Accenture and Workday are expanding their partnership to help organizations reinvent their finance functions to be more agile, data-driven and customer-centric. The companies are collaborating to develop a suite of data-led, composable finance solutions that can be configured and reconfigured…
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How Chinese hackers got their hands on Microsoft’s token signing key
The mystery of how Chinese hackers managed to steal a crucial signing key that allowed them to breach Microsoft 365’s email service and access accounts of employees of 25 government agencies has been explained: they found it somewhere where it…
Pynt introduces API security platform and raises $6 million
Pynt released its autopilot platform for API security used by developers and security experts, as well as $6 million in Seed funding led by Joule Ventures with the participation of Dallas VC and Honeystone VC. The use of APIs is…
MacOS malware has a new trick up its sleeve
A newer version of the Atomic Stealer macOS malware has a new trick that allows it to bypass the operating system’s Gatekeeper, Malwarebytes researchers have discovered. Mac malware delivered through Google ads The malware, which was first advertised in April…
Tenable to acquire Ermetic for $240 million in cash and $25 million in restricted stock and RSUs
Tenable Holdings has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Ermetic. Tenable intends to integrate Ermetic’s capabilities into its Tenable One Exposure Management Platform to deliver contextual risk visibility, prioritization, and remediation across infrastructure and identities, both on-premise and in the…
SafeBase acquires Stacksi to automate responses to security questionnaires
SafeBase announced that it is acquiring Stacksi, the A.I.-powered security questionnaire automation platform. The acquisition advances the two companies’ shared vision to eliminate the time-consuming, cumbersome task of responding to security questionnaires in the B2B buying process. With a SafeBase…
3 ways to strike the right balance with generative AI
To find the sweet spot where innovation doesn’t mean sacrificing your security posture, organizations should consider the following three best practices when leveraging AI. Implement role-based access control In the context of generative AI, having properly defined user roles to…
LibreOffice: Stability, security, and continued development
LibreOffice, the most widely used open-source office productivity suite, has plenty to recommend it: it’s feature-rich, user-friendly, well-documented, reliable, has an active community of developers working on improving it, and it’s free. The suite includes Writer (word processor), Calc (a…
Shifting left and right, innovating product security
In this Help Net Security interview, Slava Bronfman, CEO at Cybellum, discusses approaches for achieving product security throughout a device’s entire lifecycle, fostering collaboration across business units and product lines, ensuring transparency and security in the supply chain, and meeting…
How cybercriminals use look-alike domains to impersonate brands
Cybercriminals create hundreds of thousands of counterfeit domains that mimic well-known brands for financial gain. These fake domains serve multiple malicious purposes, such as sending phishing emails, hosting fraudulent websites, rerouting web traffic, and distributing malware. In this Help Net…