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41% of businesses had an API security incident last year
In the wake of the digital transformation wave, web application program interfaces (APIs) have experienced exponential growth as the rise of integrated web and mobile-based …
Phishing attacks soar, retail and wholesale most targeted
Zscaler released the findings of a report that reviews 12 months of global phishing data from its security cloud to identify key trends, industries and geographies at risk, …
Week in review: Outdated open source, the role of the lawyer in cybersecurity
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles and interviews: The changing role of the CCO: Champion of innovation and business continuity In this …
Issue in digital COVID-19 test could have allowed individuals to falsify results
WithSecure and Cue Health have worked together to address a security issue that WithSecure discovered in Cue’s COVID-19 test, which delivers the results of a nasal swab test …
How to improve the efficiency of enterprise backup
In this video for Help Net Security, Eric Seidman, Senior Director Product Marketing at Veritas Technologies, talks about improving the efficiency of enterprise backup in …
The Great Resignation meets the Great Exfiltration: How to securely offboard security personnel
“The Great Resignation” is a phenomenon that has greatly impacted how we work. As of August 2021, 65% of people in the United States were looking for a new job and 25% of them …
PCI DSS 4.0: Meeting the evolving security needs of the payments industry
In this video for Help Net Security, Sean Smith, Practice Manager, PCI Advisory Services at Optiv, discusses the new PCI DSS 4.0 requirements. At the end of March 2022, the …
Backup is key for cyber recovery
Granular and air-gapped backup are critical to data recovery, when, not if, a business falls victim to ransomware. Those are among the key takeaways from an Enterprise …
New threat groups and malware families emerging
Mandiant announced the findings of an annual report that provides timely data and insights based on frontline investigations and remediations of high-impact cyber attacks …
Ransomware in fintech: Cybercriminals adopt new means as theft gives way to sabotage
VMware released a report which takes the pulse of the financial industry’s top CISOs and security leaders on the changing behavior of cybercriminal cartels and the defensive …
The state of open-source software supply chain security in 2022
In this video for Help Net Security, Donald Fischer, CEO at Tidelift, talks about the state of open-source software supply chain security in 2022. Open source is the modern …
Vulnerabilities that kept security leaders busy in Q1 2022
In this video for Help Net Security, Yotam Perkal, VP of Research at Rezilion, talks about the most critical vulnerabilities published during Q1 2022, and the relevant …
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