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About Bruce Schneier I am a public-interest technologist, working at the intersection of security, technology, and people. I've been writing about security issues on my blog since 2004, and in my monthly newsletter since 1998.
A blind SQL injection vulnerability in Cacti, a widely-used network monitoring, performance and fault management framework, could lead to information disclosure and potentially remote code execution.Cacti is often used in network operation centers of telecoms and web hosting providers, to collect network performance data and store it in RRDtool, a logging and graphing database and system that, through a web interface, creates graphical representations of the collected data.
Collaboration is a powerful selling point for SaaS applications. Microsoft, Github, Miro, and others promote the collaborative nature of their software applications that allows users to do more....
When organizations get hit by ransomware and pay the crooks to decrypt the encrypted data and delete the stolen data, they can never be entirely sure the criminals will do as they promised. Even if an organization gets its data decrypted, they cannot be sure the stolen data has indeed been wiped and won't subsequently be used or sold.
A security flaw has been disclosed in Kyocera’s Device Manager product that could be exploited by bad actors to carry out malicious activities on affected systems. "This vulnerability allows...
Threat actors are resorting to YouTube videos featuring content related to cracked software in order to entice users into downloading an information stealer malware called Lumma. “These YouTube...
The year 2023 marks a significant milestone for Windows 11 with the introduction of several new features and improvements. Windows 11 introduces Windows Copilot, an innovative AI assistant that merges the capabilities of Bing Chat with additional plugins.
Why is it that when a company becomes aware of a potential data security incident, the team working on it have an immediate and overwhelming feeling that the company is doomed? And yet, when there's another kind of high-risk event, such as an ethics investigation, it doesn't cause the same apocalyptic feelings? Cybersecurity professionals in legal and IT security departments have key roles in working through a data security incident, but often fail to build up a trusted relationship in advance.
In this Help Net Security interview, Phil Vachon, Head of Infrastructure in the Office of the CTO at Bloomberg, discusses the varying definitions of zero trust among security professionals and companies, emphasizing its broad design philosophy. Why does the definition of zero trust vary so significantly among security professionals and companies? How do these variations impact companies' approach toward implementing zero trust?