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The surprising truth about identity security confidence

Organizations most confident in their identity security are often the least prepared, according to a new report from BeyondID. The study reveals a troubling gap between what organizations believe about their identity security programs and how they actually behave. Surprisingly, those expressing the highest confidence are adopting fewer best practices than their more cautious peers. While 74% of IT decision-makers rate their identity posture as “Established” or “Advanced,” their security practices paint a different picture: … More → The post The surprising truth about identity security confidence appeared first on Help Net Security.
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What’s keeping risk leaders up at night? AI, tariffs, and cost cuts

Enterprise risk leaders are most concerned about rising tariffs and trade tensions heading into the second half of 2025, according to a new report from Gartner. The firm’s second-quarter Emerging Risk Report, based on a survey of 223 senior risk, audit, and compliance executives, ranks the escalating trade war as the top emerging risk, up from third in the first quarter. Top emerging risks of Q2 2025 (Source: Gartner) The quarterly report tracks over-the-horizon risks … More → The post What’s keeping risk leaders up at night? AI, tariffs, and cost cuts appeared first on Help Net Security.
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ISC Stormcast For Monday, August 4th, 2025 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9554, (Mon, Aug 4th)

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Legacy May Kill, (Sun, Aug 3rd)

Just saw something that I thought was long gone. The username “pop3user” is showing up in our telnet/ssh logs. I don't know how long ago it was that I used POP3 to retrieve e-mail from one of my mail servers. IMAP and various webmail systems have long since replaced this classic email protocol. But at least this one attacker is counting on someone still having a “pop3user” configured.
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Week in review: Food sector cybersecurity risks, cyber threats to space infrastructure

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Review: LLM Engineer’s Handbook For all the excitement around LLMs, practical, engineering-focused guidance remains surprisingly hard to find. LLM Engineer’s Handbook aims to fill that gap. Vulnhuntr: Open-source tool to identify remotely exploitable vulnerabilities Vulnhuntr is an open-source tool that finds remotely exploitable vulnerabilities. It uses LLMs and static code analysis to trace how data moves through an application, from … More → The post Week in review: Food sector cybersecurity risks, cyber threats to space infrastructure appeared first on Help Net Security.
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This spectrometer is smaller than a pixel, and it sees what we can’t

Researchers have successfully demonstrated a spectrometer that is orders of magnitude smaller than current technologies and can accurately measure wavelengths of light from ultraviolet to the near-infrared. The technology makes it possible to create hand-held spectroscopy devices and holds promise for the development of devices that incorporate an array of the new sensors to serve as next-generation imaging spectrometers.
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NARA sees ‘encouraging’ progress toward fully electronic records

One year after NARA’s deadline for ditching permanent paper records, federal agencies have made important strides in digital records management. The post NARA sees ‘encouraging’ progress toward fully electronic records first appeared on Federal News Network.
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