So, here’s something that blew my mind: I decided to test Google’s NotebookLM AI tool. I casually uploaded the URLs for my LinkedIn page and my blog, not expecting much more than a basic summary. After about 3–4 minutes of AI whirring away, I had…a podcast in the form of a WAV file. Curious, I clicked…
Month: September 2024
Global Security News, Reviews
AI Magic: My Blog, LinkedIn, and a 7-Minute Podcast!
So, here’s something that blew my mind: I decided to test Google’s NotebookLM AI tool. I casually uploaded the URLs for my LinkedIn page and my blog, not expecting much more than a basic summary. After about 3–4 minutes of AI whirring away, I had…a podcast in the form of a WAV file. Curious, I clicked…
Global Security News, Reviews
AI Magic: My Blog, LinkedIn, and a 7-Minute Podcast!
So, here’s something that blew my mind: I decided to test Google’s NotebookLM AI tool. I casually uploaded the URLs for my LinkedIn page and my blog, not expecting much more than a basic summary. After about 3–4 minutes of AI whirring away, I had…a podcast in the form of a WAV file. Curious, I clicked…
Global Security News, Reviews
AI Magic: My Blog, LinkedIn, and a 7-Minute Podcast!
So, here’s something that blew my mind: I decided to test Google’s NotebookLM AI tool. I casually uploaded the URLs for my LinkedIn page and my blog, not expecting much more than a basic summary. After about 3–4 minutes of AI whirring away, I had…a podcast in the form of a WAV file. Curious, I clicked…
Global Security News
Iranian Cyber Actors’ Brute Force and Credential Access Activity Compromises Critical Infrastructure Organizations
Summary The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the National Security Agency (NSA), the Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSE), the Australian Federal Police (AFP), and Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre (ASD’s ACSC) are releasing this joint Cybersecurity Advisory to warn network defenders of Iranian cyber actors’ use…
Global Security News, Weekly update
Weekly Update 419
It’s not a green screen! It’s just a weird a weird hotel room in Pittsburgh, but it did make for a cool backdrop for this week’s video. We were there visiting our FBI friends after coming from Washington DC and a visit to CISA, the “America’s Cyber Defence Agency”. This week, I’m talking about those…
Global Security News
Regeneron, Sanofi Get FDA OK for Dupixent to Treat COPD
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and Sanofi have won FDA expanded approval of their blockbuster anti-inflammatory drug Dupixent in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Global Security News
Venture Mega-Rounds Return to Biotech
The number of deals for $100 million or more have put biotech on pace to come close to full-year 2021’s record total, industry data show.
Global Security News
Red Teaming in the age of EDR: Evasion of Endpoint Detection Through Malware Virtualisation
Authors: Boudewijn Meijer && Rick Veldhoven Introduction As defensive security products improve, attackers must refine their craft. Gone are the days of executing malicious binaries from disk, especially ones well known to antivirus and Endpoint Detection and Reponse (EDR) vendors. Now, attackers focus on in-memory payload execution for both native and managed applications to evade…
Global Security News
CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog
CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2024-8963 Ivanti Cloud Services Appliance (CSA) Path Traversal Vulnerability These types of vulnerabilities are frequent attack vectors for malicious cyber actors and pose significant risks to the federal enterprise. Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 22-01: Reducing the Significant Risk…
Global Security News
Managing Cybersecurity and Privacy Risks in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Launching a New Program at NIST
The rapid proliferation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) promises significant value for industry, consumers, and broader society, but as with many technologies, new risks from these advancements in AI must be managed to realize it’s full potential. The NIST AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF) was developed to manage the benefits and risks to individuals, organizations,…
Global Security News
Managing Cybersecurity and Privacy Risks in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Launching a New Program at NIST
The rapid proliferation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) promises significant value for industry, consumers, and broader society, but as with many technologies, new risks from these advancements in AI must be managed to realize it’s full potential. The NIST AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF) was developed to manage the benefits and risks to individuals, organizations,…
Global Security News
Applying Security Engineering to Make Phishing Harder – A Case Study
Introduction Recently Doyensec was hired by a client offering a “Communication Platform as a Service”. This platform allows their clients to craft a customer service experience and to communicate with their own customers via a plethora of channels: email, web chats, social media and more. While undoubtedly valuable, such a service introduces a unique threat…
