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CISA Certified Information Systems Auditor Practice Tests offers practical, domain-by-domain prep for the CISA exam, with hundreds of questions covering key objectives and real-world systems audit skills. About the authors Peter H. Gregory is a best-selling cybersecurity author, educator, keynote speaker, board advisor, and mentor. Mike Chapple is a teaching professor at the University of Notre Dame, cybersecurity author, trainer, and certification expert. Inside the book This book contains over 700 multiple-choice questions designed to mirror the format and difficulty of the CISA exam. The questions are grouped by domain and closely follow ISACA’s 2024 to 2029 exam objectives. There…
Bitdefender researchers have uncovered critical security flaws in Dahua’s Hero C1 (DH-H4C) smart camera series. The vulnerabilities stem from weaknesses in the device’s ONVIF protocol and file upload handlers, allowing unauthenticated attackers to remotely execute arbitrary commands and seize full control of the device. Specifically, the flaws include a stack-based buffer overflow in the ONVIF protocol handler and a [dot]bss segment overflow in the RPC upload handler. Dahua was notified under responsible disclosure protocols and has since released patches addressing the vulnerabilities. “Both vulnerabilities are unauthenticated and exploitable over the local network. Devices exposed to the internet through port forwarding…
When it comes to cyberattacks, it’s no longer a question of if, but when. In fact, for many organizations in the U.S., cyberattacks are already a fait accompli, leaving organizations to pick up the pieces of the IT environment following a successful breach. If there’s one thing this has taught us, it’s that threat actors aren’t discriminating between the public or private sector. Each organization has valuable data, which means each is a viable target. The reality of this new threat landscape has made cyber resilience — or the ability to fight, withstand and recover from a cyberattack — an…
a computer, Edvard Munch’s The Scream is nothing more than a grid of pixel values. It has no sense of why swirling lines in a twilight sky convey the agony of a scream. That’s because (modern digital) computers fundamentally process only binary signals [1,2]; they don’t inherently comprehend the objects and emotions we perceive. To mimic human intelligence, we first need an intermediate form (representation) to “translate” our sensory world into something a computer can handle. For The Scream, that might mean extracting edges, colors, shapes, etc. Likewise, in Natural Language Processing (NLP), a computer sees human language as an unstructured stream…
San Francisco, California, August 1st, 2025, CyberNewsWire Comp AI Raises $2.6M in Pre-Seed Funding to Revolutionize Enterprise Compliance with AI-Powered Automation Comp AI, an emerging player in the compliance automation space, today announced it has secured $2.6 million in pre-seed funding to accelerate its mission of transforming how companies achieve compliance with critical frameworks like SOC 2 and HIPAA. The funding round was co-led by OSS Capital and Grand Ventures, both bringing specialized expertise in backing innovative technology companies. OSS Capital, known for investing in open-source challengers including ProjectDiscovery, Plane, and Cal.com, joins Grand Ventures, which has a strong track…
Protect your applications and APIs with CloudGuard WAF — a unified, AI-driven security platform. We are excited to share that CloudGuard WAF global footprint has expanded with 8 new points of presence (PoPs) in recent months. This growth supports rising demand for our CloudGuard WAF-as-a-service, which has continued to show strong business growth since its launch last year. CloudGuard WAF is built for modern application security. It goes beyond traditional WAFs with a prevention-first, fully automated AI approach that adapts in real time, it preemptively blocks both known and unknown zero day threats without relying on signatures or manual tuning,…
Meta Offers $1M bounty at Pwn2Own Ireland 2025 for WhatsApp exploits Pierluigi Paganini August 01, 2025 Meta backs Pwn2Own Ireland 2025 in Cork, offering up to $1M for WhatsApp exploits; targets include phones and wearables, Oct 21–24 via Zero Day Initiative. Meta is sponsoring ZDI’s Pwn2Own Ireland 2025 hacking competition, where participants can earn big prizes for smartphone, WhatsApp and wearable device exploits. Participants can earn up to $1 million for a WhatsApp exploit that allows attackers to achieve remote code execution with no user interaction. The event, organized by Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative, will be held from October…
Aqua Security detected “Koske,” a cryptomining malware that brings malicious code closer to being as good or better than malware created by humans and includes indicators that it was developed with the use of a large language model. The post Koske Marks a Significant Step in AI-Created Malware: Aqua Security appeared first on Security Boulevard.
San Francisco, California, August 1st, 2025, CyberNewsWire Comp AI Raises $2.6M in Pre-Seed Funding to Revolutionize Enterprise Compliance with AI-Powered Automation Comp AI, an emerging player in the compliance automation space, today announced it has secured $2.6 million in pre-seed funding to accelerate its mission of transforming how companies achieve compliance with critical frameworks like SOC 2 and HIPAA. The funding round was co-led by OSS Capital and Grand Ventures, both bringing specialized expertise in backing innovative technology companies. OSS Capital, known for investing in open-source challengers including ProjectDiscovery, Plane, and Cal.com, joins Grand Ventures, which has a strong track…