The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Splunk’s inability to migrate to a modern cloud-native architecture makes it difficult to take advantage of these cost-saving benefits or implement advanced data science use cases critical for threat detection. Influxes of data ingestion and the flat architecture of data lakes have led to difficulties in extracting value from repositories.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 8, 2023

We announced we acquired Helixera, an innovative real-time pattern scanning engine. We also hired its founder Waldek Mikolajczyk as VP of Cybersecurity Solutions Architecture. Seceon Acquires Helixera, Hires Founder as VP of Cybersecurity Solutions Architecture appeared first on Seceon. The post Big News! The post Big News!

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 18, 2025

The browser has evolved from a simple web rendering engine to be the new endpoint the primary gateway through which users interact with the Internet, for work, leisure, and transactions. Palo Alto, Calif., Yet, traditional security solutions continue to focus on endpoints and networks despite the exponential growth of browser-native attacks.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 28, 2025

In the case studies demonstrated by SquareX , these attacks leverage AI agents to automate the majority of the attack sequence, requiring minimal social engineering and interference from the attacker. The browser-native ransomware disclosure is part of the Year of Browser Bugs project.

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Adam Shostack

JANUARY 30, 2025

That visceral image of looking at mountains of accumulated issues, feeling overwhelmed by where to begin, captures a challenge many engineering leaders face when they first attempt to systematically assess their systems security. On the other side is a whiteboard with a software architecture diagram

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Last month, engineers at Google published a very curious privacy bug in Apple's Safari web browser. But web architecture is complex, and the consequence is that this is exactly the case. If there's any lesson here, it's that privacy is hard -- and that privacy engineering is even harder.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Organizations face rising risks of AI-driven social engineering and personal device breaches. Tipirneni Ratan Tipirneni , CEO, Tigera To maximize GenAI’s value, enterprises will customize models using proprietary data and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures tailored to their specific needs.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 8, 2022

Current quantum computers are still toy prototypes, and the engineering advances required to build a functionally useful quantum computer are somewhere between a few years away and impossible. It took a couple of decades to fully understand von Neumann computer architecture; expect the same learning curve with quantum computing.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Chearis Karsten Chearis , US Security Sales Engineer Team Lead, XM Cyber Resiliency involves four stages, while compromise has three phases: about to be compromised, compromised, and recovering. Assuming breaches are inevitable, security leaders must map critical business assets and ensure their resilience.

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IT Security Guru

JANUARY 9, 2025

Security teams should collaborate closely with IT and software engineering teams to identify where and how public key cryptography is being used. Organisations should prioritise solutions built on zero-trust and zero-knowledge architectures for maximum security, privacy and control.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 22, 2025

Additionally, these conventional tools lack the contextual awareness needed to identify sophisticated social engineering tactics employed by AI-powered phishing campaigns. Zero Trust Architecture: Adopt a Zero Trust approach that verifies every access request, regardless of its origin.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 28, 2025

Its here embedded in enterprise security architectures, compliance tools, risk models, employee workflows. Over the past 500 years, every transformative technology has followed a pattern: the Gutenberg press, the steam engine, the transistor, the early internet.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

One of the report's most pressing concerns is the role of Generative AI in social engineering attacks. From the report: "Generative AI is being used to create highly convincing phishing emails, fake voices, and even deepfake videosmaking social engineering attacks more difficult to detect.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Step 1: Rethink your security architecture Zero Trust requires securing every layer—network, applications, identity, and access—while enforcing least privilege. When redesigning your architecture: Conduct a business impact analysis: Identify critical assets (data, systems, applications) and focus security efforts on the most important areas.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2025

The experts used a diagnostic software to analyze the vehicle architecture, scan the Electronic Control Unit (ECU), identify its version, and test diagnostic functions. Kaspersky published research findings on the first-generation Mercedes-Benz User Experience (MBUX) infotainment system, specifically focusing on the Mercedes-Benz Head Unit.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 16, 2019

An attacker could potentially pivot, Santamarta says, from the in-flight entertainment system to the CIS/MS to send commands to far more sensitive components that control the plane's safety-critical systems, including its engine, brakes, and sensors.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 15, 2025

From Gutenbergs press to the steam engine, to the rise of semiconductorseach transformative leap began as an open revolution and was soon constrained by consolidation. Bezos launching Amazon with a single book, and Googles Brain Team engineering the transformer architecture that underpins todays GenAIthese are milestones on the same arc.

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Penetration Testing

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Autodesk AutoCAD, a widely used CAD software across engineering, architecture, and manufacturing industries, has been found to contain 40 zero-day vulnerabilities.

