Jul 17, 2023The Hacker NewsAttack Surface Management The hype around different security categories can make it difficult to discern features and capabilities from bias when researching new platforms. You want to advance your security measures, but what steps actually make sense for your business? For anyone ready to find an attack surface management (ASM) vendor, review … [Read more...] about These 6 Questions Will Help You Choose the Best Attack Surface Management Platform
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New Phishing-as-a-Service Platform Lets Cybercriminals Generate Convincing Phishing Pages
May 13, 2023Ravie Lakshmanan A new phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS or PaaS) platform named Greatness has been leveraged by cybercriminals to target business users of the Microsoft 365 cloud service since at least mid-2022, effectively lowering the bar to entry for phishing attacks. "Greatness, for now, is only focused on Microsoft 365 phishing pages, providing its affiliates … [Read more...] about New Phishing-as-a-Service Platform Lets Cybercriminals Generate Convincing Phishing Pages
New Logz.io Platform Feature: The Home Dashboard
Managing observability data can feel like a juggling act. Modern cloud applications generate vast amounts of data, and quickly accessing the most important data is a fundamental step toward quickly gaining unobstructed visibility into your infrastructure and applications. Yet, when data volumes grow, complexity follows. Many observability users find it overwhelming to assess … [Read more...] about New Logz.io Platform Feature: The Home Dashboard
Increasing Implications: Adding Security Analysis to Kubernetes 360 Platform
A quick look at headlines emanating from this year’s sold out KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe underlines the fact that Kubernetes security has risen to the fore among practitioners and vendors alike.As is typically the case with our favorite technologies, we’ve reached that point where people are determined to ensure security measures aren’t “tacked on after the fact” as … [Read more...] about Increasing Implications: Adding Security Analysis to Kubernetes 360 Platform
Scam e-mails from “cloud-mining platform”
Despite some instability over the past six months, the cryptocurrency market is still seen by many as a get-rich-quick scheme. Accordingly, the stream of scammers feeding off this topic won’t be running dry any time soon. To lure victims into their traps, they continue to come up with new ploys, each more innovative than the last. Today we look at a novel scheme that invites … [Read more...] about Scam e-mails from “cloud-mining platform”
Hackers Sign Android Malware Apps with Compromised Platform Certificates
Platform certificates used by Android smartphone vendors like Samsung, LG, and MediaTek have been found to be abused to sign malicious apps. The findings were first discovered and reported by Google reverse engineer Łukasz Siewierski on Thursday. "A platform certificate is the application signing certificate used to sign the 'android' application on the system image," a report … [Read more...] about Hackers Sign Android Malware Apps with Compromised Platform Certificates
Platform Engineer: DevOps Evolution or a Fancy Rename?
Everyone’s talking about Platform Engineering these days. Even Gartner recently featured it in its Hype Cycle for Software Engineering 2022. But what is Platform Engineering really about? Is it the next stage in the evolution of DevOps? Is it just a fancy rebrand for DevOps or SRE?As a veteran of the PaaS (Platform as a Service) discipline about a decade ago, and a DevOps … [Read more...] about Platform Engineer: DevOps Evolution or a Fancy Rename?
Identity Protection: Benefits of a Unified Security Platform
As cyberattacks continue to grow relentlessly, enterprises have to continue improving their cyber defenses to stay one step ahead of the adversaries. One area that CISOs have recently started paying more attention is identity threat protection. This is not surprising considering 80% of modern attacks are identity-driven leveraging stolen credentials. In fact, identity threat … [Read more...] about Identity Protection: Benefits of a Unified Security Platform
Researchers Report Critical RCE Vulnerability in Google’s VirusTotal Platform
Security researchers have disclosed a security vulnerability in the VirusTotal platform that could have been potentially weaponized to achieve remote code execution (RCE). The flaw, now patched, made it possible to "execute commands remotely within VirusTotal platform and gain access to its various scans capabilities," Cysource researchers Shai Alfasi and Marlon Fabiano da … [Read more...] about Researchers Report Critical RCE Vulnerability in Google’s VirusTotal Platform
A Key Factor for Platform Teams To Be Successful
Centralize or decentralize, what cycle are we in?As an industry analyst at Gartner, we would often discuss whether people were in a centralized or decentralized cycle. In business, it’s normal to investigate options for creating innovation and moving quickly, or focus on reducing cost and optimizing teams and technologies. The current cycle we have been in has lasted roughly10 … [Read more...] about A Key Factor for Platform Teams To Be Successful