Local Privacy Laws in a Globalized World

Personal data has emerged as a highly valuable yet sensitive asset that drives business decisions, enables targeted advertising, and generates substantial revenue for companies, while simultaneously facilitating invasive monitoring of users. In recent years, research on digital privacy violations...

Profiling for Pennies: Unveiling the Privacy Iceberg of LLM Agents

Large Language Models LLMs have revolutionized how information are collected, aggregated, and reasoned. However, this enables a novel and accessible vector of privacy intrusion: the automated and in-depth personal profiling; this engenders a chilling effect of "peepers everywhere". Existing...

Seclens: Role-Specific Evaluation of LLM'S for Security Vulnerablity Detection

Existing benchmarks for LLM-based vulnerability detection compress model performance into a single metric, which fails to reflect the distinct priorities of different stakeholders. For example, a CISO may emphasize high recall of critical vulnerabilities, an engineering leader may prioritize...

CISA: Assembling a Multi-Disciplinary Insider Threat Management Team

In CISA's continuing work to strengthen infrastructure security, the Assembling a Multi-Disciplinary Insider Threat Management Team infographic aims to enhance the awareness of critical infrastructure stakeholders regarding insider threats, the potential damage they can inflict, and the steps...

CVE-2018-19157

Phore through 1.3.3.1 a chain-based proof-of-stake cryptocurrency allows a remote denial of service, exploitable by an attacker who acquires even a small amount of stake/coins in the system. The attacker sends invalid headers/blocks, which are stored on the victim's disk...

Data Protection and Corporate Reputation Management in the Digital Era

This paper analyzes the relationship between cybersecurity management, data protection, and corporate reputation in the context of digital transformation. The study examines how organizations implement strategies and tools to mitigate cyber risks, comply with regulatory requirements, and maintain...

Integrating Public Input and Technical Expertise for Effective Cybersecurity Policy Formulation

The evolving of digital transformation and increased use of technology comes with increased cyber vulnerabilities, which compromise national security. Cyber-threats become more sophisticated as the technology advances. This emphasises the need for strong risk mitigation strategies. To define stro...

EUVD-2018-12589

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A Guide to Stakeholder Analysis for Cybersecurity Researchers

Stakeholder-based ethics analysis is now a formal requirement for submissions to top cybersecurity research venues. This requirement reflects a growing consensus that cybersecurity researchers must go beyond providing capabilities to anticipating and mitigating the potential harms thereof. Howeve...

Securing the Software Package Supply Chain for Critical Systems

Software systems have grown as an indispensable commodity used across various industries, and almost all essential services depend on them for effective operation. The software is no longer an independent or stand-alone piece of code written by a developer but rather a collection of packages...

Overcoming the Challenges of Vulnerability Remediation

The following is a guest blog post by Zac Youtz, Co-Founder and CTO at valued Rapid7 partner, Furl. Here, Zac discusses how to effectively remediate vulnerabilities discovered by Rapid7’s InsightVM. Scaling vulnerability remediation with AI Vulnerability remediation is a crucial-yet-complex task...

CISA Requests Public Comment for Draft National Cyber Incident Response Plan Update

Today, CISA—through the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative and in coordination with the Office of the National Cyber Director ONCD—released the National Cyber Incident Response Plan Update Public Comment Draft. The draft requests public comment on the National Cyber Incident Response Plan...

Steps to TruRisk—Insight to Action with VMDR

Shifting from Vulnerability Management to Business-Focused Risk Reduction In cybersecurity, numbers can be deceptive. The sheer volume of vulnerabilities does not equate to risk. Instead, resilience depends on understanding which vulnerabilities pose the greatest threat to your business—and actin...

Rockwell Automation 5015 - AENFTXT

View CSAF 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v4 8.7 ATTENTION : Exploitable remotely/low attack complexity Vendor : Rockwell Automation Equipment : 5015 - AENFTXT Vulnerability : Improper Input Validation 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could cause a denial-of-service...

Rockwell Automation Pavilion8

View CSAF 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v4 5.3 ATTENTION : Exploitable remotely/low attack complexity Vendor : Rockwell Automation Equipment : Pavilion8 Vulnerability : Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to...

The magic of inclusion: Wiz’s journey to democratize cloud security

Empowering every cloud security stakeholder by eliminating barriers...

CISO Perspectives on Complying with Cybersecurity Regulations

Compliance requirements are meant to increase cybersecurity transparency and accountability. As cyber threats increase, so do the number of compliance frameworks and the specificity of the security controls, policies, and activities they include. For CISOs and their teams, that means compliance i...

Achieving NIST CSF 2.0 Top Tier Adaptable Status

An Overview of NIST CSF 2.0 The National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST recently updated its popular Cybersecurity Framework CSF to version 2.0 to help organizations reduce cybersecurity risks. Designed for virtually all industry sectors, from small to medium businesses SMBs to larger...

CISA Releases Microsoft 365 Secure Configuration Baselines and SCuBAGear Tool

CISA has published the finalized Microsoft 365 Secure Configuration Baselines, designed to bolster the security and resilience of organizations’ Microsoft 365 M365 cloud services. This guidance release is accompanied by the updated SCuBAGear toollink is external that assesses organizations’ M365...

[Lost Bots] S03 E04 A Security Leader’s Playbook for the C-suite

!\Lost Bots\ S03 E04 A Security Leader’s Playbook for the C-suitehttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2023/07/The-Lost-Bots-logo-large.png In a special two-part “Lost Bots,” hosts Jeffrey Gardner and Stephen Davis talk about presenting cybersecurity results up the org chart. Both have handled...