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Penetration Testing Manufacturing Architecture Engineering 140

The Hacker News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Apple Security Engineering and Architecture (SEAR Tracked as CVE-2023-4863, the issue has been described as a case of heap buffer overflow that resides in the WebP image format that could result in arbitrary code execution or a crash.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 30, 2025

Using a very clever social engineering attack that exploits trusted domains, the adversary can then further escalate the profile hijacking attack to steal passwords from the victims browser. This research team was also the first to discover and disclose the OAuth attack on Chrome extension developers one week before the Cyberhaven breach.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 30, 2023

And despite advances, like sandboxing, browser isolation and secure gateways, the core architecture of web browsers has remained all-too vulnerable to malicious attacks. I visited with Uy Huynh , vice president of solutions engineering at Island.io , to discuss this. Guest expert: Uy Huynh, VP of solutions engineering, Island.io

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Experts warn that organizations must act decisively to protect against this growing threat by implementing Zero Trust architectures, patching vulnerabilities, and strengthening identity security. Cybersecurity awareness and incident response Train employees to recognize phishing attempts and social engineering.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 24, 2023

Zero trust networking architecture (ZTNA) is a way of solving security challenges in a cloud-first world. Attendees will include cybersecurity professionals, policy makers, entrepreneurs and infrastructure engineers. Registration is free and open to the public.

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Pen Test

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Reverse engineering is the process of deconstructing a product or system to understand its design, architecture, and functionality. The primary goal of reverse engineering is to analyze how a system works, identify its components, and uncover any underlying principles or mechanisms.

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Daniel Miessler

DECEMBER 24, 2022

These encrypted fields remain secured with 256-bit AES encryption and can only be decrypted with a unique encryption key derived from each user’s master password using our Zero Knowledge architecture. I have friends on LastPass and other password manager company security teams, and I know them to be great engineers and great security teams.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 28, 2024

Manual feature engineering. Worse, theyre resource hogs, demanding constant attention from detection engineers. While anomaly detection usage is increasing, it is easy to see why many detection engineers find them only slightly less frustrating than the thicket of rules-based detections many are expected to maintain and relyupon.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

I had an edifying conversation about this with Steve Hanna , distinguished engineer at Infineon Technologies , a global semiconductor leader in power systems and IoT, based in Neubiberg, Germany.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

But as we know, software engineering is a game of trade-offs, and serverless architectures come with their own challenges. Flexible pay-as-you-go payment plans offered by most cloud services help minimize costs, adding a financial incentive as the cherry on top of the developer’s cake.

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Adam Shostack

JANUARY 2, 2025

In the early years various design principles, architectures and methodologies were proposed: in 1972 Anderson described the reference monitor concept, in 1974 Saltzer described the Principle of least privilege, and in 1985 the US Department of Defense issued the Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria.

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Cisco Security

OCTOBER 15, 2021

A few suggestions for companies to consider: Deploy a Zero Trust architecture to reduce the attack surface and continually add security applications, devices, and capabilities to prevent intruders from accessing their network resources.

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Cisco Security

APRIL 6, 2022

No one enjoys forking out gobs of money and spending sleepless implementation hours every few years in exchange for a shiny new box with largely the same architecture as the old one, save for maybe a slightly faster CPU. The big deal about the new Secure Firewall 3100 Series architecture is the emphasis on processing encrypted traffic.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Strengthen IT Infrastructure Evaluate your existing security architecture to ensure it can withstand modern cyberthreats. Cybersecurity awareness training helps staff recognize phishing scams , social engineering attempts, and other threats. Here are some essential steps every business can consider to safeguard against cyberthreats: 1.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 19, 2022

Today, there are two major types of common CMS platforms: •The older “traditional” or “monolithic” CMS platforms include a content repository (usually a multimedia database), the administrative console (where content is added and categorized), the presentation system (which makes nice-looking pages), and the search engine. Gierlinger.

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Anton on Security

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

This blog series was written jointly with Amine Besson, Principal Cyber Engineer, Behemoth CyberDefence and one more anonymous collaborator. Operating Model 1: CTI Feeds SOC / Detection Engineering Some organizations have a clearly defined and separate CTI team, which supplies information to different teams, functions and recipients.

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Adam Shostack

JANUARY 2, 2025

BMW's response: We believe that the issue is related to a security feature built into the vehicles that kicks in when the car is moving but the engine is turned off and the doors are closed. There's a way to move a vehicle a long distance with the engine off, and it's not a tow truck! The threat is thieves equipped with a towtruck.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 4, 2024

At RSAC 2024 , I visited with Pranava Adduri , co-founder and CEO of Bedrock Security which has just rolled out its AI Reasoning (AIR) Engine to help solve this problem in a bold new way. This “commoditization” of data discovery, as Adduri puts it, slashes the cost of data discovery at scale.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Unlike previous quantum architectures that rely on fragile qubits prone to errors, Majorana 1 introduces topological qubits, leveraging a new class of materialdubbed topoconductorsto create a more stable and scalable system. Majorana-based qubits are inherently more stable, reducing error correction overhead.

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Encryption Energy and Utilities Government Architecture 86