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Neon, the serverless Postgres database built for developers, launched Neon Authorize. It enables developers to manage permissions and access controls with ease. This new offering leverages Postgres RLS (Row-Level Security) – a Postgres primitive that protects data from malicious actors even when accessed through third-party tooling – and makes it much simpler to use via new deployment models for application developers. “It makes perfect sense to set up authorization policies at the database layer – … More →

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With the proliferation of APIs, and the speed at which AI functionality is helping fuel innovation, a strategic approach for securing APIs is no longer a nice to have, it’s a criticality. Without a proactive approach, your APIs could become easy targets for attackers. StackHawk is here to flip the script by offering a proactive, Shift-left API security solution that helps organizations secure their APIs from the start, not after it’s too late. StackHawk’s platform … More →

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Midnight Blizzard – a cyber espionage group that has been linked to the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) – is targeting government, academia, defense, and NGO workers with phishing emails containing a signed Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) configuration file. “Based on our investigation of previous Midnight Blizzard spear-phishing campaigns, we assess that the goal of this operation is likely intelligence collection,” Microsoft’s threat analysts say. Midnight Blizzard Midnight Blizzard (aka Cozy Bear, APT29, and UNC2452) … More →

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Kaseya announced Kaseya 365 User, joining Kaseya 365 Endpoint which launched in April 2024. Kaseya 365 User gives managed service providers (MSPs) the ability to help their customers prevent, respond to and recover from threats to user identity and security. Kaseya also announced it has acquired SaaS Alerts, a cybersecurity company that helps MSPs monitor and protect customer’s SaaS application usage. SaaS Alerts’ technology is included for free as part of the Kaseya 365 User … More →

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Seclore announced the extension of its Seclore Enterprise Digital Rights Management (EDRM) capabilities to support neutral or interoperable computer-aided design (CAD) files for industries that create, manage, and share intellectual property (IP). The support for neutral CAD files creates better visibility for manufacturers with compliance reporting and auditing needs. The Seclore Data-Centric Security Platform brings granular security and control to industries like automotive, healthcare, aerospace, energy, pharmaceutical, and others, which have historically lacked adequate data … More →

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Cybersecurity is an overly reactive industry. Too often we act like firefighters, rushing from blaze to blaze, extinguishing flames hoping to keep the damage to a minimum, rather than fire suppression experts designing environments that refuse to burn. Just consider the litany of “detect and respond” technologies advanced by analysts and enthusiastically purchased by enterprises over the past decade. A recap: 2013 – Gartner coins the term Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) 2016 – Managed … More →

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In this Help Net Security interview, Carla Roncato, VP of Identity at WatchGuard Technologies, discusses how companies can balance privacy, security, and usability in digital identity systems. She emphasizes modern techniques like biometrics and passkeys to replace knowledge-based authentication methods and highlights the need for global standardization in decentralized identity solutions. How can companies balance privacy, security and usability in digital identity systems—especially in sectors such as financial services and healthcare? One technique is to … More →

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Medical practices remain vulnerable to cyberattacks, with over a third unable to cite a cybersecurity incident response plan, according to Software Advice. This gap exposes healthcare providers to risks of patient data breaches, HIPAA violations, financial penalties, and patient safety concerns. The findings come at a critical time, as the Health Infrastructure Security and Accountability Act seeks to establish minimum cybersecurity standards across the healthcare industry. Software Advice’s survey found that 59% of medical practices … More →

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The identity of a suspected developer and administrator of the Redline malware-as-a-service operation has been revealed: Russian national Maxim Rudometov. Infrastructure takedown As promised on Monday when they announced the disruption of the Redline and Meta infostealer operations, law enforcement Operation Magnus has unveiled on Tuesday how the takedown played out. “Investigations into Redline and Meta started after victims came forward and a security company notified authorities about possible servers in the Netherlands linked to … More →

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Kentik launched The Cloud Latency Map, a free public tool allowing anyone to explore the latencies measured between over 100 cloud regions worldwide. Users can identify recent changes in latencies globally between various public clouds and data center regions for the first time. “The Cloud Latency Map benefits anyone trying to determine if there is a connectivity issue impacting the latencies to particular clouds and cloud regions,” said Doug Madory, Director of Internet Analysis at … More →

