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The SANS Holiday Hack Challenge is back!
2023-12-14 09:07

Webinar Whether you are considering a career in cyber security or you already work in the industry, the 2023 SANS Holiday Hack Challenge is a great way of combining festive fun and learning. Who knows, the skills you acquire this holiday season might even help you foil a nefarious hacker at Yuletide next year.

GuardRail: Open-source tool for data analysis, AI content generation using OpenAI GPT models
2023-12-14 07:32

GuardRail OSS is an open-source project delivering practical guardrails to ensure responsible AI development and deployment. GuardRail OSS offers an API-driven framework for advanced data analysis, bias mitigation, sentiment analysis, content classification, and oversight tailored to an organization's specific AI needs.

New Hacker Group 'GambleForce' Tageting APAC Firms Using SQL Injection Attacks
2023-12-14 06:30

A previously unknown hacker outfit called GambleForce has been attributed to a series of SQL injection attacks against companies primarily in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region since at least...

Microsoft Takes Legal Action to Crack Down on Storm-1152's Cybercrime Network
2023-12-14 05:46

Microsoft on Wednesday said it obtained a court order to seize infrastructure set up by a group called Storm-1152 that peddled roughly 750 million fraudulent Microsoft accounts and tools through a...

Digital ops and ops management security predictions for 2024
2023-12-14 05:30

Big incidents will be BIG. High-visibility attacks will continue to be rare, but when they occur, they will be major news, with massive implications for customers and even wider society, depending on the organization affected. Unlike the indiscriminate "Spray-and-pray" attacks we used to be so afraid of, bad actors will shift their attention to building sophisticated campaigns to take down high-value targets that are more financially rewarding for them.

Staying ahead in 2024 with top cybersecurity predictions
2023-12-14 05:00

What will 2024 hold for the cybersecurity landscape? In this Help Net Security video, Steve Cobb, CISO at SecurityScorecard, offers his take on what professionals can expect next year. The post...

Microsoft ICSpector: A leap forward in industrial PLC metadata analysis
2023-12-14 04:30

Please turn on your JavaScript for this page to function normally. Microsoft ICSpector is an open-source forensics framework that enables the analysis of industrial PLC metadata and project files.

Organizations prefer a combination of AI and human analysts to monitor their digital supply chain
2023-12-14 04:00

"Attacks targeting external vendors and partners are a constant threat," said Joel Molinoff, BlueVoyant's global head of Supply Chain Defense. "Our data suggests that the scope of the problem is increasing, with more enterprise vendors and suppliers falling prey to cyber attacks. Enterprises recognize the issue but the standard approach to third-party risk management is proving inadequate. Companies now need to focus energies on methods that proactively illuminate and reduce supply chain risk."

Microsoft disrupts cybercrime gang behind 750 million fraudulent accounts
2023-12-13 23:45

Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit seized multiple domains used by a Vietnam-based cybercrime group that registered over 750 million fraudulent accounts and raked in millions of dollars by selling them online to other cybercriminals. Storm-1152 is a major cybercrime-as-a-service provider and the number one seller of fraudulent Outlook accounts, as well as other illegal "Products," including an automatic CAPTCHA-solving service to bypass Microsoft's CAPTCHA challenges and register more fraudulent Microsoft email accounts.

Microsoft seizes domains used to sell fraudulent Outlook accounts
2023-12-13 23:45

Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit seized multiple domains used by a Vietnam-based cybercrime group that registered over 750 million fraudulent accounts and raked in millions of dollars by selling them online to other cybercriminals. Storm-1152 is a major cybercrime-as-a-service provider and the number one seller of fraudulent Outlook accounts, as well as other illegal "Products," including an automatic CAPTCHA-solving service to bypass Microsoft's CAPTCHA challenges and register more fraudulent Microsoft email accounts.