Google Boosts Android Security With New App Safety Tools

March 11, 2025

Thanks to a new cybersecurity update, Android users can breathe easier knowing their devices are less vulnerable to malware. A partnership between Mandiant FLARE and Google boosts Android security with new app safety tools. These tools allow for faster malware detection, ensuring that the applications your employees add to their devices won’t put your company in danger of a data breach or other cyber attacks. Increased App Protection Using AI The updated app protection for Android relies on an enhanced Capa open-source binary analysis tool.

GenAI Fuels Explosive Cloud Growth

March 9, 2025

Imagine a world where AI revolutionizes business operations and transforms the infrastructure supporting them. That world is here as GenAI fuels explosive cloud growth. The rapid advancement of Generative AI (GenAI) is pushing companies toward cloud adoption at an unprecedented pace. A recent Nutanix study found that over 80% of organizations have already implemented a GenAI strategy, with 90% expecting increased IT costs as they modernize their applications. However, as GenAI accelerates cloud growth, companies must address key challenges to stay ahead in this AI-driven era.

Combating Deepfakes: Protecting Workplaces From Digital Deception

March 8, 2025

Imagine this: you get a call from your CEO asking you to wire a large sum of money to a foreign bank account. It’s unusual but comes directly from them, so you do it. Later, you learn it wasn’t your CEO on the other end of the line but a criminal using deepfake technology to impersonate them. This happened to a bank employee, and it’s just one example of how criminals use deepfakes to target businesses.

Hidden Text Salting: A New Email Security Threat

March 7, 2025

Email remains hackers’ first choice for launching attacks on unsuspecting companies because it’s easy, inexpensive, and effective. Phishing messages take advantage of the weakest link in any security strategy—humans—and for every tool security experts develop to close that gap, cybercriminals find a way around it. Hidden text salting is the latest approach to thwarting email security, and it’s deceptively simple. The Email Security Threat That Hides in Plain Sight Security researchers at Cisco Talos recently released a guide detailing how criminals are “seasoning” emails with irrelevant language and hidden elements in the HTML or CSS code.

Hackers Exploit GenAI for Faster, Smarter Cyber Attacks

March 6, 2025

There’s no question that generative AI (GenAI) affects businesses of all sizes. But for all the good news — increased productivity, more accurate data analysis, streamlined operations, etc. — there’s plenty of bad news, too. IT security professionals report that GenAI cyber attacks are skyrocketing, creating a greater concern than data breaches. The latest Splunk CISO report highlights what your IT administrators and security teams face regarding GenAI cyber threats.

OneDrive for Business May Not Be Fully Secure

March 5, 2025

Heads up: If your company uses OneDrive for Business to store critical documents in the cloud, they may not be as secure as you think. According to security expert Brian Maloney, Microsoft is not adequately securing data on user’s devices, which could present a massive security risk if that device becomes compromised. Without adequate OneDrive for Business security, sensitive information could easily fall into an attacker's hands and have consequences for your company.

Microsoft Teams Adds Phishing Alerts to Boost Security

March 4, 2025

Cybercriminals will stop at nothing to infiltrate organizations, and phishing attacks remain one of their most common — and successful — approaches. Despite efforts to build awareness and train people to recognize fake messages, hackers are still successfully impersonating individuals and brands and tricking recipients into divulging sensitive information. Microsoft Teams is a popular target for these bad actors, but new automatic warnings aim to curb the attacks. Users now receive Microsoft Teams phishing alerts on chats from external domains.

Apple Patches First Zero-Day of 2025

March 2, 2025

It might be a new year, but cybercriminals are still up to their old tricks —including exploiting previously unknown security flaws in operating systems to launch attacks on businesses. Finding and patching these vulnerabilities is a priority for technology providers. In that vein, the first Apple zero-day patch of 2025 appeared in late January. If your company uses Apple products, installing the Zero-day vulnerability fix is critical to preventing hackers from gaining unauthorized access to system controls and launching a devastating attack.

Google Launches Chrome Web Store for Enterprise Users

March 1, 2025

Suppose your team uses Google extensions for daily workflows around your business. In that case, you’ll want to pay attention to the new Chrome Web Store for Enterprise users. Could the launch of this new feature mean your IT security team gains more control over the extensions allowed on your network? Yes — on top of reducing the risk that malicious extensions will lead to a costly cybersecurity incident!

Seamlessly Integrate App Security Into Cyber Defense

February 28, 2025

Cybersecurity incidents continue to keep pace with technological advancements, and the more sophisticated and insidious criminals become, the more these breaches and hacks cost companies. Recent data from IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report indicates that the average attack cost in 2024 hit $4.8 million, a devastating outcome for many businesses. The increase in successful and costly attacks has led IT security experts to take a fresh look at attack vectors and applications, which are an increasing concern.

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