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CheckPoint buys Perimeter81, SecureWorks Cuts 300 Jobs, and News from BlackHat – ESW #328

In the enterprise security news,

  1. Check Point buys Perimeter 81 to augment its cybersecurity
  2. 2023 Layoff Tracker: SecureWorks Cuts 300 Jobs
  3. Hackers Rig Casino Card-Shuffling Machines for ‘Full Control’ Cheating
  4. ‘DoubleDrive’ attack turns Microsoft OneDrive into ransomware
  5. NYC bans TikTok on city-owned devices
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Sr. InfoSec Consultant at Online Business Sytems
Product Marketer and Content Strategist
  1. 1. Tools alone won’t save us but if we have tools – why don’t we at least use them?
  2. 2. Sam Bankman-Fried sent to jail as judge revokes bail over witness tampering, VPN use
  3. 3. Hackers Rig Casino Card-Shuffling Machines for ‘Full Control’ Cheating
  4. 4. Don’t expect quick fixes in ‘red-teaming’ of AI models. Security was an afterthought
Chief Product Officer at CyberSaint
  1. 1. Bitdefender Completes Acquisition of Horangi Cyber Security
  2. 2. Abnormal Security Crosses $100M in ARR in Four Years, Advancing Position as AI Leader in Cybersecurity
  3. 3. Check Point buys Perimeter 81 to augment its cybersecurity
  4. 4. 2023 Layoff Tracker: SecureWorks Cuts 300 Jobs
Founder & CTO at Trimarc
  1. 1. Bomb threat causes mass evacuation at DEF CON hacking convention
  2. 2. CrowdStrike at BlackHat: Speed, Interaction, Sophistication of Threat Actors Rising in 2023
  3. 3. Hackers red-teaming A.I. are ‘breaking stuff left and right,’ but don’t expect quick fixes from DefCon: ‘There are no good guardrails’
  4. 4. Researcher says they were behind iPhone pop-ups at Def Con
  5. 5. Want to pwn a satellite? Turns out it’s surprisingly easy
  6. 6. ‘DoubleDrive’ attack turns Microsoft OneDrive into ransomware
  7. 7. Black Hat USA 2023: Five Lessons in Artificial Intelligence
  8. 8. Google Chrome will summarize entire articles for you with built-in generative AI
  9. 9. AI fears overblown? Theoretical physicist calls chatbots ‘glorified tape recorders’
  10. 10. 22% of BlackHat USA attendants believe AI takeover is already here
  11. 11. Veilid: A secure peer-to-peer network for apps that flips off the surveillance economy
  12. 12. Microsoft may store your conversations with Bing if you’re not an enterprise user
  13. 13. NYC bans TikTok on city-owned devices
  14. 14. US watchdog to announce plans to regulate ‘surveillance industry’
  15. 15. Windows feature that resets system clocks based on random data is wreaking havoc

    “Hey people,” he wrote. “If you manage Active Directory domain controllers, I want to give you some UNOFFICIAL advice that is solely my personal opinion: Disable Secure Time Seeding for w32time on your DCs.”

  16. 16. Squirrel: 3D printer nightmare fuel: Bambu X1C and P1P started printing while owners were asleep

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