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SaaS
Only 3% of organizations have a dedicated budget for SaaS security

Mid-market organizations are grappling with managing the large volume of SaaS applications, both sanctioned and unsanctioned, with actual numbers often exceeding expectations, …

iCloud Private Relay
How to use iCloud Private Relay for enhanced privacy

iCloud Private Relay, included with an iCloud+ subscription, enhances your privacy while browsing the web in Safari. When this feature is enabled, the traffic leaving your …

cybersecurity week in review
Week in review: Apple 0-day used to target iPhones, DeepSeek’s popularity exploited by scammers

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Apple zero-day vulnerability exploited to target iPhone users …

CMS8000 Patient Monitor
Patient monitors with backdoor are sending info to China, CISA warns

Contec CMS8000, a patient monitor manufactured by a Chinese company, and Epsimed MN-120, which is the same monitor but relabeled, exfiltrate patients’ data to a …

Jags Kandasamy
Deploying AI at the edge: The security trade-offs and how to manage them

Deploying AI at the edge brings advantages such as low latency, improved efficiency, and real-time decision-making. It also introduces new attack surfaces. Adversaries could …

OT
Platformization is key to reduce cybersecurity complexity

Organizations are facing security complexity challenges as they juggle an average of 83 different security solutions from 29 vendors, according to a report by IBM and Palo …

email threats
Nine out of ten emails are spam

Now, more than ever, users can fall prey to word-perfect AI-created phishing campaigns, subtle BEC messages that sound remarkably like the sender, and highly convincing ploys …

Infosec products of the month
Infosec products of the month: January 2025

Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past month, featuring releases from: Absolute Security, Atsign, authID, BackBox, BioConnect, BitSight, BreachLock, …

arrest
Cybercrime forums Cracked and Nulled seized, operators arrested

Law enforcement from Germany, Australia, Spain, Greece, Romania, Italy, France and the USA have seized and shut down Cracked and Nulled, the two largest cybercrime forums in …

SimpleHelp
SimpleHelp RMM vulnerabilities may have been exploited to breach healthcare orgs

Attackers may have exploited vulnerabilities in the SimpleHelp remote monitoring and management solution to gain initial access to healthcare organizations. About the …

Sean Cordero
Zscaler CISO on balancing security and user convenience in hybrid work environments

In this Help Net Security interview, Sean Cordero, CISO at Zscaler, talks about securing hybrid work and the new challenges it presents to cybersecurity teams. He discusses …

ExtensionHound
ExtensionHound: Open-source tool for Chrome extension DNS forensics

Traditional monitoring tools reveal only traffic from the Chrome process, leaving security teams uncertain about which extension is responsible for a suspicious DNS query. …

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