Author: HackWatchit
The RSA Conference 2025, held from April 28 to May 1 at San Francisco’s Moscone Center, represented a watershed moment for the cybersecurity industry. With over 41,000 attendees, 700 speakers, 29 tracks, 450+ sessions, and 650+ exhibitors, this year’s conference wasn’t just another annual gathering—it marked a fundamental shift in how we conceptualize digital security in an era where the boundaries between human and machine continue to blur. As someone deeply immersed in the intersection of AI, cybersecurity, and digital identity, I found this year’s conference particularly significant for highlighting transformative changes that are reshaping our approach to protecting digital…
They provide hands-on experience similar to platforms such as TryHackMe, Hack The Box, ACADITI, etc., which provide immersive environments to develop and test cloud security skills in realistic scenarios. The Top 10 labs from TryHackMe, in particular, are highly recommended for those looking to sharpen their skills across a range of modern cloud security challenges.
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | RSS For this podcast we cover a couple of different topics. First, we talk about how to password spray in a non-attributable sort of way. Beau found a way to obfuscate what RDP logs record with launching password spraying attacks. This has implications for UBEA. It is… kind of cool. Second, we cover how to do recon against Azure Active Directory. We are seeing a huge push by organizations to move to cloud AD. And what is not to love? Placing your most sensitive authentication…
posts, we explored Part I of the seminal book Reinforcement Learning by Sutton and Barto [1] (*). In that section, we delved into the three fundamental techniques underlying nearly every modern Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithm: Dynamic Programming (DP), Monte Carlo methods (MC), and Temporal Difference Learning (TD). We not only discussed algorithms from each field in depth but also implemented each one in Python. Part I of the book focuses on tabular solution methods — approaches suited for problems small enough to be represented in table form. For instance, with Q-learning, we can compute and store a complete Q-table containing every possible…
Google fixed actively exploited Android flaw CVE-2025-27363 Pierluigi Paganini May 06, 2025 Google addressed 46 Android security vulnerabilities, including one issue that has been exploited in attacks in the wild. Google’s monthly security updates for Android addressed 46 flaws, including a high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-27363 (CVSS score of 8.1), that has been exploited in the wild. The company did not disclose any details regarding the attacks or the threat actors exploiting the vulnerability. The vulnerability resides in the System component, and successful exploitation could lead to local code execution. “The most severe of these issues is a high security…
A supply-chain attack targets Linux servers with disk-wiping malware hidden in Golang modules published on GitHub. The campaign was detected last month and relied on three malicious Go modules that included “highly obfuscated code” for retrieving remote payloads and executing them. Complete disk destruction The attack appears designed specifically for Linux-based servers and developer environments, as the destructive payload – a Bash script named done.sh, runs a ‘dd’ command for the file-wiping activity. Furthermore, the payload verifies that it runs in a Linux environment (runtime.GOOS == “linux”) before trying to execute. An analysis from supply-chain security company Socket shows that…
Are you aiming to develop an innovative startup that will make a boom effect in the modern market? If you want to get the most out of the product you are creating, you must approach this task with a professional approach. What do we mean by that? IT professionals must go beyond the usual templates to create a truly unique and valuable product. When building an innovative product from scratch, you have a few options. Some teams choose to partner with specialists offering design-driven development services to balance speed, quality, and user focus. Others prefer a more hands-on approach, especially…
Authored by: Christian Clasen Cisco recently announced a new AI-driven Domain Generation Algorithm (DGA) detection capability integrated into Secure Access and Umbrella. DGAs are used by malware to generate numerous domains for command and control (C2) communications, making them a critical threat vector via DNS. Traditional reputation-based systems struggle with the high volume of new domains and the evolving nature of DGAs. This new solution leverages insights from AI-driven DNS tunneling detection and the Talos threat research team to identify unique lexical characteristics of DGAs. The result is a 30% increase in real detections and a 50% improvement in accuracy,…
RSA announced cybersecurity innovations that defend organizations against the next wave of AI powered identity attacks, including IT Help Desk bypasses, malware, social engineering, and other threats. These advancements are especially critical for organizations implementing passwordless strategies. Among the highlights is the new RSA Help Desk Live Verify (patent pending), a feature that prevents social engineering and technical support scams. With bi-directional identity verification, RSA Help Desk Live Verify ensures that both users and IT staff are who they say they are, protecting against attackers impersonating users or help desk agents. “Passwordless approaches offer tantalizing business benefits like improved user…