Enterprise Passwordless Authentication for Retail Brands
MojoAuth announced an enterprise‑grade passwordless authentication platform tailored for large retail brands. The solution combines WebAuthn passkeys, OTP, magic links, and adaptive risk‑based MFA to eliminate passwords while supporting PCI‑DSS requirements and private‑cloud deployments. It is engineered to handle massive traffic surges, such as Black‑Friday sales, across web, mobile and in‑store POS channels. By centralizing identity, retailers can cut fraud, lower support costs, and improve checkout conversion.
Configuration and Runtime: The PB&J of Effective Security Operations
The article argues that effective security operations now require merging configuration data with runtime telemetry. Traditional SIEMs focused on static logs, but cloud and SaaS environments make permissions and policies highly dynamic. CSPM and SSPM tools have elevated configuration to...
Exposing a Fraudulent DPRK Candidate
Nisos uncovered a suspected North Korean operative who applied for a remote Lead AI Architect position using stolen personal data, a newly created email, and an AI‑generated résumé. The investigation revealed a broader employment‑fraud network that operated a laptop farm...
NDSS 2025 – MTZK: Testing And Exploring Bugs In Zero-Knowledge (ZK) Compilers
Researchers from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology introduced MTZK, a metamorphic testing framework designed to assess the correctness of zero‑knowledge (ZK) compilers. By applying systematically generated input mutations, MTZK automatically checks whether compiled circuits preserve intended semantics. In...
Why EasyDMARC Is the Best Enterprise DMARC Solution
EasyDMARC positions itself as the premier DMARC platform for large enterprises, offering automated SPF, DKIM, and DMARC configuration, centralized monitoring, and intuitive reporting dashboards. The solution tackles the complexity of managing hundreds of domains, third‑party senders, and global email infrastructures...
NDSS 2025 – JBomAudit: Assessing The Landscape, Compliance, And Security Implications Of Java SBOMS
The NDSS 2025 paper JBomAudit presents the first systematic study of Java Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs), analyzing 25,882 SBOMs and their associated JAR files. It finds that 7,907 SBOMs (about 30%) omit direct dependencies, and 4.97% of those hidden...
IOS Penetration Testing: Definition, Process and Tools
iOS penetration testing is a structured methodology for uncovering and exploiting security flaws in iOS applications, typically spanning preparation, static and dynamic analysis, reverse engineering, exploitation, and reporting. Recent data shows engagements cost between £2,000 and £50,000 and require 10‑20...
How Do Leaders Ensure AI System Safety and Compliance
Leaders are urged to prioritize Non‑Human Identities (NHIs) – machine identities such as tokens, keys and certificates – as a core component of AI system safety and regulatory compliance. The article outlines how inadequate discovery, classification and secret rotation create...
What Is the Role of AI in Driving Cybersecurity Innovation
Non-Human Identities (NHIs) are becoming central to cybersecurity as organizations accelerate digital transformation. By managing machine identities, tokens and keys throughout their lifecycle, companies can reduce breach risk, improve compliance, and automate secret rotation. AI‑driven platforms add context‑aware detection, enabling...
How to Do Email Analysis ? Complete Guide
Email remains the top vector for cyber‑crime, with attackers increasingly bypassing gateways by exploiting trusted domains and crafting seemingly routine messages. The guide outlines a seven‑step, evidence‑driven process—collecting full headers, parsing authentication results, and analyzing content and attachments—to differentiate legitimate...
Cyberattacks on Hospitals Cost Lives. Here’s How to Fight Back at Machine Speed.
Morpheus is an AI‑driven platform that ingests alerts from a hospital’s existing security stack—SIEM, EDR, firewalls, NDR, email security, DLP and identity tools—and stitches them into a single ransomware kill‑chain view. By correlating these signals, it can surface an attack...
NDSS 2025 – CASPR: Context-Aware Security Policy Recommendation
The paper presented at NDSS 2025 introduces CASPR, a context‑aware system that automatically recommends and refines SELinux security policy rules. By aggregating policy rules, file locations, audit logs, and attribute data, CASPR extracts features, clusters types with K‑means, and generates...