Global Security News, Guidance, PCI DSS
New Information Supplement: PCI DSS Scoping and Segmentation Guidance for Modern Network Architectures
The PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) has published a new Information Supplement: PCI DSS Scoping and Segmentation Guidance for Modern Network Architectures. This document was produced by the 2023 Special Interest Group (SIG), the members of which provided their extensive payment security expertise and technical knowledge around best practices, guidance, and real-world scenarios for applying…
Global Security News, Guidance, PCI DSS
New Information Supplement: PCI DSS Scoping and Segmentation Guidance for Modern Network Architectures
The PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) has published a new Information Supplement: PCI DSS Scoping and Segmentation Guidance for Modern Network Architectures. This document was produced by the 2023 Special Interest Group (SIG), the members of which provided their extensive payment security expertise and technical knowledge around best practices, guidance, and real-world scenarios for applying…
Global Security News, Guidance, PCI DSS
New Information Supplement: PCI DSS Scoping and Segmentation Guidance for Modern Network Architectures
The PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) has published a new Information Supplement: PCI DSS Scoping and Segmentation Guidance for Modern Network Architectures. This document was produced by the 2023 Special Interest Group (SIG), the members of which provided their extensive payment security expertise and technical knowledge around best practices, guidance, and real-world scenarios for applying…
Europe, Global Security News
Russian Military Cyber Actors Target US and Global Critical Infrastructure
Summary The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and National Security Agency (NSA) assess that cyber actors affiliated with the Russian General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) 161st Specialist Training Center (Unit 29155) are responsible for computer network operations against global targets for the purposes of espionage, sabotage, and reputational…
Global Security News
Learning, Sharing, and Exploring with NIST’s New Human-Centered Cybersecurity Community of Interest
Human-centered cybersecurity (also known as ‘usable security’) involves the social, organizational, and technological influences on people’s understanding of and interactions with cybersecurity. By taking a human-centered cybersecurity (HCC) approach, we can both improve people’s cybersecurity experiences and achieve better cybersecurity outcomes, which is so important in today’s digitally interconnected world. At NIST, we understand the…
Global Security News
Learning, Sharing, and Exploring with NIST’s New Human-Centered Cybersecurity Community of Interest
Human-centered cybersecurity (also known as ‘usable security’) involves the social, organizational, and technological influences on people’s understanding of and interactions with cybersecurity. By taking a human-centered cybersecurity (HCC) approach, we can both improve people’s cybersecurity experiences and achieve better cybersecurity outcomes, which is so important in today’s digitally interconnected world. At NIST, we understand the…
Awareness, Global Security News
PCI SSC Unveils Enhancements to its Point-to-Point Encryption (P2PE)® Program
In a significant move, the PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) has announced enhancements to its Point-to-Point Encryption (P2PE) Program for use with the currently published P2PE Standard v3.1, which provides the ability to validate and list P2PE solutions that cryptographically protect account data from the point where a merchant accepts a payment card to…
Awareness, Global Security News
PCI SSC Unveils Enhancements to its Point-to-Point Encryption (P2PE)® Program
In a significant move, the PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) has announced enhancements to its Point-to-Point Encryption (P2PE) Program for use with the currently published P2PE Standard v3.1, which provides the ability to validate and list P2PE solutions that cryptographically protect account data from the point where a merchant accepts a payment card to…
Awareness, Global Security News
PCI SSC Unveils Enhancements to its Point-to-Point Encryption (P2PE)® Program
In a significant move, the PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) has announced enhancements to its Point-to-Point Encryption (P2PE) Program for use with the currently published P2PE Standard v3.1, which provides the ability to validate and list P2PE solutions that cryptographically protect account data from the point where a merchant accepts a payment card to…
Global Security News
Introducing the URL validation bypass cheat sheet
URL validation bypasses are the root cause of numerous vulnerabilities including many instances of SSRF, CORS misconfiguration, and open redirection. These work by using ambiguous URLs to trigger URL
