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Prime Security Wins Black Hat's Startup Spotlight Competition Security startups of all stripes submitted applications for Black Hat USA's Startup Spotlight. Prime Security won with its AI security architect platform.

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Data Dump From APT Actor Yields Clues to Attacker Capabilities The tranche of information includes data on recent campaigns, attack tools, compromised credentials, and command files used by a threat actor believed to be acting on behalf of China or North Korea.

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Startup Spotlight: Twine Security Tackles the Execution Gap The company, one of four finalists in this year's Black Hat USA Startup Spotlight competition, uses multi-agent system to build AI Digital Employees.

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Researcher Deploys Fuzzer to Test Autonomous Vehicle Safety As autonomous vehicles continue to evolve, this research highlights the importance of rigorous security testing to protect against both intentional attacks and unintentional unsafe commands in teleoperation systems.

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SentinelOne Acquires AI Startup Prompt Security The company will integrate Prompt Security’s platform, which detects AI tools used in browsers and on desktops, into its Singularity platform.

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To Raise or Not to Raise: Bootstrapped Founders Share Their View A trio of startup founders, GreyNoise's Andrew Morris, Thinkst Canary's Haroon Meer, and runZero's HD Moore, agree that raising venture capital funding can be beneficial, but a company's success depends on how well the product fits customer needs.

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The Edge: Google Chrome Enterprise: More Than an Access Point to the Web https://zpr.io/bqkQzqZquDy9 #DRTheEdge #darkreading #cybersecurity

Minimal, Hardened, and Updated Daily: The New Standard for Secure Containers Chainguard provides DevSecOps teams with a library of "secure-by-default" container images so that they don't have to worry about software supply chain vulnerabilities. The startup is expanding its focus to include Java and Linux, as well.

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MacOS Under Attack: How Organizations Can Counter Rising Threats Not only are attacks against macOS users ramping up, but threat actors have proven to be advanced with deepfake technology. Security awareness training may be the best defense.

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We've All Been Wrong: Phishing Training Doesn't Work Teaching employees to detect malicious emails isn't really having an impact. What other options do organizations have?

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Stop AI Bot Traffic: Protecting Your Organization's Website As crawlers and bots bog down websites in the era of AI, some researchers say that the solution for the Internet's most vulnerable websites is already here.

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Male-Dominated Cyber Industry Still Holds Space for Women With Resilience When trying to crack your way into a cyber career, true passion and a bold love of the industry is a must, if you want to set yourself apart from hundreds of other job applicants, according to Weave CISO Jessica Sica.

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Cyber Career Opportunities: Weighing Certifications vs. Degrees Longtime CISO Melina Scotto joins Dark Reading to discuss career advice gleaned from her 30 years in the cyber industry.

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What is the Role of Provable Randomness in Cybersecurity? Random numbers are the cornerstone of cryptographic security — cryptography depends on generating random keys. As organizations adopt quantum-resistant algorithms, it's equally important to examine the randomness underpinning them

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ISC2 Launches New Security Certificate for AI Expertise ISC2 is launching a 6-course certification program to address the growing demand for AI security expertise. Courses cover topics such as AI fundamentals, ethics, and risks.

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CISA Releases Free Thorium Malware Analysis Tool Thorium enhances cybersecurity teams' defense capabilities by seamlessly integrating commercial, open-source, and custom tools used to analyze malware.

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Inside the FBI's Strategy for Prosecuting Ransomware The US government is throwing the book at even mid-level cybercriminals. Is it just, and is it working?

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Tonic Security Harnesses AI to Combat Remediation Challenges Attackers are becoming faster at exploiting vulnerabilities but this startup seeks to stop threats before they lead to breaches.

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Palo Alto Networks Grabs IAM Provider CyberArk for $25B The deal shakes up the identity and access management landscape and expands Palo Alto Networks' footprint in the cybersecurity market.

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Root Evidence Bets on New Concept for Vulnerability Patch Management The number of concerning vulnerabilities may be much smaller than organizations think, and this cybersecurity startup aims to narrow down the list to the most critical ones.

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Ghost Students Drain Money, Resources From Educational Sector The education sector is haunted by a significant fraud problem where fake students impersonate celebrities and employ other identity techniques to steal resources and money from legitimate students.

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New Risk Index Helps Organizations Tackle Cloud Security Chaos Enterprises can use the IaC Risk Index to identify vulnerable cloud resources in their infrastructure-as-code environment which are not managed or governed.

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Can Security Culture Be Taught? AWS Says Yes Newly appointed Amazon Web Services CISO Amy Herzog believes security culture goes beyond frameworks and executive structures. Having the right philosophy throughout the organization is key.

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What Makes Great Threat Intelligence? Anyone can buy or collect data, but the goal must be to realize actionable insight relevant to the organization in question.

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Crash Override Turns to ERM to Combat Visibility Challenges The newly launched security startup provides an engineering relationship management platform that provides enterprises with visibility across code, infrastructure, and tools.

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Microsoft Integrates Data Lake With Sentinel SIEM Microsoft Sentinel Data Lake aims to provide inexpensive storage for large volumes of telemetry, while threat intelligence will be included with Defender XDR at no extra cost.

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CISO Conversations: How IT and OT Security Worlds Are Converging Dark Reading's Kelly Jackson Higgins interviews Carmine Valente, Deputy CISO at Con Edison, about his role at the New York-based electric utility and the state of IT and OT security. Valente highlights current threats like ransomware and supply chain attacks, as well as the impact of AI on both defense and threats.

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Human Digital Twins Could Give Attackers a Dangerous Advantage While this emerging technology offers many benefits, digital twins also have several drawbacks, as these convincing impersonations can be used in social engineering attacks.

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AI Driving the Adoption of Confidential Computing After years of hanging out in the wild, confidential computing is getting closer to an AI model near you.

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AI Is Reshaping How Attorneys Practice Law Experts recommend enhanced AI literacy, training around the ethics of using AI, and verification protocols to maintain credibility in an increasingly AI-influenced courtroom.

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