The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has charged Ring with compromising its customers’ privacy by allowing any employee or contractor to access consumers’ private videos and by failing to implement basic privacy and security protections, enabling hackers to take control of consumers’ accounts, cameras, and videos. While the FTC only mentions consumer customers, Ring does offer commercial security […]
Account compromise, new inbox rules designed to hide malicious activity, and multifactor authentication bypass are the most popular hacking tactics being utilized by threat actors so far in 2023, according to a new report from cybersecurity firm Expel. According to the managed detection and response provider, identity-based attacks such as account compromise, account takeover and […]
Lucidworks, the San Francisco-based search solutions provider, announced that it is advancing its partnership with Google Cloud. The duo will accelerate search and discovery program success for several of the world’s top brands. With Lucidworks and Google Cloud, search professionals get a scalable solution through a proven partnership and delivery model, the companies say. According […]
CrowdStrike is launching a private customer preview of its own generative AI solution which it calls Charlotte AI, essentially an AI assistant for the company’s CrowdStrike Falcon platform designed to help any user of the platform become a power user. According to the Austin, Texas-based cybersecurity giant, Charlotte AI lets customers ask natural language questions […]
AWS is launching the general availability of Amazon Security Lake, a new service designed to automatically centralize an organization’s security data from across their AWS environments, leading SaaS providers, on-premises environments, and cloud sources into a purpose-built data lake. According to AWS, this allows customers to act on security data faster and helps them simplify […]
A recent Barracuda Networks Inc. (Barracuda) report shows that 50% of organizations were victims of spear-phishing in 2022 — and 24% had at least one email account compromised through account takeover. Cybercriminals continue to barrage organizations with targeted email attacks, and many companies are struggling to keep up, says the Campbell, Calif.-based cloud security solutions […]
Serving state, local governments, and global Fortune 100 companies in the energy, mining, manufacturing, and chemicals industries, Management Controls, Inc. (MCi) needed to transform its cybersecurity to the world-class level expected by its long list of prestigious customers. As a software technology and services provider, MCi provides critical Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions and its TRACK platform […]
Microsoft is launching new developer-centric capabilities for customer and partner identity experiences in Microsoft Entra External ID, which the company calls its next-generation customer identity and access management (CIAM) solution. In addition, Microsoft is making Microsoft Entra Verified ID easy to integrate into any application with the Microsoft Entra Verified ID SDK. Microsoft calls Entra […]
Microsoft is sounding the alarm on a group it calls Volt Typhoon, another state-sponsored hacking group based in China that is targeting critical infrastructure organizations and leveraging living-off-the-land techniques and proxying its network traffic through compromised network edge devices and routers to evade detection. Microsoft says Volt Typhoon is pursing development of capabilities that could […]
Red Hat is holding its annual Red Hat Summit event this week and judging by the enterprise open source software giant’s product announcements, the company is keying in on AI, automation, security and productivity enhancements. Like other tech giants, the company used its event to make important announcements in generative AI to help accelerate its […]
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