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KnowBe4 Helps Organisations Battle QR Code Phishing Attacks With New Tool

KnowBe4 has launched its new and complementary QR Code Phishing Security Test (QR Code PST) tool. The no-charge tool assists organisations in identifying users that are most susceptible to scanning malicious QR codes. Many organisations are aware of the typical social engineering techniques used by bad actors such as phishing, spear phishing and impersonation, to manipulate employees and infiltrate systems. However, bad actors are now taking advantage of the rise in popularity of QR codes and are using them to launch...

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Today, Salt Security released new threat research from Salt Labs that details several critical security flaws in the Expo framework. The flaws were found in the implementation of the Open Authorization (OAuth) social-login functionality utilised by Expo which had the potential to affect any users logging in to an online service using the Expo framework through their Facebook, Google, Apple, and Twitter accounts. These findings mark the second research report in the Salt Labs OAuth hijacking series,...

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Synopsys leader in AppSec

Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced it has been named by Gartner, Inc. as a Leader in the “Magic Quadrant™ for Application Security Testing” for the seventh consecutive year.1 In the report, Gartner evaluated 12 application security testing vendors based on their completeness of vision and ability to execute. Synopsys placed highest in ability to execute and furthest on completeness of vision for the fifth year in a row. Synopsys also received the highest scores for...

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Toyota data breach

Japanese auto firm, Toyota, recently announced that a decade-long data breach in its online service has compromised information on more than 2 million vehicles at risk. Customers affected included those who signed up for the T-Connect network service between the beginning of 2012 until April 17. According to TechCrunch, Toyota said that the exposed data includes: "registered email addresses; vehicle-unique chassis and navigation terminal numbers; the location of vehicles and what time they were there;...

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Kiddoware is the world’s leading parental control solutions company with a wide range of products and  serving over 5 million families worldwide. Kiddoware is committed in helping you to protect your kids while providing you intelligence to be proactive about your childs’ online activities. Earlier this week, SEC Consult Group identified numerous security flaws in a parental control app called Kids Place, which allowed hackers to access login credentials, send files to a child's device without...

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Cato announces new executive hires

Edinburgh-based Adarma, the leading independent specialist in detection and response services, welcomes three new leaders to its cybersecurity services delivery team. The appointments of Donna Goddard as Head of Security Engineering; Matthew Hmoud as Head of Security Consulting; and Richard Green as Head of Risk and Information Security will add significant collective security, customer and complex programme delivery experience as the company continues to scale. In October last year, Adarma was awarded a £2 million...

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New AT&T Cybersecurity USM Anywhere Advisors Service Helps to Establish and Maintain Threat Detection and Response Effectiveness

Registration for this year’s International Cyber Expo (ICE) on the 26th and 27th of September 2023 at London Olympia is now open. The award-winning security event will once again showcase an impressive line-up of talks, demonstrations, and senior-level roundtable discussions led by reputable experts in the field; not least, Chair of the event’s Advisory Council, Ciaran Martin CB, Professor at Oxford University. To register for FREE, visit: https://ice-2023.reg.buzz/eskenzi-press-release-launch Off the back of the inaugural event...

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AT&T Cybersecurity grows SASE offering by adding Palo Alto Networks

Popular social media platform Discord has notified users it has suffered a data breach after a support agent’s account at a third party became compromised. A malicious individual then gained unauthorised access to the agent’s support queue, exposing user email addresses, Discord support messages and attachments sent via the ticket system. Discord - which has a user base of over 150 million monthly active users - has deactivated the compromised account and undertaken security checks...

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Today, API security company Salt Security announced it is now an Amazon Web Service (AWS) Web Application Firewall (WAF) Ready Partner. This service helps customers discover Partner solutions validated by AWS Partner Network (APN) Solutions Architects that integrate with AWS WAF to accelerate adoption of an enhanced and holistic security approach. AWS WAF is available to all AWS customers and all AWS Regions and can be deployed directly from the AWS console. This partnership differentiates...

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Baby Yoda (credit: unsplash)

To celebrate World Password Day and #StarWarsDay 2023, Specops Software released findings which observed the commonality of passwords that contained a likely Star Wars character or related term within a password. According to the research by Specops, which analysed over 800 million known breached passwords (a subset of a larger list included within its Breached Password Protection list of over 3 billion passwords), it was found that ‘Solo’, possibly in reference to iconic Harrison Ford...

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