The Key Components of a Vendor Relationship Management Framework
The rise of distributed supply chains has turned vendors into ongoing operational dependencies, prompting the need for a structured Vendor Relationship Management (VRM) framework. By distinguishing day‑to‑day vendor management from strategic Supplier Relationship Management, companies can ensure reliability while fostering...
HackerOne Adds AI Agent to Validate Vulnerabilities
HackerOne introduced an AI agent that automatically validates reported vulnerabilities, distinguishing real threats from false positives. The agent, built on the Hai platform and trained with a Continuous Threat Exposure Management methodology, assesses risk, identifies duplicates, and recommends remediation priorities....
Fake Zoom and Google Meet Scams Install Teramind: A Technical Deep Dive
A fake Zoom update and a parallel Google Meet impersonation are delivering the same Teramind monitoring MSI to Windows PCs. The installer’s filename contains a unique 40‑character hex string that the MSI parses at install time to set attacker‑specific instance IDs,...
Can Agentic AI Effectively Handle Enterprise Security Needs
Enterprises are turning to Non‑Human Identity (NHI) management to close security gaps created by machine‑generated accounts and their secrets. By automating discovery, classification, monitoring and decommissioning, organizations can reduce breach exposure while cutting operational costs. Centralized NHI platforms deliver real‑time...
How Smart Are NHIs in Managing Complex Security Environments
Non‑Human Identities (NHIs) are machine credentials that protect data in cloud‑first environments. The article outlines a full NHI lifecycle—from discovery to remediation—and stresses that piecemeal tools fall short. It highlights industry‑specific challenges, such as patient data in healthcare and DevOps...
How Can Agentic AI Improve Digital Security Processes
Agentic AI is emerging as a transformative layer for digital security by automating the management of Non‑Human Identities (NHIs) and their secrets. The technology enables proactive threat detection, automated response, and continuous visibility, allowing security teams to shift focus toward...
Does Implementing Agentic AI Fit the Budget of SMBs
Non‑human identities (NHIs) such as machine‑generated secrets are becoming a critical attack surface, prompting organizations to adopt comprehensive NHI management across discovery, classification, detection and remediation stages. Effective NHI programs deliver reduced breach risk, regulatory compliance, and operational efficiencies through...
AI-Powered CVE Research: Winning the Race Against Emerging Vulnerabilities
Praetorian unveiled its AI‑driven CVE Researcher pipeline, automating the end‑to‑end analysis of new vulnerabilities from CISA’s KEV catalog. The system ingests a CVE ID and outputs research reports, technology reconnaissance, asset correlation, and validated Nuclei detection templates within minutes. Reported...
NDSS 2025 – On Borrowed Time – Preventing Static Side-Channel Analysis
The NDSS 2025 paper introduces Borrowed Time, a countermeasure that protects integrated circuits from emerging static side‑channel attacks such as static power analysis, laser logic state imaging, and impedance analysis. By continuously monitoring a device and securely erasing key‑dependent data...
CISA on Life Support
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has seen its workforce shrink from roughly 3,400 to under 2,400, with fewer than 1,000 staff actively working amid the current DHS shutdown. Political turmoil—most notably the firing of director Chris Krebs and...
How to Setup Credentials for Windows to Use DigiCert KeyLocker & SMCTL?
The article walks through configuring DigiCert KeyLocker and the Signing Manager Command‑Line Tool (SMCTL) on Windows, detailing required prerequisites such as the DigiCert ONE API key, client certificate, and administrative rights. It compares four credential‑storage methods—Windows Credential Manager, properties file, temporary and...
Building Secure SaaS Architecture: Why Identity Must Be Designed From Day One
SaaS founders must embed identity architecture from day one to avoid the most common breach vectors. A 2025 ReliaQuest study found 44% of cloud workload breaches stem from compromised credentials, underscoring the risk of retrofitting authentication later. Early design choices—separating...
How Discord Can Expose Corporate Data
Discord has become a popular channel for corporate collaboration, supporting everything from developer communities to customer‑support servers. Its fast APIs and webhook integrations let teams create functional workspaces in minutes, but the platform also stores years of code snippets, credentials,...
