How business email compromise attacks emulate legitimate web services to lure clicks

New BEC cyberattacks use phishing with a legitimate Dropbox link as a lure for malware and credentials theft. Image: Adobe Stock. Threat actors have added a new wrinkle to traditional business email... Read more »

What is IBM Hybrid Cloud Mesh?

Learn what the expanded cloud offerings mean for potentially smoothing out the line between DevOps and SecOps. Image: metamorworks/Adobe Stock IBM continues to expand its cloud offerings with Hybrid Cloud Mesh, a... Read more »

Okta’s Security Center opens window to customer insights, including threats and friction

Image: Timon/Adobe Stock Since acquiring the application team platform Auth0 in 2001, identity management company Okta has pursued a platform-neutral strategy for both internal and external consumer identity authentication that includes delivering... Read more »

IBM snags Polar Security to boost cloud data practice

IBM acquired the Israeli firm founded in 2021 to grow its relevance in the nascent realm of data security posture management, or DSPM. Image: JHVEPhoto/Adobe Stock In an effort to grow its... Read more »

Sticking to traditional security playbook is mistake for cloud security: Palo Alto Networks SVP

Image: Rafael Henrique/Adobe Stock Worldwide spending on public cloud services is set to grow 20.7% to total $591.8 billion in 2023, according to Gartner, and threat actors are getting better at exploiting... Read more »

Apple ID: 3 things to remember when changing this password

Image: ink drop/Adobe Stock When changing your Apple ID password — and you are changing your Apple account security passcode regularly, right? — you should prepare for the process by remembering three... Read more »

Ubuntu Pro now available on Amazon Web Services

Image: IB Photography/Adobe Stock Canonical announced on Tuesday that Ubuntu Pro is available in a subscription-included model on Amazon Web Services. With Ubuntu Pro on AWS, users can launch Ubuntu Pro on-demand... Read more »

At RSA, Akamai put focus on fake sites, API vulnerabilities

Image: Ar_TH/Adobe Stock Last year, attacks using vulnerabilities in applications and application protocol interfaces reached record highs, according to security company Akamai in its new State of the Internet report. The firm... Read more »

IBM launches QRadar Security Suite for accelerated threat detection and response

Image: JHVEPhoto/Adobe Stock At the RSA Conference, IBM launched a platform-centric expansion to its QRadar security product, designed as a one-stop shop to accelerate response and offer a unified framework for security... Read more »

RSA: Cisco launches XDR, with focus on platform-based cybersecurity

Cisco took the stage at RSA 2023 to tout extended detection and response as key to a unified cross-domain security platform, plus new Duo MFA features. Image: Tobias Arhelger/Adobe Stock Day one... Read more »