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Account takeover fraud: 5 steps for protecting your customers

Abhilash Garimella — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 08:30:57 +0000

According to research by the Aite Group, financial institutions are facing a 64% uptick in account takeover attacks than before the pandemic. This number is expected to rise further as the digital ecosystem expands, enlarging the surface area culpable to attack. Account takeover fraud is one of the most common fraud types, and institutions must… Continue reading Account takeover fraud: 5 steps for protecting your customers

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Seven Common Lateral Movement Techniques

Nik Hewitt — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 07:43:11 +0000

Inside the Attacker’s Playbook: Unmasking the most common lateral movement techniques Lateral movement techniques refer to the methods employed by attackers to move through a network, seeking to escalate privileges, access sensitive data, or achieve persistence. A common and insidious practice, making the most of the common lateral movement techniques is the bread and butter...

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Antisocial Media and Critical National Infrastructure

David Harley — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 07:37:25 +0000

[For some reason I posted this several months ago on my Dataholics blog, when this one might have been at least as obvious a place to put it. I haven’t anything new to say on the topic: I’m just putting it here for completeness.] There was never much chance of my opening an account on […]

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API Discovery: Definition, Importance, and Step-by-Step Guide on AppTrana WAAP

Gaurav Chauhan — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 05:59:54 +0000

The growing use of APIs in various business areas exposes organizations to new security risks. An analysis of data breaches reveals that US companies could face losses ranging from $12.

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Infoline launches LogRhythm-Powered SOC to Deliver Crucial Cybersecurity Services in Malaysia

Nicholas Tan — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 01:00:19 +0000

SINGAPORE, July 25, 2023— LogRhythm, the company helping security teams stop breaches by turning disconnected data and signals into trustworthy insights, today announced their partnership with Infoline Tec Group Berhad, an established IT infrastructure and cybersecurity service provider. With this…

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What Comes After Your SIEM Purchase?

Kelsey Gast — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 21:34:50 +0000

Let’s say you recently acquired a security information and event Management (SIEM) solution and have a new layer of defense in the war against cybercriminals. What comes next? Gaining Quick Time to Value from Your Deployment During the sales process,…

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New Zenbleed Vulnerability: What It Is, How to Fix It

Rizwan Merchant — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 19:46:07 +0000

Zenbleed (CVE-2023-20593) was announced today. This is a vulnerability affecting AMD processors based on the Zen2 microarchitecture (certain EPYC CPUs used in datacenter servers and Ryzen/Threadripper CPUs used in desktop/laptop computers). The bug is a speculative execution bug, but somewhat different from the speculative execution side channel bugs we’ve seen in the past (eg, Meltdown... Read more »

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IBM: Cost of a Data Breach Hits Another High

Jeffrey Burt — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 19:42:53 +0000

The average cost to an organization hit with a data breach reached a record high this year, though those companies are split on who they believe should foot the bill, according to a report released today by IBM.

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Lost transparency, blackbox ML, and other hidden risks of outsourced fraud solutions

Coby Montoya — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 19:21:40 +0000

Machine learning-based fraud decision engines are sometimes viewed as mysterious black boxes that only provide minimal insight into why a decision was made on a login or a transaction. It’s a valid concern; not all fraud solution providers provide intuitive decision explainability. Some solutions fail to provide any transparency at all on the transactions they […]

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Google Launches Red Team to Secure AI Systems Against Attacks

Jeffrey Burt — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 19:06:16 +0000

Google is rolling out a red team charged with testing the security of AI systems by running simulated but realistic attacks to uncover vulnerabilities or other weaknesses that could be exploited by cybercriminals.

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