The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has updated its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, adding several newly identified vulnerabilities to its authoritative list of security flaws exploited in the wild. This catalog Developed to assist cybersecurity professionals in…
CISA Adds Four Actively Exploited Vulnerabilities to KEV Catalog, Urges Fixes by Feb 25
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added four security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation in the wild. The list of vulnerabilities is as follows – CVE-2024-45195 (CVSS score:…
Upskilling the UK workforce for the AI revolution
As the UK government rolls out its ambitious AI Opportunity Action Plan to enable greater implementation of new technologies to boost economic growth, it faces a critical challenge: ensuring every industry is prepared for this seismic shift. Interestingly, both UK…
OpenNHP: Cryptography-driven zero trust protocol
OpenNHP is the open-source implementation of NHP (Network-resource Hiding Protocol), a cryptography-based zero trust protocol for safeguarding servers and data. OpenNHP offers the following benefits: Reduces attack surface by hiding infrastructure Prevents unauthorized network reconnaissance Mitigates vulnerability exploitation Stops phishing…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2025-02-05 06h : 7 posts
7 posts were published in the last hour 5:4 : CISA Releases New Guidelines to Secure Firewalls, Routers, and Internet-Facing Servers 5:4 : Arctic Wolf and BlackBerry Announce Closing of Acquisition for Cylance 5:4 : AI-Powered Cyber Warfare, Ransomware Evolution,…
CISA Releases New Guidelines to Secure Firewalls, Routers, and Internet-Facing Servers
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has unveiled a new set of guidelines to fortify firewalls, routers, internet-facing servers, and other edge devices against cyber threats. This collaborative guidance, supported by leading international cybersecurity organizations, aims to address vulnerabilities…
Arctic Wolf and BlackBerry Announce Closing of Acquisition for Cylance
Arctic Wolf® and BlackBerry Limited today announced the successful closing of the acquisition of BlackBerry’s Cylance® endpoint security assets by Arctic Wolf. The two companies entered into a definitive agreement on December 15, 2024. “We are pleased to have successfully closed this pivotal…
AI-Powered Cyber Warfare, Ransomware Evolution, and Cloud Threats Shape 2025 Cyber Landscape
The cybersecurity landscape in EMEA is facing a wave of AI-driven cyber warfare, the evolution of ransomware into data extortion, and an expanding attack surface in cloud environments, according to the latest findings from Check Point Software. The company presented…
Cato Networks Appoints Karl Soderlund as Global Channel Chief to Accelerate Channel Growth in SASE Market
Cato Networks, the SASE leader, today announced the appointment of Karl Soderlund as the company’s global channel chief. In his role at Cato, Soderlund will be responsible for leading the global channel team and further scaling the global partner program. …
Chrome Use-After-Free Vulnerabilities Let Attackers Execute Remote Code – Update Now
The Google Chrome team has officially released Chrome 133, now available on the stable channel for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This update, version 133.0.6943.53 for Linux and 133.0.6943.53/54 for Windows and Mac, brings a host of improvements and critical security…
More destructive cyberattacks target financial institutions
Financial institutions will continue to be the ultimate targets for criminals and threat actors, as a successful attack offers a significant payoff, according to Contrast Security. Contrast Security has surveyed 35 of the world’s leading financial institutions to better understand…
The API security crisis and why businesses are at risk
In this Help Net Security video, Ivan Novikov, CEO of Wallarm, discusses the 2025 API ThreatStats Report, highlighting how APIs have become the primary attack surface over the past year, mainly driven by the rise of AI-related risks. Researchers identified…
AMD SEV Vulnerability Allows Malicious CPU Microcode Injection as Admin
AMD has disclosed a high-severity vulnerability (CVE-2024-56161) in its Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) technology, which could allow attackers with administrative privileges to inject malicious CPU microcode. This flaw compromises the confidentiality and integrity of virtual machines (VMs) protected by SEV-SNP,…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2025-02-05 03h : 1 posts
1 posts were published in the last hour 2:2 : ISC Stormcast For Wednesday, February 5th, 2025 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9310, (Wed, Feb 5th)
ISC Stormcast For Wednesday, February 5th, 2025 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9310, (Wed, Feb 5th)
This post doesn’t have text content, please click on the link below to view the original article. This article has been indexed from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green Read the original article: ISC Stormcast For Wednesday, February 5th, 2025…
Keycloak and Docker Integration: A Step-by-Step Tutorial
Keycloak is a powerful authentication and authorization solution that provides plenty of useful features, such as roles and subgroups, an advanced password policy, and single sign-on. It’s also very easy to integrate with other solutions. We’ve already shown you how…
Online food ordering and delivery platform GrubHub discloses a data breach
Online food ordering and delivery platform GrubHub suffered a data breach that exposed the personal information of drivers and customers. This week the online food ordering and delivery firm GrubHub disclosed a data breach that exposed customer and driver information. …
Sophos Acquires Secureworks for $859 Million
Sophos has completed its acquisition of managed cyber security services provider Secureworks. This article has been indexed from Security | TechRepublic Read the original article: Sophos Acquires Secureworks for $859 Million
Google: How to make any AMD Zen CPU always generate 4 as a random number
Malicious microcode vulnerability discovered, fixes rolling out for Epycs at least Googlers have not only figured out how to break AMD’s security – allowing them to load unofficial microcode into its processors to modify the silicon’s behavior as they wish…
Netgear urges users to upgrade two flaws impacting WiFi router models
Netgear disclosed two critical flaws impacting multiple WiFi router models and urges customers to address them. Netgear addressed two critical vulnerabilities, internally tracked as PSV-2023-0039 and PSV-2021-0117, impacting multiple WiFi router models and urged customers to install the latest firmware.…
How Imperva Infused AI Throughout Research and Development
The Age of AI Is Upon Us The current pace of technological change beggars’ belief. Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), released to the world a mere two years ago, promises to eliminate much of the tedium of the digital world. Software…
European Commission Gets Dinged for Unlawful Data Transfer, Sending a Big Message About Accountability
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> The European Commission was caught failing to comply with its own data protection regulations and, in a first, ordered to pay damages to a user for the…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2025-02-05 00h : 1 posts
1 posts were published in the last hour 22:55 : IT Security News Daily Summary 2025-02-04
IT Security News Daily Summary 2025-02-04
176 posts were published in the last hour 22:2 : Spyware maker Paragon confirms US government is a customer 22:2 : OpenSSL 3.5: Upcoming Release Announcement 21:32 : U.K. Announces ‘World-First’ Cyber Code of Practice for Companies Developing AI 21:31…
Spyware maker Paragon confirms US government is a customer
Israeli spyware maker Paragon Solutions confirmed to TechCrunch that it sells its products to the U.S. government and other unspecified allied countries. Paragon’s executive chairman John Fleming said in a statement to TechCrunch on Tuesday that “Paragon licenses its technology…
OpenSSL 3.5: Upcoming Release Announcement
The freeze date for OpenSSL 3.5 Alpha is rapidly approaching. If you have a feature on the planning page, please ensure that your associated PRs are posted, reviewed, and ready to be merged before the include/exclude decision date (Tuesday, February…
U.K. Announces ‘World-First’ Cyber Code of Practice for Companies Developing AI
The Cyber Code of Practice applies to developers, system operators, and organisations that create, deploy, or manage AI systems. This article has been indexed from Security | TechRepublic Read the original article: U.K. Announces ‘World-First’ Cyber Code of Practice for…