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Facebook Postpones Plans for E2E Encryption in Messenger, Instagram Until 2023
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, disclosed that it doesn't intend to roll out default end-to-end encryption E2EE across all its messaging services until 2023, pushing its original plans by at least a year. "We're taking our time to get this right and we don't plan to...
California Pizza Kitchen Serves Up Employee SSNs in Data Breach
California Pizza Kitchen CPK served up more than tasty meals recently after a data breach exposed the names and Social Security numbers SSNs of more than 100,000 current and former employees. The “external system breach” occurred on Sept. 15 at the popular U.S. pizza chain and affected 103,767...
Designing a Proactive Ransomware Playbook for Today’s Threat Landscape
By Paul Baird, Chief Technology Security Office, Qualys Ransomware attacks are among the most significant cyber-threats facing organizations today. According to research by Gartner, ransomware is the highest priority 78 percent and most important emerging risk to track. Yet, organizations are sti...
Microsoft is recognized as a Leader in the 2021 Forrester Wave for Unified Endpoint Management
Microsoft is honored to be recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Unified Endpoint Management UEM, Q4 2021 report for our ability to help customers on their path to modern endpoint management. Microsoft Endpoint Manager—which brings together Microsoft Intune for cloud endpoint management a...
Microsoft is recognized as a Leader in the 2021 Forrester Wave for Unified Endpoint Management
Microsoft is honored to be recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Unified Endpoint Management UEM, Q4 2021 report for our ability to help customers on their path to modern endpoint management. Microsoft Endpoint Manager—which brings together Microsoft Intune for cloud endpoint management a...
Is a Consolidated Approach Better for WAAP Security?
By Owais Sultan A WAAP security tool is an expanded WAF capable of integrating, observing, and taking action intuitively when needed. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Is a Consolidated Approach Better for WAAP Security?...
A Matter of Perspective: Agent-Based and Agentless Approaches to Cloud Security, Part 2
In our previous blog on this topic, we discussed some of the considerations when choosing between agent-based and agentless cloud security approaches. The following table provides a summary of these considerations. Aspect | Agent-based | Agentless ---|---|--- Deployment | - Deployed on every asse...
CVE-2021-41117 Insecure random number generation
keypair is a a RSA PEM key generator written in javascript. keypair implements a lot of cryptographic primitives on its own or by borrowing from other libraries where possible, including node-forge. An issue was discovered where this library was generating identical RSA keys used in SSH. This wou...
Iranian Hackers Abuse Dropbox in Cyberattacks Against Aerospace and Telecom Firms
Details have emerged about a new cyber espionage campaign directed against the aerospace and telecommunications industries, primarily in the Middle East, with the goal of stealing sensitive information about critical assets, organizations' infrastructure, and technology while remaining in the dar...
A simpler, more integrated approach to data governance
It’s no secret that the volume of data created by organizations and people multiplies daily. And, in the digital—and hybrid work—world we live in, that data is spread across more tools, platforms, devices, and clouds than ever before, creating regulatory challenges and security risks. Organizatio...
EFB Tampering. Approach and Landing Performance Part 2
Approach and Landing Performance Part 2: Approach Speeds, Cold Weather Corrections, Sources of Data Click here for part 1 Target: Approach speed calculation The speed at which aircraft fly on approach depends on a variety of factors including: Aircraft weight Flap setting Wind direction/speed Fin...
EFB Tampering. Approach and Landing Performance Part 1
Approach and Landing Performance Part 1: Introduction and Landing Distance Calculations Click here for part 2 TL;DR Approach and landing performance applications perform calculations to provide critical performance data to pilots e.g. speed / flap settings on approach Modifying any one of these...
What Is Zero Trust? It Depends What You Want to Hear
The cybersecurity world’s favorite catchphrase isn’t any one product or system, but a holistic approach to minimizing damage...
Microsoft Warns of Cross-Account Takeover Bug in Azure Container Instances
Microsoft on Wednesday said it remediated a vulnerability in its Azure Container Instances ACI services that could have been weaponized by a malicious actor "to access other customers' information" in what the researchers described as the "first cross-account container takeover in the public...
Combat attacks with security solutions from Trustwave and Microsoft
This blog post is part of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association guest blog series. Learn more about MISA. In 2021, cyberattacks and instances of ransomware demands against companies, agencies, and institutions have dominated the headlines. These kinds of attacks are on the rise and often...
Why diversity is important for a strong cybersecurity team
Medicine. Aeronautics. Academia. When you’re a cybersecurity professional, the colleague next to you could have started in one of these industries—or just about any other you can imagine. The backgrounds of cybersecurity professionals are more diverse than those of professionals in other...
6 ways cybersecurity teams can save time and money
The phrase “time is money”, originally attributed to Benjamin Franklin, reprimands the slothful for wasting their working hours. As one of the founding fathers of the United States, Benjamin Franklin clearly never worked a day in cybersecurity. This is an area where fresh blood is hard to find to...
How Vodafone Global Security Director creates an inclusive and secure workplace
Moving to more flexible remote work policies has caused telecommunications giant Vodafone to rethink cybersecurity and the potential friction to users. Instead of relying on physical security controls in the office, the company has embraced a Zero Trust strategy that requires authenticating...
Spotting brand impersonation with Swin transformers and Siamese neural networks
Every day, Microsoft Defender for Office 365 encounters millions of brand impersonation emails. Our security solutions use multiple detection and prevention techniques to help users avoid divulging sensitive information to phishers as attackers continue refining their impersonation tricks. In thi...
