Security Program Controls/Technologies

Tesla, Druids, Salt Typhoon, North Korea, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Joshua Marpet, and More, on this edition of the Security Weekly News.

Here’s five ways to manage NHIs – a blind spot in identity security.

LLM capabilities boosted OSS-Fuzz’s coverage and helped find a 20-year-old flaw in OpenSSL.

In the enterprise security news, Bitsight, Snyk, and Silverfort announce acquisitions Tanium announces an “autonomous” endpoint security offering We find out how much a smartphone costs when it is manufactured in the US CISA’s leadership announces resignations Ransomware is going after old versions of Excel Should vendors be doing more about ale...

SentinelLabs reveals information on four previously unreported Chinese front companies taken down by the U.S. government Oct. 10.

Aside from primarily leveraging basic usernames for their accounts, organizations impacted by ransomware intrusions from July to September — including those in the government and healthcare industries — also mostly failed to implement multi-factor authentication that could have deterred brute-force attacks.

Data within the unsecured database included military personnel and their supporters' full names, images, mailing addresses, locations, images, Social Security numbers, and National Insurance numbers, a report by cybersecurity researcher Jeremy Fowler published on vpnMentor showed.