Cybersecurity Weekly: 1.13.23

This week’s top picks in Cybersecurity-focused news coverage…


LastPass Hack: Cybersecurity Experts Sound The Alarm Over Data Breaches
  

“But In the company’s latest blog update on Dec. 22 regarding the security incidents, LastPass CEO Karim Toubba acknowledged that a ‘threat actor’ had copied a backup of customer vault data that included ‘fully-encrypted’ sensitive fields such as website usernames and passwords, secure notes, and form-milled data.” READ MORE

Why SMB Cybersecurity May Be Changing For The Better 

“While security threats remain a key concern for SMBs, greater awareness of potential problems has set the stage for a more effective response. In this piece, we’ll consider what makes SMBs such tempting targets, tackle what’s changed for these companies and explore how giving security a seat at the table can reduce total risk.” READ MORE

How Confidential Computing Will Shape The Next Phase Of Cybersecurity

“In other words, confidential computing is like running your data and code in an isolated, secure black box, known as an “enclave” or trusted execution environment (TEE), that’s inaccessible to unauthorized systems. The enclave also encrypts all the data inside, allowing you to process your data even when hackers breach your infrastructure. Encryption makes the information invisible to human users, cloud providers, and other computer resources.” READ MORE

Is ChatGPT A Cybersecurity Threat? 

“It appears the cybersecurity industry, a community that has long been skeptical about the potential implications of modern AI, is also taking notice amid concerns that ChatGPT could be abused by hackers with limited resources and zero technical knowledge.” READ MORE

AWS Security Heads Offer Top Cybersecurity Predictions For 2023 

“What might we see in 2023? VentureBeat posed this question to several AWS security leaders. Here are their top cybersecurity predictions for 2023.” READ MORE

 

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