Category: risk

Leaking company secrets via generative AIs like ChatGPT

For a third party, knowing what people from company X are asking of ChatGPT (or any other generative AI) could be quite interesting and profitable…

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Talking about ChatGPT with your colleagues

I wonder how many security teams have reached out to their colleagues about the use of ChatGPT and other hot new generative AI tools. Here’s…

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Make your near misses count

Security near misses are opportunities for learning and improvement, but when they are ignored, they can play a role in setting the stage for serious incidents. Use them wisely!

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Hunting for secrets on GitHub

We need to work with system designers and developers to make them understand that using a secure credential vault with programmatic access is not an optional luxury – it is a basic security requirement. Credentials do not belong in code, even if that code is stored in a safe inside a vault inside a volcano.

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Something about (Japanese) foxes and hen houses

Not strictly a security story, but interesting and alarming… Japanese authorities have decided that: It is permissible to make contributions to politicians using cryptocurrencies like…

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So your third party has been breached…

Another day, another third party security compromise story… this time it is Indian outsourcing giant Wipro. The firm has confirmed that a small number of…

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No, you don’t need to close your LastPass account…

Yesterday, at ShmooCon, security researcher Sean Cassidy announced a vulnerability in the popular LastPass password manager.  He demonstrated a way that an attacker could send…

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ready cash – the hacker’s latest tool

Cybersecurity firm BAE Systems (a large and credible industry player) announced that it had found and remediated an attack on an unnamed hedge fund back…

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galaxy s5 fingerprint authentication and lastpass

Interesting blog post from Graham Cluley on LastPass’ support for using the Galaxy S5’s fingerprint reader as the key to your password vault.   Since the…

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how not to do a risk assessment

So, the risk management mavens for the City of Portland, Oregon have provided us all with an object lesson in how not to make risk…

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