Hacker Noon Cybersecurity

As applications, data, and users have scattered across public clouds, SaaS platforms, home offices, and coffee shops with questionable Wi-Fi, the “castle and moat” idea has gone from outdated to outright dangerous.Read All

Digital nomads are exposed to both digital and physical risks. Public Wi-Fi, multiple border crossings, and living in temporary rentals make you an attractive target for hackers, opportunistic thieves, and even overzealous border agents.Read All

Shadow injection is the practice of injecting synthetic or adversarial context into an agent’s workflow. This could be a poisoned resource, a spoofed tool response, or a hidden prompt injected in memory. Shadow injection enables structured testing at two distinct levels of the AI agent lifecycle.Read All

Large Language Models (LLMs) are the engine of the current AI revolution. But LLMs alone are not “agents” An agent is a system that wraps an LLM with memory, planning capability, and the ability to take actions in the real or digital world.Read All

Survey of 80 North American MSPs shows fragmented security stacks drive fatigue, missed threats, and business inefficiency. Average MSP now runs five security tools, with 20% juggling seven to ten and 12% managing more than ten. Only 11% report seamless integration.Read All

Welcome to another feature of HackerNoon company of the Week. This week, we present our business blogging partner Sekurno: A proactive cybersecurity consultancy that goes beyond the norm, with a focus on real risk reduction, not checkboxes. They specialize in advanced penetration testing, secure development life cycles, and retention of compliance aligned with practical defense strategies.Read All

8/10/2025: Top 5 stories on the HackerNoon homepage!Read All

The Raspberry Pi Zero is a low-cost, compact single-board computer that runs Linux. It’s perfect for lightweight activities like scanning networks or capturing WPA handshakes. The first part of the series focuses on setting up and configuring the Pi as well as accessing it remotely.Read All

I’ll walk you through my custom method for assessing remediation priorities and show how I incorporated this feature into the Budibase platform.Read All

SpyCloud Investigations, now with AI Insights, empowers security teams to act decisively with finished intelligence built from billions of breach, malware, and phishing records. This new capability further automates and accelerates complex cybercrime investigations. 56% of organizations experienced an insider threat incident in the past year.Read All

Why do you let your Internet Service Provider (ISP) and other third parties listen in on your every digital step?Read All

Passwords don’t work. We keep layering on complexity—password managers, MFA, rotating policies—and attackers keep logging in anyway. Certificate-based authentication eliminates the need for passwords, immediately reducing your attack surface.Read All

Exposed secrets in code represent a growing threat, with 23 million hardcoded secrets found on GitHub in 2024 alone. To effectively address this risk: Classify secrets by sensitivity to prioritize critical issues like admin credentials over low-risk test keys Assess scope and impact by determining if the secret is public and what systems it affects Identify root causes such as sloppy commits or inadequate reviews to prevent recurrence Enrich with metadata about ownership and access levels to better understand risks Use open-source tools like TruffleHog, git-secrets, SOPS, and HashiCorp Vault to automate detection, management, and remediation. Implement regular rotation schedules, just-in-time access policies, and continuous monitoring to maintain secure code.Read All

I created a custom vulnerability management dashboard using the no-code platform Budibase. It is lightweight, quick to deploy, and integrates data on assets, vulnerabilities, and patches.Read All

Comp AI Raises $2.6M in Pre-Seed Funding to Revolutionize Enterprise Compliance with AI-Powered Automation. The funding round was co-led by OSS Capital and Grand Ventures, both bringing specialized expertise in backing innovative technology companies.Read All

8/3/2025: Top 5 stories on the HackerNoon homepage!Read All

Nexo is quietly building institutional-grade trust in digital asset infrastructure.Read All

APTs (Advanced Persistent Threats) are sophisticated threat groups that perform well-targeted attacks on an organization, nation, or state. The goals of APTs are primarily to steal sensitive information, such as state secrets and intellectual property (IP) APTs often create customized and complex threat vectors, malware, and techniques.Read All

Tea dating app exposed 72,000 exposed images including 13,000 government IDs. 1.1 million private messages discussing abortions, discovering cheating spouses, and sharing phone numbers were also exposed. This isn’t just another data breach. It’s a preview of what quantum computers will do to every biometric database your company maintains.Read All

Reporting doesn’t have to be a boring task. Read All