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White House charts new course for federal agencies and cybersecurity logging

The White House has updated rules for federal agencies to keep logs of significant cyber activities in their networks, touting it as a measure to cut back on red tape and focus on how cybersecurity risks have evolved. The Office of Management and Budget memorandum, released Friday, replaces a 2021 memo signed by then-President Joe…

Google and Amnesty International teamed up to make it harder for spyware vendors to hide

Google launched a feature for Android phones Tuesday for dedicated forensic logs about intrusions from sophisticated attacks like those by spyware vendors, in what design partners at Amnesty International hailed as an important first. The tech giant has been ramping up the new feature, Intrusion Logging, since last year, and has now begun rolling it…

Transform security logs into OCSF format using a configuration-driven ETL solution

Security logs capture essential security-related activities, such as user sign-ins, file access, network traffic, and application usage. These logs are important for monitoring, detecting, and responding to potential security events. The Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF) addresses this challenge by providing a standardized format to represent security events, ensuring consistent and efficient data handling across…

LeakBase cybercrime forum with 142,000 users taken down in global operation

LeakBase, an open-web cybercrime forum facilitating the trade of leaked databases and “stealer logs” containing stolen credentials, has been taken down in an international law enforcement operation coordinated by Europol and involving authorities from 14 countries. Police in action (Source: Europol) Active since 2021, LeakBase hosted a large archive of breached databases and compromised credentials…

GUEST ESSAY: Real cyber risks arise when small flaws combine and alerts are viewed in isolation

Security teams are drowning in signals. Alerts fire. Logs accumulate. Dashboards light up. Yet breaches still unfold quietly, often through a series of low-level actions that never trigger a single catastrophic alarm. Related: How ‘observability’ drives security Attackers do not rely on one silver bullet. They move incrementally. They probe. They chain together small weaknesses…

What Is a Security Data Pipeline Platform: Key Benefits for Modern SOC

Security teams are drowning in telemetry: cloud logs, endpoint events, SaaS audit trails, identity signals, and network data. Yet many programs still push everything into a SIEM, hoping detections will sort it out later. The problem is that “more data in the SIEM” doesn’t automatically translate into better detection. It often translates into chaos. Many…