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73% of SME security pros missed or ignored critical alerts
2024-04-25 03:00

Small and medium-sized enterprises IT staff is overwhelmed by the complexity and demands of managing multiple tools in their security stack, leading them to miss critical severity events and weaken their company's security posture, according to Coro. According to the survey, 73% of SME security professionals have missed, ignored or failed to act on critical security alerts, with respondents noting a lack of staff and a lack of time as the top two reasons.

Governments issue alerts after 'sophisticated' state-backed actor found exploiting flaws in Cisco security boxes
2024-04-24 23:11

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Microsoft cannot keep its own security in order, so what hope for its add-ons customers?
2024-04-24 17:15

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Prompt Hacking, Private GPTs, Zero-Day Exploits and Deepfakes: Report Reveals the Impact of AI on Cyber Security Landscape
2024-04-24 16:11

AI's newfound accessibility will cause a surge in prompt hacking attempts and private GPT models used for nefarious purposes, a new report revealed. Experts at the cyber security company Radware forecast the impact that AI will have on the threat landscape in the 2024 Global Threat Analysis Report.

Major Security Flaws Expose Keystrokes of Over 1 Billion Chinese Keyboard App Users
2024-04-24 09:36

Security vulnerabilities uncovered in cloud-based pinyin keyboard apps could be exploited to reveal users' keystrokes to nefarious actors. The findings come from the Citizen Lab, which discovered...

GenAI can enhance security awareness training
2024-04-24 04:30

This brings us on to our third point, which is that we should not be looking to harness GenAI for security awareness training. GenAI promises to transform security training for the better.

eBook: Cloud security skills
2024-04-24 02:45

Demonstrating a sound understanding of cloud security key principles and practices opens various professional opportunities. But first, you need the right mix of technical and soft skills to...

Microsoft pulls fix for Outlook bug behind ICS security alerts
2024-04-23 21:50

Microsoft has rolled back a fix for a known Outlook issue that was causing incorrect security alerts when opening ICS calendar files after installing the December Outlook Desktop security updates. Affected Microsoft 365 users are seeing unexpected warnings that "Microsoft Office has identified a potential security concern" and that "This location may be unsafe" when double-clicking ICS files saved on their devices.

Microsoft releases Exchange hotfixes for security update issues
2024-04-23 19:50

Microsoft has released hotfix updates to address multiple known issues impacting Exchange servers after installing the March 2024 security updates.Although the April 2024 HU is optional, it also adds support for ECC certificates and Hybrid Modern Authentication for OWA/ECP. If you have installed the March 2024 SU and have not experienced any known issues fixed in the optional update and do not need the new features, you can wait for the next Exchange Server SU, which will also include these hotfixes.

UnitedHealth admits IT security breach could 'cover substantial proportion of people in America'
2024-04-23 12:30

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