. As more businesses and individuals embrace cryptocurrencies, a pressing concern emerges: how to ensure […]
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Ben Rothke chose A Hacker’s Mind as “the best information security book of 2023.”
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Threat hunters have discovered a rogue WordPress plugin that’s capable of creating bogus administrator users and injecting malicious JavaScript code to steal credit card information. The skimming activity is part of a Magecart campaign targeting e-commerce websites, according to Sucuri. “As with many other malicious or fake WordPress plugins it contains some deceptive information at […]
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Indian government entities and the defense sector have been targeted by a phishing campaign that’s engineered to drop Rust-based malware for intelligence gathering. The activity, first detected in October 2023, has been codenamed Operation RusticWeb by enterprise security firm SEQRITE. “New Rust-based payloads and encrypted PowerShell commands have been utilized to exfiltrate confidential documents to […]
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A new phishing campaign is leveraging decoy Microsoft Word documents as bait to deliver a backdoor written in the Nim programming language. “Malware written in uncommon programming languages puts the security community at a disadvantage as researchers and reverse engineers’ unfamiliarity can hamper their investigation,” Netskope researchers Ghanashyam Satpathy and Jan Michael Alcantara said. Nim-based […]
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Interesting attack on a LLM: In Writer, users can enter a ChatGPT-like session to edit or create their documents. In this chat session, the LLM can retrieve information from sources on the web to assist users in creation of their documents. We show that attackers can prepare websites that, when a user adds them as […]
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