Kevin Townsend
Senior Contributor at SecurityWeek
Freelance author and journalist. Senior Contributor @SecurityWeek. LinkedIn: https://t.co/vsn56eF7sp
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1 week ago |
securityweek.com | Kevin Townsend
Maarten Van Horenbeeck was inspired by a movie – he watched WarGames as a child. He became fascinated by the potential of interconnected, communicating computers and the security issues that come with them. “Deep inside, I immediately felt this is what I would do,” he said, “it really motivated me. When I got a bit older, I realized there’s a whole community of people finding and exploiting security bugs, and another community finding and fixing them. It just drew me in.
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1 week ago |
securityweek.com | Kevin Townsend
Three different companies from three separate continents have agreed a memorandum of understanding to advance secure communications by combining their respective specialisms. Partisia (Denmark) is a business blockchain specialist, and a major player in multi-party computing (MPC). Squareroot8 (Singapore) is a specialist in quantum-safe communications. NuSpace (Long Beach, California) specializes in IoT connectivity and satellite-as-a-service.
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2 weeks ago |
securityweek.com | Kevin Townsend
We knew it was coming and now it is here: AI-powered spear phishing now outperforms elite human-generated spear phishing, with the real inflection point occurring in early 2025. If we add AI’s ability to operate at vastly improved speed and scale, the outlook for AI-assisted social engineering is daunting. Since 2023, Hoxhunt has run ongoing experiments pitting AI-generated spear phishing against expert red team generated spear phishing; and has found a 55% improvement in AI performance.
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2 weeks ago |
securityweek.com | Kevin Townsend
Washington, DC-based Corsha provides a machine identity platform (m-IdP) that authenticates, manages, and governs the growing traffic between machines; and can facilitate secure MFA between any machines, anywhere. In April, 2022, Corsha closed a Series A funding round of $12 million. Co-founder and, at that time CEO, Chris Simkins noted, “The greater we automate our application development and deployment processes, the more the risk shifts from human to machine.
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2 weeks ago |
securityweek.com | Kevin Townsend
The PCI DSS concentrates its regulations on ‘what’ rather than ‘how’ but remains one of the best cybersecurity standards available. Using the new version 4.0.1 as the lens, we discuss the PCI success story. PCI DSS 4.0 was introduced in 2022. It was a major upgrade to the existing version 3.2.1. To allow time for both PCI and the regulated entities to understand and implement the necessary requirements, some of the proposals were marked as best practices and future dated.
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