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8 Best Penetration Testing Tools and Software
2024-05-23 13:00

Penetration testing is a fundamental practice for assessing and strengthening the security posture of an organization's digital assets and is conducted with penetration testing tools. Astra is a penetration testing tool solution with several automated testing features that combine manual with automated penetration testing features for applications, networks, API and blockchains.

Inside Operation Diplomatic Specter: Chinese APT Group's Stealthy Tactics Exposed
2024-05-23 11:14

Governmental entities in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia are the target of a Chinese advanced persistent threat (APT) group as part of an ongoing cyber espionage campaign dubbed Operation...

Are Your SaaS Backups as Secure as Your Production Data?
2024-05-23 11:14

Conversations about data security tend to diverge into three main threads: How can we protect the data we store on our on-premises or cloud infrastructure? What strategies and tools or platforms...

Personal AI Assistants and Privacy
2024-05-23 11:00

One of the promises of generative AI is a personal digital assistant. It will act trustworthy, but it will not be trustworthy.

GitHub fixes maximum severity Enterprise Server auth bypass bug (CVE-2024-4985)
2024-05-23 10:13

A critical, 10-out-of-10 vulnerability allowing unrestricted access to vulnerable GitHub Enterprise Server instances has been fixed by Microsoft-owned GitHub. There is a catch that may narrow down the pool of potential victims: instances are vulnerable to attack only if they use SAML single sign-on authentication AND have the encrypted assertions feature enabled.

Ivanti Patches Critical Remote Code Execution Flaws in Endpoint Manager
2024-05-23 09:21

Ivanti on Tuesday rolled out fixes to address multiple critical security flaws in Endpoint Manager (EPM) that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution under certain circumstances. Six...

Microsoft outage affects Bing, Copilot, DuckDuckGo and ChatGPT internet search
2024-05-23 08:44

A massive Microsoft outage in some regions affects Bing.com, Copilot for web and mobile, Copilot in Windows, ChatGPT internet search and DuckDuckGo. [...]

UK data watchdog wants six figures from N Ireland cops after 2023 data leak
2024-05-23 08:30

Following a data leak that brought "Tangible fear of threat to life", the UK's data protection watchdog says it intends to fine the Police Service of Northern Ireland £750,000. The August exposure of cops' data affected 9,483 officers and was described by Commissioner Pete O'Doherty of the City of London Police as "The most significant data breach that has ever occurred in the history of UK policing" in an official review.

HHS pledges $50M for autonomous vulnerability management solution for hospitals
2024-05-23 07:14

As organizations in the healthcare sector continue to be a prime target for ransomware gangs and CISA warns about a vulnerability in a healthcare-specific platform being leveraged by attackers, the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health has announced the Universal PatchinG and Remediation for Autonomous DEfense program aimed at developing a vulnerability management platform for healthcare IT teams. CVE-2023-43208, an easily exploitable unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability affecting NextGen HealthCare's Mirth Connect data integration platform, has been patched by the company and publicly disclosed by Horizon3.

How Apple Wi-Fi Positioning System can be abused to track people around the globe
2024-05-23 06:34

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