Master Your Passwordless Future: Introducing Thales Authenticator Lifecycle Manager
Thales has launched the Authenticator Lifecycle Manager, a SaaS solution that centralizes enrollment, replacement, and revocation of FIDO2 security keys across enterprises. The platform offers a single‑pane‑of‑glass dashboard, on‑behalf key registration, granular policy controls, and comprehensive audit logging. By automating...
The Growing Risk of Malicious Apps in a Mobile-First Workplace
Enterprises adopting a mobile‑first workstyle expose a new attack surface through the apps employees use daily. Traditional signature‑based defenses lag behind the rapid proliferation of malicious or poorly coded apps in official and third‑party stores. Behavior‑based mobile threat defense and...
What Can’t You Say on TikTok?
In this episode, host David Ruiz talks with Malwarebytes senior social media manager Zach Hinkle and content creator MinJi Pae about the sudden technical glitches on TikTok after its ownership transferred to American stewards, which many users interpreted as censorship of...
Mississippi Healthcare System Shuts Down Clinics After Ransomware Attack
The University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) suffered a ransomware attack on February 19 that crippled its Epic EHR, IT network, and phone systems, forcing the shutdown of nearly 30 clinics and a shift to paper‑based documentation. Vice Chancellor LouAnn...
NDSS 2025 – The Midas Touch: Triggering The Capability Of LLMs For RM-API Misuse Detection
The episode presents ChatDetector, a novel LLM‑empowered system for detecting misuse of resource‑management APIs (RM‑APIs) in open‑source software. By leveraging a ReAct‑inspired chain‑of‑thought prompting framework and cross‑validation techniques, ChatDetector overcomes LLM hallucinations to accurately extract allocation/release API pairs and constraints,...
Is Your Travel Data Safe with Agentic AI
Agentic AI is rapidly entering the travel sector, automating itinerary management and personalizing experiences. However, its ability to process massive volumes of sensitive travel data introduces new security vulnerabilities. Experts stress encryption, strict access controls, continuous behavior monitoring, and compliance...
NDSS 2025 -DUMPLING: Fine-Grained Differential JavaScript Engine Fuzzing
Researchers at EPFL and KIT introduced DUMPLING, a fine‑grained differential fuzzer that instruments JavaScript engines rather than the input code. By extracting detailed execution state dumps from both interpreted and JIT‑compiled paths, DUMPLING can spot subtle divergences that traditional fuzzers...
Best Cyber Security Consulting Companies
The explosion of IoT and IIoT devices—projected at 200 billion—has dramatically widened the cyber‑attack surface, prompting organizations to treat security as a core priority. A recent Gartner study shows cybersecurity now eclipses AI and cloud as the top CIO spend, fueling...
Ready to Move On: How to Evaluate, Select, and Deploy Modern Email Security
The article guides MSPs on replacing legacy security email gateways (SEGs) with modern, API‑native email security platforms that operate inside Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace. It stresses the need for behavioral, AI‑driven detection rather than static signatures, and outlines key vendor...
Why Most Breaches Happen After Launch: SaaS Security Testing Best Practices
Most SaaS breaches occur after launch because security efforts often wane while the attack surface expands. Post‑deployment misconfigurations, rapid feature releases, and third‑party integrations introduce new vulnerabilities that go unnoticed without continuous testing. StrongBox IT and similar providers advocate ongoing vulnerability...
What the Nike Breach Teaches Us About the Microsegmentation Imperative of Integrating with EDR
On January 22, 2026 Nike disclosed that 1.4 terabytes of R&D, supply‑chain and pricing data were posted on the WorldLeaks leak site. The breach, driven by compromised VPN credentials, bypassed traditional endpoint detection and highlighted the rise of value‑chain extortion. WorldLeaks,...
AI-Empowered Cybersecurity: Key Events and Emerging Trends in 2025
In September 2025 Anthropic disclosed the world’s first autonomous AI‑driven cyberattack, where an AI system executed 80‑90% of the malicious workflow with only a handful of human interventions. The attackers masqueraded as a cybersecurity firm, using Claude Code and the Model...
AI in the SOC: Why Complete Autonomy Is the Wrong Goal
Artificial intelligence is reshaping security operations, but experts argue that a fully autonomous SOC is impractical. Dan Petrillo of BlueVoyant stresses that AI should augment analysts, handling high‑volume tasks like alert triage while humans retain decision‑making authority. Real‑world constraints—noisy data,...
