Cyber Insurance
Several cybersecurity-related acquisitions and mergers were announced in the week of April 12-18, 2021.
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Identity & Access
The identity security company beat quarterly expectations and raised its outlook as enterprises face growing pressure to secure AI agents and other non-human identities.
Identity & Access
Organizations must distinguish identity verification, authentication and threat detection, or risk successfully authenticating the attackers they are trying to stop.
Identity & Access
When Android users get a call from a non-contact, they will see more information about the caller, including their country.
Identity & Access
Palo Alto Networks researchers have demonstrated attacks against Google’s synced passkey implementation.
Email Security
A majority of the largest energy companies in the United States appear to have neglected the security of their domain names, according to CSC,...
Cloud Security
Google’s problems with in-the-wild Chrome browser zero-days appear to be multiplying by the month.
Application Security
Just weeks after a wave of major in-the-wild zero-day attacks against Exchange Server installations globally, Microsoft is raising a fresh alarm for four new...
Cybersecurity Funding
Veriff, a provider of automated identity verification technology, today announced that it has secured $69 million in Series B financing, bringing the total amount...
Application Security
Microsoft this week announced the open source availability of Python code for “CyberBattleSim,” a research toolkit that supports simulating complex computer systems.
Application Security
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released a new tool to help with the detection of potential...
Application Security
Cisco this week announced patches for tens of vulnerabilities across its product portfolio, including a critical severity issue impacting the SD-WAN vManage software.
Application Security
Threat actors are leveraging the supply chain to deliver various types of threats to organizations, and few of them are spared from such attacks,...
Application Security
Researchers Flag ‘FlixOnline’ as a Malicious Android Play Store App That Combines Social Engineering With WhatsApp Auto-Replies to Propagate
Application Security
Threat actors are constantly targeting new vulnerabilities in SAP applications within days after the availability of security patches, according to a joint report issued...
Application Security
A sub-group of the 'Molerats' threat-actor has been using voice-changing software to successfully trick targets into installing malware, according to a warning from Cado...
Application Security
The United States Department of Defense (DoD) this week announced the launch of a new vulnerability disclosure program on HackerOne to identify vulnerabilities in...
Application Security
The U.S. government is warning that Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) actors are exploiting vulnerabilities in Fortinet FortiOS in ongoing attacks targeting commercial, government, and...
Cloud Security
A critical vulnerability recently addressed in the VMware Carbon Black Cloud Workload could be abused to execute code on a vulnerable server, according to...
Application Security
A pair of unpatched vulnerabilities in QNAP small office/home office (SOHO) network attached storage (NAS) devices could allow attackers to execute code remotely, according...
Application Security
The United States Department of Justice this week announced official charges against a Kansas man, for accessing and tampering with a public water system.
Application Security
Vulnerabilities Citrix patched in Hypervisor this week could allow for code executed in a virtual machine to cause denial of service on the host.
Audits
A vulnerability in the netmask npm package could expose private networks and lead to a variety of attacks, including malware delivery.
Data Protection
A critical vulnerability in the official Facebook for WordPress plugin could be abused to upload arbitrary files, essentially leading to remote code execution, according...
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For twenty-five years, "data" in security meant logs and events. But logs are a lossy representation of reality.
(Danelle Au)
Organizations must distinguish identity verification, authentication and threat detection, or risk successfully authenticating the attackers they are trying to stop.
(Torsten George)
Silent patches can become exploit intelligence for attackers while leaving defenders without the context needed to prioritize risk.
(Tod Beardsley)
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(Sravish Sridhar)
As AI dramatically shortens the time from vulnerability disclosure to exploitation, enterprises must look beyond patching to reduce application risk.
(Joshua Goldfarb)