2024
16.07

In addition to its Copilot+ secure-cored PC, the company announced enterprise security enhancements, admin privilege changes, and the deprecation of legacy authentication protocols. Microsoft announced a series of enhancements to Windows 11 aimed at making it more secure against a more intimidating, varied, and AI-enable threat landscape.

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2024
15.07

NetworkMiner is a popular tool for extracting artifacts from malware traffic. Such artifacts can be downloaded malware modules, exfiltrated documents and sometimes even screenshots of the infected computer.

NetworkMiner 2.9 brings several new and improved features to help analysts make sense of network traffic from malware, criminals and industrial control systems.

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2024
14.07

Cybersecurity researchers are alerting of phishing campaigns that abuse Cloudflare Workers to serve phishing sites that are used to harvest users’ credentials associated with Microsoft, Gmail, Yahoo!, and cPanel Webmail.

The attack method, called transparent phishing or adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) phishing, “uses Cloudflare Workers to act as a reverse proxy server for a legitimate login page, intercepting traffic between the victim and the login page to capture credentials, cookies, and tokens,” Netskope researcher Jan Michael Alcantara said in a report.

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2024
11.07

Er zählt zu den “Godfathers of AI”, den Paten der Künstlichen Intelligenz (KI): Yoshua Bengio, Professor an der kanadischen Universität Montréal, war ein maßgeblicher Vorreiter im Bereich von künstlichen neuronalen Netzen und Deep Learning, also dem Training mit großen Datenmengen zur Lösung komplexer Aufgaben. 2018 wurde er gemeinsam mit Geoffrey Hinton und Yann LeCun mit dem Turing Award prämiert. Der Preis gilt als höchste Auszeichnung in der Informatik, vergleichbar mit dem Nobelpreis oder der Fields-Medaille.

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2024
10.07

Differentiating between manual and bot attacks, and homing in on human ones in particular, can give security professionals a leg up on combatting fraud attempts versus corporate systems. According to a report released  by LexisNexis Risk Solutions, last year automated attacks (aka bots) did not see nearly the same increase (2%) as manual/human attacks, which soared by 19%. The report’s insights on digital fraud attacks were based on an analysis of 92 billion transactions.

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