Tag: attack surface
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Varonis Launches Breach at the Beach, a Hands-On Entra ID Training Experience
Get ready to dive into the world of Entra ID with Varonis' immersive Breach at the Beach training experience, where you'll learn to navigate the complex control plane that connects users, applications, and AI-powered workflows. Discover how to defend against threats that exploit non-human identities and automate breaches.
Validation Turns Security Visibility into Action
Despite pouring resources into security tools for better visibility, many teams still struggle to turn insights into action, leaving them overwhelmed by endless findings with unclear priorities. It's time to bridge the gap between detection and response to truly fortify digital defenses.
Identity Exposures Form Highways for Cyber Attacks
A single compromised identity can become a superhighway for cyber attacks, giving hackers access to nearly every critical workload a business relies on - as seen in a recent incident where a cached AWS access key on one Windows machine put 98% of the company's cloud environment at risk. Identity has become the ultimate attack path, carrying with it a multitude of permissions just waiting to be exploited.
Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Must-Have Best Practices
This Cybersecurity Awareness Month, swap slogans for simple, high‑impact actions that cut risk fast—because the best defense is disciplined execution, not the shiniest tool. Start by locking down identity and access (MFA, least privilege), prioritize patching and attack‑surface reduction, and run tabletop exercises so response becomes muscle memory, not a paper plan.
2025 cybersecurity assessment: Exclusive Risky Alert
Bitdefender’s 2025 Cybersecurity Assessment warns that a dangerous habit of hiding breaches is spreading as AI empowers attackers and leadership drifts from frontline reality. The report calls for transparency, tighter attack-surface hygiene, and cultural change before secrecy turns incidents into disasters.
zero-click vulnerability: Stunning Gmail Privacy Risk
Imagine your inbox spilling secrets without you clicking anything — researchers found a zero-click flaw in the ChatGPT Deep Research agent that could let crafted web pages make the agent access and reveal Gmail content while browsing. It’s a wake-up call to tighten permissions and rethink how AI assistants access personal accounts.
npm packages Must-Have Defense Against Risky Attacks
Attackers briefly pushed trojanized npm releases that spread fast through the cloud, mined only pennies, and left security teams scrambling to contain and remediate. It’s a wake‑up call: package convenience comes with real supply‑chain risk, so tighten controls, pin dependencies, and treat dependencies as first‑class security assets.
vulnerability in Ollama: Must-Have Patch for Risky Leak
A newly disclosed bug let malicious webpages tweak Ollama, read local chat logs, or even swap in poisoned models—so patch now to stop local chat snooping. Update immediately and use basic hardening (firewalls, isolated environments, and browser precautions) to keep your local AI private and trustworthy.