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Week in review: ChatGPT and cybersecurity, hidden vulnerabilities in Docker containers

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Google Protected Computing: Ensuring privacy and safety of data regardless of location In this Help Net Security interview, Royal Hansen, VP of Engineering for Privacy, Safety, and Security at Google, talks about Protected Computing, the impact of data protection regulations, and privacy in general. Users looking for ChatGPT apps get malware instead The massive popularity of OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT has … More → The post Week in review: ChatGPT and cybersecurity, hidden vulnerabilities in Docker containers appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Navy Office of Small Business Programs hits the street to try and increase 8(a) awards

After a year where it fell short of its goals, the Navy Office of Small Business Programs wants companies with 8(a) designations to get more involved in the acquisition process.
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Professionalizing Federal Human Resources

FEDtalk host Jason Briefel sits down with Jenny Mattingley of the Partnership for Public Service and Rob Seidner of EdX to discuss the path forward for professionalizing federal human resources.
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Working Sundays at USPS? Former mail carrier tells SCOTUS that’s against his religion

A former mail carrier is telling the Supreme Court the Postal Service didn’t go far enough to accommodate his religious beliefs when it scheduled him to work Sundays.
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Edgio adds advanced DDoS protection with other WAAP enhancements

Content delivery network (CDN) service provider Edgio has added a new Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) scrubbing ability along with improved Web Application and API Interface (WAAP) to its network security offering. Designed to reduce severe damages from sophisticated DDoS attacks, Edgio’s scrubbing solution impersonates the customer’s network by routing the customer’s IP traffic through its scrubbing point-of-presence (PoP) and only sending the “clean” traffic back to the customer’s infrastructure, according to Richard Yew, senior director, product management for Security at Edgio. To read this article in full, please click here
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Darktrace Newsroom monitors open-source intelligence sources

Darktrace has launched Darktrace Newsroom, an AI-driven system that continuously monitors open-source intelligence sources for new critical vulnerabilities and assesses each organization’s exposure through its in-depth knowledge of their unique external attack surface. Darktrace’s knowledge of “self” means it can assess which assets are potentially affected by the emerging critical vulnerability and can provide mitigation advice specific to the organization so that it stays protected. New critical vulnerabilities, such as Log4J and ProxyLogon, make news … More → The post Darktrace Newsroom monitors open-source intelligence sources appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Darktrace launches AI-driven vulnerability detection, alert system Newsroom

AI-focused cybersecurity vendor Darktrace has announced the release of Newsroom, a new detection and warning system for critical vulnerabilities that uses open-source intelligence (OSINT) sources to identify threats posed to businesses. Newsroom leverages deep and AI-assisted knowledge of a customer’s external attack surface to gauge its exposure to detected vulnerabilities and provides a summary of exploits, affected software and assets within the organization, Darktrace stated. It also provides vulnerability mitigation guidance specific to businesses, while early adoption has revealed insight on remote code injection flaws in Citrix Gateway/Citrix ADC, CentOS Web Panel 7 Servers, and Zoho ManageEngine products, according to the vendor. Darktrace Newsroom is now available as part of the Darktrace PREVENT product range. To read this article in full, please click here
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Researchers find hidden vulnerabilities in hundreds of Docker containers

Rezilion uncovered the presence of hundreds of Docker container images containing vulnerabilities that are not detected by most standard vulnerability scanners and SCA tools. The research revealed numerous high-severity/critical vulnerabilities hidden in hundreds of popular container images, downloaded billions of times collectively. This includes high-profile vulnerabilities with publicly known exploits. Some of the hidden vulnerabilities are known to be actively exploited in the wild and are part of the CISA known exploited vulnerabilities catalog, including … More → The post Researchers find hidden vulnerabilities in hundreds of Docker containers appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Nudge Security launches SaaS attack surface management capabilities

Organizations face an average of six breaches in their SaaS supply chain every year, according to new data published by Nudge Security. With threat actors like Lapsus$ exploiting this modern attack surface, securing it has become a top cybersecurity priority and was the subject of a recent executive order. In fact, by 2025, 45% of organizations worldwide will have experienced attacks on their software supply chains, a three-fold increase from 2021, according to Gartner. To … More → The post Nudge Security launches SaaS attack surface management capabilities appeared first on Help Net Security.
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