In this episode of "Cybersecurity Unplugged, Stan Golubchik, founder and CEO of ContraForce, discusses the company's mission, beginnings and plans for expansion. Golubchik says ContraForce answers the "need for a stronger generalist workforce for cybersecurity."
Meta has reached a $725 million agreement to resolve a class action lawsuit filed over Facebook's user data-sharing practices, after data for 87 million Facebook profiles was transferred to political consultancy Cambridge Analytica in violation of the social network's policies.
As FTX's bankruptcy proceedings continue, customers of the cryptocurrency exchange have filed a lawsuit against its former leadership, contending that they violated "customer agreements" and that customers' missing assets should be prioritized over all claims filed by creditors.
In this episode of "Cybersecurity Unplugged," Liran Paul Hason, co-founder and CEO of Aporia, discusses the current state of machine learning and artificial intelligence in cybersecurity and the most interesting and promising applications for these technologies right now.
The theft of nearly $400 million from cryptocurrency platform FTX hours after it went belly up is now the subject of an investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice, Bloomberg reports. The criminal case is separate from the criminal fraud prosecution of co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried.
ChatGPT, an AI-based chatbot that specializes in dialogue, is raising concern among security professionals about how criminals could use cheap, accessible natural language AI to write convincing phishing emails and pull off nefarious deepfake scams. Peter Cassidy discusses the implications.
Information Security Media Group asked some of the industry's leading cybersecurity experts about the trends to watch in 2023. Responses covered a variety of emerging threats and evolving trends affecting security technologies, leadership and regulation. Here is a look at the year ahead.
North Korean attackers are using phishing websites to impersonate popular NFT platforms and DeFi marketplaces to steal digital assets worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. They set up nearly 500 decoy sites, including one of a project associated with the World Cup and NFT marketplace OpenSea.
Recorded Future has signed an agreement with Ukraine's Ministry of Digital Transformation to help protect the county's critical infrastructure against Russian physical and cyberattacks. The company can help detect novel strains of malware and command-and-control infrastructure run by the Russians.
With application GRC more critical than ever in today's dynamic, dispersed environment, what are the critical capabilities needed in a solution? Keri Bowman of Saviynt offers six recommendations, including risk reporting and out-of-the-box rule sets and compliance management.
A salute to the career of Johnson & Johnson CISO Marene Allison leads this week's Information Security Media Group Editors' Panel, which also reviews essentials for implementing a zero trust strategy and the use of banking standards to regulate blockchain-based digital assets.
A surging Elastic has joined perennial stalwarts Splunk and Microsoft atop the Forrester Wave: Security Analytics 2022 report, toppling SIEM players Exabeam, Securonix and IBM. Elastic went from not even being mentioned in the December 2020 security analytics Forrester Wave to leading the industry.
Identity and access management company Okta revealed that its private GitHub repositories were accessed earlier in the month, resulting in the theft of its source code in its Workforce Identity Cloud code repositories. "No customer data was impacted," Okta says.
As the U.S. government's probe of bankrupted cryptocurrency exchange FTX continues, two executives have pleaded guilty to multiple charges, while founder Sam Bankman-Fried waived his extradition rights in the Bahamas and was transferred by the FBI to New York, where he appeared before a judge.
The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report discusses why it is always a bad idea for organizations to pay hackers for data deletion, practical steps organizations can and should take to avoid being at the heart of a data subject complaint, and the latest efforts to tackle the ransomware threat.
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