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Securiti released Gencore AI, a holistic solution to easily build safe, enterprise-grade GenAI systems, copilots and AI agents. This new solution accelerates GenAI adoption in the enterprise by making it easy to build unstructured and structured data + AI pipelines utilizing proprietary enterprise data across hundreds of diverse data systems and applications. GenAI is set to drive significant productivity gains, leading to massive economic growth. For enterprise organizations, the biggest barrier to deploying GenAI systems … More →

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Aviatrix unveiled new features and functionality designed to fill critical cloud network security gaps in cloud environments. With its latest software release and introduction of new features, including the Hybrid Cloud Transit and Distributed Cloud Firewall (DCF) integration with enhanced threat intelligence capabilities, Aviatrix is equipping enterprises to secure their cloud egress and hybrid-cloud connectivity, areas that have long posed challenges for cloud-first organizations. As enterprises migrate more workloads and modernize on cloud workloads, they … More →

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Crooks are leveraging the event management and ticketing website Eventbrite to deliver their phishing emails to potential targets. “Since July, these attacks have increased 25% week over week, resulting in a total growth rate of 900%,” Perception Point researchers say. The phishing emails impersonate legitimate companies The phishing emails look like they are coming from Eventbrite because they are, but their content is crafted to impersonate legitimate businesses such as NLB Group (financial institution), EnergyAustralia … More →

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Zenity announced they have received $38 million in Series B funding co-led by Third Point Ventures and DTCP, pushing the total capital raised to over $55 million. It follows the recent strategic investment by Microsoft’s venture arm, M12, with strong support from existing investors Intel Capital and Vertex Ventures. The funds will be used to grow the team across product, engineering, sales and marketing, as well as launching a partner program to expand the ecosystem … More →

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Akamai launched new capabilities to its Account Protector security solution. These enhancements are designed to safeguard user accounts against abuse throughout their entire lifecycle and provide advanced protection against account opening abuse, account takeover attacks, and other attack schemes. The new capabilities enable organizations to protect accounts from the moment they are created, through password resets, logins, and all post-login activities. In today’s threat landscape, a single security check at login or transaction is no … More →

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Corero Network Security launched a new cloud-based availability protection platform, CORE. CORE by Corero Network Security is a cloud-based availability protection platform designed to seamlessly enhance a company’s existing security infrastructure. It delivers advanced defense, leveraging existing infrastructure, offering flexibility and cost-efficiency to keep an organization secure and agile. Corero CORE leverages comprehensive data lake(s) by gathering feeds from multiple sources across a network and generating AI/ML-assisted insights, turning isolated security events into actionable intelligence. … More →

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Despite two patching attempts, a security issue that may allow attackers to compromise Windows user’s NTLM (authentication) credentials via a malicious Windows themes file still affects Microsoft’s operating system, 0patch researchers have discovered. The path to discovery The story starts with CVE-2024-21320, a Windows Themes spoofing vulnerability that was reported by Akamai security researcher Tomer Peled and fixed by Microsoft in January 2024. The vulnerability could be triggered by a .theme file that specified a … More →

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PIXM Security launched its new Managed Service Provider (MSP) program for zero-day phishing protection. With over 500,000 end users already protected, PIXM shields MSPs and their customers from credential theft and zero-day phishing attacks that can lead to malware and other exploits on their laptops, desktops and mobile platforms. Over 50 percent of phishing links are clicked outside corporate email. While phishing security is often associated solely with email protection, cybercriminals are adapting and increasingly … More →

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In this Help Net Security interview, security researchers Specter and ChendoChap discuss gaming consoles’ unique security model, highlighting how it differs from other consumer devices. They also share their thoughts on how advancements in console security could shape future consumer and enterprise hardware designs. Specter was a speaker at the Hardwear.io conference that took place last week in Amsterdam. Could you explain what makes the security model of consoles, such as PlayStation, fundamentally different from … More →

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EmberOT’s OT PCAP Analyzer, developed for the industrial security community, is a free tool providing a high-level overview of the devices and protocols in packet capture files. “The OT PCAP Analyzer was designed specifically with critical OT environments in mind. We’ve created a novel set of engines to gather and analyze network traffic at speed with unparalleled accuracy. This allows the free PCAP Analyzer to quickly identify OT devices, protocols, and how those elements interact. … More →

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