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The day's top cybersecurity news and in-depth coverage
May 01, 2024
Cyber breach misinformation creates a haze of uncertainty
A string of recent false or misleading cyber breach reports, fueled by rampant online dissemination, is fostering an atmosphere of growing misinformation that makes it difficult to separate fact from fiction. Read more
UnitedHealth hackers exploited Citrix vulnerabilities, CEO to testify
In the written testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, CEO Andrew Witty said after gaining access, the threat actor moved laterally within the systems using sophisticated methods and exfiltrated data. Read more
Chinese threat actor engaged in multi-year DNS resolver probing effort
The unusual and persistent probing activity over the span of multiple years should be a reminder to organizations to identify and remove all open DNS resolvers from their networks. Read more
3 Windows vulnerabilities that may not be worth patching
Some vulnerabilities eat up a security teamâs time and resources yet provide little or nothing in the way of true protection. Some may even introduce more risk to a network. Read more
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The biggest data breach fines, penalties, and settlements so far
Hacks and data thefts, enabled by weak security, cover-ups or avoidable mistakes have cost these companies a total of nearly $4.4 billion and counting. Read more
Securiti adds distributed LLM firewalls to secure genAI applications
The new offering is aimed at protecting against prompt injection, data leakage, and training data poisoning in LLM systems. Read more
The CSO guide to top security conferences
Tracking postponements, cancellations, and conferences gone virtual â CSO Onlineâs calendar of upcoming security conferences makes it easy to find the events that matter the most to you. Read more
