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NDSS 2025 – Qualitative Study On Boards’ Cybersecurity Risk Decision Making

SESSION Session 2C: Phishing & Fraud 1 Authors, Creators & Presenters: Jens Christian Opdenbusch (Ruhr University Bochum), Jonas Hielscher (Ruhr University Bochum), M. Angela Sasse (Ruhr University Bochum, University College ...

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The Role of SLDC Gap Analysis in Reducing Development Risks

In the race to build and release software faster, many organizations unintentionally overlook one critical aspect: security and process integrity within the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Every missed control or overlooked best practice ...

How MSSPs Turn Security Alerts Into Exponential Revenue With Morpheus AI

See how Morpheus AI transforms managed security economics—delivering 24/7 autonomous coverage, unified data, and exponential returns without increasing headcount. The post How MSSPs Turn Security Alerts Into Exponential Revenue With Morpheus AI ...

How to Create a Cybersecurity Incident Response Plan

The post How to Create a Cybersecurity Incident Response Plan appeared first on AI Security Automation. The post How to Create a Cybersecurity Incident Response Plan appeared first on Security Boulevard.

How FedRAMP Agencies Evaluate CSP SAR Submissions

FedRAMP is the federal government’s framework for evaluating and enforcing standardized security across the cloud service providers operating as contractors. They take security seriously, and the protection of controlled information is their ...

Balancer hack analysis and guidance for the DeFi ecosystem

TL;DR The root cause of the hack was a rounding direction issue that had been present in the code for many years. When the bug was first introduced, the threat landscape of the blockchain ecosystem was significantly different, and arithmetic ...

LLM08: Vector & Embedding Weaknesses – FireTail Blog

Nov 07, 2025 - - In 2025, with the rise of AI, we’ve seen a parallel rise in cyber risks. The OWASP Top 10 for LLM helps us categorize and understand the biggest risks we are seeing in today’s landscape. In previous blogs, we’ve gone over ...

Freedom in Cybersecurity: Choosing the Right NHIs

Could Your Organization Be Leaving the Security of Non-Human Identities to Chance? Managing Non-Human Identities (NHIs) and Secrets Security Management has become imperative. These entities, often overlooked compared to their human counterparts, ...

Achieving Liberating Flexibility with Cloud NHIs

Can Flexible Security Be Achieved with Cloud NHIs? Organizations are increasingly relying on the cloud for operational efficiency and scalability. But how can businesses ensure their cloud environments remain secure without sacrificing ...

Satisfied with Your Cloud Security? Enhance with NHIs

What Are Non-Human Identities and Why Are They Critical for Cloud Security? Have you ever considered how Non-Human Identities (NHIs) are transforming cloud security? With technological advancements ushering in a digital transformation across ...

NDSS 2025 – SCAMMAGNIFIER: Piercing The Veil Of Fraudulent Shopping Website Campaigns

SESSION Session 2C: Phishing & Fraud 1 Authors, Creators & Presenters: Marzieh Bitaab (Arizona State University), Alireza Karimi (Arizona State University), Zhuoer Lyu (Arizona State University), Adam Oest (Amazon), Dhruv Kuchhal ...

Randall Munroe’s XKCD ‘’Planetary Rings”

via the cosmic humor & dry-as-interstellar-space wit of Randall Munroe, creator of XKCD Permalink The post Randall Munroe’s XKCD ‘’Planetary Rings” appeared first on Security Boulevard.

Spektrum Labs Previews Cryptographic Platform for Proving Cyber Resilience

Spektrum Labs is providing early access to a platform that enables cybersecurity and IT teams to mathematically prove they have achieved cyber resilience. Company CEO J.J. Thompson said the Spektrum Fusion platform makes use of cryptographic ...

Fortinet’s Fabric-Based Approach to Cloud Security

The enterprise migration to the cloud has created a security paradox. While digital transformation and multi-cloud architectures promise agility, they have also delivered unprecedented complexity. This complexity is the modern CISO’s ...

In Other News: Controversial Ransomware Report, Gootloader Returns, More AN0M Arrests

Other noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: rogue ransomware negotiators charged, F5 hack prompts OT security guidance, Germany targets Huawei tech. The post In Other News: Controversial Ransomware Report, Gootloader ...

Cisco Unified CCX Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-20354, CVE-2025-20358)

Technical details The problem comes from weak authentication in two different CCX components. CVE-2025-20354 targets the Java RMI service. CCX exposes this service to accept remote data, but it does not properly check who is sending it. That ...

Stop Paying the Password Tax: A CFO’s Guide to Affordable Zero-Trust Access

In 2025, stolen credentials remain the most common and fastest path into an organization’s systems. Nearly half of breaches begin with compromised logins. The 2025 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report puts it bluntly: “Hackers don’t ...

NDSS 2025 – YuraScanner: Leveraging LLMs For Task-driven Web App Scanning4+

SESSION Session 2B: Web Security Authors, Creators & Presenters: Aleksei Stafeev (CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security), Tim Recktenwald (CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security), Gianluca De Stefano (CISPA Helmholtz Center ...

Log4j Vulnerability Guide: Detection and Remediation | Contrast

TL;DR Traditional security tools generate overwhelming false positives because they cannot tell which Log4j vulnerabilities are actually exploitable. This guide explains why IAST runtime detection provides accurate results and how ADR blocks ...