Security Metrics That Actually Predict a Breach
The article argues that traditional security dashboards hide the true predictors of a breach, emphasizing metrics that expose process debt, access sprawl, and human behavior. It highlights four high‑impact signals: credential reuse and identity drift, stale access paths, alert‑fatigue ratios,...
Suped Review – Features, User Experience, Pros & Cons (2026)
Suped is a cloud‑based DMARC monitoring platform aimed at small to mid‑size businesses, offering a visual dashboard, guided DNS setup, and an AI Copilot that translates technical errors into plain‑language tasks. Users can onboard in minutes and see initial data...
CVE-2026-1357: WordPress Plugin RCE Exposes Sites to Full Takeover
A critical remote code execution flaw, CVE‑2026‑1357, has been discovered in the WPvivid Backup & Migration WordPress plugin, affecting over 900,000 active sites. The vulnerability lets unauthenticated attackers upload and run arbitrary PHP files via the plugin’s backup‑receive endpoint, granting...
How SSO Simplifies Identity Management for Deskless and Frontline Workforces
Frontline and deskless workers comprise roughly 80% of the global labor force, yet traditional identity systems struggle with shared devices, shift changes, and high turnover. Single Sign‑On (SSO) consolidates credentials, cutting password‑reset tickets and speeding up access at shift handovers....
How Red Teaming Reduces Breach Risk?
Red Teaming, also known as adversary simulation, pits authorized security experts against an organization’s defenses to expose real‑world attack gaps. By mimicking the full cyber kill chain—from OSINT‑driven reconnaissance to covert data exfiltration—teams reveal weaknesses that traditional scans miss. The...
Firewall Penetration Testing: Definition, Process and Tools
The episode explains firewall penetration testing, detailing its purpose of validating filtering rules and boundary controls to prevent unwanted traffic. It walks through a 14‑step methodology—from discovery and port scanning to firewalking, NAT testing, and rule‑base analysis—highlighting the tools (Nmap,...
Zero-Knowledge Proofs for Verifiable MCP Tool Execution
The episode examines the trust gap in Model Context Protocol (MCP) deployments, where AI models invoke remote tools without verifiable proof of correct execution. It introduces zero‑knowledge proofs (ZKPs), especially Sigma‑Protocols and non‑interactive variants like SNARKs, as a way for...
How Satisfied Are Companies After Integrating NHIs in Compliance Frameworks?
The episode explores how companies are evaluating the integration of Non‑Human Identities (NHIs) into their compliance frameworks, highlighting the benefits of reduced risk, improved regulatory adherence, and operational efficiency. It outlines best‑practice steps such as discovery, automated secret rotation, behavioral...
What Makes an Agentic AI System Safe for Medical Records Management?
The episode explores how Non‑Human Identities (NHIs)—machine credentials like tokens and keys—are reshaping cybersecurity in healthcare, especially as cloud adoption and Agentic AI expand. It outlines a lifecycle‑focused NHI management strategy that includes discovery, classification, continuous threat monitoring, and context‑aware...
How Are NHIs Ensuring Protected Data Exchanges in Financial Services?
The episode explores how Non‑Human Identities (NHIs), or machine identities, are essential for securing protected data exchanges in financial services. It explains the lifecycle of NHIs—from discovery and classification to secret rotation and decommissioning—and why holistic management platforms outperform point...
Can Businesses Truly Trust Agentic AI with Sensitive Data Handling?
The episode explores how Non‑Human Identities (NHIs)—machine credentials and permissions—are essential to securing sensitive data, especially in cloud environments. It outlines a full lifecycle approach to NHI management, from discovery and classification to real‑time monitoring, automated secret rotation, and threat...
Versa SASE Platform Now Prevents Sensitive Data From Being Shared With AI
Versa has upgraded its Universal SASE Platform (v23.1.1) with advanced text‑analysis and OCR capabilities that can spot sensitive data hidden in documents and images, cutting false‑positive DLP alerts. The release also embeds a Model Context Protocol server, letting the Verbo...