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Attackers are leveraging a vulnerability in Anyscale's Ray AI software to compromise enterprise servers and saddle them with cryptominers and reverse shells."We observed hundreds of compromised clusters in the past three weeks alone. Each cluster uses a public IP address, and most clusters contain hundreds to thousands of servers. There are hundreds of servers that are still vulnerable and exposed."
Drozer is an open-source security testing framework for Android, whose primary purpose is to make the life of mobile application security testers easier. The solution enables the identification of security vulnerabilities in applications and devices by taking on the role of an app and facilitating interactions with the Dalvik VM, other apps' IPC endpoints, and the operating system.
Ray is an open-source framework developed by Anyscale that is used to scale AI and Python applications across a cluster of machines for distributed computational workloads. In November 2023, Anyscale disclosed five Ray vulnerabilities, fixing four tracked as CVE-2023-6019, CVE-2023-6020, CVE-2023-6021, and CVE-2023-48023.
TechRepublic's cheat sheet about the NIST CSF is an overview of this new government recommended best practice, and it includes steps on implementing the security framework. Is the NIST cybersecurity framework just for government use?
The February 2024 Patch Tuesday was pretty typical, with the standard Microsoft Windows, Office, and Exchange Server updates. Before we get to the March 2024 Patch Tuesday forecast, I want to provide information on the updated NIST framework.
Python Risk Identification Tool is Microsoft's open-source automation framework that enables security professionals and machine learning engineers to find risks in generative AI systems. It started as a collection of individual scripts used during the team's initial foray into red teaming generative AI systems in 2022.
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The CSF 2.0, which supports implementation of the National Cybersecurity Strategy, has an expanded scope that goes beyond protecting critical infrastructure, such as hospitals and power plants, to all organizations in any sector. The CSF's governance component emphasizes that cybersecurity is a major source of enterprise risk that senior leaders should consider alongside others such as finance and reputation.
After ten years operating under the original model, and two years working to revise it, the National Institute of Standards and Technology has released version 2.0 of its Cybersecurity Framework. Unlike the original, which was designed with critical infrastructure sectors in mind, CSF 2.0's scope has been expanded to suitable security tips for organizations in any sector and of any size "Regardless of their degree of cybersecurity sophistication," NIST said.
The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) cybersecurity framework is one of the world's most important guidelines for securing networks. It can be applied to any number of...