More than six years after the Spectre security flaw impacting modern CPU processors came to light, new research has found that the latest AMD and Intel processors are still susceptible to speculative execution attacks. The attack, disclosed by ETH Zürich researchers Johannes Wikner and Kaveh Razavi, aims to undermine the Indirect Branch Predictor Barrier (IBPB) […]
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Toxische Führung kennt viele Ausformungen und kann drastische Konsequenzen nach sich ziehen – speziell im IT-Security-Umfeld. Foto: CNGPICTURES | shutterstock.com Für Keith, einen erfahrenen Cybersecurity-Profi aus New York City in seinen 40ern, gab es mehr als einen Grund, seinen Job hinzuwerfen – und vor allem seinen CISO hinter sich zu lassen. Dieser hatte den Security-Profi […]
Sophos CEO Joe Levy says $859 million deal to acquire SecureWorks from majority owner Dell Technologies will put the Taegis platform — with network detection and response, vulnerability detection and response, and identity threat detection and response capabilities — at the core. Go to Source Author: Jeffrey Schwartz, Contributing Writer
Windows 11 machines remain open to downgrade attacks, where attackers can abuse the Windows Update process to revive a patched driver signature enforcement (DSE) bypass. Go to Source Author: Jai Vijayan, Contributing Writer
Security researchers at Mindgard have uncovered two security vulnerabilities in Azure AI Content Safety, Microsoft’s filter system for its AI platform. The vulnerabilities create a potential means for attackers to bypass content safety guardrails before pushing malicious content onto a protected large language model (LLM) instance, according to Mindgard. In response to queries from CSO, […]
A researcher has released a tool to bypass Google’s new App-Bound encryption cookie-theft defenses and extract saved credentials from the Chrome web browser. […] Go to Source Author: Bill Toulas
Delta argues that it lost hundreds of million of dollars in downtime and other costs in the aftermath of the incident, while CrowdStrike says it isn’t liable for more than $10 million. Go to Source Author: Kristina Beek, Associate Editor, Dark Reading
Posing as an application used to locate Ukrainian military recruiters, a Kremlin-backed hacking initiative delivers malware, along with disinformation designed to undermine sign-ups for soldiers in the war against Russia. Go to Source Author: Becky Bracken, Senior Editor, Dark Reading
LLMs tend to miss the forest for the trees, understanding specific instructions but not their broader context. Bad actors can take advantage of this myopia to get them to do malicious things, with a new prompt-injection technique. Go to Source Author: Nate Nelson, Contributing Writer
Microsoft announced today that inbound SMTP DANE with DNSSEC for Exchange Online, a new capability to boost email security and integrity, is now generally available. […] Go to Source Author: Sergiu Gatlan