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Preparing for federal supply chain security standardization
In 2021, the Biden Administration published the Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity (EO 14028), setting off an agency-wide security initiative with the …
Malicious open-source components threatening digital infrastructure
A new risk emerges in the digital era, where open-source software has become a fundamental pillar in developing innovative applications. The threat? Malicious open-source …
Infamous cybercrime marketplace offers pre-order service for stolen credentials
Infostealer malware, which consist of code that infects devices without the user’s knowledge and steals data, remains widely available to buy through underground forums and …
The CIS Benchmarks Community consensus process
The Center for Internet Security (CIS) recently celebrated 20 years of bringing confidence to the connected world with consensus-based security guidance. The first CIS …
Attack automation becomes a prevalent threat against APIs
The second half of 2022 marked a significant turning point in the security landscape. In several high-profile incidents, application programming interfaces (APIs) emerged as a …
3 tips to accelerate zero trust adoption
Zero trust adoption is beginning to accelerate as networks get more complex. Gartner predicts that by 2026, 10% of large enterprises will have a comprehensive, mature, and …
New trends in ransomware attacks shape the future of cybersecurity
Corvus Insurance analyzed data from the dark web and ransomware leak sites. Researchers uncovered a 60% increase in ransomware victims in March 2023, marking the highest …
Is human threat hunting a fool’s errand?
We all have witnessed automated advances creep into our modern threat hunting processes – and with good reason. As the rate of cyberattacks steadily increases, automated …
Web entity activity reveals insights into internet security
For its recent research focusing on web entities (or content served over HTTP), Censys leveraged its internet-wide scan data to understand better the applications and services …
Bad bots are coming for APIs
In 2022, 47.4% of all internet traffic came from bots, a 5.1% increase over the previous year, according to Imperva. The proportion of human traffic (52.6%) decreased to its …
Week in review: Microsoft fixes two actively exploited bugs, MSI private code signing keys leaked
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Dragos blocks ransomware attack, brushes aside extortion attempt A ransomware …
Top 3 trends shaping the future of cybersecurity and IAM
The need to protect sensitive information from unauthorized access and theft has never been greater, and cybersecurity and IAM technologies are evolving to meet this challenge …