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Brief #78: Windows Zero-Day, NVIDIA's AI SOC Analyst, Google's 2025 Cyber Forecast

Critical Windows Task Scheduler vulnerability under active exploitation. NVIDIA revolutionizes SOC operations with AI. Google predicts evolving threat landscape.

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mandos brief week 46 of 2024 cybersecurity newsletter

Happy Sunday!

I hope this Brief finds you well and ready to tackle the week ahead.

In this edition, I am covering:

And much more.


INDUSTRY NEWS

Windows Task Scheduler Zero-Day Vulnerability Actively Exploited

iOS 18.1 Update Adds Inactivity Reboot Feature to Enhance iPhone Security

Critical Zero-Click Vulnerability Affects Millions of Synology NAS Devices

LEADERSHIP INSIGHTS

Google Cybersecurity Forecast 2025 Highlights AI Threats, Big Four Activity, and Rising Challenges

AWS Vulnerability Management Best Practices for Secure Cloud Infrastructure

Both industry reports are now included in my Cyber Strategy OS among other industry reports, guides and cheat sheets.

CISO Role Faces Mounting Pressures Amid Skills Shortage and Increased Liability

CAREER DEVELOPMENT

Cybersecurity Job Market Challenges Despite Talent Shortage

Remote Work Key to Attracting and Retaining Cybersecurity Talent

ISC2 Accused of Misrepresenting Cybersecurity Job Market Data

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AI & SECURITY

NVIDIA Morpheus Enhances SOC Efficiency with AI-Powered Alert Triage and LLM Agents

Researcher Demonstrates Agentic Code Execution in Anthropic's Computer Use Demo

AI Risk Management: Thinking Beyond Regulatory Boundaries

MARKET UPDATES

Silicon Valley Bank Provides $50M Growth Capital to Bugcrowd

Bitsight Acquires Cybersixgill for $115M to Enhance Cyber Risk Management

SurePath AI Raises $5.2M for Secure Enterprise Generative AI Governance

TOOLS

OpenEDR

OpenEDR is an open-source endpoint detection and response platform that offers real-time analytic detection and event correlation, providing visibility into adversarial cyber threats and behaviors to enhance cybersecurity defenses for organizations of all sizes.

Amazon Detective

Analyze and visualize security data to investigate potential security issues. Determine potential security issues through a unified view of user and resource interactions. Save time and effort with graph models that automatically summarize security-related relationships.

@fastify/csrf-protection

This plugin helps developers protect their Fastify server against CSRF attacks. In order to fully protect against CSRF, developers should study Cross-Site Request Forgery Prevention Cheat Sheet in depth.


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Nikoloz

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