Pentera got through the attacks on Israel with no injuries among its 180 local employees, and now 20 workers have been called up to serve in infantry or intelligence units. The automated security validation firm's CEO now only wants to do business with people who support Israel's right to defend itself.
Cybersecurity companies across the globe are now preparing for a sizable chunk of their Israel-based workforce to be drafted into the country's military reserves. They've also in recent days taken steps to support their workers or the country at large.
Recent coordinated attacks by Hamas have stunned the Israeli people and business community. Just days after the attacks, Xtra-Mile CEO Sharon Israel shared her firsthand account of the war's impact on people and business operations - and the need for unity, resilience and adaptation.
Microsoft fixed three zero-days under actively exploitation in its patch dump for the month of October: A disclosure flaw in WordPad that can be exploited to obtain hashed passwords, a bug in Skype for Business and a patch to fix exposure to the Rapid Reset exploit.
Self-proclaimed hacktivist groups have been attempting to insert themselves into the narrative surrounding the latest war between Israel and Hamas, claiming to have hacked organizations, leaked stolen data and disrupted websites. Experts say many but not all such hype-seeking claims are bogus.
A Chinese nation state hacking group is exploiting a zero-day flaw in Atlassian's Confluence Data Center and Server products as part a campaign spotted in mid-September, Microsoft researchers say. The company attributes the campaign to a Chinese nation-state hacking group designates Storm-0062.
The head TikTok has been summoned by European lawmakers from different parliamentary committees for an inquiry into its privacy practices. In a letter sent to TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew on Thursday, the heads of five European Parliament committees requested that Chew appear for an in-person probe.
A recent attack by a Russian ransomware-as-a-service group that stole the personal information of 2.5 million patients of McLaren Health Care has triggered at least three proposed federal class action lawsuits in recent days, claiming the healthcare company failed to protect patient privacy.
Just days after the unprecedented attack by Hamas on Israel, Zscaler CISO Sam Curry discusses the intertwined nature of cyber warfare and physical conflicts and how the conflict can quickly escalate to the global stage, harm globalized economies and devolve into digital chaos.
The Ukrainian government says it will regulate AI, a step it portrays as a way to draw closer to the European Union, where rules for AI systems are close to approval. New rules will enable access to global markets and closer integration with the EU, the Ministry of Digital Transformation said.
North Korea's state-sponsored hackers continue to refine their "cyber intrusions to conduct both espionage and financial crime to project power and to finance both their cyber and kinetic capabilities," says a new report from Google's Mandiant group.
A previously undetected cyberespionage group spied against Taiwanese government agencies and the island-country's manufacturing sector, say cybersecurity researchers. The Symantec Threat Hunter Team says it likely operates "from a region with a strategic interest in Taiwan."
Cisco has released urgent fixes to a critical vulnerability affecting an emergency communication system used to track callers' location in real time. A developer inadvertently hard-coded credentials in Cisco Emergency Responder software, opening a permanent backdoor for unauthenticated attackers.
Maintainers of the widely used open-source command-line tool cURL and libcurl library that supports key network protocols said two upcoming vulnerabilities are set to be disclosed this week. One flaw is probably "the worst curl security flaw in a long time," said curl founder Daniel Stenberg.
Firms using large language models that power gen AI-powered tools must consider security and privacy aspects such as data access, output monitoring and model security before jumping on the bandwagon, said Troy Leach of Cloud Security Alliance. "Everything is going to be AI as a service," Leach predicted.
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