David Strom, Author at SiliconANGLE

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LockBit malware group still at large, now using Citrix Bleed tactics

By David Strom Nov 22, 2023

The malware group behind the LockBit ransomware attacks has gotten even more sophisticated. Australian cybersecurity officials, the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on Tuesday jointly released a security advisory on how the group…

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Phobos ransomware group steps up its game

By David Strom Nov 20, 2023

The 8Base ransomware group, the criminals behind the Phobos malware, continue to advance its tactics and is branching out into selling ransomware-as-a-service, according to a new report Friday from Cisco Talos Intelligence. In June,…

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Ransomware attacks now come with SEC breach complaints

By David Strom Nov 16, 2023

In what could be called the ultimate hubris, the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group this week filed a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission complaint. It’s certainly a unique way to increase the trouble generated by one…

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Wiz adds AI security to its cloud protection line

By David Strom Nov 16, 2023

Wiz Inc. today announced new artificial intelligence-related extensions to the modules in its cloud-native application protection platform line of products. CNAPP tools combine a variety of defensive mechanisms to protect access controls, secure source code…

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Broad collection of security products announced at Microsoft Ignite

By David Strom Nov 15, 2023

Microsoft today announced a raft of security features that include substantive enhancements to its existing products and services at its Ignite conference in Seattle and online. The news integrates more than 50 different feature…

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SecureAuth’s Arculix gets new identity orchestration features

By David Strom Nov 15, 2023

SecureAuth Corp. today announced a major upgrade to its identity management software Arculix, with new features that include improvements to its authentication orchestration and integrations to Citrix and Microsoft’s Entra identity products to enable…

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Palo Alto Networks adds new AI-related security features to its Cortex line

By David Strom Nov 13, 2023

Palo Alto Networks Inc. today added new artificial intelligence-related security features to its Cortex security automation and intelligence product line — the key word being “automation,” especially when it comes to finding and stopping threats…

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New spam exploit vector abuses Google Forms’ quizzes

By David Strom Nov 10, 2023

Yet another way for spammers to worm their way into systems was uncovered Thursday by the researchers at Cisco Systems Inc.’ Talos Intelligence blog. This time, it’s an exploit that involves abusing the quiz…

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Kubernetes security remains a big challenge for enterprise developers

By David Strom Nov 10, 2023

As enterprise software containers become ever more critical to running applications easily across clouds, securing them has become a mounting problem. And as more workloads move onto these containers, using the container cluster management…

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Application interfaces become more popular for authorization security exploits

By David Strom Nov 7, 2023

Application programming interfaces are critical to provide levels of system access permissions for particular groups of users, but they also present a big problem: Authorization using APIs provides a convenient backdoor for potential attacks, not…

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LockBit malware group still at large, now using Citrix Bleed tactics

Phobos ransomware group steps up its game

Ransomware attacks now come with SEC breach complaints

Broad collection of security products announced at Microsoft Ignite

SecureAuth’s Arculix gets new identity orchestration features

Palo Alto Networks adds new AI-related security features to its Cortex line

New spam exploit vector abuses Google Forms’ quizzes

Kubernetes security remains a big challenge for enterprise developers

Application interfaces become more popular for authorization security exploits

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