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A consortium led by Splunk and AWS are hoping to fix this by standardizing how events are noted in logs, reducing the burden on security teams to decipher alerts they receive from multiple tools and vendors. Last week at Black Hat, security vendor Splunk announced the general availability of the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework.

Zoom CISO Michael Adams discusses cybersecurity threats, solutions, and the futureIn this Help Net Security interview, we delve into the world of cybersecurity with Michael Adams, the CISO at Zoom. Using creative recruitment strategies to tackle the cybersecurity skills shortageIn this Help Net Security interview, Jon Check, Executive Director of Cybersecurity Protection Solutions at Raytheon, sheds light on the significance of internships and apprenticeships in nurturing the next generation of cyber defenders.

At the Black Hat kickoff keynote on Wednesday, Jeff Moss, the founder of Black Hat, focused on the security implications of AI before introducing the main speaker, Maria Markstedter, CEO and founder of Azeria Labs. Securing AI was also a key theme during a panel at Black Hat a day earlier: Cybersecurity in the Age of AI, hosted by security firm Barracuda.

Help Net Security is in Las Vegas this week for Black Hat USA 2023, and this video provides a closer look at the event. The exhibitors featured in this video are: 1Password, Aqua Security, CISA,...

Black Hat USA 2023 returned to the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas and Help Net Security was on-site. The conference featured over 100 selected Briefings, open-source tool demos in the...

As attackers focus on political ends, big payouts, threat hunters need to focus on identity intrusions, access merchants and tactics enabling fast lateral movement. Adversary breakout time - the time it takes a threat actor to zipline from the initial point of entry into a network - hit an average all-time low of 79 minutes, down from 84 minutes last year, with the fastest breakout of the year coming in at a record of seven minutes.

Discover the challenges that AI will bring to the cybersecurity industry and the opportunities and future implications of cybersecurity in an AI-dominated world.

Multiple high-severity firmware bugs in HP enterprise computers remain unpatched, some more than a year after Binarly security researchers disclosed the vulnerabilities to HP and then discussed them at the Black Hat security conference last month. HP is "Aware of potential SMM vulnerabilities reported by Binarly," according to a spokesperson, who directed The Register to a security alert from March that addressed one of the bugs.

The folks tasked with defending the Black Hat conference network see a lot of weird, sometimes hostile activity, and this year it included malware linked to Kim Jong-un's agents. Of course, not all of the malware detected at Black Hat is intended to infect devices and perform nefarious acts - some of it stems from simulated attacks in classrooms and on the show floor.

There was nothing typical this year at BSides LV, Black Hat USA and DEF CON - also known collectively as Hacker Summer Camp. Video conferencing darling Zoom was highlighted at DEF CON by Patrick Wardle, founder of the Objective-See Foundation, for a hacking technique that allowed him, using the macOS version of Zoom, to elevated privileges and gain access to the entire macOS operating system.