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How to protect online privacy in the age of pixel trackers
Tracking pixels like the Meta and TikTok pixels are popular tools for online businesses to monitor their website visitors’ behaviors and preferences, but they do come …
Virtual patching: Cut time to patch from 250 days to <1 day
Unpatched vulnerabilities are responsible for 60% of all data breaches. The Department of Homeland Security has estimated that the proportion of breaches stemming from …
Exfiltration malware takes center stage in cybersecurity concerns
While massive public data breaches rightfully raise alarms, the spike in malware designed to exfiltrate data directly from devices and browsers is a key contributor to …
Attackers exploit APIs faster than ever before
After combing through 350,000 reports to find 650 API-specific vulnerabilities from 337 different vendors and tracking 115 published exploits impacting these vulnerabilities, …
Vulnerabilities of years past haunt organizations, aid attackers
Known vulnerabilities – those for which patches have already been made available – are the primary vehicle for cyberattacks, according to Tenable. The Tenable report …
Dormant accounts are a low-hanging fruit for attackers
Successful attacks on systems no longer require zero-day exploits, as attackers now focus on compromising identities through methods such as bypassing MFA, hijacking sessions, …
LastPass breach: Hacker accessed corporate vault by compromising senior developer’s home PC
LastPass is, once again, telling customers about a security incident related to the August 2022 breach of its development environment and subsequent unauthorized access to the …
10 US states that suffered the most devastating data breaches in 2022
Cyber attack risks faced by businesses across states and reported data breaches are relative to the respective state governments’ cybersecurity investment, according to …
Stay one step ahead: Cybersecurity best practices to prevent breaches
In this Help Net Security video, Caroline Wong, Chief Strategy Officer at Cobalt, offers valuable insight into what leaders can do to instill stronger cybersecurity practices …
Healthcare data breaches still higher than pre-pandemic levels
The number of data breaches affecting healthcare providers declined in the second half of 2022, consistent with a downward trend over the past two years, according to Critical …
Reddit breached: Internal docs, dashboards, systems accessed
Popular social news website and forum Reddit has been breached (again) and the attacker “gained access to some internal docs, code, as well as some internal dashboards …
Inability to prevent bad things from happening seen as the worst part of a security job
83% of organizations experienced more than one data breach in 2022. However, 97% of respondents feel confident that they are well-equipped with the tools and processes needed …