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Malicious actors have been hacking WordPress websites by exploiting vulnerabilities in a fairly popular plugin called WP Cost Estimation & Payment Forms Builder. [Read More]
Google paid out $3.4 million for flaws reported by researchers in 2018, which brings the total awarded since the launch of its vulnerability reward program to $15 million. [Read More]
Roughly one-third of the ICS-specific vulnerability advisories published in 2018 contained basic factual errors, including when describing and rating the severity of a flaw, according to Dragos. [Read More]
0patch releases fix for the recently disclosed remote code execution vulnerability affecting OpenOffice. LibreOffice also impacted, but an official patch has been released for it. [Read More]
SAP's February 2019 security updates address over a dozen vulnerabilities across its product portfolio, including a Hot News flaw in SAP HANA Extended Application Services. [Read More]
Researchers demonstrate that Intel’s SGX technology can be abused to hide an advanced piece of malware that can allow attackers to steal data and conduct activities on the victim’s behalf. [Read More]
One of the many vulnerabilities patched by Microsoft with its February 2019 Patch Tuesday updates is an Internet Explorer zero-day which Google says has been exploited in attacks. [Read More]
Adobe patches over 70 vulnerabilities in Acrobat and Reader products, including a critical data leakage issue whose details were made public in January. [Read More]
One day before Adobe’s monthly security updates, a third-party fix has been released for an Adobe Reader vulnerability revealed several weeks ago. [Read More]
A vulnerability in the latest macOS release could allow a malicious application to access restricted Safari data, an application developer has discovered. [Read More]
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FEATURES, INSIGHTS // Vulnerabilities
Recalculating and reevaluating priorities based on a continuous flow of new data, learnings and your risk profile, helps to ensure you’re staying focused on what matters in a highly dynamic environment.
Proper evaluation of business risk requires insight into the likelihood that a vulnerability will be exploited, and if exploited, how that vulnerability could impact the company on a macro level.
Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) provide hackers with multiple venues to access an organization’s data and can even be used to cause massive business disruptions.
Microservices and containers enable faster application delivery and improved IT efficiency. However, the adoption of these technologies has outpaced security.
We can’t rely on our own governments to practice responsible full disclosure. Full Disclosure is compromised. We can’t really blame them. Either everyone discloses, or no-one does.
By understanding and easing the cultural shift this entails, you can save time and money and sleep better at night with security occupying a seat at the DevOps table.
As DevOps and agile development methodologies take greater root in the enterprise, the traditional tools and approaches for eliminating vulnerabilities in code will no longer be able to keep pace.
When planning a testing strategy for an application, it is important to evaluate the applicability and likely effectiveness of the various testing approach options.
Several tech vendors have been added to the list of vendors vulnerable to a variation on the Bleichenbacher attack called the ROBOT attack.
Laws to support swift and automatic updates for all devices, and consequence to organizations that fail to ensure their IoT devices are secure, would be a big step forward for IoT security.
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