Email Sender Identity is Key to Solving the Phishing Crisis

Email is in crisis. Despite massive advancements in perimeter and endpoint defenses, email remains a cybersecurity weak link for many companies. Why? Email is at the heart of everything we do online. It’s an essential line of communication for one-on-one and group conversations, both...

The face of tomorrow’s cybercrime: Deepfake ransomware explained

While many countries are beginning to ease up on their respective pandemic lock downs—which, in turn, also means that everyone will soon ease into a life that is not quite post-COVID-19—we find ourselves once more on the cusp of change, an outlook that makes some feel anxious and others hopeful...

Nationwide Facial Recognition Ban Proposed By Lawmakers

Lawmakers have proposed legislation that would indefinitely ban the use of facial recognition technology by law enforcement nationwide. The new bill comes after months of public concerns surrounding facial recognition’s implications for data privacy, government surveillance and racial bias. The...

PT-2020-14531 · Centos · Centos Web Panel

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: CentOS Web Panel version cwp-e17.0.9.8.923 Description: This issue allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations. Authentication is not required to exploit this issue. The flaw exists within the ajax dashboard.ph...

Feeling fatigued? Cloud-based SIEM relieves security team burnout

Most CISOs and CSOs are worried that a growing volume of alerts is causing burnout among their teams, according to new research from IDG. You can learn about additional challenges to security operations teams by reading the IDG report SIEM Shift: How the Cloud is Transforming Security Operations...

Business Secure: How AI is Sneaking into our Restaurants

Prior to pandemic days, the restaurant industry talked of computers that might end up taking over their daily responsibilities. They’d joke about how a kiosk can communicate orders to the kitchen, much like they can. Well, now that we live in a global world that will be reluctant to dine with...

VirusTotal Adds Cynet's Artificial Intelligence-Based Malware Detection

VirusTotal, the famous multi-antivirus scanning service owned by Google, recently announced new threat detection capabilities it added with the help of an Israeli cybersecurity firm. VirusTotal provides a free online service that analyzes suspicious files and URLs to detect malware and...

Is Your AWS Data Secure and Compliant? Cloud Database Visibility in Minutes

Internal and external attackers are after your data. Regardless of where the data resides, cloud, or on-premises, you need to protect it. In some cases that data needs to be put under compliance controls. Data protection principles hold for data hosted in the cloud database as a service DBaaS. Fo...

ACLU Sues Clearview AI Over Faceprint Collection, Sale

The American Civil Liberties Union ACLU has sued a New York-based startup for amassing a database of biometric face-identification data of billions of people and selling it to third parties without their consent or knowledge The U.S. citizens’-rights watchdog organization has filed suit in the...

How the Cybercriminal Underground Has Changed in 5 Years

The cybercrime economy is one of the runaway success stories of the 21st century — at least, for those who participate in it. Estimates claim it could be worth over $1 trillion annually, more than the GDP of many countries. Part of that success is due to its ability to evolve and shift as the...

New US Electronic Warfare Platform

The Army is developing a new electronic warfare pod capable of being put on drones and on trucks. ...the Silent Crow pod is now the leading contender for the flying flagship of the Army's rebuilt electronic warfare force. Army EW was largely disbanded after the Cold War, except for short-range...

Automatic Instacart Bots

Instacart is taking legal action against bots that automatically place orders: Before it closed, to use Cartdash users first selected what items they want from Instacart as normal. Once that was done, they had to provide Cartdash with their Instacart email address, password, mobile number, tip...

Deepfakes and AI: Fighting Cybersecurity Fire with Fire

Today, the most successful and damaging cyberattacks are executed by highly professional criminal networks rather than “lone-wolf” hackers. These criminal organizations have also become highly adept at leveraging artificial intelligence AI and machine learning ML tools, making it extremely hard f...

Xiaomi Xiao AI Speaker Pro LX06 Input Validation Error Vulnerability

Xiaomi Xiao AI Speaker Pro LX06 is a smart speaker from Chinese company Xiaomi Technology Xiaomi. An input validation error vulnerability exists in the Xiaomi Xiao AI Speaker Pro LX06 version 1.58.10. The vulnerability can be exploited by activating failsafe mode and using the miconsole command t...

Xiaomi Xiao AI Speaker Pro LX06 Input Validation Error Vulnerability

The Xiaomi Xiao AI Speaker Pro LX06 is a smart speaker from Chinese company Xiaomi Technology Xiaomi. An input validation error vulnerability exists in Xiaomi Xiao AI Speaker Pro LX06 version 1.52.4. The vulnerability can be exploited to obtain a root shell by accessing the UART interface, which...

Key Findings from the 2020 Cyberthreat Defense Report

The new 2020 Cyberthreat Defense Report CDR released this week. Now in its seventh year, the annual report provides a look at how global cybersecurity professionals perceive threats and plan to defend against them. The CDR enables cybersecurity professionals to benchmark their company’s security...

Elite Hackers Are Using Coronavirus Emails to Set Traps

Plus: A Comcast blunder, a Clearview AI lawsuit, and more of the week's top security news...

L1ght Looks to Protect Internet Users from Toxic and Predatory Behavior

Cybersecurity has been regarded as a necessity for all computer users, especially today when data breaches and malware attacks have become rampant. However, one of the more overlooked aspects of cybersecurity is the prevention of other forms of cybercrime, such as the spread of harmful content an...

Deep Instinct Windows Agent 1.2.29.0 - (DeepMgmtService) Unquoted Service Path Vulnerability

Exploit Title: Deep Instinct Windows Agent 1.2.29.0 - 'DeepMgmtService' Unquoted Service Path Discovery by: Oscar Flores Vendor Homepage: https://www.deepinstinct.com/ Software Links :...

Deep Instinct Windows Agent 1.2.29.0 - 'DeepMgmtService' Unquoted Service Path

Exploit Title: Deep Instinct Windows Agent 1.2.29.0 - 'DeepMgmtService' Unquoted Service Path Discovery by: Oscar Flores Discovery Date: 2020-03-05 Vendor Homepage: https://www.deepinstinct.com/ Software Links :...