The New York Times vs. OpenAI: A Turning Point for Web Scraping?

In a recent blog, we covered the blurry lines of legality surrounding web scraping and how the advent of artificial intelligence AI and large language models LLMs further complicates the matter. Shortly after publishing the blog, a significant legal development began unfolding: The New York Times...

Guide: How vCISOs, MSPs and MSSPs Can Keep their Customers Safe from Gen AI Risks

Download the free guide, "It's a Generative AI World: How vCISOs, MSPs and MSSPs Can Keep their Customers Safe from Gen AI Risks." ChatGPT now boasts anywhere from 1.5 to 2 billion visits per month. Countless sales, marketing, HR, IT executive, technical support, operations, finance and other...

Top insights and best practices from the new Microsoft Data Security Index report

A whopping 74 percent of organizations recently surveyed experienced at least one data security incident with their business data exposed in the previous year. That’s just one of our interesting insights from Microsoft’s new Data Security Index: Trends, insights, and strategies to secure data...

CVE-2023-4828

An improper check for an exceptional condition in the Insider Threat Management ITM Server could be used by an attacker to change the server's configuration of any already-registered agent so that the agent sends all future communications to an attacker-chosen URL. This could result in disclosure...

CVE-2023-4828 ITM Server Communications Hijack

An improper check for an exceptional condition in the Insider Threat Management ITM Server could be used by an attacker to change the server's configuration of any already-registered agent so that the agent sends all future communications to an attacker-chosen URL. This could result in disclosure...

CVE-2023-4828

The CVE-2023-4828 issue affects Proofpoint Insider Threat Management (ITM) Server versions prior to 7.14.3.69. The root cause is an improper check for an exceptional condition, enabling an attacker with valid agent credentials and hostname to reconfigure any registered agent so that future commun...

CVE-2023-4828 ITM Server Communications Hijack

An improper check for an exceptional condition in the Insider Threat Management ITM Server could be used by an attacker to change the server's configuration of any already-registered agent so that the agent sends all future communications to an attacker-chosen URL. This could result in disclosure...

How to Prevent ChatGPT From Stealing Your Content & Traffic

ChatGPT and similar large language models LLMs have added further complexity to the ever-growing online threat landscape. Cybercriminals no longer need advanced coding skills to execute fraud and other damaging attacks against online businesses and customers, thanks to bots-as-a-service,...

Former TikTok exec: Chinese Communist Party had "God mode" entry to US data

A former executive at TikToks parent company ByteDance has claimed in court documents that the Chinese Communist Party CCP had access to TikTok data, despite the data being stored in the US. The allegations were made in a wrongful dismissal lawsuit which was filed in May in the San Francisco...

Protect intellectual property with Govern 365 and Microsoft Purview

This blog post is part of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association guest blog series. Learn more about MISA. Global supply chains face a broad range of risks, from physical threats to cybersecurity threats. Sharing information with suppliers is essential for the supply chain to function...

Protect intellectual property with Govern 365 and Microsoft Purview

This blog post is part of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association guest blog series. Learn more about MISA. Global supply chains face a broad range of risks, from physical threats to cybersecurity threats. Sharing information with suppliers is essential for the supply chain to function...

Israeli Spyware Vendor QuaDream to Shut Down Following Citizen Lab and Microsoft Expose

Israeli spyware vendor QuaDream is allegedly shutting down its operations in the coming days, less than a week after its hacking toolset was exposed by Citizen Lab and Microsoft. The development was reported by the Israeli business newspaper Calcalist, citing unnamed sources, adding the company...

Blackfly Chinese APT targets Asian conglomerate in materials sector

Threat Level Actor Report Follow Hive Pro for a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here from HiveForce Labs. Summary The Blackfly espionage group, also known as APT41, Winnti Group, or Bronze Atlas, has been targeting multiple subsidiaries of an Asian conglomerate operating in the...

Finding forensics breadcrumbs in Android image storage

Introduction Our digital forensics work is wide and varied. Often there’s very little that we can talk about in the public domain, so when I find something that we can share I get a bit excited. In this post I’ll be talking about image scanning apps, and how to reverse engineer them to pinpoint...

State Sponsored Attacks in 2023 and Beyond

As we begin 2023 I wanted to take some time and look at the state sponsored threat landscape. Over the last few decades weve seen seismic shifts in how state sponsored actors attack, starting with traditional espionage with attacks like Moonlight Maze and Project Gunman and evolving into more...

Hallmark Channel: Securing the Season

How Crown Media protects its crown jewel It’s that time of year again…chestnuts roasting on an open-fire, kids making wish-lists, and company holiday parties where you can showcase your most outlandish ugly sweater. It’s also the time of year we all get a little bit less cynical and take in a...

Sharing Netflix, Disney+, other passwords is illegal, according to new guidance

The Intellectual Property Office IPO, the UK government body overseeing intellectual property rights in the UK, has quietly released new guidance on piracy and online counterfeit goods. This campaign is a joint effort between IPO and Meta, Facebooks parent company. The general issue on piracy is...

CVE-2022-40187

Foresight GC3 Launch Monitor 1.3.15.68 ships with a Target Communication Framework TCF service enabled. This service listens on a TCP port on all interfaces and allows for process debugging, file system modification, and terminal access as the root user. In conjunction with a hosted wireless acce...

CVE-2022-40187

Foresight GC3 Launch Monitor 1.3.15.68 ships with a Target Communication Framework TCF service enabled. This service listens on a TCP port on all interfaces and allows for process debugging, file system modification, and terminal access as the root user. In conjunction with a hosted wireless acce...

Design/Logic Flaw

Foresight GC3 Launch Monitor 1.3.15.68 ships with a Target Communication Framework TCF service enabled. This service listens on a TCP port on all interfaces and allows for process debugging, file system modification, and terminal access as the root user. In conjunction with a hosted wireless acce...