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  • July 13, 2023

It’s time for identity governance to go mainstream

By Microsoft Security Identity governance is not a new concept. Traditionally tied to heavily regulated industries or high-value assets, IT teams use governance to understand how identities access sensitive data, applications, services, and more. However, the landscape is changing. In recent years, governance products have evolved from traditionally on-premises technology to a more cloud-delivered model. […]

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Startup Spotlight: Mobb Aims to Be the Fixer

The startup, one of four finalists in this year’s Black Hat USA Startup Spotlight competition, automates vulnerability remediation using AI.

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Hackers Target Chinese Gamers With Microsoft-Signed Rootkit

Kernel mode driver can download second-stage payload directly to memory, allowing threat actors to evade endpoint detection and response tools.

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The psychological and strategic challenges posed by AI-enhanced cyberattacks and influence campaigns

The world will likely soon witness malware campaigns fully augmented and shaped by artificial intelligence (AI). Citing an arms race logic, cybersecurity luminary Mikko Hypp?nen said in a recent CSO article that the use of AI to enhance all aspects of disruptive cyber operations is virtually inevitable. As attackers have begun to use large language […]

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New Vulnerabilities Disclosed in SonicWall and Fortinet Network Security Products

SonicWall on Wednesday urged customers of Global Management System (GMS) firewall management and Analytics network reporting engine software to apply the latest fixes to secure against a set of 15 security flaws that could be exploited by a threat actor to circumvent authentication and access sensitive information. Of the 15 shortcomings (tracked from CVE-2023-34123 through […]

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U.S. Government Agencies’ Emails Compromised in China-Backed Cyber Attack

An unnamed Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agency in the U.S. detected anomalous email activity in mid-June 2023, leading to Microsoft’s discovery of a new China-linked espionage campaign targeting two dozen organizations. The details come from a joint cybersecurity advisory released by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation

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Bug Re-deploying AWS TLS Certificate

Can’t redeploy a TLS certificate on AWS Continue reading on Bugs That Bite »

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Ransomware attacks cost financial organizations US$32.3 billion in downtime since 2018

Ransomware attacks on the global finance sector have cost US$32.3 billion in downtime alone since 2018. That’s according to new research from Comparitech, which found that 225 financial organizations are confirmed to have been hit by a ransomware attack in the last five years, exposing at least 32.3 million individual records. Downtime from attacks varied […]

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